Linguistics
Upcoming events
| Date | Time & Location | Title & presenter |
|---|---|---|
| Fri, 18 May | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Reconstrucing Proto-Huon Peninsula: Problems and Proffered Solutions Ken McElhanon |
| Fri, 18 May | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Is language change like biological evolution? Matthew Dyer |
| Fri, 25 May | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Creoles, L2 varieties and colonial Englishes: the status of Palmerston Island English Rachel Hendery |
| Fri, 8 Jun | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar The challenge of reconstructing ancient Austronesian dialect networks Andrew Pawley |
| Fri, 15 Jun | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Regular Friday Linguistics Seminar - TBA Shunichi Ishihara |
| Fri, 22 Jun | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Lexicalization, narrative structure, and Ahtna directionals: Observations using GIS Andrea L Berez |
| Thu, 28 Jun — Fri, 6 Jul | Time: TBA Udayana University Bali-Indonesia | Conference International conferences: LFG2012 and 12-ICAL co-organised by Linguistics (ANU), Udayana University (Bali-Indonesia), and the MPI (Germany) |
| Wed, 18 Jul | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Linguistics Thesis Proposal Seminar: TBA Matthew Carroll |
| Wed, 18 Jul | 02:00pm-04:00pm | Seminar Linguistics Seminar - CRLC Series: Proto Sogeram Kinship Don Daniels |
| Fri, 20 Jul | 03:30pm-05:00pm | Seminar Papuan Clause Coalescence: How to Change but Stay the Same Don Daniels |
| Fri, 31 Aug | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Linguistics Seminar - TBA Deborah Hill (University of Canberra) |
Past events
| Date | Time & Location | Title & presenter |
|---|---|---|
| Wed, 16 May | 04:00pm-06:00pm Law Sparke Helmore T2 | Seminar Big Ideas on Language seminar - Enchrony N. J. Enfield, Max Planck Institute & Radboud University Nijmegen |
| Fri, 11 May | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar The mysterious Black Mountain language of Bhutan: A field report Gwendolyn Hyslop |
| Fri, 4 May | 11:00am-12:30am Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Discursis, a Visual Discourse Analysis Technique Daniel Angus (School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland) |
| Tue, 1 May | 11:30am-01:00pm Law Sparke Helmore T2 | Seminar Perempuan dan Perdamaian di Aceh: Mengungkap Kebenaran Bisu, Mendorong Terwujudnya Komisi Kebenaran dan Rekonsiliasi (KKR) Zubaidah Djohar |
| Fri, 27 Apr | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Linguistic vitality and language ideology: what motivates speakers to maintain a small language in a highly multilingual community? Ruth Singer (Melbourne University) |
| Fri, 27 Apr | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Clause Structure in Dumut Languages Ruth Wester (VU University Amsterdam) |
| Fri, 13 Apr | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Sumi semantic and pragmatic markers: a case of ye and no Amos Teo |
| Fri, 30 Mar | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Regional Variation and the Transformation of Austronesian Relationship Terminologies James Fox |
| Wed, 28 Mar | 06:00pm-07:00pm The Finkel Lecture Theatre,The John Curtin School of Medical Research,Garran Road, ANU | Seminar Public lecture: Reclaiming Indigenous Languages: The Master-Apprentice Language Learning Program for the Endangered Languages of North America and Australia Leanne Hinton (Visiting Fellow, Australian National Dictionary Centre, ANU, and Professor Emerita, UC Berkeley) |
| Fri, 23 Mar | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Demonstrative use in Dalabon interactions Sarah Cutfield |
| Fri, 16 Mar — Sun, 18 Mar | Time: TBA Kioloa, on the Pacific South Coast near Canberra, Australia | Workshop Workshop on the languages of Melanesia Plenary Speakers: Prof. Malcolm Ross and Sebastian Fedden |
| Fri, 16 Mar | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Pronominal indexing and referential hierarchies: evidence from the Alor-Pantar languages Sebastian Fedden (with Dunstan Brown) (University of Surrey) |
| Fri, 2 Mar | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Linguistics Seminar (Midterm Review):Sex difference manifested in Japanese speech samples Yoko Otaki |
| Wed, 29 Feb | 04:00pm-06:00pm LAW Sparke Helmore Theatre 2, Building no. 6a | Seminar Big ideas on language: Big Ideas on Language seminar series: The Coevolutionary Foundations of Language Kim Sterelny |
| Fri, 24 Feb | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar A Likelihood Ratio Based Forensic Text Comparison in SMS Messages Shunichi Ishihara |
| Mon, 20 Feb | 03:00pm-05:00pm Baldessin room 3.03 | Seminar The typology of Sinitic languages from the perspective of Mainland Southeast Asia Hilario de Sousa |
| Fri, 17 Feb | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar KinOath, an application for Kinship and Archiving Peter Withers (MPI) |
