Events archive

The Department of Linguistics welcomes Prof. Jennifer Smith (University of Glasgow) for her lecture entitled From imitators to innovators: Children and language change as the next instalment in our Jenny Cheshire Lecture Series. Guests must order a free ticket.

Lecture title: Language makes us think AI knows stuff

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Workshop 3: Does knowledge of language use affect the way we express emotions?

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Workshop 2: Does knowledge of language use affect the way we talk to ourselves?

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Workshop 1: How do children acquire knowledge of language use?

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Guest Lecture Series: Elizabeth Wonnacott (University of Oxford)

Exploring the mechanisms of language learning and generalization through learning experiments with children and adults

Prof. Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh) will give a seminar as part of the Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar series. 

Scott Kunkel will present "'Native linguistic adaptation among mobile speakers of French"

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Speaker: Agnieszka Lyons

Speaker: Célia Chloé Richy

Speaker: Charlie Yan

Prof. Mits Ota (University of Edinburgh) will give a seminar, A lexicon-driven theory of the typology of phonotactic constraints, as part of the Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar series.

Speaker: Prof. Mits Oda (University of Edinburgh)

This session will give an introduction to modern Automatic Speech Recognition systems and using them in your research. Focusing specifically on WhisperX, which combines OpenAI Whisper with other tools and models to improve alignment between transcript and audio, we'll consider the possibilities, challenges and limitations of ASR, with reference to case studies of ASR usage in research. We'll cover how also explore how to process ASR-generated transcripts, convert them to file types more commonly used in linguistic research, and what to think about when you're check ASR transcripts.

Speaker: Joe Pearce

Please click 'book now' to sign up in advance. Click here to join via Zoom. 

Training leader: Linnaea Stockall

Prof. Andreea Calude (University of Waikato) will present a LingLunch talk entitled Social media language: creative, dynamic and strategic.

Part of our PGR training programme, this event is open to PGR students only, including MA, MRes and PhD students. 

QM Global Linguistics Seminar 2024: Nishaant Choksi

Nishaant Choksi (IIT Gandhinagar) delivers the very first QM Global Linguistics Seminar, an annual online lecture.

A short talk from Alexandra Safryghin, postdoctoral fellow in the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences. 

Part of our PGR training programme, this event is open to PGR students only, including MA, MRes and PhD students. 

Part of our PGR training programme, this event is open to PGR students only, including MA, MRes and PhD students. 

Part of our PGR training programme, this event is open to PGR students only, including MA, MRes and PhD students. 

Part of our PGR training programme, this event is open to PGR students only, including MA, MRes and PhD students. Please click 'book now' to sign-up in advance. 

Dr Piotr Węgorowski (University of Glasgow) will give a seminar entitled Linguistic ethnography meets organisation studies: Language and institutional logics in the community policing contexts as part of the Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar series. 

We are excited to be welcoming Dr Anikó Lipták (Leiden) to give an online talk entitled Deletion in synthetic adjectival compounds as part of our Guest Speaker Seminar Series. Click here to join via Zoom. 

Our MA students will present their research to the department.

A LingLunch talk by visiting PhD student Emmeline Wilson (Penn State). Click here to join via Zoom.

Jenny Cheshire Lecture 2024 | Prof. Crispin Thurlow

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. Guests must order a free ticket. 

Part of our training programme, this event is open to postgraduate students across MA, MRes and PhD programmes.

Randolph Quirk Fellow Public Lecture: Professor Veneeta Dayal

Lecture title: Optional Plural Marking in General Number Systems and the Effects of Animacy Restrictions

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RQF 2024 Public Lecture Slides [PDF 1,366KB]

Workshop 3: (In)definiteness in Article-less Languages and Article Use in New Englishes

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RQF 2024 Workshop 3 Slides [PDF 480KB]

Workshop 2: Demonstratives, Definites, Bare Nouns: What Competes with What

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RQF 2024 Workshop 2 Slides [PDF 655KB]

Workshop 1: Demonstrative to Definite, What Changes and What Stays the Same

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RQF 2024 Workshop 1 Slides [PDF 506KB]

Part of our training programme, this event is open to postgraduate students across MA, MRes and PhD programmes.

