Archive for the ‘local events’ Category

SOAS workshop: Beliefs and Ideology on Endangered Languages

January 30, 2009

There will be a workshop on “Beliefs and Ideology on Endangered Languages” (complete with an exciting lineup of invited speakers!) held at SOAS in London on 27 and 28 February.  Details via Peter Austin below the fold.

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Morphosyntactic categories and the expression of possession

January 28, 2009

The Germanic possessive –s project (PIs Kersti Börjars and David Denison; Postdoc researcher Alan Scott) is hosting a workshop on 3–4 April on “Morphosyntactic categories and the expression of possession.”  Among the distinguished list of invited speakers is one of own noun phrase gurus John Payne.  All the details below the fold (via the LAGB list).

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18th Manchester postgraduate conference in linguistics

January 23, 2009

The 18th PG conference, which takes place in May, now has a website.  Invited speakers include David Crystal and our own Eva Schultze-Berndt.  Check out all the details here.