Departmental Seminar Series
1st & 2nd Semester, 2010-2011

(Unless otherwise specified, all seminars will begin at 4:30 pm)

Date Speaker Title

13 Oct, 2010
4:30-6:00 pm
Venue: KK1105

Prof. Daniel Hirst
CNRS & University of Provence, France

Speech Prosody: From Data to Models

21 Oct, 2010
4:30-6:00 pm
Venue: MB121

Prof. Benjamin Munson
University of Minnesota, USA
The Cognitive Representation of Socially Meaningful Phonetic Variation

26 Oct, 2010
4:30-6:00 pm
Venue: MB239

Prof. Barbara Meisterernst
Humboldt-University Berlin
From obligation to future? A diachronic sketch of the syntax and the semantics of the auxiliary verb dang

2 Nov, 2010
5:00-6:30 pm
Venue: MB113G

Prof. Wolfram Hinzen
University of Durham, UK
Seminar 1. The invention of Universal Grammar

9 Nov, 2010
5:00-6:30 pm
Venue: MB113G

Prof. Wolfram Hinzen
University of Durham, UK
Seminar 2. The problem of the evolution of language

16 Nov, 2010
5:00-6:30 pm
Venue: MB113G

Prof. Wolfram Hinzen
University of Durham, UK

Seminar 3. The evolution of semantics

18 Nov, 2010
5:00-6:30 pm
Venue: MB239

Dr. Umberto Ansaldo, Associate Professor in Linguistics

and

Dr. Tao Gong, Society of Scholars in the Humanities (Linguistics)

The Origins of Language and the Destiny of Linguistics

23 Nov, 2010
5:00-6:30 pm
Venue: MB113G

Prof. Wolfram Hinzen
University of Durham, UK

Seminar 4. The evolution of recursion

23 Nov, 2010
3:00-4:30 pm
venue: MB136

Prof. Wolfgang Teubert
University of Birmingham, UK

From corpus linguistics to discourse analysis: between method and arbitrariness, the example of wealth creation and wealth creator

30 Nov, 2010
4:30-6:000 pm
Venue: MB136

Prof. Paul Law City University of Hong Kong, HK

The existential construction in Malagasy

17 Dec, 2010
2:00-3:30 PM
Venue: MB136

石鋒博士
南開大學漢語言文化學院院長
Prof. SHI Feng
Nankai University
語音格局研究(Research On Sound Pattern)

20 Dec, 2010
3:30-5:00 pm
Venue: MB136

Prof. One-Soon HerGraduate Institute of Linguistics & Research of Mind, Brain and Learning, National Chengchi University
Distinguishing Classifiers and Measure Words

11 Jan, 2011
4:30-6:00 pm
Venue: MB237

Dr. Angel W. S. Chan
Department of Chinese & Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

The acquisition of Chinese relative clauses: cross-linguistic and multi-lingual perspectives

1 Mar, 2011
4:30-6:00 pm
Venue: MB237

Dr. James W. Minett
Language Engineering Laboratory, Department of Electronic Engineering,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Retrieving Language from the Brain by Brain--Computer Interfaces

8 Mar, 2011
4:30-6:00 pm
Venue: MB237

Prof. Sze Wing Tang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Some Notes on the Left Periphery in Chinese

15 Mar, 2011
4:30-6:00 pm
Venue: MB237

Prof. Lawrence Cheung
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Syntax of Right Dislocation and Its Implications to the Clausal Structure of Chinese

22 Mar, 2011
4:30-6:00 pm
Venue: Eliot Hall, Room 101

Miss Melody Wen Lu
Department of Linguistics
The University of Hong Kong
The ti construction in Tunxi Hui: a preliminary study

31 Mar, 2011
4:30-6:00 pm
Venue: MB201

Dr. Manfred von Roncador
Institut of African Studies (IAS) / Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS) – University of Bayreuth
Remnant classes in Oti-Volta (Gur) with a focus on noun class degradation and renovation

7 Apr, 2011
5:00-6:30 pm
Venue: Convocation Room

Prof. Klaus Zuberbühler
University of St Andrews
Primate communication: Signal flexibility and control

12 Apr, 2011
3:00-4:30 pm
Venue: Convocation Room

Mr. Hiu Lam Yeung
The University of Hong Kong
The problem of the origin of language and the Saussurean concept of linguistic sign: A sketch

12 Apr, 2011
5:00-6:30 pm
Venue: MB G07

Prof. Klaus Zuberbühler
University of St Andrews
Primate communication: Comprehension and mental representations

14 Apr, 2011
5:00-6:30 pm
Venue: MB G07

Prof. Klaus Zuberbühler
University of St Andrews
Primate communication: Social cognition and awareness

26 Apr, 2011
4:30-6:00 pm
Venue: T6, Meng Wah Complex

Dr. Thomas Lee
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The acquisition of topic prominence in Chinese

19 July, 2011
4:30-6:00 pm
Venue: MB217

Prof. Bernard Comrie
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
How Typical are East and Southeast Asian Languages?

 

   
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