Past LAGB meetings

See also our page on the LAGB's history.

Date	Place	Invited speaker(s)	Events (LT = language tutorial)
2024	Newcastle	Heather Burnett Silvina Montrul	Workshop: Heritage languages in the UK Education Committee special session: Languages uptake in education, obstacles and interventions LT: Sinhala (Sujewaa Hettiarachchi) [Tutorial 1, Turorial 2] Conference homepage
2023	Anglia Ruskin	Shelome Gooden Elena Anagnostopoulou	Workshop: Contrastive focalisation, challenges and solutions Workshop: Sociolinguistic Typology, advances and challenges Education Committee special session: How linguistics can help schools LT: Uyghur (Yasutada Sudo, Tom Meadows, Pietro Baggio
2022	Ulster	Maria Teresa Guasti Liina Pylkkanen	LT: Northern Irish English and Irish Workshop: Minoritized languages' impact on linguistic theory Workshop: Advances and challenges in teaching linguistics at university Workshop: Syntax and language acquisition Education Committee special session: Language analysis in schools
2021	Online	Maria Polinsky Brian Joseph	Workshops: New directions in Creole linguistics; Debates in the globalising of variationist sociolinguistics; Linguistics and community languages in schools; Particles in African languages LT: Louisiana Creole (Olivier Mayeux) Conference homepage
2020	[No meeting due to Covid-19 pandemic]
09/09/19- 12/09/19	Queen Mary University of London	Sandy Chung Christopher Potts	Workshop: Formal Approaches to Variation Education Committee special session: The drop in uptake of English Language A-Level LT: Kiowa (Daniel Harbour) Conference homepage
11/09/18- 14/09/18	Sheffield	Heidi Harley Diane Lillo-Martin	Workshop: Literary Linguistics Education Committee special session: UKLO and LASER Two poster sessions LT: Auslan (Adam Schembri) Conference home page
04/09/17 - 07/09/17	Kent	Lisa Matthewson Charles Yang	Workshop: Synthesising approaches to language learning and adaptation Themed session: Modelling language acquisition in diachrony Special session: Linguistics outreach Education Committee special session: Grammar teaching across the curriculum LT: Huave (Yuni Kim) Conference home page
06/09/16- 09/09/16	York	Bernard Comrie Paul Smolensky	Workshop: Advances in Linguistic Theory through Computation LT: Jaminjung/Ngaliwurru (Eva Schultze-Berndt) Conference home page
15/09/15- 18/09/15	UCL	Larry Hyman Rachel Nordlinger	Workshop: The Current Status of Underlying Representations in Phonology Workshop: Morphological Complexity LT: Frisian (Jarich Hoekstra) Conference home page
01/09/14- 05/09/14	Oxford	Angelika Kratzer Adam Albright	Workshop: The Semantics of Embedding and the Syntax of the Left Periphery Workshop: Learning Biases in Natural and Artificial Language Acquisition LT: Armenian (Bert Vaux) Conference home page
28/08/13- 31/08/13	SOAS	Philippe Schlenker Jonathan Bobaljik	Workshop: Primate Grammar (and beyond) Workshop: Comparative Morphology and Morphological Theory LT: Ritual Sumtu Chin (Justin Watkins) Conference home page Programme First Circular and Call for Papers
05/09/12- 08/09/12	Salford	Mark Baker Lisa Cheng	Workshop: Case Themed session: The syntax-phonology interface LT: Gayo (Domenyk Eades) Conference home page Programme Second Circular First Circular and Call for Papers
07/09/11- 10/09/11	Manchester	Mark Liberman Colin Phillips	Workshop: Using large-scale speech collections in phonetics and phonology research Themed session: The psycholinguistics of grammar LT: Tundra Nenets (Irina Nikolaeva) Meeting web site at the University of Manchester Programme Second Circular First Circular and Call for Papers
01/09/10-04/09/10	Leeds	Stephen Levinson Joan Bybee	Workshop: Interactional Foundations for Language Themed session: Exemplar- and construction-based approaches to grammar Themed session: Disharmony in nominals LT: Herero (Lutz Marten) Meeting web site at the University of Leeds Programme Second Circular First Circular and Call for Papers
