Linguistics Department Blog

Linguistics Trivia Night 2012

We are pleased to annouce that our Linguistics Trivia Night which took place March 29, 2012 was a huge success! Please visit our picture gallery to check out some pictures from this event.

Movie Night "The Linguists"

On Thursday November 3, 2011 undergraduates met at 6 p.m. in the LingSem (#201) for a screening of the film "The Linguists" starring  Greg Anderson and David Harrison Ph.D '00. For more information regarding this event please visit our Calendar of Events. 

NECPHON 2011

The Northeast Computational Phonology Workshop (NECPHON) took place on October 15th, 2011 and it is an informal gathering of scholars working on or interested in any aspect of computational phonology.  For more information on this event please visit our Calendar of Events and the NECPHON 2011 Homepage.

Claire Bowern: "Serial Founder Effects in Genetics and Linguistics" Talk

We are pleased to announce that Professor Bowern will be giving a talk entitled "Serial Founder Effects in Genetics and Linguistics" in the anthropology department this Thursday at 5pm at 10 Sachem St, rm 105. 

Claire Bowern Talk: "How Many Tasmanian Languages Were There?"

Professor Claire Bowern will be giving a talk entitled "How Many Tasmanian Languages Were There" at the University of Rochester on Friday February 2, 2012.

Abstract

For information please visit: Univestiy of Rochester, Brain & Cognitive Sciences event page

Professor Claire Bowern participates in NESCENT

On December 11-14, 2011 Professor Claire Bowern participated in a working group on the evolution of linguistic diversity at NESCENT (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center). 

For more information about these meetings and NESCENT please click here.

Laurence Horn Talks in Brussels, Belgium

On Dec. 2, 2011 Professor Laurence Horn gave a plenary talk at the BAAHE (Belgian Association for Anglicists in Higher Education) 4, titled "Uncrypting a cryptotype: Lexical semantics, lexical pragmatics, and the un-verb."

Click here for more information about BAAHE.

SUNY Stony Brook Linguistics Colloquium

The Stony Brook Linguistics department is pleased to announce the sixth colloquium of the Fall 2011 semester. Dr. Raffaella Zanuttini from Yale University will  give a talk entitled “Split Subjects in Appalachian English” Friday, November 18, 2011 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM at Stony Brook. All graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, staff, and administrators are invited, and there will be a reception after the talk.

U. C. Santa Cruz Annual Distinguished Visitor Talk

U. C. Santa Cruz Nov. 18, 2011, Semantics Reading Group:  Giannakidou (2011) on Polarity U. C. Santa Cruz Nov. 19, annual Distinguished Visitor talk, SCLP (Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy Group): "On the Contrary"  Abstract