Semester 2 (Spring 2013)
Original post here.
- 5th Feb: Julie Coleman (Leicester): Using students to study slang
- 19th Feb: Bettelou Los (Edinburgh): How to study historical information structure: Introducing the Pentaset
- 5th March: Marije van Hattum (Liverpool Hope): The relationship between modal verbs and past time reference in Late Modern Irish English
- 12th March: Márton Sóskuthy (Edinburgh): Phonetic biases and systemic effects in the actuation of sound change
- 19th March: Laurel MacKenzie (Manchester): Size matters: the effect of subject length on auxiliary contraction
- 23rd April: George Walkden (Manchester): Verb-late clauses in Old English
- 7th May: Michael Ramsammy & Erik Schleef (Manchester): Investigating the social meanings of variation in (th) in Edinburgh: a perceptual study
Semester 1 (Autumn 2012)
Original post here.
2nd Oct: Des Ryan (Trinity, Dublin): “Towards a formal theory of (mostly English) spelling, including standard and non-standard spellings, names, puns, blends, logos, Doodles, abbreviations, portmanteaux, punctuation, emoticons, onomatopoems or any other higgledy piggledy squiggles that might mean something to some of the people, some of the time”
16th Oct: Keith Battarbee (Turku): “Paradoxes of Language Planning: Aboriginal Languages and English in the Canadian North”
6th Nov: Michael Ramsammy & Danielle Turton (Manchester): “Happ[ɪ] Talk: a socio-phonological analysis of unstressed vowels in Mancunian English” (NB: odd week!)
13th Nov: Tine Breban (Manchester): “How to fit textual and discourse deixis into a typology of intersubjectivity and intersubjectification”
27th Nov: Caitlin Light (York): “The syntax and pragmatics of fronting in Germanic”
11th Dec: Ruth Carroll (Turku): “Problems in dating the grammaticalization of (English) general extenders”
Organizers: David Denison and George Walkden.
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