| Thu, 16 Feb | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Mid-term Review seminar: Family is still family: language shift, kinship and kinterms in Marra and Kriol Greg Dickson |
| Wed, 15 Feb | 04:00pm-05:30pm BPB W3.03 | Seminar CRLC series: The calibration of social change chronology by the archaeolinguistic stratigraphy of technology diffusion Patrick McConvell |
| Wed, 14 Dec | 02:00pm-03:30pm BPB W3.03 | Seminar CRLC Seminar series: Language history in Vanuatu: The epic failure of the tree model Dr Alex François & Siva Kalyan |
| Wed, 14 Dec | 04:00pm-06:00pm Seminar Room A, HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Big ideas on language: Phonological Universals vs. phonological diversity Larry Hyman (UC Berkeley) |
| Mon, 12 Dec | 11:15am-12:30pm Seminar Room E, HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Affixes of all slots, Unite! - verbal morphology in Kmntso Christian Doehler |
| Mon, 12 Dec | 04:00pm-05:30pm BPB W3.03 | Seminar Linguistics Seminar - CRLC Series - Early versus late acquisition as a motor of language change Fred Weerman (University of Amsterdam) |
| Wed, 30 Nov | 02:00pm-03:30pm BPB W3.03 | Seminar CRLC Seminar Series: The genetic status of Enindhilyakwa Marie Elaine Van Egmond (PhD candidate, University of Sydney) |
| Sun, 27 Nov — Fri, 9 Dec | Time: TBA | Workshop/Conference/Other LangFest 2011 |
| Wed, 23 Nov | 02:00pm-03:30pm BPB W3.03 | Seminar How reconstructable is Proto Trans New Guinea? Problems, progress, prospects Andrew Pawley |
| Wed, 23 Nov | 04:00pm-06:00pm Seminar Room A, HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Big Ideas on language: Linguistics and social prehistory Mark Donohue (Speaker); Patrick McConvell (Discussant) |
| Mon, 21 Nov | 11:00am-01:00pm Seminar Room C, HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Linguistics seminar - A Likelihood Ratio-Based Forensic Voice Comparison in Standard Thai Supawan Pingjai |
| Fri, 18 Nov | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Insights and challenges in the quest to unravel the semantic range of Nakanai gender marking Ray Johnston |
| Wed, 9 Nov | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Linguistics seminar - Complex Predicates: an overview I Wayan Arka |
| Wed, 2 Nov | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Linguistic Presentation: Negation in Lelepa Sebastien Lacrampe |
| Mon, 31 Oct | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room C, HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Mid-Term Review Seminar, "From descriptions of the body to descriptions of emotions: some Dalabon examples" Maia Ponsonnet |
| Fri, 28 Oct | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Mid-term Review seminar: on the nature of grammatical relations in Wooi Yusuf Sawaki |
| Fri, 28 Oct | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Linguistics Seminar - Sea Ice, See Space? Cracks in Inuit Knowledge Scott Heyes |
| Thu, 20 Oct — Sun, 23 Oct | 09:00am-05:00pm The Kioloa ANU Coastal Campus | Workshop International Workshop on the Languages of Vanuatu Prof John Lynch (USP), editor-in-chief of journal Oceanic Linguistics. |
| Thu, 20 Oct | 01:00pm-02:00pm Main Tea Room, H.C. Coombs Building, Fellows Road, ANU | Book Launch Book launch: The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society. Volume 4: Animals Professor John Lynch, University of the South Pacific |
| Fri, 14 Oct | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Linguistics seminar - A comparative study on likelihood ratio (LR) based voice comparison between males and females Yoko Otaki |
| Fri, 7 Oct | 11:00am-01:00pm Coombs Extension LT1.04. | Seminar Synergies in Language Acquisition Prof. Mark Johnson (Macquarie University) |
| Fri, 30 Sep | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room A, HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Linguistics-Anthropology joint seminar: Troubles and Pleasures of Linguistic Incomprehension in New Guinea Primitivist Tourism Rupert Stasch, University of California San Diego |
| Mon, 26 Sep — Wed, 28 Sep | 09:00am-05:00pm HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Conference 60 years of ANU Anthropology: Contesting Anthropology's futures |
| Fri, 2 Sep | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room A, HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Mid-term Review Seminar: infinitives in Wanyjirra Chikako Senge |
| Fri, 2 Sep | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room A, HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Mid-term review seminar: Ungarinyin reported speech, modal confusion and dialogism Stef Spronck |
| Fri, 26 Aug | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Men harp on the same string? Variability and Consistency in the Idiosyncratic Selection of Fillers in Japanese Monologues: Gender Differences Shunichi Ishihara |
| Wed, 24 Aug | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Numbers as tools for thinking: cross-cultural studies of numerical representations and routines Mike Frank |
