Monthly meetings of 2008

Saturday, December 13, 2008
Celeste Sullivan,
Southern Connecticut State University
Title: “Variation in Intonation Patterns According to Language and Social Context in Lahore”

Saturday, November 8, 2008
Clyde Coreil,
New Jersey City University
Title: “The Duality of Language”

Saturday, October 11, 2008
Yolanda Chavez-Cappellini,
Assistant Professor at SUNY New Paltz
Title: “Suffixation and Compounding in Andean Toponyms”

Saturday, May 10, 2008
Joseph L. Malone,
 Professor Emeritus of Barnard College and Columbia University
Title:   “Transdialectal Patterns of Mutation in Aramaic as Evidence for Special Origins: Isogloss Pockets, Anachronic” Dialects, and More,”

Saturday, March 8, 2008
Prof. Cecilia Robustelli,
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy,  Associate Professor of Italian Linguistics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
Title: “The Role of the Italian Language in the New European Landscape.”

Saturday, February 9, 2008
George L. Greaney,
Director of the Hofstra University English Language Program for international students and adjunct assistant professor of Comparative Literature and Languages at Hofstra
Title: “What Makes a Good Translation? How to Render ‘Live’ Speech in a ‘Dead’ Language. The Case of Attic Oratory”

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Monthly meetings of 2007

Saturday, December 8, 2007
Kate Parry,
Professor in the Department of English, Hunter College, City University of New York and Chair, Uganda Community Libraries Association.
Title: “Languages in Africa”

Saturday, November 10, 2007
Peter T. Daniels
(noted scholar and author).
Title: “Smudges, cuneiforms, moon-spun vowels:  A Unified View of the Diverse Origins of Writing.”

Saturday, October 13, 2007
David K. Barnhart
(Editor, Lexik House Publishers)
Title: “The Sieve Syndrome: What happens to new words”

Saturday May 12, 2007
Ann Delilkan,
New York City College of Technology
Title: “Codas and Head Feet in Malay”

Saturday, Feb. 17, 2007
Christa de leine,
College of Notre Dame, Maryland
Title: “Students from Anglophone West Africa in US Classrooms”

Saturday, March 3, 2007
Arthur K. Spears,
The City College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Title: “African American English: Recent Advances in Understanding the Grammar-Use Interface”

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