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Departmental Seminars 2007

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