News and Events
Public seminars on linguistics are held from time to time. Details are
posted on the University of Sydney Linguistics List, which you can join here.
Weekly seminars are usually held on Fridays 2pm - 4pm in the Transient Building, Room 202, followed by afternoon tea in the Transient tea room. All are welcome.
Weekly Seminar Series, Semester 1 2010
| DATE | SPEAKER |
TITLE |
|---|---|---|
| 5 March |
Jeremy Hammond (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) |
Lexical Replacement as a Source of Syntactic Change? : Evidence from Vanuatu |
| 12 March |
No Seminar |
Australian Languages workshop 2010 Kioloa |
| 19 March |
Joe Blythe (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) | Kinship structure vs. kinterm usage: A conversationally grounded re-assessment of the Murriny Patha kinship lexicon |
| 25-26 March |
Workshop | Anthropology and the ends of worlds |
| 26 March |
Mark Harvey (Newcastle University) | Social diffusion in Aboriginal Australia |
| 16 April |
Mark Johnson (Macquarie University) SEMINAR CANCELLED |
|
| 23 April |
Derek Herforth (Chinese Studies, University of Sydney) | Getting 'the most' out of the syntax (and into the lexicon): on the history of the Chinese superlative |
| 30 April |
Mark Johnson (Macquarie University) |
Bayesian models of language acquisition Or Where do the rules come from? |
| 7 May |
Bill Foley (Linguistics University of Sydney) |
Typological Universals and Word Class Distinctions in Tolai of New Britain |
| 14 May |
Katherine Demuth (Macquarie University) |
Phonological Constraints on Morphological Development |
| 21 May |
Robert Mailhammer (ANU/ KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) |
The influence of Indigenous languages on Cobourg Peninsula Aboriginal English |
| 28 May |
Felicity Cox (Macquarie University) |
Hiatus Resolution and Linking /r/ in Australian English |
| 4 June |
Ana Kondic (Linguistics, University of Sydney) | The Middle Voice in South Eastern Huastec |
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