Events archive
Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 2:00 PM
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Training leader: Linnaea Stockall
Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 3:00 PM
Prof. Andreea Calude (University of Waikato) will present a LingLunch talk entitled Social media language: creative, dynamic and strategic.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024, 2:00 PM
Part of our PGR training programme, this event is open to PGR students only, including MA, MRes and PhD students.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024, 10:00 AM
Nishaant Choksi (IIT Gandhinagar) delivers the very first QM Global Linguistics Seminar, an annual online lecture.
Friday, November 22, 2024, 2:00 PM
A short talk from Alexandra Safryghin, postdoctoral fellow in the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences.
Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 2:00 PM
Part of our PGR training programme, this event is open to PGR students only, including MA, MRes and PhD students.
Wednesday, November 13, 2024, 2:00 PM
Part of our PGR training programme, this event is open to PGR students only, including MA, MRes and PhD students.
Wednesday, November 6, 2024, 2:00 PM
Part of our PGR training programme, this event is open to PGR students only, including MA, MRes and PhD students.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 2:00 PM
Part of our PGR training programme, this event is open to PGR students only, including MA, MRes and PhD students. Please click 'book now' to sign-up in advance.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024, 4:30 PM
Dr Piotr Węgorowski (University of Glasgow) will give a seminar entitled Linguistic ethnography meets organisation studies: Language and institutional logics in the community policing contexts as part of the Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar series.
Wednesday, June 12, 2024, 4:30 PM
We are excited to be welcoming Dr Anikó Lipták (Leiden) to give an online talk entitled Deletion in synthetic adjectival compounds as part of our Guest Speaker Seminar Series. Click here to join via Zoom.
Wednesday, June 5, 2024, 2:00 PM
Our MA students will present their research to the department.
Wednesday, June 5, 2024, 12:30 PM
A LingLunch talk by visiting PhD student Emmeline Wilson (Penn State). Click here to join via Zoom.
Friday, May 31, 2024, 4:30 PM
The Department of Linguistics welcomes Prof. Crispin Thurlow (University of Bern) for his lecture entitled Finding value in waste: Language, materiality, and the stuff of words as the next instalment in our Jenny Cheshire Lecture Series. Guests must order a free ticket.
Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 2:00 PM
Part of our training programme, this event is open to postgraduate students across MA, MRes and PhD programmes.
Thursday, May 23, 2024, 2:00 PM
Lecture title: Optional Plural Marking in General Number Systems and the Effects of Animacy Restrictions
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Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 2:00 PM
Workshop 3: (In)definiteness in Article-less Languages and Article Use in New Englishes
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Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 2:00 PM
Workshop 2: Demonstratives, Definites, Bare Nouns: What Competes with What
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Monday, May 20, 2024, 2:00 PM
Workshop 1: Demonstrative to Definite, What Changes and What Stays the Same
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RQF 2024 Workshop 1 Slides [PDF 506KB]
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 3:00 PM
Part of our training programme, this event is open to postgraduate students across MA, MRes and PhD programmes.
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 2:00 PM
Part of our training programme, this event is open to postgraduate students across MA, MRes and PhD programmes.
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 1:00 PM
We are excited to be welcoming Prof. Richard Kayne (New York University) to Queen Mary to give an invited speaker talk entitled Some thoughts on English modal need.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 2:00 PM
The London Semantics Day is an opportunity for semanticists in London and beyond to meet together and discuss their research.
Monday, May 13, 2024, 2:00 PM
We are excited to be welcoming Prof. Peter Svenonius (Tromsø) to Queen Mary to give an invited speaker talk entitled What Late Insertion is Good for. This is a hybrid event; please click here to join via Zoom.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 1:00 PM
Our academic staff member Dr Adam Chong will give a talk entitled Variability in stress 'deafness' in Singapore English listeners: Implications for models of intonation in multilingual contexts as part of our LingLunch series.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 1:00 PM
A talk entitled Possible and impossible determiners by our academic staff member Dr Luisa Martí.
Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 4:30 PM
Ur Shlonsky will give a talk entitled Noise as an invited speaker to the linguistics department.
Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 2:00 PM
Part of our training programme, this event is open to postgraduate students across MA, MRes and PhD programmes.
Friday, March 22, 2024, 3:00 PM
Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 4:30 PM
This event has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances.
Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 2:00 PM
Part of our training programme, this event is open to postgraduate students across MA, MRes and PhD programmes.
