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.
Oct
17
2008
October 2008
Grammatical constructionalization and the rise of pseudo-clefts
Professor Elizabeth Traugott (Stanford University)
Jun
07
2008
June 2008
Language contact in the Arabian Gulf: a potted history
Prof. Clive Holes (Oxford)
Haldane Room, Wolfson College, Oxford
May
09
2008
AGM
Borrowing, Englishing and Coining: morphological productivity in Early Modern English
Dr Claire Cowie (Edinburgh)
Mar
15
2008
March 2008
Pragmatic intrusion into what is said: explicature, pragmatically enriched 'said', implicIture or implicAture?
Prof. Yan Huang (Reading)
In the Upper Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.
Feb
15
2008
February 2008
The Martin Manuscripts: an unexplored archive of Guernsey French
Dr Mari Jones (Cambridge)
Feb
13
2008
February 2008
When non-finite verbs are not verbs: finiteness and parts of speech systems in typological perspective
Professor Eva Schultze-Berndt (University of Manchester)
Jan
18
2008
January 2008
Italic: an Indo-European subgroup
Dr James Clackson (Cambridge)
Oct
19
2007
October 2007
Parameters of morphosyntactic variation in Bantu
Dr Lutz Marten (SOAS)
Jun
09
2007
June 2007
The origins of the Great Vowel Shifts
Prof. Jeremy Smith (University of Glasgow)
At Peterhouse, Cambridge. Tea will be availble at 3.45 in the Combination Room (Fellows' garden if sunny). The meeting will be held in the Lubbock Room.
May
11
2007
