PhilSoc meetings
PhilSoc holds seven meetings each academic year, in October, November, January, February, March, May (AGM) and June. At each meeting, a full paper is read. Meetings start at 4.15pm, with tea served to members and their guests from 3.45pm. Unless indicated otherwise, meetings are held on Fridays, in room 116 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H OXG. For a detailed map, please click here. The minutes of the most recent meeting are available for download from the panel on the left; the minutes of previous meetings are available for download from the bottom of this page.
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.
2009--10 programme
Fri 19 and Sat 20 Mar 2010
Language, text and history: linguistics and philology in the 21st century
Prof. Andrew Garrett (California, Berkeley) Diffusion and descent in linguistic speciation
Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
Abstract:
May 2010
Annual General Meeting
Prof. Alison Wray (Cardiff)
Goings on in the 'house of ill-repute': why we are tolerant of irregularity in language
Sat 5 Jun 2010
Dr Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (Manchester)
Morphosyntactic conditioning in phonology: the case of pronominal clitics in European Portuguese
Somerville College, University of Oxford