Departmental Seminar Series
1st & 2nd Semester, 2009-2010

(Unless otherwise stated, the seminars are scheduled in room 136, Main Building)

Date Speaker Title

22 Oct, 2009
4:30-6:00 pm

Professor Paul Crawford,
University of Nottingham
Time in Discourse: Fast Healthcare and
Brief Communication

10 Nov, 2009
4:30-6:00 pm

Hugo Cardoso,
University of Macau
The Diverse Typological Alignment of the Indo-Portuguese Language of DIU (India)

24 Nov, 2009
4:30-6:00 pm

Prof. Pan Haihua
City University of Hong Kong
The Semantic Licensing Conditions of Indefinite Subjects in Mandarin Chinese

12 Jan, 2010
4:30-6:00 pm
Convocation Room

Dr. Umberto Ansaldo
The University of Hong Kong

East-West Contacts in Monsoon Asia

19 Jan, 2010
4:30-6:00 pm

Dominic Yu
Department of Linguistics,
University of California, Berkeley

Lizu, Proto-Tibeto-Burman and the Problem of Reconstructing Proto-Qiangic

11 Mar, 2010
4:30-6:00 pm
MB107

Tao GONG
Department of Linguistics,
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Identifying Selective Pressures on Language Change Using Computational Simulation

7 Apr, 2010
4:30-6:00 pm

Ms. Weirong CHEN
Department of Linguistics
The University of Hong Kong

Aspects of Grammaticalization in the Southern Min Dialect of Hui'an: Divergence, Convergence and Phonological Reduction

13 Apr, 2010
4:30-6:00 pm
MB113G

Prof. Hongyin Tao
University of California, Los Angeles
Discourse Perspectives on Quantitative Data: The Case of Mandarin Causal Clause Sequences and Its Implications

27 Apr, 2010
4:30-6:00 pm
MB136

Dr. SHUAI Lan
Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Faculty of Education
The University of Hong Kong
Language as an ¡¥Interface¡¦ - Evidence from Tone Perception and Its Lateralization

4 May, 2010
4:30-6:00 pm
MB136

Mr. Mart van de Ven
Department of Linguistics
The University of Hong Kong
Who Killed the Unitary Phenomenon of Metaphor? Evidence from Metaphor Identification in Authentic Interactional Discourse

4 May, 2010
4:30-6:00 pm
MB136

Ms. Anna S.C. Cheung
Department of Linguistics
The University of Hong Kong

Transfer from L3 German to L2 English: Tense-Aspect

13 May, 2010
4:30-6:00 pm
MB136

Ms. Vessela Dmitrova
The University of Hong Kong

Prosodic Parameters in Multilingual Acquisition of English

 

   
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