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 ColloquiumOn 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'.
On Friday 16 December Anne Baker (UvA) will give a presentation on "Acquiring a sign language - is it different?".
On Friday the 25th of November, Jonathan Kaye and Markus Pöchtrager will give a presentation entitled "Phonology : Syntax = RNA : DNA".
On Friday 28 October Geert Booij (LUCL) will give a presentation on "The rise of word-level constructional idioms as a type of word formation change".
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".
On Friday 24 June Laura Wright (University of Cambridge) will give a talk on "Language contact, variation and change in Medieval London business writing".
On Friday 27 May Sjef Barbiers (Meertens Instituut and Utrecht University) will give a talk on "Imperatives as distals".
On Friday 29 April Johan Rooryck and Monica Lău will give a talk entitled "The syntax and semantics of SVØ parentheticals".
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".
On Friday 17 December Anikó Lipták (LUCL) and Mark de Vries (RUG) will both give a talk about ellipsis.
On November 26, Jurriaan Witteman and Leticia Pablos Robles will give a presentation on their research.
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.
On October 1, David Odden (Ohio State University) will give a talk entitled "Tenses and meaning in Kikerewe".
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".
On 28 May Professor Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University) will give a talk entitled "Toward a grammar of counting and measuring".
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.
On 26 March, Marc van Oostendorp and Claartje Levelt will give a presentation during the LUCL Colloquium.
On 26 February, Jessie Nixon and Tyler Peterson will give a presentation on their research.
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.
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'.