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
08
2014
March 2014
Lexical typology and lexical universals
Prof. Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm (Stockholm University)
Feb
07
2014
February 2014
Darwin’s last challenge
Dr Giuseppe Longobardi (University of York)
Jan
10
2014
January 2014
Internal reconstruction, historical comparison, analogy and grammaticalisation: the Cushitic verb and its Afroasiatic context
Prof. Giorgio Banti (Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’)
Nov
08
2013
November 2013
The Neo-Aramaic dialects and their historical background
Prof. Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge)
Oct
11
2013
Octiober 2013
The dental reflexes of the labiovelars in Greek: the quest for the missing link
Prof. Julian Mendez Dosuna (University of Salamanca)
Jun
08
2013
Annual General Meeting
Re-philologising historical linguistics
Professor Sylvia Adamson (University of Sheffield)
May
10
2013
May 2013
Parts of speech: solid citizens or slippery customers?
Professor David Denison (University of Manchester)
Mar
09
2013
March 2013
Aspects of palatalisation in Tocharian
Dr John Penney (University of Oxford)
Feb
08
2013
February 2013
Semantic variation and the grammar of property concepts
Dr Andrew Koontz-Garboden (University of Manchester)
Jan
11
2013
