Previous Seasons Meetings
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.
February 2011
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?
Prof. Phillipe Caron (University of Poitiers)
January 2011
The colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana: modern language-teaching methods in the third century AD?
Prof. Eleanor Dickey (University of Exeter)
One-day symposium
Language, Region and Economy
In line with a now well established tradition, the Nov 2010 meeting of the Society will centre on a collection of papers to be delivered on a particular theme. The day-long event, to be held at the University of the West of England in Bristol, will focus on the topic "Language, region and economy", with papers expected from Jannis Androutsopoulos (Hamburg), Joan Beal (Sheffield), Richard Coates (BCL, UWE), Paul Kerswill (Lancaster), Gertrud Reershemius (Aston), and Clive Upton (Leeds).
October 2010
The last Greek infinitive in Romeyka: nonfinite tales of finiteness and language change
Dr. Ioanna Sitaridou (University of Cambridge)
Room 4421, SOAS main building
Annual General Meeting
Goings on in the 'house of ill-repute': why we are tolerant of irregularity in language
Prof. Alison Wray (Cardiff)
May 2010
Morphosyntactic conditioning in phonology: the case of pronominal clitics in European Portuguese
Dr Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (Manchester)
Somerville College, University of Oxford
Language, text and history: linguistics and philology in the 21st century
Prof. Andrew Garrett (California, Berkeley) Diffusion and descent in linguistic speciation
PhilSoc Council is pleased to announce the Society's plans for a two-day symposium at which students and young researchers will be able to exchange ideas about their work and to attend courses on philological subjects. The event will take place at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge on 19 and 20 March 2010, and the Society is delighted to be able to announce that Professor Andrew Garrett (Berkeley) has agreed to lead a teaching session on the Friday and deliver a paper on the Saturday entitled "Diffusion and descent in linguistic speciation". The event will also include a panel discussion, with panelists including Prof. David Denison, Dr Adam Ledgeway, Prof. Anna Morpurgo-Davies and Prof. Nick Sims-Williams.
February 2010
Narrating multilingual selves in central European language biographies
Prof. Patrick Stevenson (Southampton)
January 2010
Classifiers and plural semantics
Prof. Mary Dalrymple (Oxford)
Workshop: Corpus-based advances in historical linguistics
PhilSoc Council is pleased to announce that its Nov 09 meeting will continue its recent tradition of taking place in the North. A one-day conference on corpus-based advances in historical linguistics will be held on Sat 14 Nov 09 at the University of York.
