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The seminar this week (Tuesday 11/12) is by Sophie Holmes-Elliott (Southampton University). Abstract is below. The talk will take place at 4.15 in A102, and there will be drinks afterwards. Everyone is welcome to join us for dinner afterwards. If you’re a Master’s student looking for an exciting PhD position, check out Sophie’s new project. Future leaders: […]
December 5, 2018 by manling
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Today’s CIDRAL book launch is featuring LEL’s own Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, who will present an edited volume, joint with Rosina Márquez Reiter, on “The Pragmatics of Sensitive Activies in Institutional Discourse”. The volume was published by John Benjamins earlier this year, and you can read more about it here. The book launch will take place […]
December 4, 2018 by manling
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The seminar this week is by Manchester’s own Kathleen Easlick who will speak on ‘Policy, practice, and discourse: Language hierarchies in public service provision’ Abstract is below. The talk will take place on Tuesday 4th December at 4.15 in A102 as usual, and there will be drinks afterwards. “Policy, practice, and discourse: Language hierarchies in […]
November 26, 2018 by manling
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This week, we welcome Jamie Findlay (Oxford) to the LEL seminar series. His talk, titled ‘When the cat you let out of the bag has claws: the role of metaphor in understanding idioms’ will take place on Tuesday 27th November at 4.15 in A102. It will be followed by a drinks reception. All are welcome! […]
November 19, 2018 by manling
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The seminar tomorrow (Tuesday 19th Novemeber) is by our very own Eva Schultze-Berndt: ‘Whoosh, off we go into another mode: The linguistic function of mimesis and the parts of speech status of ideophones’ The talk will take place in A102 as usual, and there will be drinks afterwards. You can download the abstract here.
November 12, 2018 by manling
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This week, we welcome Adam Chong (QMUL) at the LEL seminar. Adam’s talk, titled ‘The effect of phonotactics on alternation learning’, will take place on Tuesday 13th November at 4.15 in A102, and will be followed by a wine reception. All are welcome. Abstract below. The effect of phonotactics on alternation learning Adam J. […]
October 22, 2018 by manling
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This week, we welcome Pavel Iosad from the University of Edinburgh to our LEL seminar series. The talk will be at the usual time, Tuesday 4.15, in A102. Wine, juice, dinner and merriment will follow. Abstract below. ‘Evidence for Stratal Phonology: stem-level phonology and morphological structure’ Pavel Iosad In this talk I discuss the […]
December 10, 2018 by manling
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