| Date | Title | Speaker(s) |
|---|
| 11th January 2005
| "Nominalized Complement Clauses in Turkish, Noghay and Turkmen"
...abstract |
Meltem Keleper, Bosphorus University
|
| 18th January 2005
| "Japanese postpositions and Chinese prepositions: a contrastive analysis"
...abstract |
Meili Fang, SOAS
|
| 25th January 2005
| "Parametric Comparison: Celtic, Semitic and the Anti-Babelic Principle"
...abstract |
Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge
|
| 1st February 2005
| "The Wa dictionary project"
...abstract |
Justin Watkins and Rick Kunst, SE Asia, SOAS
|
| 22nd February 2005
| "The (necessity for theory)"
...abstract |
Neil Smith, University College London
|
| 1st March 2005
| "Complex verbs and clause combinations in Betta Kurumba"
...abstract |
Gail Coelho, ELAP, SOAS
|
| 8th March 2005
| Word Accents on Longer Vowels: studies on the Tokyo, Kyoto and Ishigaki Dialects
...abstract |
Yuko Yoshida, Doshisha University, Japan
|
| 15th March 2005
| "Spatial, anaphoric and temporal deixis in Hausa (Chadic/Afroasiatic): adverbs and demonstratives"
...abstract |
Philip J Jaggar, Africa Department, SOAS
|
| 22nd March 2005
| "Vaster than Empires: Factors Favouring the Spread of Languages"
...abstract |
Nicholas Ostler, Foundation for Endangered Languages
|
| 26th April 2005
| "'Kriol and mixed languages in Australia: language shift or hybridisation?'"
...abstract
| Dr Patrick McConvell (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies)
|
| 3rd May 2005
| "On the adequacy of frequency as a predictor of syncretism: an example from Russian"
...abstract
| Dr Dunstan Brown and Carole Tiberius (University of Surrey)
|
| 3rd May 2005, 7pm Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
| "Our people, our language, our culture"
...more information
| Kuiussi Suya, chief of the Suya (Xingu Park, Brazil)
|
| 17th May 2005
| "Paradisec and the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity"
|
Nick Thieberger (University of Melbourne and Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures)
|
| 25th May 2005
| "Tone in Chin Languages" Workshop
| Prof Larry Hyman (Chin), discussants: Justin Watkins (Khumi), and Helga So-Hartmann (Daai)
|
| 24th May 2005
| "Making sense of Prosody" Workshop
...more information
| see website
|
| 31st May 2005
| "Jurtbirrk Lovesongs of Northwestern Arnhem Land"
...abstract |
Dr Linda Barwick (University of Sydney and Paradisec)
|
| 10th June 2005
| "Linguistic research in Maluku - Endangered Malukan Languages: Eastern Indonesia and the Dutch Diaspora"
...abstract |
Margaret Florey (Monash University)
|
| 13th June 2005
| "Current Trends in Language Documentation in Latin America"
...abstract |
Prof Nora England (University of Texas, Austin)
Prof Denny Moore (Museu Goeldi-DCH)
|
| 21st June 2005
| "Developing a tool for morphological analysis of underdescribed languages"
...abstract |
Jeff Good (MPI EVA) Emily Bender (University of Washington)
|
27th September 2005
Note: Room L67
| "The Goals and Predictions of a Processing Typology of Languages "
...abstract |
John A. Hawkins, Cambridge University
|
| 4th October 2005
| "Polysynthesis and information structure in Kiowa "(with Daniel Harbour)
| Dr David Adger, Queen Mary College
|
| 11th October 2005
| "Evidence in Phonology"
...abstract |
Prof Moira Yip, UCL
|
| 18th October 2005
| "The native Lepcha orthography"
...abstract |
Heleen Plaisier,
Leiden University
|
| 25th October 2005
| "Adverbs in Lakota"
...abstract |
Prof Bruce Ingham, SOAS
|
| 1st November 2005
| "Syntax of natural and accidental coordination: Evidence from agreement"
...abstract |
Irina Nikolaeva, Oxford University
|
| 15th November 2005
| "There is no subjunctive in English"
...abstract |
Keith Allan, St Catherine’s College, Oxford & Linguistics Program, Monash University
|
| 22nd November 2005
| "The 'goe' in Goemai - the development of modifiers in a Chadic language"
| Dr Birgit Hellwig, SOAS
|
| 29th November 2005
| "Endangered numerals"
...abstract |
Prof Bernard Comrie, MPI Leipzig, Germany
|
| 6th December 2005
| "An unusual typological mode for handling countability in Miraña (North West Amazon)"
...abstract |
Dr Frank Seifart, Ruhr University, Bochum
|
| 13th December 2005
| "On Aspectual “Standards”:
Grammatical aspect in Skwxwú7mesh
"
...abstract |
Leora Bar-el, SOAS
|
