Friday, September 26, 2003

2003 Bruce Pearson Award Papers:

Craig Callender
Linguistics Program and English Department
University of South Carolina

The Interplay of Sound Law and Lexical Diffusion in Middle German Dialects

Eva Moore
Linguistics Program and English Department
University of South Carolina

Indexicals, demonstratives, and deferred reference

Place: Gambrell 151
Time: 3:30 p.m.

Click here to see the abstracts

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program.

Friday, October 24, 2003

Curtis Ford
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
University of South Carolina

Bosnian as a "Normal" Language

Place: Gambrell 151
Time: 3:30 p.m.

Click here to see the abstract

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program.

Friday, November 14, 2003

Craige Roberts
Linguistics Department
Ohio State University

Implicature: The Interaction of Conventional and Conversational Factors

Place: Gambrell 151
Time: 3:30 p.m.

Click here to see the abstract

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program and the Department of Philosophy.

Friday, February 13th, 2004

Paul Roberge
Linguistics Department
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Reconstructing a Historical Pidgin Language

Place: Gambrell 151
Time: 3:30 pm

Click here to see the abstract

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and Department of Anthropology.

Friday-Sunday, February 27-29th, 2004

Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 13

Keynote speakers:

Leonard H. Babby (Princeton University)
Case, argument structure, and double-object structures

Christina Bethin (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Stress and length in Belarusian and Ukrainian dialects

Roumyana Slabakova (University of Iowa)
Perfective prefixes: What they are, what flavors they come in, and how they are acquired

Program details and time/place of the talks to be announced at conference website:
http://www.cla.sc.edu/LING/FASL13/index

Co-sponsored by:

College of Liberal Arts, USC
Linguistics Program, University of South Carolina
Department of English Language and Literature, USC
Department of Languages, Literature, and Culture, USC
Slavica Publishers at Indiana University
Princeton University Program in Linguistics
The Slavic and East European Language Resource Center (Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill)

Friday, March 19th, 2004

Eric W. Healy
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Arnold School of Public Health

Measuring the Frequency Resolution Employed During the Perception of Speech

Place: Gambrell 151
Time: 3:30 pm

Click here to see the abstract

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program and Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.

Friday, March 26th, 2004

Stefan Frisch
Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders
University of South Florida

Speech errors at the gestural level

Place: Walsh Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Barnwell College
Time: 1 pm

Click here to see the abstract

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program and Department of Psychology

On the convergence of internal and external evidence in linguistics

Place: Gambrell 151
Time: 3:30 pm

Click here to see the abstract

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program and Department of Psychology.

Mark your calendars!
Campus visit Sept. 9-10 (2004) of distinguished professor Susan Gass (Michigan State University), who will speak on her recent research in second language acquisition. Stay tuned for further details as they develop.