(Unless otherwise stated, the seminars are scheduled on Fridays at
4:00 p.m. in room 136, Main Building)
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 3 Oct, 2008 |
Dr. Picus Ding, Department of Linguistics,
The University of Hong Kong |
Formal
Teaching of Minority Languages in Yunnan |
| 10 Oct, 2008 |
Dr. Tai Chung-pui |
Does
Tangut have Prenasalized Initials? Examination through Tibetan Transcription
of Tangut Characters |
| 17 Oct, 2008 |
|
No seminar (Preparation for Information
Day) |
24 Oct, 2008
3:30 p.m. |
Dr. Matthias Gerner, City University
of Hong Kong |
A
typological survey of deictic features embedded in demonstratives
(with special reference to the Miao Group) |
| 31 Oct, 2008 |
Dr. Stephen Matthews |
Bilingual
Children's Comprehension of Relative Clauses in Cantonese and English |
| 7 Nov, 2008 |
Dr. Barbara Meisterernst, EHESS |
The syntax and semantics of temporal
prepositional phrases in Han period Chinese |
10 Nov, 2008
5:00 p.m.
M150, Main Building |
Prof. D. Terence Langendoen |
Modals
and Quasimodals |
| 21 Nov, 2008 |
Mr. Jackson Lee, Department of Linguistics,
The University of Hong Kong |
Tone
assignment as a strategy in learning French by Cantonese speakers |
| 28 Nov, 2008 |
Dr. Frantisek Kratochvil, La Trobe University |
Semantic
Alignment in Abui |
9 Feb, 2009
5:30 p.m.
Convocation Room |
Prof. Ghil'ad Zuckermann, University
of Queensland |
The
Academy of the Hebrew Language and the Native Israeli
Speakers |
13 Feb, 2009
4:00 p.m
M150, Main Building |
Katsuo Tamaoka, Reitaku University,
Japan |
Does accessing
syntactic features require conceptual activations? Word frequency
effects on syntactic features of Japanese two-kanji compound words
for verb-or-not decision |
27 Mar, 2009
4:00 p.m.
M150, Main Building |
Mr. Zhang Paiyu, Jerome, Department
of Linguistics, The University of Hong Kong |
Documentation
of Kilen, a moribund tungusic language: methods and principles |
3 Apr, 2009
4:00 p.m.
M150, Main Building |
Prof. Claire Lefebvre,
Department of Linguistics,
Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM |
A Theory
of Creole Genesis |
5 May, 2008
3:00-6:30 p.m.
Convocation Room |
Prof. Guglielmo Cinque
University of Venice, Italy
|
The Prenominal
Origin of Relative Clauses |
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