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Departmental Seminars

Usual Time: 3.15pm on Tuesdays

The following seminars are held by SOAS' Department of Linguistics at the main SOAS campus in Russell Square, Bloomsbury, not far from the British Museum ...SOAS maps.

See also Research Seminars

 

Coming seminars

DateTitleSpeaker(s)
May 6, 2008
room L67
"From Linguistic Elicitation to Eliciting the Linguist: Lessons in Community Empowerment from Melanesia"
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Lise Dobrin
University of Virginia
May 13, 2008
room KLT
"Linguistic human rights in the asylum process"
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Peter Patrick
University of Essex
May 27, 2008
room L67
"Is focus universal?"
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Dejan Matić
MPI-EVA, Leipzig

 

Previous seminars

DateTitleSpeaker(s)
April 29, 2008 "Spatial, time-aspectual and concomitance relations in Huave"
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Maurizio Gnerre
University of Naples
April 15, 2008 "Distributive plurality in Nivkh"
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Ekaterina Gruzdeva
University of Helsinki
March 4, 2008 "Towards a useful theory of language"
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Richard Hudson
University College London
February 19, 2008 "London as a source of innovation and change in present-day English"
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Jenny Cheshire
Queen Mary, University of London
January 29, 2008 British Academy Workshop on Bantu Linguistics
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Special session of invited speakers
January 15, 2008 "The social importance of a word category: evidence from African ideophones"
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Tucker Childs
Portland State University
December 11, 2007 "The independent personal pronoun system in Lakota"
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Bruce Ingham
SOAS
November 27, 2007 "Language universals and linguistic knowledge"
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Sonia Cristofaro
University of Pavia
November 13, 2007 "Greetings in host-tourist encounters"
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Adam Jaworski
Cardiff University
October 23, 2007 "The influence of Arabic on Indonesian and Malay - linguistics, historiography, and a scholarly journey"
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Stuart Campbell
University of Western Sydney
October 9, 2007 "Aspectual and thematic constraints on auxiliary selection and split intransitivity in southern Italo-Romance: synchronic and diachronic aspects"
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Michela Cennamo
Federico II University, Naples