General Linguistics Research Seminar Programme / Yleisen kielitieteen tutkijaseminaarin ohjelma / Programmet för forskarseminariet i allmän språkvetenskap

The meetings take place on Wednesdays at 4-6 pm in Metsätalo Room 7 (unless stated otherwise).

Tapaamiset keskiviikkoisin klo 16-18 Metsätalon salissa 7 (ellei toisin mainittu).

Mötena hålls på onsdagar kl. 16–18 i Forsthuset, sal 7 (om inget annat anges).

SPRING TERM / KEVÄTLUKUKAUSI / VÅRTERMINEN 2024

• 17.1.2024: Giulia Orlando: The evolution of copula in Dongxiang
• 24.1.2024: Raisa Anakotta: Introduction to Moi
• 31.1.2024: Stefan Dedio: Tracing the diachrony of grammatical relations in Insular Celtic
• 14.2.2024: Satu Keinänen: First-person effects of evidentials
• 28.2.2024: Richard Kerbs: Argument demotion in Sgaw Karen
• 13.3.2024: Noora Ahola: Towards a typology of zero-marked N+N-sequences
• 27.3.2024: Maria Khachaturyan & Maria Konoshenko: Tonal systems in contact: A two-level tone language meets three level tones
• 10.4.2024: Mithun Banerjee: Fieldwork in Bangladesh with the Mru community and some preliminary remarks on the Mru counting system
• 17.4.2024: Lauri Marjamäki: German relative clauses in historical orality
• 24.4.2024: Andrei Dumitrescu: The reduction of indicative past tense categories in Meglen Vlach verbs ‘be’ and ‘have’

AUTUMN TERM / SYYSLUKUKAUSI / HÖSTTERMINEN 2023

• 6.9.2023: Start-of-the-year meeting and discussion
• 13.9.2023: Nora Muheim: Linguistic Adaptation in Northeast India
• 20.9.2023: Mithun Banerjee: Towards a descriptive grammar of the Mru language
• 27.9.2023: Pavel Falaleev: Use of Italian dialect in Štivor, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sociolinguistic issues in a diachronic perspective
• 4.10.2023: Satu Keinänen: Evidentials and internal states
• 11.10.2023: Mariann Bernhardt: Ablative, partitive or something else? The case of -TO/-TA in the Mordvinic languages
• 18.10.2023: Jenna Sorjonen: Sampling for variety of writing ecologies
• 1.11.2023: Guest lecture: Cliff Goddard (Griffith University, Australia): The architecture of the lexicon (NSM approach)
• 8.11.2023: Gustaf Olsson: False Germanisms in Slavic languages, or ’NIEmieckie słowa
• 15.11.2023: Don Killian & Max Wahlström: Towards a typology of ”deictic articles”
• 22.11.2023: Olivier Winistörfer: Back to the Balkans – A multi-variate approach to the prototypical case of a ‘sprachbund’
• 29.11.2023 John Banks: Towards a regional typology of switch-reference: SR characteristics of three regions in typological context
• 13.12.2023 Bojana Damnjanović: Relativization strategies in competition: (In)variable relativizer in Torlak dialects

Abstracts are posted on the seminar e-mail list and Moodle site.  The seminar is open for all researchers interested in General Linguistics.

Abstraktit lähetetään seminaarin sähköpostilistalle ja löytyvät myös Moodelsta. Seminaari on avoin kaikille yleisestä kielitieteestä kiinnostuneille tutkijoille.

Abstrakt skickas till seminariets mejlinglista och läggs även ut på Moodle. Seminariet är öppet för alla forskare som är intresserade av allmän språkvetenskap.

 

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Programmes in earlier years (since 2022-2023) / Aiempien vuosien ohjelma (2022-2023 alkaen) / Tidigare årens programm (sedan 2022-2023):

 

SPRING TERM / KEVÄTLUKUKAUSI / VÅRTERMINEN 2023

• 25.1.2023 Satu Keinänen: Studying the first-person effects of evidentials
• 1.2.2023 Richard Kerbs: On the term ’serial verb construction’ and the classification of multiverb constructions in Sgaw Karen
• 8.2.2023 Stef Spronck: An outline of Participation Grammar
• 15.2.2023 Lauri Marjamäki: German relative clauses in texts close to historical orality
• 1.3.2023 Svetlana Vetchinnikova: Chunking up speech in real-time: Linguistic predictors and cognitive constraints
• 29.3.2023 Jenna Sorjonen: Aligning strategies of literacy planning with local language attitudes and practices
• 5.4.2023 Andrei Dumitrescu: Meglen Vlach nominal morphology and noun phrase syntax
• 3.5.2023 Giacomo Bucci: Genitive of quantification in early Germanic languages

AUTUMN TERM / SYYSLUKUKAUSI / HÖSTTERMINEN 2022

• 14.9.2022: Start-of-the-year discussion, followed by a get-together in our common room
• 28.9.2022: Zi Wang: Multilingualism and wellbeing in migration contexts: East Asian communities in Europe
• 5.10.2022: Rahel T. Dires: Singulatives in a sample of Cushitic languages: a semantic study (exceptionally via Zoom)
• 12.10.2022: Giulia Orlando: A Sociolinguistic Outline of Dongxiang: The outcome of imbalanced relations of power
• 2.11.2022: Anette Ross: Multilingualism of Roma in Estonia: Language skills, motivation and strategies to acquire local and international languages
• 16.11.2022: Stephan Schulz: Homorganic nasal-consonant sequences of isiNdebele – consonant clusters or prenasalized single segments?
• 23.11.2022: Bojana Damnjanović: Relativization in South Slavic Torlak dialects: methodological remarks
• 7.12.2022: Jonathan Banks: The diffusion of switch-reference systems through language contact: Syntactic pattern transfer without morpheme borrowing