Departmental Seminars
Usual Time: 3.30pm on Tuesdays in room 4418
NOTE Special seminars: Special PhD presentations
are held on Wednesdays as highlighted below
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
| Date | Title | Speaker(s) |
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| 9th February 2010
| "The role of the individual in a multi-level approach to code-switching"
...abstract |
Penelope Gardner-Chloros
Birkbeck
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| 16th February 2010
| Reading Week - no seminar
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| 23rd February 2010
| tbc
| Edward Garrett
ELAR, SOAS
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| 27th April 2010
| tbc
| Nik Coupland
Cardiff
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| 2nd March 2010
| "Phonology-morphology domain (mis)matches in Huave (Mexico)"
| Yuni Kim
Manchester
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| 9th March 2010
| tbc
| Louise Mycock
Somerville College, Oxford
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| 16th March 2010
| "Nouns as adjectives and adjectives as nouns"
...abstract |
Irina Nikolaeva (SOAS)
Andrew Spencer (Essex)
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| 23rd March 2010
| "Verbal art in oral cultures: what questions to ask, and what the answers tell us"
| Nigel Fabb
Strathclyde
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| 4th May 2010
| tbc
| Peter Sells
SOAS
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| 11th May 2010
| "Semantic Universals"
| Emmon Bach
SOAS
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| 1st June 2010
| tbc
| Charmian Kenner
Goldsmiths
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| 18th June 2010
| "ELAR online: negotiating access to endangered language materials"
| Edward Garrett
ELAR, SOAS
|
Previous seminars
| Date | Title | Speaker(s) |
|---|
| 2nd February 2010
| "Expression of reference with constructed action in British Sign Language narratives"
...abstract |
Kearsey Cormier
DCAL, UCL
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| 26th January 2010
| "Burmese sign language: some preliminary findings"
...abstract |
Justin Watkins
SOAS
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| 19th January 2010
| "From Language Rights to Language Survival: A Human Rights Typology of Language Acquisition Planning"
...abstract |
Dave Sayers
Swansea
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| 12th January 2010
| "From Digital Himalaya to the World Oral Literature Project"
...abstract |
Mark Turin
Cambridge
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| 15th December 2009
| "Language, sex/gender and evolution: a sociolinguistic perspective"
...abstract |
Deborah Cameron
Oxford
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| 8th December 2009
| "The Internal Structure of Compounds: A phase account of Aphasia"
...abstract |
Shanti Ulfsbjorninn
SOAS
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| 1st December 2009
| "A preliminary analysis of tone in Uwu"
...abstract |
Anja Choon
SOAS
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| 17th November 2009
| "Body part applicatives in Murrinh-Patha (Australia)"
...abstract |
Rachel Nordlinger
University of Melbourne
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| 3rd November 2009
| "Language, Rights, and the Language of Language Rights: The Need for a New Conceptual Framework in Political Theory of Language Policy"
...abstract |
Yael Peled
Nuffield College, Oxford
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| 27th October 2009
| "Arandic songs: documenting Aboriginal verbal art in Central Australia"
...abstract |
Myfanwy Turpin
Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre,
Griffith University
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| 20th October 2009
| "Expressions of Futurity in the Vilamovicean Language"
...abstract |
Alexander Andrason
UCM (Madrid, Spain)
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| 13th October 2009 (4pm start)
| "Polite Chinese Children Revisited:
Creativity, resistance and the use of codeswitching by British Chinese children in complementary schools"
...abstract |
Li Wei
Birkbeck
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