Goings-on
There are numerous opportunities at UGA to hear presentations on current issues in linguistics. We also regularly host linguistics and language-related conferences. Here are a few of the linguistics and language-related events going on at UGA. Please feel free to contact me if I’ve missed anything. Note the non-UGA sponsored events as well.
- Romance Languages Colloquium
- Romance Linguistics Colloquium
- Program in Linguistics Talks
- Working Group Meetings
- Conferences @ UGA
- Emory University Program in Linguistics
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Romance Linguistics Colloquium
SPRING 2011
Wednesday, April 20th, 3:00
Room 350K, Gilbert Hall
Presenter: Dr. Patrícia Amaral (University of Liverpool)
Title: “The many ways of being always“
Friday, April 8th, 4:00
Room 303, Gilbert Hall
Presenter: Dr. Vera Lee-Schoenfeld (UGA, Linguistics)
Title: “ Case and Affectedness in Inalienable Possession Constructions”
Wednesday, March 23rd, 12:15
Room 320, Gilbert Hall
Presenter: Dr. Diana Ranson (Romance Languages)
Title: “Pragmatic functions of Spanish subject pronouns: Why meaning matters”
Wednesday, March 23rd, 3:00-5:15
Spanish Linguistics Colloquium
Room 350K, Gilbert Hall
3:00 – 3:30 Kristen Roberts Hanewald (PhD student, Spanish Linguistics)
“Wh-exclamations used as epistemic discourse markers in Spanish: A corpus-based study of the uses of yo qué sé and qué sé yo”
3:30 – 4:00 Dr. Timothy Gupton (Assistant Professor, Romance Languages)
“Narrow and fronted focus in Spanish and Galician”
4:00 – 4:15 BREAK (refreshments will be served)
4:15 – 4:45 Jennifer Novell (MA candidate, Spanish Linguistics)
“The illocutionary force of guapo(a) in Peninsular Spanish discourse”
4:45 – 5:15 Inma Garnes (PhD student, Spanish Linguistics)
“La metáfora en la prensa deportiva española desde la Teoría de la Relevancia”
*For more information regarding these events, please contact Dr. Timothy Gupton.
Wednesday, March 2nd, 3:00PM
Room 118 Gilbert Hall
Title: GoldVarbX: A Primer
Presenter: Chad Howe
Description:
This workshop will provide a general introduction to GoldVarb X (Sankoff, Tagliamonte, & Smith 2005), a program that Gregory Guy refers to as the “Gold Standard” in conducting multi-variate analysis in variationist approaches to language variation. Sample data sets (from English and Spanish) will be provided for a hands-on introduction to the different functionalities of GoldVarb, including data coding, cross-tabulation, and logistic regression. Participants are also encouraged to bring their own data sets.
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Past Events
Professor Rudolfo Cerrón-Palomino (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
Title: “La visión cuzcocéntrica del quechua en el Inca Garcilaso”
Lino Mioni (UGA, Romance Languages)
Title: “Essere o non essere (…avere?), questo è il problema
Teaching auxiliary selection for Italian compound tenses: A proposal”
William Pennington, Chad Howe, and Sarah Blackwell (UGA, Romance Languages)
Title: “Complex Reference Objects and plural anaphoric expression in Spanish”
Matt Kanwit (UGA, Romance Languages)
Title: “The pluralization of the existential haber in Lima and San Juan”
Melissa Whatley (UGA, Romance Languages)
Title: “Subject Pronouns in Andalusia and Castille” [Abstract]
2008
Professor Roger Wright (University of Liverpool)
Title: “Was Romance a New Language?” (April 2008 )
Professor Francisco Marcos-Marín (University of Texas at San Antonio) and Professor Amando de MIguel Rodríguez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Workshop on language and society (March 2008 )
Professor Ricardo Maldonado (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Title: “Middle voice as a basic syntactic system in Indoeuropean and American Indigenous languages” (March 2008 )
2007
Professor Liliana Sánchez (Rutgers University)
Title: “The effects of contact with Spanish on the syntax of Quechua: Morphological convergence and syntactic convergence in Quechua/Spanish bilinguals” (November 2007)
Buck Pennington (UGA, MA student in Romance Languages)
Title: “The Effect of Coordination on Accessibility and Binding in Spanish” (October 2007)
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Program in Linguistics Talks / Events
Autumn 2009
Wednesday, August 26th, 4:PM
Room 153 Miller Learning Center
Dr. Anita Peti-Stantic (University of Zagreb)
Title: “Clitics and Scrambling in Western South Slavic Languages” [Abstract]
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Working Groups in Linguistics
UGA Working Group on Language Variation and Change
[Spring 2009 Schedule TBA]
Recent Events
Professor Sudarat L. Hatfield (Chiang Mai University in Chiang Mai Thailand)
Title: “The Evaluation of Endangered Languages of the 17-upper North Province of Thailand” (April 2004)
Betsy Craig (PhD student in UGA Linguistics Progam)
Title: “Function Words in SLW: From Corpus to Probably Grammar Teaching”
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Upcoming & Recent Linguistics Conferences @ UGA
Workshop on Indo-European Syntax and Pragmatics (May 13-15, 2009)
East Coast Indo-European Conference (July 21-23, 2008 )
The 39th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (April 17-20, 2008 )
Studies in the History of the English Language (October 4-6, 2007)
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