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Research Seminars 2007

DateMain TopicsSpeaker(s)
October 3, 2007 "Aspect and Argument Structure in SENĆOŦEN: Resultive and Imperfective in Complementary Distribution"
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Claire Turner
University of Surrey
October 10, 2007 "Documenting the endangered Kola Saami languages"
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Michael Riessler
Humboldt University, Berlin
October 17, 2007 "A pan-dialectal approach to language documentation: the Wik languages of Cape York Peninsula, Australia"
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Louise Ashmore
ELAP
October 31, 2007 "The Progressive Aspect and Continuous Tenses in siSwati - A morphosyntactic and semantic analysis"
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Peter Nichols
Africa
November 21, 2007 "Theorising the tsunami: participant observation and observing participation in a distaster situation"
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Mary Raymond
ELAP
January 23, 2008 "A sociolinguistic study of Birmingham English: language variation and change in a multi-ethnic British community"
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Arfaan Khan
Queen Mary, University of London
February 27, 2008 "Multi-verb constructions in Malto"
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Chaithra Puttaswarmy
ELAP
March 12, 2008 "Complex predicates in Bierebo"
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Pete Budd
ELAP
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE "Linguistic research in Southern Iran"
Gerardo Barbera
ELAP
April 23, 2008 "Ikaann tense-aspect-mood: looking beyond the verb"
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Sophie Salffner
ELAP, SOAS
May 7, 2008
room L67
"Listening as social action: Method and morality in endangered language fieldwork"
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Lise Dobrin
University of Virginia
May 21, 2008
room FG01
"The spread of oblique marking in Taleshi: a cross-dialectal account"
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Gerardo de Caro
ELAP, SOAS