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.
2010--11 programme
15 Oct 2010
Dr. Ioanna Sitaridou (University of Cambridge)
The last Greek infinitive in Romeyka: nonfinite tales of finiteness and language change
5 Nov 2010
One-day symposium
Language, Region and Economy
University of the West of England
14 Jan 2011
Prof. Eleanor Dickey (University of Exeter)
The colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana: modern language-teaching methods in the third century AD?
11 Feb 2011
Prof. Phillipe Caron (University of Poitiers)
Tracing discontinuity on a continuum: what sort of 'diachronic isoglosses' can linguists scientifically rely on to establish boundaries between 'diachronic dialects' within the history of a language?
Sat 12 Mar 2011
Prof. Ranko Matasović (University of Zagreb)
Areal typology of Proto-Indo- European: the case for Caucasian connections
Univeristy of Oxford
6 May 2011
Annual General Meeting
Prof. Christian Mair (University of Freiburg)
Grammatical change in present-day English: convergence and divergence in speech and writing
Sat 4 Jun 2011
Dr Horst Simon (University of Manchester)
Politeness in grammar: an East Asian-inspired approach to German and French
Jesus College, Cambridge
Sat 18 Jun 2011
Half-day symposium marking the publication of the Historical Thesaurus of the OED
Historical semantics, etymology and lexicography
Hugh Fraser Room, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow
Abstract: Historical semantics, etymology and lexicography