Part of our training programme, this event is open to postgraduate students across MA, MRes and PhD programmes.

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.

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. Peter Svenonius (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. 

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. 

A talk entitled Possible and impossible determiners by our academic staff member Dr Luisa Martí.

Ur Shlonsky will give a talk entitled Noise as an invited speaker to the linguistics department.

Part of our training programme, this event is open to postgraduate students across MA, MRes and PhD programmes.

This event has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances.

Part of our training programme, this event is open to postgraduate students across MA, MRes and PhD programmes.

Part of our training programme, this event is open to postgraduate students across MA, MRes and PhD programmes.

An informal presentation by our academic staff member Dr Rhys Sandow.

Part of our PGR training programme, this event is open to PGR students only.

A presentation by our PhD student Dave Kenneth Cayado on his recently submitted thesis. 

Part of our PGR training programme, this event is open to PGR students only.

Suhail Matar (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language) will give a seminar as part of the Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar series. 

We are delighted to be welcoming Dr Nicholas Rolle (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft) to the department who will deliver a seminar entitled "Bipartite morphemes, grammatical tone, and restrictions on exponent shape". The session will be followed by a drinks reception.

This event is for QMUL Linguistics postgraduate students.

This event is for QMUL Linguistics postgraduate students.

This event is for QMUL Linguistics postgraduate students.

This event is for QMUL Linguistics postgraduate students.

This event is for QMUL Linguistics postgraduate students.

Part of a series of two workshops on Space and Trauma

Part of a series of two workshops on Space and Trauma

Speaker: Adam Chong, Christian Ilbury

Speaker: Hall, Ilbury, Meadows, Ardoino

Speaker: Daniel Harbour

We welcome Dalina Kallulli (Vienna) to QMUL for her talk “Remarks on cognate objects”.

Suzana Fong (QMUL) will be presenting her research.

We are pleased to welcome Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus) to QMUL for his talk "Semantic features do not exist (and what a generative Theory of Features should look like)".  

We are delighted to announce that Susan Gal, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, is this year's speaker at the annual Jenny Cheshire lecture. The lecture will run from 16:30-17:30, followed by a 30 minute Q&A.

Speaker: Susan Gal (University of Chicago)

Speaker: Stephen R. Foley

Our department extends a warm welcome to our 2021 Randolph Quirk Fellow, Distinguished Professor Janet Dean Fodor (CUNY Graduate Center). Professor Fodor will deliver a public lecture with the details below.

Our department extends a warm welcome to our 2021 Randolph Quirk Fellow, Distinguished Professor Janet Dean Fodor (CUNY Graduate Center). Next to a public lecture, Professor Fodor will deliver a series of workshops.

Speaker: Prof. Janet Dean Fodor

Speaker: Anik Nandi

Speaker: Scott Kiesling

Speaker: David Adger

Speaker: Elin McCready & Robert Henderson

Speaker: Elisa Passoni

Speaker: Marie Hevrova

This workshop is aimed at PhD students who wish to learn how to maximize their chances in the Job market.

Speaker: Daniel Harbour & Sophie Holmes-Elliott

Speaker: Dora Demszky

A joint session for sociolinguists and experimental linguists on how to use the software Gorilla.

This workshop is aimed at PhD students who wish to learn how to write effective abstracts for presenting at conferences.

Speaker: Luisa Martí

We have the pleasure to welcome James Scobbie (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh) to our linguistic seminar series.

Speaker: James Scobbie

Dr Timo Roettger (University of Oslo) will join our Experiential Linguistics Reading Group to give a short talk and Q&A about pre-registration.

