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.
The Philological Society is hosting this panel discussion jointly with the British Academy in Newcastle on 7 April 2016. Speakers are:
Professor Joan Beal, University of Sheffield
Professor Tony Crowley, University of Leeds
Dr Carmen Llamas, University of York
The discussion will be chaired by Peter Arnold, Chairman of the Northumbrian Language Society.
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The next meeting of PhilSoc will take place on Saturday 12 March 2016 at Jesus College, Cambridge. Prof. Maggie Tallerman (Newcastle) will speak on 'The emergence of syntactic language: bricolage or more like a snowflake?' The meeting will take place at 4.15. Tea will be served from 3.45.
The next meeting of PhilSoc will take place on Friday 12 February 2016 at SOAS. Prof. Sophie Prévost CNRS will speak on ‘"Grande Grammaire Historique du Français": a new perspective on the evolution of word order in French'. The meeting will take place at 4.15 in Room 116 in the main SOAS building. Tea will be served from 3.45.
The next meeting of PhilSoc will take place on Friday 15 January 2016 at SOAS. Professor Joe Eska (Virginia Tech) will speak on 'Continental Celtic, syntax, and the genesis of Insular Celtic'. The meeting will take place at 4.15 in Room 116 in the main SOAS building. Tea will be served from 3.45.
The next meeting of PhilSoc will be held on Friday 13 November in the Conference Room in the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield (map) at 4.15 p.m. at which Dr Chris Lucas (SOAS) will speak on 'The Maltese numerals and the nature of grammatical competence'. Tea will be served at 3.45.
The AGM of PhilSoc will be held in Jesus College, Cambridge on Saturday 6 June at 4.15 (tea from 3.45) followed by a paper by Prof. Elan Dresher (University of Toronto) on 'Contrastive feature hierarchies in diachronic phonology'. All welcome.
The next meeting of PhilSoc will take place on Saturday 7 March 2015 at Wolfson College, Oxford. Dr George Walkden (University of Manchester) will give a paper on ‘"Fashionably late" finite verbs in Old English'. The meeting will take place at 4.15. Tea will be served from 3.45.
The next meeting of PhilSoc will take place on Friday 13 February 2015 at SOAS. Ranjan Sen (University of Sheffield) will give a paper on 'Reconstructing phonological change in Latin: Evaluating synchronic motivations'. The meeting will take place at 4.15 in Room 4426 in the main SOAS building. Tea will be served from 3.45.
