| Date | Title | Speaker(s) |
| October 9, 2007 |
"Aspectual and thematic constraints on auxiliary selection and split intransitivity
in southern Italo-Romance: synchronic and diachronic aspects"
...abstract
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Michela Cennamo
Federico II University, Naples
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| October 23, 2007 |
"The influence of Arabic on Indonesian and Malay - linguistics, historiography, and a scholarly journey"
...abstract
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Stuart Campbell
University of Western Sydney
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| November 13, 2007 |
"Greetings in host-tourist encounters"
...abstract
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Adam Jaworski
Cardiff University
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| November 27, 2007 |
"Language universals and linguistic knowledge"
...abstract
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Sonia Cristofaro
University of Pavia
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| December 11, 2007 |
"The independent personal pronoun system in Lakota"
...abstract
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Bruce Ingham
SOAS
|
| January 15, 2008 |
"The social importance of a word category: evidence from African ideophones"
...abstract
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Tucker Childs
Portland State University
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| January 29, 2008 |
British Academy Workshop on Bantu Linguistics
...programme
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Special session of invited speakers
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| February 19, 2008 |
"London as a source of innovation and change in present-day English"
...abstract
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Jenny Cheshire
Queen Mary, University of London
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| March 4, 2008 |
"Towards a useful theory of language"
...abstract
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Richard Hudson
University College London
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| April 15, 2008 |
"Distributive plurality in Nivkh"
...abstract
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Ekaterina Gruzdeva
University of Helsinki
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| April 29, 2008 |
"Spatial, time-aspectual and concomitance relations in Huave"
...abstract |
Maurizio Gnerre
University of Naples
|
May 6, 2008 room L67 |
"From Linguistic Elicitation to Eliciting the Linguist: Lessons in Community Empowerment from Melanesia"
...abstract |
Lise Dobrin
University of Virginia
|
May 13, 2008 room KLT |
"Linguistic human rights in the asylum process"
...abstract |
Peter Patrick
University of Essex
|
May 27, 2008 room L67 |
"Is focus universal?"
...abstract
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Dejan Matić
MPI-EVA, Leipzig
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