Speaker: Timo Roettger

Devyani Sharma was invited by the Associação Brasileira de Linguística (ABRALIN) to give an online talk entitled: The Exception Proves the Rule? Sociolinguistic Theory in Times of Mobility

Speaker: Devyani Sharma

Speaker: Arkadiusz Kwapiszewski (University of Oxford)

An inter-disciplinary talk (Economics/Linguistics) organised in conjunction with our current Accent Bias project.

We are pleased to announce a series of sociolinguistics talks on Monday 3rd February in People's Palace LG01 (nr 16 on this map).

One of our PhD students, Adrian Yip, is organising a one-day event about the recent protests in Hong Kong.

We are excited to welcome Professor Paul Foulkes from the Department of Linguistics at the University of York as this year's speaker at the annual Jenny Cheshire lecture. The lecture will run from 18:30-19:30, followed by a 30 minute question and answer session. We will then have a reception until 21:00 in the ArtsTwo lobby.

As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Brechtje Post (Cambridge) will present some of her recent research.

We are delighted that our 2019 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware). She will be visiting the department from 7-10 May. Professor Papafragou will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture. The public lecture is on Relations between language and thought.

We are delighted that our 2019 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware). She will be visiting the department from 7-10 May. Professor Papafragou will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture. This workshop is titled Events in language and cognition III: Pragmatic aspects of event encoding.

We are delighted that our 2019 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware). She will be visiting the department from 7-10 May. Professor Papafragou will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture. This workshop is titled Events in language and cognition II: Cross-linguistic perspectives.

We are delighted that our 2019 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware). She will be visiting the department from 7-10 May. Professor Papafragou will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture. This workshop is titled Events in language and cognition I: The structure of event representations.

As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Ghada Khattab (Newcastle) will present some of her recent research.

This one-day symposium aims to encourage dialogue across disciplines about the importance of a multimodal paradigm for investigating the media.

Special Invited Lecture | Kira Hall (University of Colorado Boulder)

The LISS-DTP in collaboration with KCL and QMUL Linguistics are thrilled to welcome Professor Kira Hall (University of Colorado Boulder) for a special invited talk. Visit the link for abstract, speaker details, and ticketing information.

As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Professor Ur Shlonsky (Genève) will present some of his recent research.

As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Elizabeth Stokoe (Loughborough) will present some of her recent research.

As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Heather Burnett (Paris 7-Denis Diderot) will present some of her recent research.

As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Angelika Kratzer (UMass-Amherst) will present some of her recent research.

Cross-London Sociolinguistics Seminar | Language & the identification of “existential threats”

For this CLSS event, we will be focusing on the notion of existential threats: how they are perceived, constructed and circulated textually and in interaction.

As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Andrew Murphy (Leipzig) will present some of his recent research.

On the occassion of Melisa Rinaldi's PhD viva voce, we will be hosting a workshop on her thesis topic. All welcome!

We are pleased to welcome John Edwards (St Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie University) for an ad-hoc lecture on Language Claims and Language Rights.

We are excited to welcome Helen Kelly-Holmes, Professor of Applied Languages at the University of Limerick, as this year's speaker at the annual Jenny Cheshire lecture. The lecture will run from 18:30-19:30, followed by a 30 minute Q&A. We will then have a reception until 21:00 in the ArtsTwo lobby.

For this afternoon, our first year PhD students will present the beginnings of their PhD research projects.

In this session, Melissa Bliss will provide data from a YouTube video made by an older person to discuss ageing identities

Professor William Foley (Sydney) will be visiting QMUL this week for an ad-hoc LingLunch on the parameters of polysynthesis.

As part of our invited guest speaker seminar series, we are pleased to welcome Professor Jane Stuart-Smith (Glasgow), who will be discussing sibilants and sound change in Glaswegian English.

In this session,Christian Ilbury will provide data from Snapchat stories collected during a period of fieldwork at a youth group in East London.

London Semantics Day 2018

For the 5th London Semantics Day, we welcome scholars from across Europe to discuss their recent research. All welcome!

