Research Seminar
"Language documentation and language contact"
Thursdays, 5-6.30 pm, Samuel Alexander W.LG.18
The purpose of this seminar series is to provide a forum for MA and PhD students and postdocs involved in fieldwork-based studies of aspects of grammar and/or multilingual practice. Participants are invited to present any aspect of their work, even work in progress and unsolved problems, in an informal, relaxed environment. Ample opportunity will be given to discuss methodological considerations concerning the collection and interpretation of data. Sessions can also be used to discuss relevant literature.
All MA and PhD students supervised by Matras and Schultze-Berndt are strongly encouraged to participate, but everyone else is extremely welcome to present or just to attend (including students preparing a BA thesis with a data collection component). The understanding is that anybody who wishes to present should out of courtesy also attend the other presentations whenever possible, but anybody else should feel free to drop in to any session of special interest to them. PhD students (especially in the early stages of their work) are encouraged to attend even without presenting - just to get some new ideas and to meet other postgraduates.
Schedule, Semester 1, 2010/11
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 7 October | Samuel Atintono | The challenges of documenting Gurene Oral Genres to obtain a naturalistic semantic data |
| 14 October | Coralie Herve | The usage-based perspective in child bilingualism |
| 21 October | Jon Morris | Phonology in Welsh-English bilinguals |
| 28 October | Rick Davey | Coastal Dhofar Arabic |
| 11 November | Mohamed Fathi Osman | Language preferences in the Arabic community of Manchester |
| 18 November | Ebtessam Othman | Linguistic features of Najdi Araibc online |
| 25 November | Dorothea Hoffmann | Motion expressions in Kriol |
| 2 December | Kathleen Ng | Spatial expressions in Cantonese |
| 9 December | Reading group and discussion led by Serge Sagna | Reduplication |
| 16 December | Daniele Viktor Leggio | Romani on the internet: taking ownership of language codification |