*** Upcoming Seminar ***

Seminar Series

Unless otherwise specified, seminars begin at 4:30 pm.

September 10 (Monday) 10:30-11:45 am Room 4.08, 4/F Run Run Shaw, Centennial Campus
Cathryn Donohue, The Australian National University
Exotic case marking and Lexical Decomposition Grammar

October 9 (Monday) 4:30-6:00 pm Room 9.25, 9/F Run Run Shaw, Centennial Campus
Foong Ha YAP, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
On the role of phonological reduction in the development of ‘say’ evidentials in Korean, Japanese and Cantonese

October 30 (Tuesday) 4:30-6:00 pm Room 9.25, 9/F Run Run Shaw, Centennial Campus
Norihiko HAYASHI, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
Typological and diachronic position of Jino

November 13 (Tuesday) 4:30-6:00 pm Room 9.25, 9/F Run Run Shaw, Centennial Campus
Roxana Suk-Yee FUNG, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Tone mergers in contemporary Hong Kong Cantonese

November 20 (Tuesday) 4:30-6:00 pm Room 9.25, 9/F Run Run Shaw, Centennial Campus
Gang PENG, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The context effect in Cantonese tone perception

November 28 (Wednesday) 4:30-6:30 pm Room 142 Main Building
Tiexin ZHAO, Vice Chairman, Central Branch of Chinese Calligraphy Association
Zhuangyuan (Premier Scholars) in Ancient China

Advanced Seminar Series in Linguistics

Speaker:
Enoch Oladé ABOH
Universiteit van Amsterdam

November 21 (Wednesday) 4:00-6:00 pm Room 4.04, 4/F Run Run Shaw, Centennial Campus
The emergence of Grammars: Contact, Change and Creation

November 28 (Wednesday) 4:00-6:00 pm Room 4.04, 4/F Run Run Shaw, Centennial Campus
Feature selection and typology in the emergence of the lexicon: The case of adpositions in Suriname

December 5 (Wednesday) 4:00-6:00 pm Room 4.04, 4/F Run Run Shaw, Centennial Campus
Information structure packaging: The emergence of speech modality and discourse markers

January 17 (Thursday) 4:30-6:00 pm Room 3.01, 3/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Dejing LI, President, Research Institute of Dongbawen, Lijiang, Yunnan
Naxi Nationality and its Pictographic Writing System Dongbawen

Co-hosted by Africans Studies
February 1 (Friday) 12:00-1:00 pm Room 4.04, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Seunghun LEE, ZAS & Central Connecticut State University
Morphological priming in Xitsonga loanword phonology

February 26 (Tuesday) 4:30-6:00 pm Room 4.04, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Matthias GERNER, City University of Hong Kong
Differential subject/object marking in Burmese-Lolo languages

March 26 (Tuesday) 4:30-6:00 pm Room 4.04, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Mizuho TAMAJI and Foong Ha YAP, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
On the extended uses of ‘say’ constructions in Japanese: Some implications for the emergence of finite structures

April 18 (Thursday) 4:30-6:00 pm Room 812, Knowles Building, Main Campus
Yueguo GU, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Restoring Agency to Its Proper Place in Linguistics - Going beyond structural and generative paradigms

April 25 (Thursday) 4:30-6:00 pm Room 4.04, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Kofi YAKPO, The University of Hong Kong
Asia meets Africa in America: Linguistic and cultural encounters in the Caribbean

May 7 (Tuesday) 2:30-4:00 pm Room 4.04, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
David HOLM, National Chengchi University, Taipei
The Old Zhuang Character Script: Grammatology and Historical Strata

May 8 (Wednesday) 4:30-6:00 pm CPD LG10, Centennial Campus
A discussion with
Nick EVANS, ANU and Bill WANG, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Linguistic endangerment: global and regional perspectives

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Inquiry: Dr. Tao Gong (tgong@hku.hk); Room 9.23, 9/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Advanced Seminar Series in Linguistics, details will circulate in a separate poster.
Inquiry: Dr. Umberto Ansaldo (ansaldo@hku.hk); Room 9.14, 9/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU