| Date | Title | Speaker(s) |
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| January 15, 2008 |
"The social importance of a word category: evidence from African ideophones"
...abstract
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Tucker Childs
Portland State University
|
| January 29, 2008 |
British Academy Workshop on Bantu Linguistics
...programme
|
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
|
Jenny Cheshire
Queen Mary, University of London
|
| March 4, 2008 |
"Towards a useful theory of language"
...abstract
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Richard Hudson
University College London
|
| April 15, 2008 |
"Distributive plurality in Nivkh"
...abstract
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Ekaterina Gruzdeva
University of Helsinki
|
| 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
|
Dejan Matić
MPI-EVA, Leipzig
|
| 7th October 2008
| "The Galoes Grammar Authoring Environment"
...abstract |
Sebastian Nordhoff
(University of Amsterdam)
|
| 14th October 2008
| "Dialectology in Iran"
...abstract |
Gerardo Barbera
(ELAP)
|
| 28th October 2008
| "A role for sociolinguistics in language documentation?
The case of Northern Sumu in Nicaragua's multilingual Caribbean Coast region"
...abstract |
Jane Freeland
(Southampton)
|
| 11th November 2008
| "Ethnolinguistic Distinctiveness: Some Social Psychological Data"
...abstract |
Itesh Sachdev
(SOAS-UCL CETL in 'Languages of the Wider World' Dept.
of Linguistics, SOAS)
|
| 18th November 2008
| "Determining the Syntax of an Obsolescent Language.
A Case Study from the Channel Islands"
...abstract |
Mari Jones
(Cambridge)
|
PhD Presentation
19th November 2008 (Wednesday)
4-5pm, room 4421
| "Adpositions in Kwarandzyey: mixed order, borrowing, and the emergence of comitative subject agreement"
...abstract |
Lameen Souag
(ELAP, SOAS)
|
| 25th November 2008
| "Mathematical models of language shift"
...abstract |
Anne Kandler
(UCL)
|
PhD Presentation
26th
November 2008 (Wednesday)
4-5pm, room 4421
|
"Pregnant pauses: consonant length in Cicipu"
...abstract |
Stuart McGill
(ELAP, SOAS)
|
PhD Presentation
26th
November 2008 (Wednesday)
3-4pm, room 4421
| "Where am I standing and which way is up? Verbs of motion and orientation in Kubokota men-and-tree games"
...abstract |
Mary Chambers
(ELAP, SOAS)
|
| 2nd December 2008
| "An Introduction to the Araxes-Iran Linguistic Area"
...abstract |
Don Stilo
(MPI)
|
| 9th December 2008
| "Mobility, sedentism, identity, and mechanisms of language shift in
Aboriginal Australia"
...abstract |
Peter Sutton
(University of Adelaide/SA Museum)
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