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Departmental Seminars 2012

Usual Time: 3.30pm on every other Tuesdays in room 4418 (unless otherwise indicated below)

The following seminars are held by SOAS' Department of Linguistics at the main SOAS campus in Russell Square, Bloomsbury, near the British Museum ...SOAS maps.


Coming seminars

DateTitleSpeaker(s)
8th May 2012

"Language, Land, Art and People; Working with Endangered Languages in the East Kimberley, Australia"

 Frances Kofod, Kununurra, Australia
15th May 2012 Keeping your place: The role of the visual modality in reference tracking in sign and gesture
...abstract
 Pamela Perniss, DCAL, University College London
29th May 2012"Interrogatives and information structure in Cameroon Pidgin English: a typological perspective"
...abstract
 Melanie Green, University of Sussex


Previous seminars

DateTitleSpeaker(s)
10th January 2012 The redundancy of recursion and infinity for natural language and arithmetic processing
...abstract 		Erkki Luuk and Hendrik Luuk
University of Tartu, Estonia and University of Düsseldorf, Germany
17th January 2012 "Computational Grammar Development: What is it good for?"
...abstract		 Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz, Germany
24th January 2012What do paradigms look like (and why care anyway)"
...abstract		 Greville Corbett, University of Surrey
31st January 2012 "Speech Prosody: Theories, mechanisms, models and tools"
...abstract		 Yi Xu, University College London
FRIDAY
3rd February 2012
2-4pm
*Room 116* 		"Direct Lexical Elicitation: Notes from the Field"
...abstract		 Bonny Sands Northern Arizona University, USA
7th February 2012"How many =Hoan body parts are there?: Exploring lexical typology"
...abstract
 Bonny Sands Northern Arizona University, USA
21nd February 2012"Intonation in tonal new Englishes"
...abstract
 Carlos Gussenhoven, Radbout University, The Netherlands
28st February 2012

*Room: 4418*		"On the temporal nature of universals"

...abstract
 Frans Plank, University of Konstanz, Germany
29th February 2012

5-6:30pm

*Room L67*		"Correlating Transfer Patterns in the Boundaries of Borrowing: a cross-linguistic perspective"
...abstract
 Anthony Grant
Edge Hill University, UK
6th March 2012"The relationship between spoken Burmese and Yangon Sign Language"
...abstract

 Justin Watkins, SOAS
13th March 2012"Open Acess: Transforming Science"

...abstract
 Dieter Stein, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany
20nd March 2012"Language: The Cultural Tool"

...abstract 		Daniel Everett, Bentley University, USA
20nd March 2012
5pm - 6pm

*G2*		Film Showing
"Grammar of happiness"

...more info 		Daniel Everett, Bentley University, USA
22nd March 2012
3pm - 5pm *B211 (Brunei Gallery second floor)* 		"The linguistics of temperature: an integrated lexical-typological approach"

...abstract

Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm, Stockholm University, Sweden
23nd March 2012 11am-1pm *Room 116* Round table discussion "Are there no language universals?" with Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm, Tania Kouteva, Friederike Luepke (moderator Peter Austin)

...abstract

Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm,
Tania Kouteva,
Friederike Luepke
17th April 2012"Till death do us part: What keeps clusters together?"
...abstract 		Markus Pöchtrager, Bogazici University, Turkey
1st May 2012"Ideological Directions in Welsh Language Policy"
...abstract		 Dave Sayers, University of Swansea


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