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.
2007--08 programme
19 Oct 2007
Dr Lutz Marten (SOAS)
Parameters of morphosyntactic variation in Bantu
SOAS
16 Nov 2007
Prof. Vivian Cook (Newcastle)
Should linguistics be based on a monolingual or bilingual norm?
Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, 34 Gell Street, Sheffield S3 7QY.
18 Jan 2008
Dr James Clackson (Cambridge)
Italic: an Indo-European subgroup
SOAS
15 Feb 2008
Dr Mari Jones (Cambridge)
The Martin Manuscripts: an unexplored archive of Guernsey French
SOAS
Sat 15 Mar 2008
Prof. Yan Huang (Reading)
Pragmatic intrusion into what is said: explicature, pragmatically enriched 'said', implicIture or implicAture?
In the Upper Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge. For a detailed map, please
9 May 2008
AGM
Dr Claire Cowie (Edinburgh)
Borrowing, Englishing and Coining: morphological productivity in Early Modern English
SOAS
Sat 7 Jun 2008
Prof. Clive Holes (Oxford)
Language contact in the Arabian Gulf: a potted history
Haldane Room, Wolfson College, Oxford