Our seminars take place during term-time on occasional Tuesdays (roughly once every other week), from 4.15 to 5.30 pm. They are followed by further discussion over a glass of wine or juice, everyone is welcome!
The speakers from Spring 2019:
29 Jan | A112 | Ryan Bochnak | UoM | Future temporal reference with and without future marking |
5 Feb | A112 | Tine Breban & John Payne | UoM | Semantic relations in the proper noun alternation |
12 Feb | A113 | Lotte Sommerer | Vienna | A constructional perspective on the development of the English article system |
19 Feb | A113 | Julio Villa Garcia | UoM | Romance C heads: to be, or not to be |
26 Feb | A113 | Emily Hanink | UoM | Anaphora and sameness in the DP |
5 March | A113 | Martin Barry | Martin Barry Forensic Voice Services | The logic of the likelihood ratio: what can the forensic phonetician say to a jury? |
12 March | A215 | Heike Pichler | Newcastle | Category change in thetical grammar, innit? |
19 March | A215 | Catherine Davies | Leeds | What kinds of adjectives do preschoolers encounter in the input, and how do they process what they hear? |
26 March | A113 | Seongha Rhee | Hankuk University of Foreign Studies | Insubordination in grammar: The case in Korean |
2 April | A113 | Katherine Twomey | UoM | Beyond words: Nonlinguistic and robotic perspectives on early language acquisition |
30 April | A215 | Vera Hohaus | UoM | Samoan comparison constructions, past and present |
7 May | A215 | Charlotte Hemmings | Oxford | Grammatical functions and the challenge from Austronesian |