LINGUIST List 32.301
Fri Jan 22 2021
FYI: The Birmingham Lectures: Language Structure and Language Use
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 22-Jan-2021
From: Jack Grieve <j.grieve
bham.ac.uk>
Subject: The Birmingham Lectures: Language Structure and Language Use
E-mail this message to a friend The Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Birmingham is happy to host the Birmingham Lectures, a lecture series that will bring well known researchers from around the world together to discuss a range of important topics in modern linguistics in a public forum online.
In this series, we will explore the connection between language structure and language use. The series will take place over 5 weeks on Tuesdays from 16:30-18:00 GMT starting 9 February 2021.
9 February: Ted Gibson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
16 February: Adele Goldberg, Princeton University
23 February: David Adger, Queen Mary University of London
2 March: Dagmar Divjak, University of Birmingham
9 March: Martin Haspelmath, The Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Each session will consist of including a 45 minute presentation from the speaker followed by an extended discussion period, led by a panel of linguists from our department as well as the other speakers from the series. Questions will also be encouraged from the audience.
For more information please see
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/brumlects Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
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