| Date | Title | Speaker(s) |
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| January 10, 2006 |
"Parameters of variation in Bantu complement structure"
...abstract |
Dr Nhlanhla Thwala, SOAS |
| January 17, 2006 *CANCELLED* |
" Last hearers of languages’" *CANCELLED* |
Prof Nicholas Evans, University of Melbourne |
| January 24, 2006 |
"Developmental perspectives on Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from the production of wh-questions and relative clauses by Greek SLI children over time'"
...abstract |
Prof Stavroula Stavrakaki, Thessaloniki University |
| January 31, 2006 |
"Smiling a winning smile: cognate objects and the aspect parameter"
...abstract |
Prof Geoffrey Horrocks, Classics and Archaeology, Cambridge University |
| February 7, 2006 |
"Serial Verb Constructions and the Expression of Events"
...abstract |
Prof William Foley, University of Sydney |
| February 10, 2006,
ANNUAL PUBLIC LECTURE, 5.45PM |
"Endangered archives of endangered languages" |
Prof Dietrich Schüller, Austrian Sound Archive |
| February 21, 2006 |
"New Englishes and variation theory "
...abstract |
Dr Devyani Sharma, King’s College, London |
| February 28, 2006 |
"The story of ‘break’: cognitive categories of objects, the system of verbs, and typological implications"
...abstract |
Yoko Fujii (Japan Women’s University) |
| March 13, 2006
LEVERHULME LECTURE, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5.15pm |
"The politics of writing: policies and approaches"
...abstract |
Assoc Prof David Bradley, La Trobe University |
| March 21, 2006 |
"Protocol and the language data life-cycle at ELAR "
...abstract |
David Nathan, ELAR, SOAS |
| April 25, 2006 |
"Archi morphology from a Daghestanian perspective "
...abstract |
Dr Marina Chumakina, University of Surrey |
| May 2, 2006, Second Leverhulme Lecture |
"Ordinality in Tibeto-Burman"
...abstract |
Assoc Prof David Bradley, La Trobe University |
| May 9, 2006 |
"Negative strategies in Eleme"
...abstract |
Dr Oliver Bond, ELAP, SOAS |
| May 16, 2006, *Room B111* |
"Putting the Accent on Similarity: Quantitative methods at the dialect level"
...abstract |
April McMahon, Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh |
| May 17, 2006, *Khalili Lecture Theatre*, 5pm |
"The Last Speakers"
...abstract |
Film screening |
| May 19, 2006, *Room B104*, 10am-2pm |
Aboriginal Languages Workshop
...abstract |
Peter Austin, ELAP, David Nathan, ELAR, Jean-Christophe Verstraete, University of Leuven |
| May 23, 2006, *Room G3* |
"Aboriginal Languages in Canada: Past, Present, Future"
...abstract |
Keren Rice, University of Toronto |
| June 13, 2006, *Room B111* |
"Right(s), Permission(s) and Protocol(s) in Language Documentation: Laves' 1931 Noongar Field Notes"
...abstract |
John Henderson, Linguistics Department, University of Western Australia |
| October 3, 2006 |
"Morpho-semantic structures of classificatory prefixes in Tinrin and Neku in typological and cognitive perspectives"
...abstract |
Midori Osumi (Tokyo Woman's Christian University) |
| October 17, 2006 |
"Gurung in the Manang District, Nepal: Observations and outstanding questions"
...abstract |
Kristine Hildebrandt (University of Manchester) |
| October 31, 2006 | "Multimedia concordancing for documentary linguistics"
...abstract |
Ed Garrett (Eastern Michigan University/SOAS) |
| November 21, 2006 |
"Phonological versus syntactic marking of focus in Bantu"
...abstract |
Nancy Kula (Leiden University/SOAS) |
November 28, 2006, *Room FG08*
*9.00am* |
"Connecting DP Syntax and Clausal Agreement" (9.00am) |
Vicki Carstens |
| |
"Deriving the inverse word order in VOS and SOV languages" (9.40am) |
Joachim Sabel |
| |
"Negation and the Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Japanese and Korean" (10.20am) |
Peter Sells |
| December 5, 2006 |
"Modelling variation in the structure of nominal phrases in Southeast Asian languages"
...abstract |
Andrew Simpson (SOAS) |
Dec 8, 2006, *Room 116*
*9:30am* |
"The languages of Nagaland and beyond: current research and future directions" (9:30am) |
Alexander Coupe (La Trobe University) |
| |
"Relative clauses in Tundra Nenets and beyond" (10:30am) |
Irina Nikolaeva (Oxford University) |
