Colleague Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero leaves today for Tucson, Arizona, where he’s an invited speaker at the 39th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Linguistics, to take place at the University of Arizona, March 26-29, 2009. Check out all the fun he’ll be having here.
Archive for March, 2009
Bermúdez-Otero at LSRL
March 25, 2009Vincent on Dante
March 24, 2009Colleague Nigel Vincent will give the 2009 Herferd memorial lecture in Italian studies 5:15pm, Thursday 26 March in Lecture Theatre A7 of Samuel Alexander. The title is “Dante in dialect: On translating the Divine Comedy into the regional languages of Italy.”
Kim in seminar
March 24, 2009Today’s seminar features (new!) colleague Yuni Kim on “Affix mobility in Huave”. See you there!
van Hattum in Language Sandwidge
March 24, 2009Via David D:
The programme for the semester is now complete (http://tinyurl.com/LangSand). We are happy to announce that tomorrow’s speaker is Manchester’s very own Marije van Hattum, speaking on the subject of
‘Irish English modal verbs in the 18th and 19th centuries’
Usual coordinates: room S.1.5, 1-2 pm, all welcome.
best
David and Nuria
Ivan Sag in seminar, April 23
March 18, 2009Save the date! Ivan Sag (Stanford) will give a talk entitled “Variations on a Theme: English Filler-Gap Constructions” in an extraordinary (in more senses than one!) seminar that will take place on the non-canonical (for a seminar) day of Thursday, April 23 at 1pm in Samuel Alexander A215. An abstract for the talk is below the fold:
Language documentation and linguistic theory at SOAS: Call for papers
March 17, 2009Via Peter Austin:
The Department of Linguistics at SOAS is hosting its second biennial conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory on 13-14 November 2009.
The conference aims to bring together researchers working on linguistic theory and language documentation and description, with a particular focus on innovative work on under-described or endangered languages. The theme of the LDLT2 conference is: Linguistic theory and language documentation: innovations, successes, and challenges. For 2009, we especially welcome submissions addressing this theme in relation to languages of Africa.
The plenary speakers are: Prof. Larry M. Hyman, University of California, Berkeley; and Prof. Tania Kuteva, SOAS/Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf.
For more information, including instructions on Abstract submission go to http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.hrelp.org%2FLDLT2
More funding for PhD studies at Manchester
March 17, 2009Via David Denison:
In addition to its AHRC awards in Linguistics and in English, the University of Manchester is offering the following scholarships to candidates from the UK, European Union and overseas:
Mont Follick Scholarship for Historical Linguistics: Home/EU tuition fees and maintenance stipend of £12,940 pa (AHRC equivalent)
Johansson Germanic Philology Scholarship: Home/EU tuition fees and maintenance stipend of £2,500 pa
Brook Scholarship in English Language: Home/EU tuition fees and maintenance stipend of £3,000 pa
Closing date for all awards: 1 April 2009. Details on http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/
David Denison
Smith Professor of English Language & Medieval Literature
Börjars and Payne in Tromsø
March 16, 2009In the same way that it can be satisfying to roll in the snow before getting in the hot tub, colleague John Payne seems “determined” to treat himself to a cold Tromsø appetizer before his warm Spanish autumnal main course this week in a joint talk with colleague Kersti Börjars entitled “Definiteness in the Scandinavian noun-phrase: an LFG account ” at the NORMS Workshop on Determination. Check out the details here.
Schultze-Berndt in Leiden
March 16, 2009This last weekend our fearless leader/head of department, Eva Schultze-Berndt, travelled to Leiden to give a plenary at the workshop on “The diachrony of classification systems.” Check out the conference’s details here.
Language Sandwidge
March 16, 2009Last week’s sandwidge was David Tizón-Couto (Vigo) on “‘Left Dislocation in the recent history of English.” This week features Charlotte Brewer (Oxford) on “‘“Lesbianism” and the Dictionary‘.” See you there!
