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.
2006--07 programme
20 Oct 2006
Dr Mark Sebba (University of Lancaster)
Mapping out the sociolinguistics of orthography
Room G51, SOAS
Abstract: Mapping out the sociolinguistics of orthography
17 Nov 2006, at 4.25pm
Prof. Andreas Willi (University of Oxford)
Useless augments and improper perfects: Greek and the Indo-European verb
At the University of Edinburgh. Tea will be served in the Carstares Room. The meeting itself will take place in the Raeburn Room.
19 Jan 2007
Prof. Bas Aarts (University College London)
Mergers, blends and constructional gradience in English syntax
16 Feb 2007
Prof. Nigel Duffield (University of Sheffield)
How different can different be? Contrasting L1 and L2 learners’ interpretations of DIFFERENT in English and Japanese
Sat 17 Mar 2007
Prof. Martin Maiden (University of Oxford)
Some reflections on Romance imperatives
In the Danson Room at Trinity College, Oxford.
11 May 2007
Annual General Meeting
Prof. Nicholas Sims-Williams (SOAS)
The ancient language of Afghanistan
Sat 9 Jun 2007
Prof. Jeremy Smith (University of Glasgow)
The origins of the Great Vowel Shifts
At Peterhouse, Cambridge. Tea will be availble at 3.45 in the Combination Room (Fellows' garden if sunny). The meeting will be held in the Lubbock Room.