At St John's College, Cambridge CB2 1TP
Previous Seasons Meetings
PhilSoc welcomes proposals for papers to be read at meetings. Proposals should be forwarded to the Honorary Secretary (contact details on the Contact page). Papers may be on any topic falling within the scope of PhilSoc's interests, but speakers are asked to bear in mind that the audience will represent a wide range of linguistic interests, and papers should therefore be accessible to non-specialists.
Jun
09
2012
Annual General Meeting
Historical pragmatics: evidence from the Old Bailey
Prof. Dawn Archer (University of Central Lancashire)
May
11
2012
Discussion forum
Language-Community-Identity
Prof. Peter Trudgill, FBA (chair)
At the British Academy, 11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
Mar
17
2012
Two-day PhilSoc symposium
Reanalysis and language contact in the Syntactic Atlas of Welsh Dialects
Dr David Willis (University of Cambridge)
Part of the two-day PhilSoc symposium: Synchrony and diachrony: variation and change in language history.
In the Ruskin Lane Room, Worcester College, Oxford OX1 2HB
Feb
10
2012
February 2012
Reconstructing multilingualism in the Ancient Near East
Dr Ilya Yakubovitch (State University of Moscow/University of Oxford)
Jan
13
2012
January 2012
James Bond is back: how secret agents from the Dictionnaire Etymologique Roman (DERom) are promoting a paradigm shift in Romance etymology
Prof. Eva Buchi (ATILF-CNRS/Université Nancy 2)
Nov
11
2011
November 2011
Linguistic motion charts: a new corpus-based application for the study of language change
Dr Martin Hilpert (University of Freiburg)
Oct
14
2011
October 2011
Dancing words: metre and music in Somali poetry
Dr Martin Orwin (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Jun
18
2011
Half-day symposium marking the publication of the Historical Thesaurus of the OED
Historical semantics, etymology and lexicography
Hugh Fraser Room, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow (registration form available on the PhilSoc homepage)
PhilSoc Council is pleased to announce a special half-day event to mark the publication of the OED Historical Thesaurus. The event will take place at the University of Glasgow on the afternoon of Sat 18 Jun 11. Speakers include Christian Kay, Rosemarie Lühr and Roger Lass.
Jun
04
2011
June 2011
Politeness in grammar: an East Asian-inspired approach to German and French
Dr Horst Simon (Kings College London)
Jesus College, Cambridge
May
06
2011
