PhilSoc Council is pleased to announce the Society's plans for a two-day symposium at which students and young researchers will be able to exchange ideas about their work and to attend courses on philological subjects. The event will take place at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge on 19 and 20 March 2010, and the Society is delighted to be able to announce that Professor Andrew Garrett (Berkeley) has agreed to lead a teaching session on the Friday and deliver a paper on the Saturday entitled "Diffusion and descent in linguistic speciation". The event will also include a panel discussion, with panelists including Prof. David Denison, Dr Adam Ledgeway, Prof. Anna Morpurgo-Davies and Prof. Nick Sims-Williams.
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.
Mar
19
2010
Language, text and history: linguistics and philology in the 21st century
Prof. Andrew Garrett (California, Berkeley) Diffusion and descent in linguistic speciation
Feb
12
2010
February 2010
Narrating multilingual selves in central European language biographies
Prof. Patrick Stevenson (Southampton)
Jan
15
2010
January 2010
Classifiers and plural semantics
Prof. Mary Dalrymple (Oxford)
Nov
14
2009
Workshop: Corpus-based advances in historical linguistics
PhilSoc Council is pleased to announce that its Nov 09 meeting will continue its recent tradition of taking place in the North. A one-day conference on corpus-based advances in historical linguistics will be held on Sat 14 Nov 09 at the University of York.
Oct
16
2009
October 2009
Hausa (Chadic, Afroasiatic) may be the best researched language in sub-Saharan Africa, but we continue to make significant discoveries
Prof. Philip Jaggar (SOAS)
SOAS, room 4418 (4th floor)
Jun
09
2009
June 2009
Innovation and influence: the contribution of 17th century German grammatography to European linguistic thought
Professor Nicola McLelland (University of Nottingham)
In the Vivien Stewart Room at Murray Edwards College (formerly New Hall), Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DF
May
08
2009
Annual General Meeting
The part-of-speech classifications in English dictionaries: critiques, criteria, and proposals
Professor Geoffrey Pullum (University of Edinburgh)
Mar
14
2009
March 2009
Subject and topic: evidence from Kenyang
Dr Melanie Green (University of Sussex)
In the Danson room at Trinity College, Oxford.
Jan
16
2009
January 2009
Morphology in language comprehension: beyond ‘words-and-rules’
Professor Harald Clahsen (University of Essex)
Nov
07
2008
November 2008
Workshop: The grammar of space
At the University of Manchester (see flyer on home page for programme and location details)
