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Departmental Seminars 2004

DateTitleSpeaker(s)
21st September 2004 "Changing attitudes and maintaining endangered languages"
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Dr David Bradley (La Trobe University)
28th September 2004 "The Wadeye Project: Murrinh-patha song and song language at Wadeye (Port Keats), NT"
(Joint seminar with SOAS Music Dept)
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Dr Linda Barwick (Music, University of Sydney), Professor Allan Marett (Music, University of Sydney)
12th October 2004 "Cases and clauses in Australian Aboriginal languages"
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Peter Austin, ELAP SOAS
19th October 2004 "Grammatical functions in Austronesian/Indoeuropean syntax and the 'complements only restriction'"
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Joachim Sabel, Frankfurt University
26th October 2004 "The linguistic profile of Downs' Syndrome subjects: evidence from wh-movement constructions"
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Marina Tsakiridou, Linguistics Dept, SOAS
9th November 2004 "We have too many languages here":A sociolinguistic look at West Alor (Eastern Indonesia)
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Louise Baird, Leiden University
16th November 2004 "Argument structure in Goemai (a West Chadic language of Nigeria)"
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Birgit Hellwig, ELDP SOAS
23rd November 2004 "Documentary Linguistics: Alarm Bells and Whistles?"
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David Nathan, ELAR SOAS
30th November 2004 "The structure of Turkish words"
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Monik Charette, Linguistics Dept SOAS
*5.30pm* 7th December 2004 "Politeness"
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Barbara Pizziconi, Japanese Dept SOAS