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.
2005--06 programme
21 October 2005
Prof. Jay Jasanoff (Harvard University)
Aorists from imperfects
25 November 2005
Prof. Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and University of California Santa Barbara)
Revisiting the typology of relative clauses
At the Arts Theatre, Humanities Lime Grove Building (formerly Arts Building), University of Manchester. For a detailed map, please Abstract: Revisiting the typology of relative clauses
20 January 2006
Prof. Alison Henry (University of Ulster)
Microvariation in the syntax of Irish Englishes
17 Feburary 2006
Dr. Danijela Trenkic (University of York)
When is a referent uniquely identifiable? On definiteness as category of meaning
Saturday 18 March 2006
Dr. Delia Bentley (University of Manchester)
Unaccusative mismatches and split intransitivity
At St John's College, Cambridge, at 4.30pm. Please note the change of venue. For a detailed map, please Abstract: Unaccusative mismatches and split intransitivity
12 May 2006
Annual General Meeting
Dr. Julie Coleman (University of Leicester)
Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: a work in progress
Abstract: Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: a work in progress
Saturday 10 June 2006
Dr. Nils Langer (University of Bristol)
How to make bad grammar: non-standard German from 1600 to 2000
At St. Catherine's College, Oxford. For a detailed map, please