LUCL Colloquium

LUCL Colloquium 9 February

On Thursday 9 February David Crystal OBE (Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor) will give a talk entitled 'Pragmatics: the final frontier'.


LUCL Colloquium 30 September 2011

On Friday 30 September Pieter Muysken (Centre for Language Studies - Radboud University Nijmegen) will give the first talk of this academic year. The title of his talk is "The ERC traces of contact project: a half way perspective".


LUCL Colloquium 24 June 2011

On Friday 24 June Laura Wright (University of Cambridge) will give a talk on "Language contact, variation and change in Medieval London business writing".


LUCL Colloquium 24 March 2011

On Thursday the 24th of March, William Croft will give a lecture on "An integrated semantic representation of the causal and aspectual structure of events".


LUCL Colloquium 29 October 2010

Prof. Bernd Heine (Universität Köln/Institut für Afrikanistik) will give a presentation. He has done extensive research on African languages. His work covers aspects such as grammaticalization, typology, contact linguistics, descriptive linguistics and language history.


LUCL Colloquium 24 September 2010

On 24 September, John Harris (University College London) will give a lecture entitled "Accidental repairs: how to get rid of final voiced obstruents without trying".


LUCL Colloquium 28 May

On 28 May Professor Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University) will give a talk entitled "Toward a grammar of counting and measuring".


LUCL Colloquium 23 April

On 23 April there will be two presentations organized by 'Journalistiek en Nieuwe Media'. The opleiding Journalistiek en Nieuwe Media is part of LUCL since January 2010.


LUCL Colloquium 29 January

On 29 January 2010 three members will talk about their work-in-progress: Willemijn Heeren, Roberta D'Alessandro and Crit Cremers together with ex-Research Master student David Shakouri.


LUCL Colloquium 14 January

On 14 January 2010, Charles Kisseberth will give a presentation during an extra LUCL Colloquium. The title of his talk is 'New Perspectives on Phonological Phrasing in Chimwiini'.