| Date | Title | Speaker(s) |
|---|
| 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)
|
| 13th October 2009 (4pm start)
| "Polite Chinese Children Revisited:
Creativity, resistance and the use of codeswitching by British Chinese children in complementary schools"
...abstract |
Li Wei
Birkbeck
|
| 20th October 2009
| "Expressions of Futurity in the Vilamovicean Language"
...abstract |
Alexander Andrason
UCM (Madrid, Spain)
|
| 27th October 2009
| "Arandic songs: documenting Aboriginal verbal art in Central Australia"
...abstract |
Myfanwy Turpin
Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre,
Griffith University
|
| 3rd November 2009
| "Language, Rights, and the Language of Language Rights: The Need for a New Conceptual Framework in Political Theory of Language Policy"
...abstract |
Yael Peled
Nuffield College, Oxford
|
| 17th November 2009
| "Body part applicatives in Murrinh-Patha (Australia)"
...abstract |
Rachel Nordlinger
University of Melbourne
|
| 1st December 2009
| "A preliminary analysis of tone in Uwu"
...abstract |
Anja Choon
SOAS
|
| 8th December 2009
| "The Internal Structure of Compounds: A phase account of Aphasia"
...abstract |
Shanti Ulfsbjorninn
SOAS
|
| 15th December 2009
| "Language, sex/gender and evolution: a sociolinguistic perspective"
...abstract |
Deborah Cameron
Oxford
|
