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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

DateTitleSpeaker(s)
9th June 2009 "Vulnerable agents: the ethnopragmatic construction of Toraja political philosophy"
...abstract
Aurora Donzelli
(ELAP, SOAS)

 

Previous seminars

DateTitleSpeaker(s)
2nd June 2009 "The sociolinguistic complexity of coastal Tanzania: the case of Ndengeleko"
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Eva-Marie Ström
(Göteborgs universitet)
MA presentations
26th May (Tuesday)
9am-3pm, room 4418
27th May (Wednesday)
9am-4pm,room 4421
MA Presentations
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MA Students
(SOAS)
PhD Research Presentation
20th May 2009 (Wednesday)
1pm-2pm, room 4421
"Real Paths with a Fictive Directional: The ‘directional’ clitic in Taqbailit Berber"
...abstract
Aisha Belkadi
(SOAS)
PhD Research Presentation
20th May 2009 (Wednesday)
2pm-3pm, room 4421
"‘Clause Constituent Order and Information Structure in Blanga: Preliminary Considerations’"
...abstract
Radu Voica
(SOAS)
MPhil upgrade presentation
19th May 2009 (Tuesday)
10am-11am, room 4421
"Head-final syntax and disharmonic word order in Bantu: The case of Langi" Hannah Gibson
(SOAS)
MPhil upgrade presentation
19th May 2009 (Tuesday)
11am-12pm, room 4421
"Language policy and planning in Uganda: an account of the language planning experience in a multilingual country" Judith Nakayiza
(SOAS)
MPhil upgrade presentation
19th May 2009 (Tuesday)
1pm-2pm, room 4421
"Possessive Constructions in North Ambrym" Michael James Franjieh
(SOAS)
MPhil upgrade presentation
19th May 2009 (Tuesday)
2pm-3pm, room 4421
"The classification of nominalised verbs in Bainouk" Alex Cobbinah
(SOAS)
19th May 2009 "Miss, who needs the languages of immigrants?': London's multilingual schools" Dina Mehmedbegović
(London Education Research Unit, IOE)
MPhil upgrade presentation
18th May 2009
(Monday)
1pm-2pm, room 4418
"Secondary Predicate in Japanese" Ryo Shibagaki
(SOAS)
MPhil upgrade presentation
18th May 2009
(Monday)
2pm-3pm, room 4418
"Pitch and Register in Walungge" Cathy Bartram
(SOAS)
12th May 2009 "More on non-restrictive relatives"
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Doug Arnold
(University of Essex)
5th May 2009 "Disjunction agreement patterns in a constraint-based framework"
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Maria Flouraki (SOAS)
Despina Kazana
(University of Essex)
28th April 2009 "Relatedness in periphrasis: a paradigm-based perspective"
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Gergana Popova (Goldsmith's)  
Andrew Spencer
(University of Essex)
21st April 2009 The Grammar of Borrowed Words in Modern Japanese
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Peter Sells
(SOAS)
Post-doc Presentation
20th April 2009 (Monday)
9am-10am, room 4421
"Comparing (ir)reality in Vanuatu languages’"
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Peter Budd
(SOAS)
Post-doc Presentation
20th April 2009 (Monday)
10am-11am, room 4421
"Gender and person agreement in Cicipu "
...abstract
Stuart McGill
(SOAS)
Post-doc Presentation
20th April 2009 (Monday)
11am-12pm, room 4421
"Divergent developments from laryngeal effects on vowels in Mocho’ and Tuzanteco"
...abstract
Naomi Fox
(University of Utah)
Post-doc Presentation
20th April 2009 (Monday)
12pm-1pm, room 4421
"Insights from a lesser-studied dialect: documenting Malimiut Iñupiaq"
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Linda Lanz
(Rice University)
Post-doc Presentation
20th April 2009 (Monday)
1pm-2pm, room 4421
"Local literacies and language support: Writing practices in Bamanan and Bozo (Mali)"
...abstract
Aissatou Mbodj-Pouyi,
(Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
31st March 2009 "The locative-subject alternation in Xhosa: lexical aspect and the (de-)causative distinction in motion verb constructions"
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Marianna Visser
(University of Stellenbosch)
17th March 2009
CANCELLED- to be rescheduled
"The syntax and semantics of reformulation markers"
...abstract
Miriam Urgelles
(University of Essex)
10th March 2009 "Morphological encoding of giveness in the Kagulu noun phrase"
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Malin Petzell
(ELAP, SOAS)
3rd March 2009 "'Contact-induced change in Evenki' "
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Lenore Grenoble
(University of Chicago)
24th February 2009 "Applying a model of language policy and management to endangered languages"
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Bernard Spolsky
(Bar-Ilan University)
17th February 2009 "Language and ethnicity at school: some implications from recent work in sociolinguistics"
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Ben Rampton
(KCL)
3rd February 2009 (CANCELLED- rescheduled for autumn 2009) "Polite Chinese Children Revisited: Creativity, resistance and the use of codeswitching by British Chinese children in complementary schools"
...abstract
Li Wei
(Birkbeck)
PhD Presentation
28th January 2009 (Wednesday)
3-5pm, room 4421
"Raiders of the lost tones - tonal melodies in Ikaan nouns"
...abstract
Sophie Salffner
(SOAS)
27th January 2009 "British Sign Language Corpus Project: Open Access Archives and the Observer's Paradox"
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Adam Schembri
(UCL)
20th January 2009 "Revising meroitic sound values: a phonological approach"
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Kirsty Rowan
(SOAS)
13th January 2009 "Dogs in space: putting language documentation on a sound footing" ...abstract David Nathan
(ELAP, SOAS)
9th December 2008 "Mobility, sedentism, identity, and mechanisms of language shift in Aboriginal Australia"
...abstract
Peter Sutton
(University of Adelaide/SA Museum)
2nd December 2008 "An Introduction to the Araxes-Iran Linguistic Area"
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Don Stilo
(MPI)
PhD Presentation
26th November 2008 (Wednesday)
3-4pm, room 4421
"Where am I standing and which way is up? Verbs of motion and orientation in Kubokota men-and-tree games"
...abstract
Mary Chambers
(ELAP, SOAS)
PhD Presentation
26th November 2008 (Wednesday)
4-5pm, room 4421
"Pregnant pauses: consonant length in Cicipu"
...abstract
Stuart McGill
(ELAP, SOAS)
25th November 2008 "Mathematical models of language shift"
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Anne Kandler
(UCL)
PhD Presentation
19th November 2008 (Wednesday)
4-5pm, room 4421
"Adpositions in Kwarandzyey: mixed order, borrowing, and the emergence of comitative subject agreement"
...abstract
Lameen Souag
(ELAP, SOAS)
18th November 2008 "Determining the Syntax of an Obsolescent Language. A Case Study from the Channel Islands"
...abstract
Mari Jones
(Cambridge)
11th November 2008 "Ethnolinguistic Distinctiveness: Some Social Psychological Data"
...abstract
Itesh Sachdev
(SOAS-UCL CETL in ‘Languages of the Wider World’   Dept. of Linguistics, SOAS)
28th October 2008 "A role for sociolinguistics in language documentation? The case of Northern Sumu in Nicaragua’s multilingual Caribbean Coast region"
...abstract
Jane Freeland
(Southampton)
21st October 2008 "Hybridity versus revivability: The genesis of the Israeli language"
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Ghil'ad Zuckermann
(Queensland)
14th October 2008 "Dialectology in Iran"
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Gerardo Barbera
(ELAP)
7th October 2008 "The Galoes Grammar Authoring Environment"
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Sebastian Nordhoff
(University of Amsterdam)