06/09/09- 09/09/09	Edinburgh	50 Years of LAGB Meetings: Ronnie Cann, John Harris, Caroline Heycock, Dick Hudson, Nigel Vincent	LT: Scottish Gaelic (David Adger) Meeting website at the University of Edinburgh Programme Second Circular First Circular and Call for Papers
10/09/08- 13/09/08	Essex	Paul Kiparsky Bernard Comrie	Workshop: New perspectives on the phonological cycle Themed session: Language Contact LT: Archi (Marina Chumakina, Dunstan Brown and Greville Corbett) Meeting website at the University of Essex Programme Second Circular First Circular and Call for Papers
29/08/07- 01/09/07	Kings College, London	Hans Kamp B. Elan Dresher	Workshop: Issues in Dynamic Semantics Themed session: Contrast in Phonology LT: Slavey (Keren Rice) Programme Second Circular First Circular and Call for Papers
30/08/06- 02/08-06	Newcastle	Nick Evans Sharon Inkelas	Themed session: Exponence in morphology and syntax Special session: Dynamic Syntax LT: Iwaidja (Nick Evans) Programme Second Circular First Circular and Call for Papers
31/08/05- 03/09/05	Cambridge	Gennaro Chierchia David Pesetsky	Workshop: Pragmatics, Multidimensional Semantics, and Grammar Themed session: Complementation and Selection for Syntactic Categories LT: Pirahã (Daniel Everett) Second Circular First Circular and Second Call for Papers
30/08/04- 04/09/04	Roehampton (Surrey)	Marianne Mithun Anders Holmberg	Workshop: Borrowability Workshop: Null subjects LT: Michif (Peter Bakker) Second Circular First Circular and Call for Papers
No more spring meetings!
9/03	Oxford	Tanya Reinhart	Workshop: Tense and aspect LT: Madi (Nigel Fabb) Second Circular First Circular
4/03	Sheffield	Stephen Anderson	Workshop: Clitics LT: Inari Sami (Ida Toivonen) Second Circular First Circular
9/02	UMIST	Anthony Kroch	Workshop: Quantitative and corpus-based perspectives on the morpho-syntactic history of English. LT: Romani (Yaron Matras) Second Circular First Circular
4/02	Edge Hill	Judy Kegl	Workshop: British Sign Language LT: British Sign Language (Bencie Woll) Second Circular First Circular
9/01	Reading (before BAAL)	Larry Horn	Workshop: Pragmatics and anaphora LT: Chamorro (Thomas Klein) Second Circular First Circular
4/01	Leeds	Peter Culicover	Workshop: Construction grammar LT: Vietnamese (Victoria Rosen) Second Circular First Circular
9/00	Durham	Peter Sells	Workshop: OT syntax LT: Akkadian (Guy Deutcher) Second Circular First Circular
4/00	UCL	Mark Steedman	Workshop: Intonation and grammar LT: Bengali (Gillian Ramchand) Second Circular First Circular
9/99	York	Bernard Comrie	Workshop: Reference tracking LT: Lezgian (Martin Haspelmath) Second Circular First Circular AGM
4/99	Manchester	John McCarthy	Workshop: OT phonology LT: Turkish (Jaklin Kornfilt) Second Circular First Circular AGM
9/98	Luton	Dan Sperber	Workshop: Experimental pragmatics LT: Roshani (John Payne) First Circular AGM
4/98	Lancaster	Fritz Newmeyer	Workshop: Functionalism vs formalism LT: Quechua (Pieter Muysken) Conference Programme Second Circular First Circular AGM
9/97	Herts	James McCloskey	Workshop: Celtic syntax LT: Welsh (Gwen Awbery & Bob Morris-Jones) Programme Second Circular First Circular
4/97	Edinburgh	Joan Bresnan	Workshop: Inflectional morphology LT: Warlpiri etc. (Jane Simpson et al) Second Circular First Circular AGM
9/96	Cardiff	Janet Fodor & Robert Van Valin	Workshop: Learnability LT: Mohawk (Marianne Mithun) First Circular
4/96	Sussex	Johanna Nichols	Workshop: Historical linguistics LT: Chechen & Ingush (Johanna Nichols) Second Circular
9/95	Essex	Edwin Williams & Greg Stump	Workshop: Ellipsis, focus & anaphora LT: Kayardild (Nick Evans) Second Circular First Circular
4/95	Newcastle	Ellen Prince	Workshop: Grammar, discourse & information LT: Basque (Larry Trask) Second Circular
