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2017 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain |
Canterbury, University of Kent, 4-7 September 2017
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Special events at LAGB 2017
Henry Sweet Lecture 2017
Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia)
'Variation in the semantics of tense and aspect: The view from the Pacific'
Linguistics Association Lecture 2017
Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
'To 73 and Beyond: The Hidden Connections between Language and Number'
Workshop on synthesising approaches to language learning and adaptation
Organised by Laura Bailey and Christina Kim (University of Kent).
Details of invited speakers to be confirmed soon.
Language Tutorial
There will be a Language Tutorial on Huave (isolate, Mexico) by Dr Yuni Kim (Manchester University)
LAGB Summer School 2017
The LAGB Summer School 2017 will provide postgraduate students (and other interested parties) with the opportunity to attend masterclasses in linguistics, receive training opportunities, meet linguists and socialise with other postgraduate students from across the UK. The one-day LAGB Summer School will take place on TBC. This event is co-organised by the LAGB Committee and the LAGB Student Committee.
Special session on linguistics outreach
On Thursday 7th September from 2-3.30pm, there will be a special session on linguistics outreach featuring talks by Txuss Martin (Durham), Jonnie Robinson (British Library) and David Adger and Coppe van Urk (QMUL).
Themed session on Modelling language acquisition in diachrony
This session is organised by Achim Stein (Stuttgart) and Carola Trips (Mannheim) and it takes place on the afternoon of Wednesday 6th September.
Wikipedia coaching sessions
Charlotte Hemmings (Oxford) will be running Wikipedia coaching sessions at the conference during designated breaks (TBC).
Education Session
The LAGB Education Committee will run a special session at LAGB 2017 entitled 'Grammar teaching across the curriculum' focusing on grammar teaching across the curriculum at secondary school level in a national and international context. There will be talks by:
Sofie Ljungbo Jensen, Rungsted Gymnasium, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ian Cushing, University of Nottingham
Jessica J Clapham, University of Bangor
Susan Chapman, University of Aberystwyth
Lise Fontaine, University of Cardiff
For further details see http://lagb-education.org/lagb-education-sessions.