As part of the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, a full-day
Workshop on Primate Grammar (and Beyond) will take place on 28 August 2013, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. The workshop is organised by Ad Neeleman.
Invited speakers:
Philippe Schlenker (Jean-Nicod/NYU) - 'Towards a primate linguistics'
Tecumseh Fitch (Vienna) - ‘Animal pattern perception: a broad comparative approach’
Robert Seyfarth (UPenn) - ‘Social cognition and the origin of language’
Simon Townsend (Zurich) - ‘Semantic compositions in the meerkat alarm call system’
Klaus Zuberbühler (St Andrews) - ‘Meaningful strings of calls in primates’
