A workshop organised by Rahul Santhanam (rahul.santhanam@cs.ox.ac.uk) and Danfeng Wu (danfeng.wu@magd.ox.ac.uk), which will take place on 2 March 2024 at Magdalen College. For details and a full programme, please see https://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.

Registration is now closed Time Topic (tentative) Speaker Location 9:00 – 9:15 Welcome address Danfeng Wu (University of Oxford) Grove Auditorium  (access from Octagon gates on Longwall Street) 9:15 – 10:15 High-level tutorial on how an LLM works Aleksand

Dr Lindsay Morcom, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada 2pm Thursday 29th February Room 206, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics, Clarendon Institute, Walton Street.

We look forward to hearing Tim Barnes at the Historical Syntax Seminar: “Problems in Mycenaean Syntax” Wednesday 21st February, 4.30-6 p.m. Centre for Linguistics and Philology, room 206.

The Oxford University Linguistics Society will be hosting this talk by Colin Phillips, our new Professor of Linguistics, at 3 p.m. on Friday, 16th February in the lecture theatre of the Centre for Linguistics and Philology.

We look forward to welcoming Professor Valentina Bambini (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia) to the General Linguistics Seminar on 12 February, for her talk “The costs and benefits of neuroimagining metaphors”. 5:15 p.m.

We look forward to hearing Dillon Kelly at the Historical Syntax Seminar: “Enigmatic Ordering: The syntax and structure of riddles in the Rigveda" Wednesday 7th February, 4.30-6 p.m. Centre for Linguistics and Philology, room 206.

We look forward to welcoming Professor Joana Rosselló (Universitat de Barcelona) to the General Linguistics Seminar on 5 February, for her talk on “Recursion in language and vision: a view from minimally verbal autism”. 5:15 p.m.

Ancient Anatolia Network Seminar on The Language of Kalašma: A New Branch of Anatolian Speakers: Elisabeth Rieken (University of Marburg) and Ilya Yakubovich (University of Marburg) Friday 2 February 2024, 5.

We look forward to hearing Eleanor Walsh at the Historical Syntax Seminar: "That's a Wrap: The final word on the Old Irish verbal complex?" Wednesday 24th January, 4.30-6 p.m. Centre for Linguistics and Philology, room 206.

We look forward to hearing Dr Matt Gardner at the General Linguistics Seminar on 22 January: “Yup↓: Subverting sterotypes with ingressive pulmonic discourse particles in Canadian Maritime English" 5:15 p.m. in the Taylorian Institute, room 2.

We look forward to hearing Anna Paradís and Afra Pujol i Campeny at the Historical Syntax Seminar: “Verb position and clitic placement in Old Catalan” Wednesday 6th March, 4.30-6 p.m. Centre for Linguistics and Philology, room 206.

We look forward to welcoming Professor Torsten Meißner (University of Cambridge), who will give a talk entitled "To reconstruct or not: the Greek nouns in -eus" to the first General Linguistics Seminar of 2024. Monday 15 January, 5:15 p.m.

We look forward to hearing our Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Dr Anna Paradís, who will give a talk entitled “When restructuring meets control” to the General Linguistics Seminar on 19 February. 5:15 p.m. in the Taylorian Institute, room 2.

We look forward to welcoming Professor David Adger (Queen Mary University of London) to the General Linguistics Seminar on 29 January, where he will tell us about “Mereological Syntax and Island Locality”.

We look forward to welcoming Dr Itamar Kastner (University of Edinburgh) to the General Linguistics Seminar on 26 February, for his talk entitled “When Large Language Models can and can't learn morphology”. 5:15 p.m. in the Taylorian Institute, room 2.

Professor Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS; New York University) will deliver the first public lecture in a new series on Linguistics and Philosophy: "Music Semantics". 3.30-5 p.m.

A warm welcome to everyone joining us for this conference, at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies.

The Simon, Arpi & Marie Simonian Prize for Excellence in Leadership is an annual prize open to both undergraduates and postgraduates at St Edmund Hall.

 "Echoes of the past: Turkish, Venetian, and Greek", an exhibition organised by Oxford phoneticians: Sunday 27th October, 10:00-15.30, The Hellenic Centre, London http://helleniccentre.org/event/echoes-of-the-past/