Events!

Linguistics Potluck Saturday, October 16th at 7:30pm in Hogan 6D This should be a really cool potluck- the idea is that you bring a dish reflective of the culture whose language you study (let’s interpret that loosely and not get into a Whorfian/language-identity-culture/colonialism debate). Desserts, main courses, salads, whatever you like. Homemade or store-bought (if [...]

Events this week (4/26 – 4/30)

This week is jam-packed with linguistic goodness! A quick synopsis: Wednesday, 4/28 8pm, 716 Philosophy Hall: Come discuss, debate, and meet new people at an open forum on Daniel Everett’s controversial research on the Piraha language, presented in conjunction with the Philosophy Forum. More information here. Thursday, 4/29 4pm, 1512 SIPA: NYU’s David Poeppel on [...]

4/28: Philosophy forum

This coming Wednesday, in our first collaboration with the awesome Philosophy Forum, we will be participating in a lively debate on Daniel Everett’s research on the Piraha language and culture. We will be discussing Everett’s controversial 2005 paper on Piraha, which claims that the language exhibits some properties that we did not realize were possible [...]

Overview

Dear linguists, Here’s wishing you a delightful spring break, wherever you’re going (or staying)! For your reading pleasure, here’s an overview of upcoming events: March 26-27: The Trace Foundation: “Minority Languages in Today’s Global Society: Perspectives on Language Standardization.” The lecture will focus on Tibetan, Kurdish, and Hungarian. March 26: Professor Julia Hirschberg, Computer Science [...]

Love in a time of Cupcakes

This Sunday, we will be delivering delicious home-baked goodies (you can specify brownie, red velvet cupcake, or vegan cupcake) accompanied with a beautiful hand-decorated love or friendship poem in a wonderful foreign language (with translation) to your Valentine! Send them to your lovers! Send them to your friends! Have them mysteriously sent to yourself! If [...]

Michael Dreyfuss on Occitan

This Friday  (2/5) at 4pm in 709 Hamilton, we will have a presentation from Columbia alumnus, CLS founding member, and Fulbright scholar Michael Dreyfuss. He did research this past year in France on the Occitan language. “The Occitan language and its revival through bilingual primary school education” Michael Dreyfuss Friday Feb. 5 at 4pm in [...]

Upcoming Events

Friday, 11/13/09 7:30 pm Dinner at the Columbia Cottage. Join us for food and conversation – all are welcome! RSVP on Facebook. Friday, 11/20/09 3 pm (location TBA) A computational linguistics/natural language processing presentation by Nizar Habash of the Center for Computational Learning Systems: Automatic Diacritization of Arabic Text Arabic is written without certain orthographic [...]

Coming events: October – December

10/30/09 2:00 PM Jennifer Pardo of the Human Communication Lab at Columbia will speak about her research. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. 7:30 PM Dinner at the Columbia Cottage 11/4/09 4:10 PM Mark Janse of Ghent University will give a talk on Cappadocian Greek: “Dead or Alive? The Resurrection of Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek).” 11/5/09 [...]

T-shirts!

Sweet CLS gear is coming very, very soon. These stylish t-shirts, designed by CLS co-president Alison, read “Columbia” transcribed in IPA characters across the front, and feature original artwork by last year’s president, HY, on the back. They come in white with black print, or in light blue with navy blue print. Sizes are those [...]

10/16: Daniel Everett

صباح الخير ! On Friday, October 16th at 3pm, we will be hosting Daniel Everett, an expert on the language and culture of the Pirahã, an indigenous people of the Amazon. Professor Everett is the chair of the Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department at Illinois State University. He has done extensive research on Pirahã, culminating [...]