Schedule

Spring 2013

 
Unless otherwise noted, meetings will take place on Fridays from 11.30am to 1.30pm, Wieboldt 111 (same time, same building, different room).

(1) Heather Burnett (Linguistics, Montréal & Institute Jean Nicod, ENS)
F Apr 5 (Week 1), 11.30-1.30

Chicago Linguistics Society 49
F Apr 18-Su Apr 20

(2) Galit Sassoon (LLCC, Hebrew U), “Size adjectives as adjectives”
M May 6 (Week 6), 10.00am-12.00noon in Classics 312 (Linguistics department lounge)
Note special day, time, and location!

(3) Chieu Nguyen (Linguistics, UChicago)
F May 17 (Week 7), 11.30-1.30

(4) Haim Gaifman (Philosophy, Columbia)
F May 24 (Week 8), 11.30-1.30

(5) Ryan Bochnak and Peet Klecha (Linguistics, UChicago)
F June 7 (Week 10), 11.30-1.30

 

 

Winter 2013

 
Meetings will take place on Fridays from 11.30am to 1.30pm in Wieboldt 408 (same time, new location).

(1) Daniel Lassiter (Psychology, Stanford)
Friday Jan 18 (Week 2)
Compositional Probabilistic Models of Vagueness: Computational Implementation, Experimental Evidence, and Cognitive Implications

(1.5) Ryan Bochnak (Linguistics PhD student)
Friday Jan 25 (Week 3)
Comparatives and cross-linguistic semantics

(2) Matt Teichman (Philosophy PhD student)
Friday Feb 8 (Week 5)
Characterizing Kinds

(3) Walter Pedersen (Linguistics, McGill)
Friday Feb 22 (Week 7)
A scalar analysis of again

(4) Stewart Shapiro (Philosophy, Ohio State)
Friday Mar 1 (Week 8)
Vagueness, open-texture, and retrievability

(5) Nic Koziolek (Philosophy PhD student)
Friday Mar 8 (Week 9)
Towards a Neo-Fregean Theory of Propositional Attitude Ascriptions

 

 

Autumn 2012

 
We will have four meetings this quarter, all of which will take place on Fridays from 11.30am to 1.30pm in Harper Memorial 148.

(1) Timothy Grinsell (PhD student in Linguistics, UChicago)
Friday Oct 26 (Week 4)
Votes for vagueness: why the English progressive is vague, and what Congress can do about it

(2) David Etlin (Philosophy, Groningen)
Friday Nov 9 (Week 6)
Vague Desire: the Sorites and the Money Pump

(3) Kristina Liefke (PhD student in Philosophy, Munich)
Friday Nov 16 (Week 7)
A Single-Type Semantics for Natural Language

(4) Ezra Cook (PhD student in Philosophy, Northwestern)
Friday Nov 30 (Week 9)
Epistemic Modals and Common Ground

 

 

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