Fridays, 12pm, in ‘LingSem’ (Room 201), 370 Temple Street.
Friday 23th September
Sean O’Rourke Graduate Student, Yale University
On the Phonological and Phonetic Statuses of Orthographic Nasal+Obstruent in Swahili
Friday 30th September
Nihan Ketrez Yale University Near Eastern Languages
Children’s scope of accusative marked indefinites in Turkish
Friday 7th October
Heike Wiese Yale University and Humboldt-Universität Berlin
‘Whorfian’ effects of compounds in English and German: Where turtles are toads, and hedgehogs are pig
Friday 21st October
Erich Round Graduate Student, Yale University
Reconstructing pre-proto-Tangkic nouns: the rise of inflectional consonant gradation and the massive loss of root types
Friday 2nd December
Julia Kuznetsova Graduate Student, Yale University
The structure of language variation: evidence from Khakas
Friday 9th December
Leonardo Oliveira Graduate Student, Yale University