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.
2008--09 programme
17 Oct 2008
Professor Elizabeth Traugott (Stanford University)
Grammatical constructionalization and the rise of pseudo-clefts
Abstract: Grammatical constructionalization and the rise of pseudo-clefts
7 Nov 2008
Workshop: The grammar of space
At the University of Manchester (see flyer on home page for programme and location details)
Abstract: Workshop: The grammar of space
16 Jan 2009
Professor Harald Clahsen (University of Essex)
Morphology in language comprehension: beyond ‘words-and-rules’
13 Feb 2008
Professor Eva Schultze-Berndt (University of Manchester)
When non-finite verbs are not verbs: finiteness and parts of speech systems in typological perspective
Sat 14 Mar 2009
Dr Melanie Green (University of Sussex)
Subject and topic: evidence from Kenyang
In the Danson room at Trinity College, Oxford.
8 May 2009
Annual General Meeting
Professor Geoffrey Pullum (University of Edinburgh)
The part-of-speech classifications in English dictionaries: critiques, criteria, and proposals
Sat 6 Jun 2009
Professor Nicola McLelland (University of Nottingham)
Innovation and influence: the contribution of 17th century German grammatography to European linguistic thought
In the Vivien Stewart Room at Murray Edwards College (formerly New Hall), Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DF