A weekly seminar on linguistic topics (http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/lel/groups/linguistic-circle).
If you have a question about this list, please contact:
Each talk has an organiser. Please contact them in the first instance if you have a query about a particular talk. Only contact one of the people below if you have a question about the list, such as whether your talk or series could be added.
| TBC 29/3/18 |
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| Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (Gothenburg) |
| Thu 29 Mar 2018, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| TBC 15/3/18 |
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| TBC |
| Thu 15 Mar 2018, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| TBC 1/3/18 |
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| Petra Schulz (Frankfurt) |
| Thu 01 Mar 2018, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| TBC 15/2/18 |
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| Rebecca Wheeler (Christopher Newport) |
| Thu 15 Feb 2018, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| TBC 1/2/18 |
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| Rolf Bremmer (Leiden) |
| Thu 01 Feb 2018, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| TBC 18/1/18 |
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| Véronique Lacoste (Lyon) |
| Thu 18 Jan 2018, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| TBC 30/11/17 |
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| Ulrike Demske (Potsdam) |
| Thu 30 Nov 2017, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| VENUE TO BE CONFIRMED |
| Urdu/Hindi Questions at the Syntax-Pragmatics-Prosody Interface |
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| Miriam Butt (Konstanz) |
| Thu 16 Nov 2017, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| VENUE TO BE CONFIRMED |
| TBC 2/11/17 |
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| Lane Green (The Economist; winner of the Linguistic Society of America’s 2017 Journalism Award) |
| Thu 02 Nov 2017, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| TBC 19/10/17 a |
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| Douglas A. Kibbee (Illinois) |
| Thu 19 Oct 2017, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| How much of what phonologists know about do speakers know? A simple, unnatural rule in English |
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| John Harris (UCL), Nick Neasom (UCL) and Kevin Tang (Yale) |
| Thu 05 Oct 2017, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| What do listeners think of disfluencies? |
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| Martin Corley |
| Thu 28 Sep 2017, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| VENUE TO BE CONFIRMED |
| Is/Ought: Hume's Guillotine, Linguistics, and Standards of Language |
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| John E. Joseph (University of Edinburgh) |
| Thu 15 Jun 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| Grammaticalization is gradual, innit: question tags in Multicultural London English |
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| Heike Pichler (Newcastle University) |
| Thu 30 Mar 2017, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| The role of input in early multilingualism |
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| Tanja Rinker, University of Konstanz |
| Thu 09 Mar 2017, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| On the lexical semantics of lexical categories (Joint work with Itamar Francez, U of Chicago) |
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| Andrew Koontz-Garboden |
| Thu 02 Mar 2017, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| Investigating the impact of structural factors upon that/zero complementizer alternation patterns in nine verbs of cognition: A diachronic corpus based multifactorial analysis |
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| Christopher Shank |
| Thu 16 Feb 2017, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| Shilluk noun morphology and noun phrase morphosyntax |
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| Bert Remijsen (aremijse) |
| Thu 02 Feb 2017, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| Quantifying input quality in bilingual language development |
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| Sharon Unsworth (Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, the Netherlands) |
| Thu 19 Jan 2017, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| The pervasive problems of processing negation |
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| Nina Kazanina, University of Bristol |
| Thu 01 Dec 2016, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| Since since again |
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| Sabine Iatridou (MIT) |
| Thu 17 Nov 2016, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| Functional Variation Drives Regional Variation |
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| Jack Grieve, Centre for Forensic Linguistics, Aston University |
| Thu 10 Nov 2016, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| The contribution of Tibetan to the Study of evidentiality |
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| Nathan Hill (SOAS) |
| Thu 27 Oct 2016, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| Investigating evidence for final [v] devoicing in Older Scots |
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| Warren Maguire, Rhona Alcorn, Ben Molineaux, Joanna Kopaczyk, Vasilis Karaiskos & Bettelou Los, University of Edinburgh |
| Thu 13 Oct 2016, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |
| The northwest European phonological area: new approaches to an old problem |
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| Pavel Iosad |
| Thu 29 Sep 2016, 16:10 - 17:00 |
| DSB 3.10/3.11 |