Mark your calendar! The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society will take place on May 3-5 this year. This year's theme sessions are:
- Gradience in grammar
- Cross-linguistic variation in semantics
- The syntax of Wh-structures
- Gaps, exceptions and paradigm defectiveness
The conference program is now available. Click here to check it out!
Four Chicagoans will be presenting at the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics to be held at the University of California, Berkeley on April 27-29.
- Max Bane: Quantifying and measuring mophological complexity.
- Jessica Clapp: Right Node Raising: Evidence from 'Rule Interaction'.
- Fidèle Mpiranya: When exceptions are encoded at the segmental level.
- Alan Yu: A general theory of iterative infixation.
The linguistics department intramural bowling team, the [+gutterroll]s, came in second in their league last quarter. The team included linguists and friends Jackie Bunting, James Davisson, Malcolm Elliott, Mitcho (Michael Erlewine), Patrick Midtlyng, Bob Peachey, Bailey Pickens, Kjersti Stenstrud, and Erin Will.
Mika Ishino has been keeping herself busy! She presented "Metaphors and metonymies of anger: What gesture-speech
synchrony reveal about thinking for speaking," on April 21
at the UWM LINGUISTICS SYMPOSIUM ON FORMULAIC LANGUAGE, "Metonymy in discourse and gesture," on May 12 at the Second French
Cognitive Linguistics Conference (AFLiCo '07), Lille,
France, and "Metaphors of anger in Japanese: What speech-gesture
synchrony reveals about the on-line conceptualization of
anger," in July, at the Theme Session of "Metaphors of
Anger and The Self", The 10th International Cognitive
Linguistics Conference, Cracow, Poland. She will also be presenting "Subjectivity and intersubjectivity in gestures" at the International Society for Gesture Studies: Third International Conference "Integrating Gestures" to be held at Northwestern University from June 18 to 21.
Two of her papers will be appearing soon: "Intersubjectivity in Gestures" will be published in S.
Duncan, J. Cassell, and E. Levy (eds.), Gesture and the
dynamic dimension of language: Essays in honor of David
McNeill (Philadelphia & Amsterdam: John Benjamins) and "Roles of gestures pointing to the addressee in Japanese
face-to-face interaction: Attaining cohesion via
metonymy," which is to be published in Japanese Korean
Linguistics, Vol. 16.
James Kirby and Alan Yu will be presenting "Hidden knowledge of syllable gap wellformedness" at the Experimental Approaches to Optimality Theory workshop at the Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor on May 18-20.
Nassira Nicola presented a paper entitled "The pronoun problem: Gender
non-disclosure in LGBTQ speech" at Lavender Languages XIV at American
University on February 10.
Osamu Sawada presented a paper titled "the Japanese
contrastive wa: a mirror image of EVEN" at the 33rd Annual
Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society on February 9. He also presented a paper "on the dual standard in the
Japanese comparatives" at the 9th conference of the
Pragmatic Society of Japan at Momoyama Gakuin Univeristy,
Osaka on December 9.
Suwon Yoon presented "An argument/adjunct asymmetry in Wh-questions: a novel argument for LF" at the 31st Penn Linguistics Colloquium on February 24. She will also be presenting "Intervention Effects Revisited"
at the International Linguistic Association(ILA) conference on March 31.
Ilya Yakubovich's paper "Prehistoric Contacts between Hittite and Luvian: the Case of Reflexive
Pronouns" has been published in the Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual UCLA
Indo-European Conference, edited by K. Jones-Bley et al. (Washington: Institute for the Study
of Man, 2006, Pp. 77-106). His other paper, "Marriage Sogdian Style" appeared in the volume
Iranistik in Europa - Gestern, Heute, Morgen, edited by H. Eichner et al (Vienna: Oesterreichische
Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2006, Pp. 307-44).
The Spring quarter colloquium schedule is almost finalized. The current schedule is as follows:
- April 5: Chris Potts, University of Massachuesetts, Amherst
- April 12: Brian Joseph, the Ohio State University
- April 26: Colin Wilson, UCLA
- May 10: Teresa Statterfield, University of Michigan
Don't forget, this year's Colloquia will be held at 3:30 on Thursdays.
