CU linguist named EFL International Chair

Professor Zygmunt Frajzyngier of the Department of Linguistics has been selected as the 2014 International Chair in the Empirical Foundations of Linguistics.

The position, associated with the Labex research collaborative, is located in Paris at the heart of the most active academic community for linguistics. Labex supports the sharing of linguistic data, empirical methods and theoretical frameworks among all the linguistics fields.

Responsibilities of the chair include a lecture series presented to advance collaboration within the field. Frajzyngier will give a series of four lectures focusing on the work presented in his recently completed book, Semantic Prerequisites for the Typology of Functional Categories.

“The fundamental premise is that every language codes in its grammatical system different meanings,” said Frajzyngier.

“I look forward to expanding the audience for the ideas I am proposing in my book, and collaborating in this academically rich environment.”

Frajzyngier will travel to Paris this June for the chair’s lecture series.

January 2014