LAGB 2013: Aug. 28-31, 2013.
Venue: the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London.
Plenary speakers
Henry Sweet Lecture 2013: Philippe Schlenker (Institute Jean-Nicod/NYU) – ‘Towards a primate linguistics’
Linguistics Association Lecture 2013: Jonathan Bobaljik (UConn) – ‘Morphological universals and the hidden structure of words’
Program: http://www.lagb.org.uk/lagb2013/programme
Conference Website: http://www.lagb.org.uk/lagb2013/home
Satellite Workshops:
Workshop on Primate Grammar (and Beyond)
28th August 2013, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Plenary speaker
- Philippe Schlenker (Jean-Nicod/NYU) – ‘Towards a primate linguistics’ (based on joint work with Emmanuel Chemla, Alban Lemasson, Karim Ouattara, Kate Arnold, Sumir Keenan, Claudia Stephan, Robin Ryder and Klaus Zuberbühler)
Invited speakers
- Tecumseh Fitch (Vienna) – ‘Animal pattern perception: a broad comparative approach’
- Robert Seyfarth (UPenn) – ‘Social cognition and the origin of language’
- Simon Townsend (Zurich) – ‘Semantic compositions in the meerkat alarm call system’
- Klaus Zuberbühler (St Andrews) – ‘Meaningful strings of calls in primates’
Workshop website: http://www.lagb.org.uk/lagb2013/primategrammar
Workshop on Comparative Morphology and Morphological Theory
31st August 2013, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Call for papers: www.lagb.org.uk/lagb2013/morphology/call
Submission Deadline: May 1st, 2013.
Plenary speaker: Jonathan Bobaljik (UConn) – ‘Morphological universals and the hidden structure of words’
Workshop website: http://www.lagb.org.uk/lagb2013/morphology