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Victor Friedman has been nominated for an honorary doctorate at the University of Skopje. The nomination was initiated by the Department of Macedonian and South Slavic Languages with support from the Department of Albanian Language and Literature and proposed by the Philological Faculty. It has passed all the commissions and now only remains to be confirmed by the Faculty Senate. (The fact that the Macedonian and Albanian Departments cooperated on the nomination is especially noteworthy.) Congratulations, Victor!
Victor Friedman has been busy as always. He delivered a plenary public lecture on "Europe's Linguistic Perception of The Balkans at the EU and the historical Legacies of the Balkans conference at the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp (UCSIA), University of Antwerp, Belgium, on November 17-19, 2006. He gave a lecture at LACITO - CNRS, Paris, November 21, 2006 on "La modalité en romani-les limites de la perméabilité." He gave another plenary lecture on "Teaching L[ess] C[ommonly] T[auhgt] L[anguage]s prior to and during their standardization: The Example of Romani" at the Symposium on Language Teaching and Learning for The Year of Languages at the University of Toronto, January 24-27, 2007. He also gave a presentation at Current Issues in Bulgarian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Symposium and Roundtable discussion on "Linguistics and Anthropology" at the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 2, 2007. On top of delivering lectures all over the globe, he also published two papers recently:
West Rumelian Turkish in Macedonia and Adjacent Areas in Turkic Language Contacts, edited by H. Boeschoten and L. Johanson (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006, 27-45) and "Balkanizing the Balkan sprachbund: A closer look at grammatical permeability and feature distribution" in Grammars in Contact: A Cross Linguitic Typology, edited by A. Aikhenvald and R.F.W. Dixon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 201-219).
John Goldsmith spent a week at the ICTP/CNPq School on Probability Theory and Applications, in Campos do Jordao, Brazil, in January 2007, and gave a presentation on Minimum Description Length methods in linguistics. He also gave a lecture at the Université d'Aix en Provence on February 9. Two of John's papers have recently appeared in print: "Learning inflectional classes", written with Jeremy O'Brien (BA 2006; now at UCSC) in
Language Learning and Development 24(4): 219-250 and "An algorithm for the unsupervised learning of morphology" in Natural Language
Engineering 12(3): 1-19. John also finished a couple of papers and would love to get feedback on them:
Fidèle Mpiranya will be presenting "A Natural History of Selective Vowel Harmony in Bantu" at the 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics - ACAL 2007 & 11th Annual
African Language Teacher's Association Conference on March 22-25 at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He'll also be presenting "On Context-Driven Markedness and Selective Vowel Height Harmony in Bantu" at CLS this year.
Salikoko Mufwene delivered a lecture on “Globalization and language endangerment: Myths and facts” on Humanities Day at the University of Chicago on October 28, 2006. He gave a keynote address on “Competition, selection, generative entrenchment, and exaptation in language evolution”at the Cradle of Language conference, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa on 6-10 November, 2006. He also gave a lecture, titled “Language evolution in the Americas since the European colonization.” Keynote presentation at the 11th Annual African, African American, Native American, Caribbean, and the American Heritage Conference, Northeastern Illinois University on Jan. 29, 2007. Several of his papers have appeared in print as well:
- “Grammaticization is part of the development of creoles.” Papia 16.5-31. (2006)
- “Creoles and pidgins.” In The Routledge companion to sociolinguistics, ed. by Peter Stockwell, Carmen Llamas, & Louise Mullany, 175-184. (2006)
- “Les continua créoles, linguistiques, et langagiers.” In A l’arpanteur inspiré : mélanges offerts à Jean Bernabé, ed. by Raphaël Confiant & Robert Damoiseau, 185-197. Matoury, Guyane: Ibis Rouge. (2006)
Alan Yu presented "On iterative infixation" at the Precedence conference at the Graduate Center at CUNY on January 25.
Birthdays: Mika Ishino's birthday was on January 3. Her dog, Melissa, turned 15 on October 18, 2006. Robert Peachey's birthday was on February 8. Zuzana Tomkova's birthday is on March 6. Alan Yu's birthay was on February 7.
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