Institute for Linguistics and Language Studies Seminar Series 2008/09
A series of seminars for staff and postgraduates interested in Linguistics/English Language, followed by drinks and discussion.
Organiser for 2008-9: Stephen Laker.
Tuesdays 4pm-5.15pm, room S.3.1, Samuel Alexander Building, then drinks 5.15pm -6pm, room W.3.13.
Semester 2, 2008-9
| 1 |
3 Feb |
(Manchester) | Unnatural morphology: Plural formation in East Franconian |
| 2 |
10 Feb |
(Manchester) | Online orthographies: Examples from Cypriot Greek. |
| 3 | 17 Feb |
Diane Blakemore (Salford) |
Parentheticals and point of view in Free Indirect Style |
| 4 | 24 Feb |
Victor Friedman (Chicago) | Typology, dialectology and areal linguistics |
| 5a | 3 Mar |
(Manchester) |
Asymmetrical serial verb constructions in Gurindji Kriol, an Australian mixed language |
| 5b | 6 Mar |
Jim Scobbie (QMU, Edinburgh) | Scottish coda /r/: variable rhoticity and vowel system mergers (Friday, 1-2 pm, usual room (S.3.1)) |
| 6 | 10 Mar |
Peter Bakker (Aarhus) |
Can it be proven that the Algonquian and Salish language families are genetically related? |
| 7 | 17 Mar |
Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (Manchester) & Ana R. Luís (Coimbra) |
Cyclic domains and prosodic spans in the phonology of European Portuguese functional morphs |
| 8 | 24 Mar |
(Manchester) | Affix mobility in Huave |
| Easter break | |||
| 9a | 21 Apr |
Maaike Verrips (Taalstudio, Amsterdam) |
Language analysis for the determination of origin (LADO) in the Dutch asylum procedure |
| 9b | 23 Apr |
Ivan Sag (Stanford) | Variations on a theme: English filler-gap constructions (Thursday, 1-2 pm, room A.215) |
| 10 | 28 Apr |
Ulrike Zeshan (UCLan) |
Linguistic and cultural diversity in sign languages and deaf communities around the world |
| 10b | 28 Apr |
Ulrike Zeshan (UCLan) |
Linguistic and cultural diversity in sign languages and deaf communities around the world (signed presentation) (6-7 p.m; Samuel Alexander A201) |
| 11 | 5 May |
Candide Simard (Manchester) |
Information structure and prosody: How focus is encoded in the prosody of Jaminjung |
| 12 | 12 May |
Jane Freeland (Southampton) |
Considering popular language ideology in revitalizing the language of the Mayangna of Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast |
Semester 1, 2008-9
| week | date | speaker | topic |
| 1 | 30 Sep | Augusto Soares da Silva (Braga) |
Cognitive sociolinguistics: lexical variation in European and Brazilian Portuguese |
| 2 | 7 Oct | Guy Deutscher (Leiden) |
"All languages are equally complex" - Not even wrong? |
| 3 | 14 Oct | (Manchester) |
Angloromani: A case of defining "languageness" |
| 4 | 21 Oct | John Payne (Manchester) |
The English possessive 's and Suffixaufnahme |
| 5 | 28 Oct | John Bellamy (Manchester) | Language attitudes in Austria and England: Comparing reactions towards high and low prestige varieties in Vienna and Manchester |
| 6 | 4 Nov |
reading week: no meeting | |
| 7 | 11Nov | Guido Seiler (Manchester) | |
| 8 | 18 Nov | Eytan Zweig (York) |
A visual effect of morphological complexity |
| 9 | 25 Nov |
Emma Moore (Sheffield) |
What counts as a sociolinguistic variable? Social meaning and the synergy of linguistic features |
| 10 | 2 Dec | Kersti Börjars & (Manchester) | There is something fishy about objects |
| 10b | 4 Dec | Don Stilo (Leipzig/Uppsala) | Introduction to the Atlas of the Araxes-Iran (Outer Fertile Crescent) Linguisti (Thu 5-6, Room A18, Samuel Alexander |
| 11 | 9 Dec | Eva Berlage (Manchester/Paderborn) |
Changing complements in English |
| 12 | 16 Dec | Sonja Eisenbeiss (Essex) |
Morphological contrasts in child language and child-directed speech |
Previous years:
Semester 2, 2007-8
Tuesdays 4pm-5pm, Room A.101 [Semester 2 only], Samuel Alexander Building, then drinks 5pm-6pm, Room W3.13, Samuel Alexander Building.
Semester 1, 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' |
| 6 | 30 Oct | reading week: no meeting | |
| 7 | 6 Nov | Bert Vaux (Cambridge Univ.) | 'Phonological acquisition and theory construction' |
| 8 | 13 Nov | Harold Somers (Univ. of Manchester) | 'Free on-line machine translation, language teaching and plagiarism' |
| 9 | 20 Nov | Loretta O'Connor (Univ. Hamburg / MPI Nijmegen) | 'All typologies leak: Predicate types in Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca' |
| 10 | 27 Nov | no meeting | |
| 11 | 4 Dec | Pauline Harries (Univ. of Manchester) | 'The Faroese sa(r)-possessive' |
| 12 | 11 Dec | no meeting |
Seminar schedule Semester 2
Date: Tuesday, 6 February 2007
Speaker: Edward Garrett, visiting fellow, endangered languages academic programme, School of Oriental and African Studies, Assistant Professor, Linguistics Program, Eastern Michigan University
Title: TBC
Date: Tuesday, 13 February 2007: no seminar
Date: Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Speaker: Gina Comti-Ramsden (School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester
Title: The nature of specific language impairment (SLI): Oral language, literacy and social
functioning"
Date: Tuesday, 27 February 2007
Speaker: Veronica Schulman, Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester
Title: TBC
Date: Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Speaker: Stefan Hoefler (Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit, Linguistics and English Language, The University of Edinburgh
Title: Linguistic underdeterminacy and the cultural evolution of language"
Date: Tuesday,13 March 2007
Speaker: Louise Mycock, Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester
Title: The Typology of Constituent Questions: A New Perspective "
Date: Tuesday, 20 March 2007
Speaker: Evan Kidd, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester
Title: TBC
26 March-13 April NO SEMINAR: EASTER BREAK
Date: Tuesday, 17 April 2007
Speaker: Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester
Title: Marked phonemes vs marked allophones: segment evaluation in Stratal OT"
Date: Tuesday, 24 April 2007
Speaker: Aaliya Rajah-Carrim, Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester
Title: TBC
Date: Tuesday, 1 May 2007
Speaker: Sirin Tufan (Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester
Title: Language convergence in Gostivar Turkish (Macedonia)"
Date: Tuesday, 8 May 2007
Speaker: Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester
Title: TBC