Marc Olivier will be speaking to the Historical Syntax Seminar on 1 May, on Stressed proclitics in Middle French? Evidence that language
change is driven by structural simplification. Wednesday 1 May, 4.30-6 p.m.
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The Faculty is pleased to welcome Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona) as our speaker for the General Linguistics Seminar on Monday 29 April (5:15 p.m., Taylorian Institute, room 2).
The Faculty is pleased to welcome Catherine Lai (University of Edinburgh) as our speaker for the General Linguistics Seminar on Monday 22 April (2:15 p.m., Taylorian Institute, room 2).
This workshop is a hands-on experience that requires participants to get involved in annotating small samples of ancient Greek text.
The Philological Society will meet at St Catherine's College, Oxford and on line, on 16 March to hear Yvonne Treis (LLACAN, CNRS Paris) on Shared lexicalisation patterns in the Ethiopian linguistic area. The talk will begin at 4:15 p.m.
Ancient Anatolia Network A new Phrygian inscription from Gordion (G-12) and the sociolinguistic situation in Mysia in the early Hellenistic period Speaker: Rostyslav Oreshko (CNRS) Thursday 7 March 2024, 5pm Online and In-person event | Seminar Room, Radc
On Tuesday 5th March, Dr Joachim Matzinger (Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien), one of the leading specialists on Albanian historical linguistics, will give a guest lecture on “Gyon Buzuku and the beginnings of Albanian writing” at the Comparative Philolo
We look forward to welcoming Dr Luisa Martí (Queen Mary University of London) to the last General Linguistics Seminar of this term, for her talk “Possible and impossible determiners”. 4 March, 5:15 p.m. in the Taylorian Institute, room 2. All are welcome.
A workshop organised by Rahul Santhanam (rahul.santhanam@cs.ox.ac.uk) and Danfeng Wu (danfeng.wu@magd.ox.ac.uk), which will take place on 2 March 2024 at Magdalen College. For details and a full programme, please see https://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.
Registration is now closed Time Topic (tentative) Speaker Location 9:00 – 9:15 Welcome address Danfeng Wu (University of Oxford) Grove Auditorium (access from Octagon gates on Longwall Street) 9:15 – 10:15 High-level tutorial on how an LLM works Aleksand
Dr Lindsay Morcom, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada 2pm Thursday 29th February Room 206, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics, Clarendon Institute, Walton Street.
We look forward to hearing Tim Barnes at the Historical Syntax Seminar: “Problems in Mycenaean Syntax” Wednesday 21st February, 4.30-6 p.m. Centre for Linguistics and Philology, room 206.
The Oxford University Linguistics Society will be hosting this talk by Colin Phillips, our new Professor of Linguistics, at 3 p.m. on Friday, 16th February in the lecture theatre of the Centre for Linguistics and Philology.
We look forward to welcoming Professor Valentina Bambini (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia) to the General Linguistics Seminar on 12 February, for her talk “The costs and benefits of neuroimagining metaphors”. 5:15 p.m.
We look forward to hearing Dillon Kelly at the Historical Syntax Seminar: “Enigmatic Ordering: The syntax and structure of riddles in the Rigveda" Wednesday 7th February, 4.30-6 p.m. Centre for Linguistics and Philology, room 206.
We look forward to welcoming Professor Joana Rosselló (Universitat de Barcelona) to the General Linguistics Seminar on 5 February, for her talk on “Recursion in language and vision: a view from minimally verbal autism”. 5:15 p.m.
Ancient Anatolia Network Seminar on The Language of Kalašma: A New Branch of Anatolian Speakers: Elisabeth Rieken (University of Marburg) and Ilya Yakubovich (University of Marburg) Friday 2 February 2024, 5.
We look forward to hearing Eleanor Walsh at the Historical Syntax Seminar: "That's a Wrap: The final word on the Old Irish verbal complex?" Wednesday 24th January, 4.30-6 p.m. Centre for Linguistics and Philology, room 206.
We look forward to hearing Dr Matt Gardner at the General Linguistics Seminar on 22 January: “Yup↓: Subverting sterotypes with ingressive pulmonic discourse particles in Canadian Maritime English" 5:15 p.m. in the Taylorian Institute, room 2.
We look forward to hearing Anna Paradís and Afra Pujol i Campeny at the Historical Syntax Seminar: “Verb position and clitic placement in Old Catalan” Wednesday 6th March, 4.30-6 p.m. Centre for Linguistics and Philology, room 206.