Thursday, March 14, 2024, 2:00 PM
Part of our training programme, this event is open to postgraduate students across MA, MRes and PhD programmes.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 2:00 PM
An informal presentation by our academic staff member Dr Rhys Sandow.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 2:00 PM
Part of our PGR training programme, this event is open to PGR students only.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 1:00 PM
A presentation by our PhD student Dave Kenneth Cayado on his recently submitted thesis.
Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 2:00 PM
Part of our PGR training programme, this event is open to PGR students only.
Wednesday, February 7, 2024, 4:30 PM
Suhail Matar (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language) will give a seminar as part of the Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar series.
Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 4:30 PM
We are delighted to be welcoming Dr Nicholas Rolle (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft) to the department who will deliver a seminar entitled "Bipartite morphemes, grammatical tone, and restrictions on exponent shape". The session will be followed by a drinks reception.
Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 2:00 PM
This event is for QMUL Linguistics postgraduate students.
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 2:00 PM
This event is for QMUL Linguistics postgraduate students.
Tuesday, November 21, 2023, 2:00 PM
This event is for QMUL Linguistics postgraduate students.
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 2:00 PM
This event is for QMUL Linguistics postgraduate students.
Wednesday, November 1, 2023, 2:00 PM
This event is for QMUL Linguistics postgraduate students.
Sunday, June 25, 2023, 11:00 AM
Part of a series of two workshops on Space and Trauma
Saturday, June 24, 2023, 11:00 AM
Part of a series of two workshops on Space and Trauma
Tuesday, June 13, 2023, 2:00 PM
Wednesday, May 24, 2023, 2:00 PM
Tuesday, May 23, 2023, 2:00 PM
Monday, May 22, 2023, 2:00 PM
Monday, February 6, 2023, 2:00 PM
Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 3:00 PM
Thursday, September 15, 2022, 4:30 PM
Wednesday, September 14, 2022, 2:00 PM
Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 2:00 PM
Monday, September 12, 2022, 2:00 PM
Wednesday, June 1, 2022, 4:30 PM
Wednesday, January 26, 2022, 2:00 PM
Wednesday, January 19, 2022, 10:00 AM
Wednesday, December 15, 2021, 2:00 PM
Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 11:00 AM
Speaker: Adam Chong, Christian Ilbury
Friday, December 3, 2021, 2:00 PM
Speaker: Hall, Ilbury, Meadows, Ardoino
Wednesday, November 24, 2021, 4:30 PM
3 November 2021
We welcome Dalina Kallulli (Vienna) to QMUL for her talk “Remarks on cognate objects”.
6 October 2021
We are pleased to welcome Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus) to QMUL for his talk "Semantic features do not exist (and what a generative Theory of Features should look like)".
Thursday, June 3, 2021, 4:30 PM
We are delighted to announce that Susan Gal, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, is this year's speaker at the annual Jenny Cheshire lecture. The lecture will run from 16:30-17:30, followed by a 30 minute Q&A.
Speaker: Susan Gal (University of Chicago)
Wednesday, May 26, 2021, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Stephen R. Foley
Thursday, May 20, 2021, 4:30 PM
Our department extends a warm welcome to our 2021 Randolph Quirk Fellow, Distinguished Professor Janet Dean Fodor (CUNY Graduate Center). Professor Fodor will deliver a public lecture with the details below.
Wednesday, May 19, 2021, 4:00 PM
Our department extends a warm welcome to our 2021 Randolph Quirk Fellow, Distinguished Professor Janet Dean Fodor (CUNY Graduate Center). Next to a public lecture, Professor Fodor will deliver a series of workshops.
Speaker: Prof. Janet Dean Fodor
Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 1:00 PM
Speaker: Anik Nandi
Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 1:00 PM
Speaker: David Adger
Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 4:30 PM
Speaker: Elin McCready & Robert Henderson
Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 2:00 PM
Speaker: Elisa Passoni
20 January 2021
Wednesday, January 13, 2021, 1:00 PM
Speaker: Marie Hevrova
Thursday, December 17, 2020, 10:30 AM
This workshop is aimed at PhD students who wish to learn how to maximize their chances in the Job market.
Speaker: Daniel Harbour & Sophie Holmes-Elliott
Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 2:00 PM
Speaker: Dora Demszky
Monday, December 14, 2020, 2:00 PM
A joint session for sociolinguists and experimental linguists on how to use the software Gorilla.
Friday, December 11, 2020, 2:00 PM
This workshop is aimed at PhD students who wish to learn how to write effective abstracts for presenting at conferences.