13-15/9/94	Middlesex	Jim Higginbotham	Workshop: Semantics in linguistics Parasession: Social functions of language Non-section papers - 51 in 3 streams
5-7/4/94	Salford	Ray Jackendoff	Workshop: Lexical semantics Parasession: Sign Languages Parasession: Topics in phonological theory - 4 Non-section papers - 39 in 3 streams
13-15/9/93	Bangor	Colette Craig	Workshop: Endangered languages Parasession: Theory of language change - 2 Non-section papers - 48, 3 streams
22-24/3/93	Birmingham	Joseph Emonds	Workshop: Disjoint indexing Non-section papers - 31, 2 or 3 streams Paresessions: Educational linguistics ('CLIE session'): Description and prescription in L1 and FL - 3 Linguistics and cognitive science - 3
14-16/9/92	Surrey	Ruth Kempson	Workshop: Deductive systems & NLP Non-section papers - 35 in 2 streams
6-8/4/92	Brighton	Ivan Sag	Workshop: HPSG Parasession on Educational linguistics sponsored jointly by CLIE and the LSA - 4 Non-section papers - 43 in 3 or 2 streams
16-18/9/91	York	Andrew Radford	Workshop: Functional categories Non-section papers - 45 in 3 streams Linked 'parasession' by ESPRIT-DANDI group on acquisition of functional categories
25-27/3/91	Oxford	Arnold Zwicky	Workshop: Morphology-syntax interface Seminar: spoken language corpora
12-14/9/90	Leeds	Tanya Reinhart	Workshop: Binding theory and long distance anaphora
4/90	Cambridge	Jerry Fodor	Workshop: Empty categories in psycholinguistics
20-22/9/89	UMIST	Mitchell Marcus	Workshop: computational linguistics Non-section papers - 33 Linked colloquium on NP structure 18-19/9
10-12/4/89	Belfast	David Dowty	'Section' on Hiberno-English jointly organised with Irish Assn for Applied Linguistics - 12 Non-section papers - 16
14-16/9/88	Exeter	Charles Fillmore	Papers: 42 in 2 or 3 streams No sections, but overlap meeting with BAAL (about the Kingman Committee) - 6
21-23/3/88	Durham	Luigi Rizzi	Papers: 35 in 2 streams Teach-in: Romance syntax. Section: Educational Linguistics, 'The linguistic profile of a typical 5-year old'
21-23/9/87	Bradford	Michael Moortgat	Papers - 33 Workshop: Categorial Grammar - 4
9-11/4/87	London Westfield	Elisabet Engdahl	Papers - 29 Teach-in: Situation Semantics Section: Educational Linguistics: Syntactic categories in linguistic description
24-26/9/86	Edinburgh	Harry van der Hulst	Papers - 35 Teach-in: Discourse Representation Theory
4/86	Norwich	Dan Sperber	Workshop: Relevance Theory
18-20/9/85	Liverpool	James McCloskey	Papers - 35 Teach-in: Parsing - 2
1-3/4/85	Salford	Henning Andersen	Papers - 16 Colloquium: Non-linear phonology - 5
14-16/9/84	Essex	Haj Ross	Papers - 22 Teach-in: Linguistics and visionary science
28-30/3/84 (25th Anniversary)	Hull	R. H. Robins, Victoria Fromkin	Papers - 25 in 2 streams Teach-in: GB theory - 2 Section: Educational linguistics (panel discussion): Higher-level differences between speech and writing Workshop: Alternatives to unemployment
21-23/9/83	Newcastle		Papers - 25 New section: Educational linguistics (panel discussion on linguistic equality)
23-25/3/83	Sheffield	Eve Clark	Papers - 24
22-24/9/82	Kent		Papers - 21
24-26/3/82	Reading	Barbara Partee	Papers - 25, some in 2 streams
30/9-2/10/81	York		Papers - 19
13-15/4/81	Manchester	Renate Bartsch	Papers - 16
17-19/9/80	Surrey		Papers - 16
26-28/4/80	Birmingham	Manfred Bierwisch	Papers - 15
24-26/9/79	Sussex	John Lyons	Papers - 16 Workshop: Linguistics and AI - 4
4-6/4/79	Hull		Papers - 17
9/78	Sheffield		Papers - 11 (4 in 2 streams with workshop) Workshop: Stylistics
10-12/4/78	Lancaster	David Lightfoot	Papers - 13 Workshop: Naturalness & abstractness in phonology
6-8/11/77	UCL	Arnold Zwicky	Papers - 13 Workshop: The English modals
29-31/3/77	West Midlands College, Walsall		Papers - 17 Workshop: Grammatical relations and the status of complement clauses -2
9/76	[no meeting?]
