- Robert Berwick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Gareth Roberts (University of Pennsylvania, moderator)
- Becca Morley (Ohio State University)
- Tandy Warnow (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Stephen Alter (Gordon College)
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PLC 41 (March 24-27, 2017)
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PLC 40 (March 18-20, 2016)
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PLC 39 (March 20-22, 2015)
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PLC 38 (March 28-30, 2014)
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PLC 37 (March 22-24, 2013)
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PLC 36 (March 23-25, 2012)
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PLC 35 (March 18-20, 2011)
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PLC 34 (March 19-21, 2010)
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PLC 33 (March 27-29, 2009)
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PLC 32 (February 22-24, 2008)
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PLC 31 (February 23-25, 2007)
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Penn Linguistics Conference
The 43rd annual Penn Linguistics Conference will take place on March 22-24, 2019 at the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia, PA.
PLC is a linguistics conference run by graduate students in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.
This conference is made possible by generous funding from:
Keynote speaker:
Ruth Kramer (Georgetown University)
Special panel:
Interplay between Linguistics and Biology
From Lyell and Darwin's speculative analogies between languages and species all the way through to population models of language change and phylogenetic trees of language families, evolutionary biology and historical linguistics have shared a set of conceptual and mathematical tools with great success in both fields. For this year's PLC, we are inviting speakers from fields bridging the sciences and humanities to discuss the exchange of ideas between linguistics and biology.
The panel speakers are:
This panel will take place in the afternoon on Friday, March 22, 2019.