Speaker: Luisa Martí
Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 4:30 PM
We have the pleasure to welcome James Scobbie (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh) to our linguistic seminar series.
Speaker: James Scobbie
Thursday, December 3, 2020, 12:00 PM
Dr Timo Roettger (University of Oslo) will join our Experiential Linguistics Reading Group to give a short talk and Q&A about pre-registration.
Speaker: Timo Roettger
Friday, July 24, 2020, 1:00 PM
Devyani Sharma was invited by the Associação Brasileira de Linguística (ABRALIN) to give an online talk entitled: The Exception Proves the Rule? Sociolinguistic Theory in Times of Mobility
Speaker: Devyani Sharma
Thursday, March 26, 2020, 5:00 PM
Speaker: Arkadiusz Kwapiszewski (University of Oxford)
27 February 2020
An inter-disciplinary talk (Economics/Linguistics) organised in conjunction with our current Accent Bias project.
5 February 2020
4 February 2020
We are pleased to announce a series of sociolinguistics talks on Monday 3rd February in People's Palace LG01 (nr 16 on this map).
6 December 2019
One of our PhD students, Adrian Yip, is organising a one-day event about the recent protests in Hong Kong.
7 June 2019
We are excited to welcome Professor Paul Foulkes from the Department of Linguistics at the University of York as this year's speaker at the annual Jenny Cheshire lecture. The lecture will run from 18:30-19:30, followed by a 30 minute question and answer session. We will then have a reception until 21:00 in the ArtsTwo lobby.
15 May 2019
As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Brechtje Post (Cambridge) will present some of her recent research.
10 May 2019
We are delighted that our 2019 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware). She will be visiting the department from 7-10 May. Professor Papafragou will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture. The public lecture is on Relations between language and thought.
9 May 2019
We are delighted that our 2019 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware). She will be visiting the department from 7-10 May. Professor Papafragou will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture. This workshop is titled Events in language and cognition III: Pragmatic aspects of event encoding.
8 May 2019
We are delighted that our 2019 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware). She will be visiting the department from 7-10 May. Professor Papafragou will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture. This workshop is titled Events in language and cognition II: Cross-linguistic perspectives.
7 May 2019
We are delighted that our 2019 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware). She will be visiting the department from 7-10 May. Professor Papafragou will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture. This workshop is titled Events in language and cognition I: The structure of event representations.
1 May 2019
As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Ghada Khattab (Newcastle) will present some of her recent research.
12 April 2019
This one-day symposium aims to encourage dialogue across disciplines about the importance of a multimodal paradigm for investigating the media.
4 April 2019
The LISS-DTP in collaboration with KCL and QMUL Linguistics are thrilled to welcome Professor Kira Hall (University of Colorado Boulder) for a special invited talk. Visit the link for abstract, speaker details, and ticketing information.
27 March 2019
As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Professor Ur Shlonsky (Genève) will present some of his recent research.
6 March 2019
As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Elizabeth Stokoe (Loughborough) will present some of her recent research.
6 February 2019
As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Heather Burnett (Paris 7-Denis Diderot) will present some of her recent research.
28 November 2018
As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Angelika Kratzer (UMass-Amherst) will present some of her recent research.
26 October 2018
For this CLSS event, we will be focusing on the notion of existential threats: how they are perceived, constructed and circulated textually and in interaction.
24 October 2018
As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Andrew Murphy (Leipzig) will present some of his recent research.
15 October 2018
On the occassion of Melisa Rinaldi's PhD viva voce, we will be hosting a workshop on her thesis topic. All welcome!
15 October 2018
11 June 2018
We are pleased to welcome John Edwards (St Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie University) for an ad-hoc lecture on Language Claims and Language Rights.
8 June 2018
We are excited to welcome Helen Kelly-Holmes, Professor of Applied Languages at the University of Limerick, as this year's speaker at the annual Jenny Cheshire lecture. The lecture will run from 18:30-19:30, followed by a 30 minute Q&A. We will then have a reception until 21:00 in the ArtsTwo lobby.
29 May 2018
For this afternoon, our first year PhD students will present the beginnings of their PhD research projects.
23 May 2018
In this session, Melissa Bliss will provide data from a YouTube video made by an older person to discuss ageing identities
17 May 2018
Professor William Foley (Sydney) will be visiting QMUL this week for an ad-hoc LingLunch on the parameters of polysynthesis.
