Semester two, 2007-8
Tuesdays 4pm-5pm, Room A.101 [Semester 2 only], Samuel Alexander Building, then drinks 5pm-6pm, Room W3.13, Samuel Alexander Building.
| Week | Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 1 | 29 Jan | no seminar | |
| 2 | 5 Feb | Isabel Pereira (University of Coimbra, Portugal) | ‘Varieties of Portuguese: Some phonological and syntactic features’ |
| 3 | 12 Feb | Susana Afonso (University of Manchester) | ‘Functional shifts in constructions‘ (PDF, 40 KB) |
| 4 | 19 Feb | Yi Xu (UCL) | ‘Understanding speech from the perspective of articulation and information coding‘ (PDF, 52 KB) |
| 5 | 26 Feb | Sarah Collie (University of Edinburgh) | ‘Causes of vowel reduction in English: An argument from word-final consonants‘ (PDF, 109 KB) |
| 6 | 4 Mar | no seminar | |
| 7 | 11 Mar | Malcah Yaeger-Dror (University of Arizona) | ‘Is there a supra-regional African American Dialect, and if not why not?‘ (PDF, 86 KB) |
| Easter break | |||
| 8 | 8 Apr | Irina Nikolaeva (SOAS) | ‘Topicality and nonsubject marking‘ (PDF, 57 KB) |
| 9 | 15 Apr | no seminar | |
| 10 | 22 Apr | Geoffrey K. Pullum (University of Edinburgh) | ‘Infinity, recursion, and the universal properties of human language‘ (PDF, 32 KB) |
| 11 | 29 Apr | Iván García Álvarez (University of Salford) | ‘Adjectival associates of Exception Phrases‘ (PDF, 69 KB) |
| 12 | 6 May | Alexander Andrason (University of Iceland) | ‘Vilamovicean and language contact phenomenon: The influence of Polish on the smallest Germanic language‘ (PDF, 52 KB) |
Semester one, 2007-8
Tuesdays 4 pm, room S.1.7, Samuel Alexander Building (previously Humanities Lime Grove).
| Week | Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 1 | 25 Sep | no meeting | |
| 2 | 2 Oct | Mark Harvey (Univ. of Newcastle, Australia /SOAS) | ‘Complex predicates and argument structure’ |
| 3 | 9 Oct | Michael Riessler (Humboldt-Universität Berlin) | ‘Some issues in Kildin Saami phonology’ |
| 4 | 16 Oct | no meeting | |
| 5 | 23 Oct | Eva Schultze-Berndt (Univ. of Manchester) | ‘Verb-framed, satellite-framed or neither? An Australian perspective on Talmy’s typology of motion events‘ (RTF, 12 KB) |
| 6 | 30 Oct | reading week: no meeting | |
| 7 | 6 Nov | Bert Vaux (Cambridge Univ.) | ‘Phonological acquisition and theory construction‘ (TXT, 2 KB) |
| 8 | 13 Nov | Harold Somers (Univ. of Manchester) | ‘Free on-line machine translation, language teaching and plagiarism‘ (TXT 1 KB) |
| 9 | 20 Nov | Loretta O’Connor (Univ. Hamburg / MPI Nijmegen) | ‘All typologies leak: Predicate types in Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca‘ (MS Word, 107 KB) |
| 10 | 27 Nov | no meeting | |
| 11 | 4 Dec | Pauline Harries (Univ. of Manchester) | ‘The Faroese sa(r)-possessive’ |
| 12 | 11 Dec | no meeting |
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