[lingtalks] Jack Hawkins to speak at USC

[Karma Dolma]

Dear all: 
> 
> Just a reminder that Jack (officially 'John') Hawkins  (Cambridge University
> -- and now a Research Professor in Psychology at USC) will be speaking
> tomorrow evening in Taper 101 about the importance of interdisciplinary
> approaches to understanding our "unique human attribute" Language.
> 
> Please post this reminder to any relevant groups. All welcome:
> 
> 
> "Language is our most unique human attribute and it is central to
> just about every aspect of our daily lives.  As a result there are
> now specialists in many departments who study language from the
> vantage point of their respective disciplines:  e.g. in linguistics,
> philosophy, psychology, anthropology, sociology, education,
> neuroscience, medicine, computer science and engineering."
>  
> -         Jack Hawkins
>  
> TOPIC:             "Building Bridges in the Language Sciences"
> DATE/TIME:      Thursday, April 6, 2006, 4-7 pm
> LOCATION:      THH 101
> SPEAKER:       Professor John Hawkins, Director
>                        Research Center for English and Applied Linguistics
>  
>  
> ³Jack Hawkins has long been a trail-blazer in the attempt to reconcile the
> results of formal and functional linguistics. Efficiency and Complexity in
> Grammars charts new territory in this domain.."
>     Frederick J. Newmeyer, University of Washington


Karma Dolma
Office Assistant
USC Department of Linguistics
213 740-2986