| Fri, 19 Aug | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Language Documentation in a time of Truth and Reconciliation Deborah Hill (University of Canberra) |
| Fri, 12 Aug | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Writing Thai/Lao/Khmer Gender Histories From Language Sources Peter Jackson |
| Fri, 5 Aug | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar A comparative study on likelihood ratio (LR) based forensic voice comparison between males and females Yoko Otaki |
| Fri, 29 Jul | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Mid-term Review Seminar: The Indonesian Sublexical Domain within a Computational Framework Meladel Mistica |
| Fri, 15 Jul | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Computational Phylogenetics and Australian Languages Claire Bowern |
| Mon, 27 Jun | 04:00pm-05:30pm Baldessin Precinct Building, 3.03. | Seminar Not so "far" and not so "close": contradictions of Chinese 'insider' and 'outsider' identities Emily Fong, PhD Student |
| Thu, 23 Jun | 09:45am-10:45am Hedley Bull 3 Seminar room | Seminar The languages of Temotu: what we know, what it means, and what comes next Åshild Næss |
| Thu, 23 Jun | 11:00am-12:00pm Hedley Bull 3 Seminar room | Seminar Parallel lines meeting on the Boloven Plateau Paul Sidwell |
| Thu, 23 Jun | 01:30pm-02:30pm Seminar Room A, HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Evidentiality, Mirativity, and Epistemic Modality in Kurtöp Gwendolyn Hyslop |
| Thu, 23 Jun | 02:45pm-03:45pm Hedley Bull 3 Seminar room | Seminar HD-Linguistics: The Historical Dimension of language description Robert Mailhammer |
| Wed, 22 Jun | 09:45am-10:45am Seminar Room A, HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Contact-induced change and the history of Torau Bethwyn Evans |
| Wed, 22 Jun | 11:00am-12:00pm Hedley Bull 3 Seminar room | Seminar Contact and isolation: variation in the languages of the Cook Islands Rachel Hendery |
| Fri, 17 Jun | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar A descriptive grammar of Mee : a Papuan language of the Highlands of Western New Guinea Niko Kobepa |
| Mon, 6 Jun | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Internal objects in Hoava: a VAO language that isn't Bill Palmer |
| Fri, 3 Jun | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room A, HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Phonotactics and sonority in Hiw: Understanding the prestopped velar lateral Alex FRANCOIS |
| Wed, 1 Jun | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Tense, Aspect and Modality in Wooi Yusuf Sawaki |
| Fri, 20 May | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar The history of English seen as the history of ideas: Cultural change reflected in different translations of the New Testament Anna Wierzbicka |
| Fri, 13 May | 11:00am Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Thesis Proposal Review: A phonological description of Mbaham, a Papuan language of West Papua Fanny Cottet |
| Mon, 28 Mar | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room C, HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Lexical and constructional flexibility in Teop Ulrike Mosel |
| Mon, 21 Mar | 11:00am-01:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Mid-term review seminar, "Floating around Lelepa: nominal phrases and the clitic nge" Sebastien Lacrampe |
| Fri, 18 Mar | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Discovering tone in Iha Mark Donohue |
| Thu, 17 Mar | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room D, HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Complex perspectives in epistemic marking: evidence from Kogi (Arwako) Dr Henrik Bergqvist (Stockholm/ANU) |
| Wed, 16 Mar | 02:00pm-04:00pm Seminar Room A, HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Phylolinguistics: Tackling old questions with modern methods Simon Greenhill (Computational Evolution Group, University of Auckland) |
| Fri, 11 Mar | 03:00pm-05:00pm Milgate Room, AD Hope Building | Seminar 'Big Talk': The language of disputes and fighting in a PNG society Darja Hoenigman |
| Wed, 9 Mar | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Mid-term review seminar: Possessive constructions in Wooi Yusuf Sawaki |
| Fri, 4 Mar — Sat, 5 Mar | 09:00am-04:00pm Venue: the fourth floor common room, the Baldessin Precinct Building | Workshop/Conference/Other NSM Workshop |
| Mon, 28 Feb | 04:00pm-05:30pm Room BPB 3.03. | Seminar The Vietnamese classifier system: Its semantics, acquisition by Australian students and applicability to Processability Theory Loan Dao |
| Fri, 25 Feb | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Positional verbs in Nen Nick Evans |
| Fri, 21 Jan | 03:30pm-05:00pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Language management and minority language maintenance in Indonesia: strategic Issues I Wayan Arka |
| Mon, 17 Jan | 11:00am-12:30pm Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU | Seminar Noun incorporation in Dalabon David Osgarby |
