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.
March 2013
Aspects of palatalisation in Tocharian
Dr John Penney (University of Oxford)
February 2013
Semantic variation and the grammar of property concepts
Dr Andrew Koontz-Garboden (University of Manchester)
January 2013
Dialectal variation or language change in Bemba (Bantu M42)
Dr Nancy Kula (University of Essex)
One-day symposium: Language, music and interaction.
The Interaction, media and communication centre, Queen Mary University of London
October 2012
Change in vowel quantity from Latin to Romance: the importance of marginal dialects
Prof. Michele Loporcaro (University of Zurich)
One-day symposium: Language contact in the West Germanic languages, 400-1200
Various speakers (Details to appear on the PhilSoc homepage)
In the Sweelinckzaal at Utrecht University, Drift 21, 3512, BR Utrecht, The Netherlands
Annual General Meeting
Historical pragmatics: evidence from the Old Bailey
Prof. Dawn Archer (University of Central Lancashire)
At St John's College, Cambridge CB2 1TP
Discussion forum
Language-Community-Identity
Prof. Peter Trudgill, FBA (chair)
At the British Academy, 11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
Two-day PhilSoc symposium
Reanalysis and language contact in the Syntactic Atlas of Welsh Dialects
Dr David Willis (University of Cambridge)
Part of the two-day PhilSoc symposium: Synchrony and diachrony: variation and change in language history.
In the Ruskin Lane Room, Worcester College, Oxford OX1 2HB
