| Date | Title | Speaker(s) |
|---|
| 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)
|
| 13th January 2009
| "Dogs in space: putting language documentation on a sound footing"
...abstract |
David Nathan
(ELAP, SOAS)
|
| 20th January 2009
| "Revising meroitic sound values: a phonological approach"
...abstract |
Kirsty Rowan
(SOAS)
|
| 27th January 2009
| "British Sign Language Corpus Project: Open Access Archives and the Observer's Paradox"
...abstract |
Adam Schembri
(UCL)
|
PhD Presentation
28th
January 2009 (Wednesday)
3-5pm, room 4421
| "Raiders of the lost tones - tonal melodies in Ikaan nouns"
...abstract |
Sophie Salffner
(SOAS)
|
| 3rd February 2009 (CANCELLED- rescheduled for autumn 2009)
| "Polite Chinese Children Revisited:
Creativity, resistance and the use of codeswitching by British Chinese children in complementary schools"
...abstract |
Li Wei
(Birkbeck)
|
| 17th February 2009
| "Language and ethnicity at school: some implications from recent work in
sociolinguistics"
...abstract |
Ben Rampton
(KCL)
|
| 24th February 2009
| "Applying a model of language policy and management to endangered languages"
...abstract |
Bernard Spolsky
(Bar-Ilan University)
|
| 3rd March 2009
| "'Contact-induced change in Evenki' "
...abstract |
Lenore Grenoble
(University of Chicago)
|
| 10th March 2009
| "Morphological encoding of giveness in the
Kagulu noun phrase"
...abstract |
Malin Petzell
(ELAP, SOAS)
|
17th March 2009
CANCELLED- to be rescheduled
| "The syntax and semantics of reformulation markers"
...abstract |
Miriam Urgelles
(University of Essex)
|
| 31st March 2009
| "The locative-subject alternation in Xhosa: lexical aspect and the (de-)causative distinction in motion verb constructions"
...abstract |
Marianna Visser
(University of Stellenbosch)
|
Post-doc Presentation
20th
April 2009 (Monday)
1pm-2pm, room 4421
| "Local literacies and language support: Writing practices in Bamanan and Bozo (Mali)"
...abstract |
Aissatou Mbodj-Pouyi,
(Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
|
Post-doc Presentation
20th
April 2009 (Monday)
12pm-1pm, room 4421
| "Insights from a lesser-studied dialect:
documenting Malimiut Iñupiaq"
...abstract |
Linda Lanz
(Rice University)
|
Post-doc Presentation
20th
April 2009 (Monday)
11am-12pm, room 4421
| "Divergent developments from laryngeal effects on vowels in Mocho' and Tuzanteco"
...abstract |
Naomi Fox
(University of Utah)
|
Post-doc Presentation
20th
April 2009 (Monday)
10am-11am, room 4421
| "Gender and person agreement in Cicipu "
...abstract |
Stuart McGill
(SOAS)
|
Post-doc Presentation
20th
April 2009 (Monday)
9am-10am, room 4421
| "Comparing (ir)reality in Vanuatu languages'"
...abstract |
Peter Budd
(SOAS)
|
| 21st April 2009
| The Grammar of Borrowed Words in Modern Japanese
...abstract |
Peter Sells
(SOAS)
|
| 28th April 2009
| "Relatedness in periphrasis: a paradigm-based perspective"
...abstract |
Gergana Popova (Goldsmith's)
Andrew Spencer
(University of Essex)
|
| 5th May 2009
| "Disjunction agreement patterns in a constraint-based framework"
...abstract |
Maria Flouraki (SOAS)
Despina Kazana
(University of Essex)
|
| 12th May 2009
| "More on non-restrictive relatives"
...abstract |
Doug Arnold
(University of Essex)
|
MPhil upgrade presentation
18th
May 2009
(Monday)
2pm-3pm, room 4418
| "Pitch and Register in Walungge"
| Cathy Bartram
(SOAS)
|
MPhil upgrade presentation
18th
May 2009
(Monday)
1pm-2pm, room 4418
| "Secondary Predicate in Japanese"
| Ryo Shibagaki
(SOAS)
|
| 19th May 2009
| "Miss, who needs the languages of immigrants?': London's multilingual schools"
| Dina Mehmedbegović
(London Education Research Unit, IOE)
|
MPhil upgrade presentation
19th
May 2009 (Tuesday)
2pm-3pm, room 4421
| "The classification of nominalised verbs in Bainouk"
| Alex Cobbinah
(SOAS)
|
MPhil upgrade presentation
19th
May 2009 (Tuesday)
1pm-2pm, room 4421
| "Possessive Constructions in North Ambrym"
| Michael James Franjieh
(SOAS)
|
MPhil upgrade presentation
19th
May 2009 (Tuesday)
11am-12pm, room 4421
| "Language policy and planning in Uganda: an account of the language
planning experience in a multilingual country"
| Judith Nakayiza
(SOAS)
|
MPhil upgrade presentation
19th
May 2009 (Tuesday)
10am-11am, room 4421
| "Head-final syntax and disharmonic word order in Bantu: The case of Langi"
| Hannah Gibson
(SOAS)
|
PhD Research Presentation
20th
May 2009 (Wednesday)
2pm-3pm, room 4421
| "'Clause Constituent Order and Information Structure in Blanga: Preliminary Considerations'"
...abstract |
Radu Voica
(SOAS)
|
PhD Research Presentation
20th
May 2009 (Wednesday)
1pm-2pm, room 4421
| "Real Paths with a Fictive Directional:
The 'directional' clitic in Taqbailit Berber"
...abstract |
Aisha Belkadi
(SOAS)
|
MA presentations
26th May (Tuesday)
9am-3pm, room 4418
27th May (Wednesday)
9am-4pm,room 4421
| MA Presentations
...schedule |
MA Students
(SOAS)
|
| 2nd June 2009
| "The sociolinguistic complexity of coastal Tanzania: the case of Ndengeleko"
...abstract |
Eva-Marie Ström
(Göteborgs universitet)
|
| 9th June 2009
| "Vulnerable agents: the ethnopragmatic construction of Toraja political philosophy"
...abstract |
Aurora Donzelli
(ELAP, SOAS)
|
