Below are the upcoming events organised by the Department of Linguistics.
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Our academic staff member Dr Adam Chong will give a talk entitled Variability in stress 'deafness' in Singapore English listeners: Implications for models of intonation in multilingual contexts as part of our LingLunch series.
We are excited to be welcoming Prof. Peter Sevonius (Tromsø) to Queen Mary to give an invited speaker talk entitled What Late Insertion is Good for. This is a hybrid event; please click here to join via Zoom.
The London Semantics Day is an opportunity for semanticists in London and beyond to meet together and discuss their research.
We are excited to be welcoming Prof. Richard Kayne (New York University) to Queen Mary to give an invited speaker talk entitled Some thoughts on English modal need.
Part of our training programme, this event is open to postgraduate students across MA, MRes and PhD programmes.
Workshop 1: Demonstrative to Definite, What Changes and What Stays the Same
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Workshop 2: Demonstratives, Definites, Bare Nouns: What Competes with What
Workshop 3: (In)definiteness in Article-less Languages and Article Use in New Englishes
Lecture title: Optional Plural Marking in General Number Systems and the Effects of Animacy Restrictions
The Department of Linguistics welcomes Prof. Crispin Thurlow (University of Bern) for his lecture entitled Finding value in waste: Language, materiality, and the stuff of words as the next instalment in our Jenny Cheshire Lecture Series.
Our MA students will present their research to the department.