Special Invited Lecture | Asif Agha (UPenn)

The LISS-DTP, in collaboration with QMUL Linguistics and KCL LDC, are thrilled to welcome Professor Asif Agha (UPenn) for a special invited talk. Click the event for abstract, speaker details, and ticketing information.

As part of our invited guest speaker seminar series, we are pleased to welcome Professor Janet Pierrehumbert (Oxford) to QMUL.

Randolph Quirk Fellow 2018 | Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst) | Public lecture and film screening

We are delighted that our 2018 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst). She will be visiting the department from 30 April - 4 May. Professor Green will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture followed by a film screening. The public lecture is on African American English and sounding black: Hot topics and debates. It will be followed by a screening of Talking Black in America. Click the event for more information and to reserve tickets.

Randolph Quirk Fellow 2018 | Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst) | Workshop Three

We are delighted that our 2018 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst). She will be visiting the department from 30 April - 4 May. Professor Green will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture followed by a film screening. This workshop is on: Variation and development in child African American English.

Randolph Quirk Fellow 2018 | Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst) | Workshop Two

We are delighted that our 2018 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst). She will be visiting the department from 30 April - 4 May. Professor Green will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture followed by a film screening. This workshop is on: Left periphery phenomena in African American English.

Randolph Quirk Fellow 2018 | Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst) | Workshop One

We are delighted that our 2018 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst). She will be visiting the department from 30 April - 4 May. Professor Green will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture followed by a film screening. This workshop is on: Tense and aspect in African American English.

For this afternoon, our first year PhD students will present the beginnings of their PhD research projects.

In this phonetics lab meeting, PhD student Nate Young presents his work on a new forced alignment tool for Nordic languages, NordFA.

PhD student Danniella Samos will be presenting her research on metaphors and obesity.

We are pleased to welcome Dr Danielle Turton to QMUL this week, who will give a talk titled: "t-flapping vs. glottalling in Lancashire, London and beyond: a sociophonological analysis of variation and change"

Rosie Oxbury presents some ongoing analysis from her PhD research, titled: Old and new phonological variation in Multicultural London English.

In this session, Elvis Coimbra Gomes will provide snippets from online forum messages written by male SO-OCD (Sexual Orientation Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) sufferers.

Gender in the Contemporary World is a free one-day multidisciplinary conference focusing on how gender is conceptualised, navigated and articulated in the contemporary world. 

The Linguistics, Media and Culture Pathway of the London Interdisciplinary Social Science DTP is pleased to announce an upcoming student workshop on gender and sexuality in LMC research.  

As part of our Guest Seminar series, Dr Nino Grillo (York) will present some of his recent research.

This week, Scott Lewis presents.

Luisa Marti will lead a workshop on abstract writing.

PhD student Shivonne Gates will be presenting her research on Multicultural London English.

For our first Guest Speaker Seminar this spring, we are pleased to welcome Prof Janet Pierrehumbert (Oxford), who will be talking about social-indexical meaning in morphology.

A strong online profile can provide a professional-looking home in which to present all the key information about your academic career (and more). It can work as a more engaging and potentially more expansive version of your CV. This workshop will cover the fundamentals of creating your multi-page profile using WordPress.com (creating a site with a URL like williamlabov.wordpress.com), as well as detail on how and why you might want to set up your own full domain (e.g. williamlabov.com). WordPress is a very widely-used and therefore well supported platform for creating blogs and websites. We’ll go through setting up your profile step by step and cover all the skills you need to continue to update and maintain your profile independently after the session. Please make sure to bring a laptop!

As part of our LingLunch series, Michelle Sheehan will present some of her recent research, partly based on joint work with Sonia Cyrino, titled: “No escape hatch for A-movement: evidence from causative/perception verbs”   

We are pleased to welcome Dr Moulton (Simon Fraser University), who will present some of his recent research, C-command matters: the processing and grammar of co-varying pronouns.

As part of our LingLunch series, Andrew Harvey (SOAS) will present his recent research, Word-Markers and Paradigms in Gorwaa.