Linguistics Department Seminar Series

Welcome to the new semester!

The seminar series run by the University of Sydney Linguistics Department will be held 1-2pm Fridays in the Transient Building Room 202 (March 7 only) and RC Mills Building Room 202 (for the rest of semester). Map here.

To download details of the programme with abstracts click on this link: departmentalseminarseries.pdf



A brief programme outline is posted below:

• Mar-07 Mark Harvey, Linguistics, University of Newcastle. The
  historical interpretation of uniformity and diversity in pre-colonial
  Australia.
• Mar-14 Alan Jones, Linguistics, Macquarie University. Grounding. Is it
  an optional system in tenseless languages? Some implications for
  language learning, and teaching.
• Mar-21 Good Friday
• Mar-28 Helen Caple Linguistics, University of Sydney. Moving Images:
  how photographs make meaning in newspaper text.
• Apr-04 James Curran, School of IT, University of Sydney. What
  Computational Linguistics can do for Linguists.
• Apr-11 Peter Slezak, Cognitive Science, University of New South Wales.
  Linguistic explanation and 'psychological reality'
• Apr-25 Anzac Day
• May-02 Matthew Honnibal, PhD candidate, School of IT, Sydney
  University. Representing Constituent Type and Function in a
  Combinatory Categorial Grammar.
• May-09 Sally Andrews, Psychology, University of Sydney. Lexical
  expertise and reading skill: What can spelling tell us about reading?
• May-16 Monika Bednarek, University of Technology. "What are you doing
  telling my daughter to lie?": Exploring emotionality in the
  television series Gilmore Girls.
• May-23 Nerida Jarkey, Department of Japanese studies, Sydney
  University. Expressing source in motion events in White Hmong
• May-30 Nick Riemer, English Department, University of Sydney. Some
  methodological moments at the "syntax-semantics interface"
• Jun-06 Joe Blythe, Linguistics Department, University of Sydney.
  Introducing the 'Hearer's Referent' and the 'Speaker's Referent': some
  lessons in cognition from Murriny Patha talk-in-interaction.