CU Linguistics Professor Laura A. Michaelis recently gave a keynote address at the biennial听听conference, held November 22-23 2017 at the Universit茅 Catholique de Louvain (Catholic University of Louvain) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.听Morphology Days听is a biennial听international meeting that deals with morphology within different frameworks and from various perspectives. Previous iterations of this听conference have taken place in Leuven (2015), Leeuwarden (2013), Leiden (2012), Nijmegen (2011), Luik (2009) and Amsterdam (2007). Dr. Michaelis鈥� talk, entitled "Tense inflection as construction: What we learn about the meanings of tenses from coercion effects", concerned the representation of morphology in a formalized version of Construction Grammar called Sign-based Construction Grammar. She was pleased to represent the Americas at the meeting听(one of only two North American academics present), and will return to Europe in July 2018 as a keynote speaker at the听听in Paris,听organized by Sorbonne Paris Cit茅 University (USPC) and the听.
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