Barbara Partee will be giving a streamed public lecture as part of the project described below on Wednesday, May 13, at 7pm Brazilian time, 6pm EDT. The topic is “Formal semantics and pragmatics: Origins, issues, impact.” The link to the live transmission is https://youtu.be/h8x-5eEyDjc. (On the YouTube site that the link takes you to, you can comment and ask questions, and see other people’s comments and questions. The moderators will pick a selection of questions to ask in the discussion period.)

 

The Brazilian Linguistic Association (abralin.org), in a joint project with the Permanent International Committee of Linguists (ciplnet.com), the Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina (mundoalfal.org), the Sociedad Argentina de Estudios Lingüísticos (sael.com.ar) and the Linguistic Society of America (linguisticsociety.org) is organizing a virtual event: Abralin ao Vivo – Linguists Online. The event is designed to give students and researchers free access to state-of-the-art discussions on the most diverse topics related to the study of human language during this difficult quarantine period.

For more information about Abralin ao Vivo – Linguists Online, please visit: abral.in/aovivo. For updates on the event’s programme, follow Abralin at abral.in/insta. All the lectures are also available on Abralin’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/abralin.