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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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