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October 2, 2008

Today: Larry Solan's Freeman Lecture

Larry Solan's 'Law, language, and the modular mind', October 2 (today!), 4:00 pm, Herter 227.

Larry Solan, 2008 Freeman Lecture, Thursday, October 2, Herter 227, 4:00 pm. All are welcome.

Tomorrow: Majors Lunch in the Department Lounge

The Linguistics Department is hosting an informal lunch tomorrow (October 3), 12:00-1:30 pm, in the department lounge (third floor of South College). Undergrad majors are specially invited to come have lunch with the faculty and grad students in the department, and to hang out with fellow majors. Larry Solan will be on the scene and would be happy to talk about connections betwen language and the law.

[Thanks Rajesh!]

Evidentials Group

The evidentials group met on Monday, September 29. Emerson Loustou talked about his summer research on Mohawk.

[Thanks Peggy!]

Phonology Group Next Week

PhG meets next on Thursday, October 9, starting at 6:30 pm, at Kathryn Pruitt's house. The plan is to order pizza and discuss Elliott Moreton's new paper Analytic bias and phonological typology.

[Thanks Wendell!]

John Kingston on Journal Editing

John Kingston will visit the Third-Year Seminar on Thursday, October 9 (4:00-5:15 pm), to discuss life as a journal editor, with an eye towards helping students move through the process of submitting their work, dealing with referee feedback, and ultimately bringing their papers to print. All are welcome. The seminar meets in the Partee Room.