LEL Research Seminar Programme 2013-14

Manchet is happy to bring you news of this year’s exciting research seminar programme line-up! As always, seminars are on Tuesdays at 4.15 in Ellen Wilkinson A2.16.

This semester (Spring 2014):

• 28th January: Jack Hoeksema (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen): Adverbs of degree in Dutch and English: diachronic developments
• 4th February (note: even week and unusual venue: Sam Alex A201!): Isabelle Bril (CNRS): Genericity, kind, free choice, plurality: encoding indefinite NPs in Austronesian languages*
• 11th February: Pavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh): Nordeuropäische Lautgeographie revisited: the view from theoretical phonology
• 25th February: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (CNRS): Comparing what isn’t there: varieties of partial pro-drop
• 4th March (note: even week!): James Scobbie (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh): Articulatory phonetics as a phonological tool* CANCELLED
• 11th March: Evangelia Adamou (CNRS): How language contact reshapes the expression of focus*
• 18th March (note: even week!): Sabine Arndt-Lappe (Düsseldorf): Does morphology make a mess of English primary and secondary stress?*
• 21st March (note: Friday, 1pm, Sam Alex A214): Clàudia Pons-Moll (Universitat de Barcelona): (Un)derived environment effects in Catalan and in other Romance languages
• 25th March: Dag Haug (Universitetet i Oslo): Feature sharing in agreement? The case from Latin dominant participles* (joint work with Tanya Nikitina, CNRS)
• 26th March (note: Wednesday!): Miriam Butt (Universität Konstanz): Differential Case Marking as a primarily semantic strategy: Evidence from South Asia
• 22nd April (note: out of term!): Vieri Samek-Lodovici (UCL): Italian Contrastive Focalization and its Interaction with Givenness
• 29th April: Linnaea Stockall (Queen Mary, University of London): I saw, I unsaw, I resaw: how we access and make use of unconscious knowledge about morphemes in real time
• 24th July: Gary Thoms (University of Edinburgh): (Anti)reconstruction in relative clauses and beyond

Last semester (Autumn 2013):

• 24th September: Jason Rothman (University of Reading): The role of typological proximity in multilingual syntactic transfer: how it works and what it reveals beyond transfer
• 22nd October: Eva Schultze-Berndt (University of Manchester): About the shifty notion of contrast: identifying subtypes of topics in corpus data of two Australian languages
• 5th November: Alexander Clark (King’s College London): Distributional learning of syntax*
• 19th November: Dirk Geeraerts (KU Leuven): Corpus-based conceptual onomasiology: diachronic shifts of metonymic construal
• 4rd December (note: Wed 9am, rescheduled due to strike!): Hendrik de Smet (KU Leuven): How gradual change progresses: the expansion of -ing-clauses with begin through time and across individuals

This seminar series continues the series formerly known as ILLS. Crisps and wine will be provided afterwards! Titles will be added as and when they are received.

Speakers marked with an asterisk will also be giving a postgraduate masterclass!

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