16 May 2018
As part of our invited guest speaker seminar series, we are pleased to welcome Professor Jane Stuart-Smith (Glasgow), who will be discussing sibilants and sound change in Glaswegian English.
15 May 2018
In this session,Christian Ilbury will provide data from Snapchat stories collected during a period of fieldwork at a youth group in East London.
15 May 2018
For the 5th London Semantics Day, we welcome scholars from across Europe to discuss their recent research. All welcome!
10 May 2018
The LISS-DTP, in collaboration with QMUL Linguistics and KCL LDC, are thrilled to welcome Professor Asif Agha (UPenn) for a special invited talk. Click the event for abstract, speaker details, and ticketing information.
10 May 2018
As part of our invited guest speaker seminar series, we are pleased to welcome Professor Janet Pierrehumbert (Oxford) to QMUL.
3 May 2018
We are delighted that our 2018 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst). She will be visiting the department from 30 April - 4 May. Professor Green will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture followed by a film screening. The public lecture is on African American English and sounding black: Hot topics and debates. It will be followed by a screening of Talking Black in America. Click the event for more information and to reserve tickets.
2 May 2018
We are delighted that our 2018 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst). She will be visiting the department from 30 April - 4 May. Professor Green will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture followed by a film screening. This workshop is on: Variation and development in child African American English.
1 May 2018
We are delighted that our 2018 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst). She will be visiting the department from 30 April - 4 May. Professor Green will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture followed by a film screening. This workshop is on: Left periphery phenomena in African American English.
30 April 2018
We are delighted that our 2018 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst). She will be visiting the department from 30 April - 4 May. Professor Green will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture followed by a film screening. This workshop is on: Tense and aspect in African American English.
28 March 2018
For this afternoon, our first year PhD students will present the beginnings of their PhD research projects.
22 March 2018
In this phonetics lab meeting, PhD student Nate Young presents his work on a new forced alignment tool for Nordic languages, NordFA.
22 March 2018
PhD student Danniella Samos will be presenting her research on metaphors and obesity.
21 March 2018
We are pleased to welcome Dr Danielle Turton to QMUL this week, who will give a talk titled: "t-flapping vs. glottalling in Lancashire, London and beyond: a sociophonological analysis of variation and change"
21 March 2018
Rosie Oxbury presents some ongoing analysis from her PhD research, titled: Old and new phonological variation in Multicultural London English.
14 March 2018
In this session, Elvis Coimbra Gomes will provide snippets from online forum messages written by male SO-OCD (Sexual Orientation Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) sufferers.
3 March 2018
Gender in the Contemporary World is a free one-day multidisciplinary conference focusing on how gender is conceptualised, navigated and articulated in the contemporary world.
1 March 2018
15 February 2018
The Linguistics, Media and Culture Pathway of the London Interdisciplinary Social Science DTP is pleased to announce an upcoming student workshop on gender and sexuality in LMC research.
14 February 2018
As part of our Guest Seminar series, Dr Nino Grillo (York) will present some of his recent research.
7 February 2018
Luisa Marti will lead a workshop on abstract writing.
7 February 2018
PhD student Shivonne Gates will be presenting her research on Multicultural London English.
24 January 2018
For our first Guest Speaker Seminar this spring, we are pleased to welcome Prof Janet Pierrehumbert (Oxford), who will be talking about social-indexical meaning in morphology.
29 November 2017
A strong online profile can provide a professional-looking home in which to present all the key information about your academic career (and more). It can work as a more engaging and potentially more expansive version of your CV. This workshop will cover the fundamentals of creating your multi-page profile using WordPress.com (creating a site with a URL like williamlabov.wordpress.com), as well as detail on how and why you might want to set up your own full domain (e.g. williamlabov.com). WordPress is a very widely-used and therefore well supported platform for creating blogs and websites. We’ll go through setting up your profile step by step and cover all the skills you need to continue to update and maintain your profile independently after the session. Please make sure to bring a laptop!
22 November 2017
As part of our LingLunch series, Michelle Sheehan will present some of her recent research, partly based on joint work with Sonia Cyrino, titled: “No escape hatch for A-movement: evidence from causative/perception verbs”
15 November 2017
We are pleased to welcome Dr Moulton (Simon Fraser University), who will present some of his recent research, C-command matters: the processing and grammar of co-varying pronouns.
15 November 2017
As part of our LingLunch series, Andrew Harvey (SOAS) will present his recent research, Word-Markers and Paradigms in Gorwaa.