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.
October 2015
Unifying everything: Some remarks on Simpler Syntax, Construction Grammar, Minimalism and HPSG
Prof. Stefan Mueller FU Berlin
June 2015
Contrastive feature hierarchies in diachronic phonology
Prof. Elan Dresher (University of Toronto)
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.
May 2015
Observing language change: old manuscripts, new brains
Prof. Aditi Lahiri (University of Oxford)
March 2015
‘Fashionably late’ finite verbs in Old English
Dr George Walkden (University of Manchester)
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.
February 2015
Reconstructing phonological change in Latin: Evaluating synchronic motivations
Dr Ranjan Sen (University of Sheffield)
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.
January 2015
Onomasiological variation and lexical lectometry
Prof. Dirk Geeraerts (University of Leuven)
The next meeting of PhilSoc will take place on Friday 9 January 2015 at SOAS. Professor Dirk Geeraerts (University of Leuven) will speak on 'Onomasiological variation and lexical lectometry'. The meeting will take place at 4.15 in Room 116 in the main SOAS building. Tea will be served from 3.45.
November 2014
The affiliation of Sumerian
Prof. Peter Schrijver (University of Utrecht)
The next meeting of PhilSoc will take place on Friday 7 November 2014 at the University of Manchester. Prof. Peter Schrijver (University of Utrecht), will speak on ‘The Affiliation of Sumerian’. Room 3.204 on the third floor of University Place on Oxford Road. University Place is number 37 on the campus map (here); it is the same building as the Visitors’ Centre. Tea will be served from 3.45.
October 2014
Towards an interface approach to root phenomena
Dr Cécile de Cat (University of Leeds)
The next meeting of PhilSoc will take place on Friday 10 October 2014 at SOAS. Dr Cécile de Cat (University of Leeds), will speak on ‘Towards an Interface Approach to Root Phenomena’ (please note the change from the previously advertised title). The meeting will take place at 4.15 in Rooms T101 and T102, 22 Russell Square (not in SOAS main building but right next to it). Tea will be served from 3.45.
