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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)
'Not all experientials are perfect'
(joint work with Sihwei Chen, Hotze Rullmann and Jozina Vander Klok)
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.
Invited speakers to be confirmed shortly.
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.
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.