3-5/4/76	Edinburgh	David Reibel 'Neo-grammarian syntax'	Non-section papers - 17
31/10-2/11/75	York	Gillian Sankoff 'Data and interpretation in sociolinguistics: Syntax and discourse in New Guinea Tok Pisin'	`Theme': The data of linguistics Proceedings to be published in York Papers in Linguistics. edited by John Green Non-section papers - 13
6-8/4/75	Nottingham	Andre Martinet (joint with SLE) 'What do speakers and hearers have semantically in common?'	Held jointly with Societas Linguistica Europaea Non-section papers - 22 Sections (* = named convenor): Historical linguistics* - 2 LTLL(SL)* - 2 Extraordinary semantics - 3
9/74	[No meeting]
8-10/4/74	Hatfield		Non-section papers - 12 Sections: LTLL(NL) - 1 paper Language and literature - 1
9/73	[No meeting]
28-30/3/73	Hull		Non-section papers - 10 Sections: DCL - 2 papers LTLL(NL/SL) - 4
17-19/11/72	Sheffield		Non-section papers -9 Sections (for abbreviations see 4/72): DCL - 3 papers Historical - 1 LTLL(NL) - 3 LTLL(SL) - 2 Semantics - 2
4-6/4/72	York		Non-section papers - 12 Sections (just one paper each): Developmental and Clinical Linguistics Historical Language Teaching and Language Learning (Native Language) Language Teaching and Language Learning (Second Language) Semantics Stylistics Panel Discussion
9/71	[No meeting]
3-5/4/71	Lancaster		Non-section papers - 10 Section: LTLL(L1) - 1
30/10-1/11/70	Norwich		Non-section papers - 10
6-8/4/70	Manchester		Non-section papers - 11 Sections: LTLL(L1) - 2 LTLL(L2) - 1
31/10-2/11/69	Leeds		Non-section papers - 7 Sections: Clinical and Developmental Linguistics (CDL) - 1 LTLL(L1) -2 LTLL(L2) - 1 Literature - 1 Semantics - 2
5/69	York		Non-section papers - 8 Sections: LTLL (Native Language - L1) - 1 LTLL (Second Language - L2) - 2 (Linguistics and) literature - 1
1-3/11/68	Essex		Non-section papers - 7 Sections: Historical - 2 LTLL - 3
1-3/4/68	Cambridge		Non-section papers - 8 Sections: Semantics - 1 Developmental and clinical - 1 LTLL - 2 Psycholinguistic - 1
27–29/10/67	Stratford on Avon (U of Birmingham)		Non-section papers - 6 Congress reports - 2 Sections: Semantics - 1 Developmental and Clinical Linguistics - 2 Phonological Theory - 1 Language Teaching and Language Learning (LTLL)- 2
3-5/4/67	Reading		Non-section papers - 9 Sections: Semantics - 1 Historical - 1 Elementary 'seminar' on generative grammar
10/66	? Edinburgh
4/66	Nottingham
10/65	Bedford College London
4/65	?
11/64	SOAS
23-25/3/64	Hull		JL approved
8-10/11/63	Bangor
5-7/4/63	Hull
9-11/11/62	Leeds
4/62	Hull
11/61
5/61	Hull?
11/60	Hull or Leeds
10/59	SOAS