The Research Seminar Series is an informal forum for the presentation and discussion of work in
progress by staff, PhD students and visitors. This is an opportunity for us to find out about
current research being undertaken by members of our department, to develop our own research, and to
share ideas.
| Date | Main Topics | Speaker(s) |
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May 7, 2008
room L67 |
"Listening as social action: Method and morality in endangered language fieldwork"
...abstract
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Lise Dobrin
University of Virginia
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| April 23, 2008 |
"Ikaann tense-aspect-mood: looking beyond the verb"
...abstract
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Sophie Salffner
ELAP, SOAS
|
| POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE |
"Linguistic research in Southern Iran"
|
Gerardo Barbera
ELAP
|
| March 12, 2008 |
"Complex predicates in Bierebo"
...abstract |
Pete Budd
ELAP
|
| February 27, 2008 |
"Multi-verb constructions in Malto"
...abstract |
Chaithra Puttaswarmy
ELAP
|
| January 23, 2008 |
"A sociolinguistic study of Birmingham English: language variation and change in a multi-ethnic British community"
...abstract |
Arfaan Khan
Queen Mary, University of London
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| November 21, 2007 |
"Theorising the tsunami: participant observation and observing participation in a distaster situation"
...abstract |
Mary Raymond
ELAP
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| October 31, 2007 |
"The Progressive Aspect and Continuous Tenses in siSwati - A morphosyntactic and semantic analysis"
...abstract |
Peter Nichols
Africa
|
| October 17, 2007 |
"A pan-dialectal approach to language documentation: the Wik languages of Cape York Peninsula, Australia"
...abstract |
Louise Ashmore
ELAP
|
| October 10, 2007 |
"Documenting the endangered Kola Saami languages"
...abstract |
Michael Riessler
Humboldt University, Berlin
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| October 3, 2007 |
"Aspect and Argument Structure in SENĆOŦEN: Resultive and Imperfective in Complementary Distribution"
...abstract |
Claire Turner
University of Surrey
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June 6, 2007
Location B111 |
"Tone in Ikann grammar"
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Sophie Salffner (ELAP) |
May 30, 2007
Location B111 |
"The typology of number borrowing in Berber"
...abstract |
Lameen Souag (ELAP)
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May 2, 2007
Location G50
|
"Gender and Person Agreement in Cicipu"
...abstract |
Stuart McGill (ELAP) |
| March 14, 2007 |
"Evidentials, Interaction and Privacy in Tibetan"
...abstract |
Ed Garrett (Eastern Michigan University) |
| February 28, 2007 |
"Dynamic syntax and multiple object marking"
...abstract |
Anna McCormack (Africa Dept.) |
| February 21, 2007 |
"The nature and nurture of grammar"
...abstract
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Daniel Everett (Illinois State University) |
| February 7, 2007 |
"The restructuring of Portuguese morphosyntax in Angola"
...abstract
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Liliana Inverno (University of Coimbra/FCT grantee) |
| January 24, 2007 |
"Language and national identity: the case of Gaza" |
Atef Al-Sha’er (Linguistics) |
| January 10, 2007 |
"Mismatch and asymmetry in Eleme verbal agreement"
...abstract |
Oliver Bond (ELAP) |
| December 13, 2006 |
"Using video for elicitation: events, aspect and control" |
Leora Bar-el (ELAP) |
| November 29, 2006 |
"The syntax of clitic constructions in Taqbailit Berber"
...abstract |
Aicha Belkadi, Linguistics |
| November 15, 2006 |
"Spatial relations in Bierebo"
...abstract
|
Pete Budd, ELAP |
| October 25, 2006 |
"Structural analysis of Moroccan Arabic and English Codeswitching"
...abstract
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Najat Benchiba, NME |
| October 11, 2006 |
"Contact and Convergence in Malto"
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Chaithra Puttaswamy, ELAP |
| May 25, 2006 |
"Sentence connectives and deictic shift in Paasaal narrative"
...abstract |
Stuart McGill, ELAP |
| May 11, 2006 |
"Verb Serialization in Betta Kurumba"
...abstract |
Gail Coelho, ELAP |
| March 15, 2006 |
"Sketch grammars in language documentation and description - What? How? Where?"
...abstract |
Sophie Salffner, ELAP |
| March 8, 2006 |
"Patterns of pronominal alignment in Northern Talyshi"
...abstract |
Gerado De Caro, ELAP |
| February 22, 2006 |
"Directional verbs in Arop-Lokep and Karnai"
...abstract |
Mary Raymond, ELAP |
| February 8, 2006 |
"In/alienable possession"
...abstract |
Pete Budd, ELAP |
| December 1, 2005 |
"Ergative Extraction in Yukatek and Lakandon Maya"
...abstract |
Henrik Bergqvist, ELAP |
| November 17, 2005 |
"Semantic aspects of the noun class system in Gújjolay Eegima"
...abstract |
Serge Sagna, ELAP |
| October 27, 2005 |
"Transitivity in Salish" |
Leora Bar-el, ELAP |
Friday October 21, 2005
1pm-3pm
Room 559
(Note day and room) |
"Depositing with ELAR: accepting, accessioning and archiving"
...abstract |
Robert Munro and David Nathan (Endangered Languages Archive) |
October 13, 2005
Note: this seminar is cancelled and will be rescheduled |
"Argument Structure: the major issues"
...abstract |
Friederike Lüpke, ELAP |
| June 22, 2005 |
"Converging languages, converging fields - Documenting Mande and Atlantic
languages and their contact situations (First ideas for a research
project)"
*Room 536* |
Friederike Lüpke, ELAP |
| June 1, 2005 |
"National Recording Project on Indigenous Performance in Australia"
...abstract |
Linda Barwick, Music Dept and Paradisec, University of Sydney |
| May 18, 2005 |
"Semantics of temporal deictics in Lakandon Maya"
*Room 559*
...abstract |
Henrik Bergqvist, ELAP |
| April 20, 2005 |
"An introduction to the Nominal Classification of Gœj—lay Eegima" |
Serge Sagna, ELAP |
| March 9, 2005 |
"A Morphological Generator for Kannada" |
Chaithra Puttuswamy, ELAP |
| February 23, 2005 |
"Parsing the vocabulary of Wa"
(1:00pm-2:00pm. Room 431) |
Richard Kunst, AHRB Wa Dictionary Project |
December 16, 2004
2 Seminars ! |
"Obviation and Inversion in Mayan and Mixe-Zoquean languages"
(10:00am-11:00am. Room G60, SOAS main building)
...abstract |
Roberto Zavala, CIESAS-Sureste |
"Chatino tonal phonology"
(11:30am-12:30pm. Room G60, SOAS main building)
...abstract |
Anthony Woodbury, University of Texas, Austin |
| December 8, 2004 |
"The symmetry of clefts, relative clauses, and questions in Bantu" |
Nhlanhla Thwala, AHRB Romance Bantu Project |
| November 17, 2004 |
"Gradational modelling of functional categories"
...abstract |
Robert Munro, ELAR |
