Events

• 15 Apr
  Lecture History and change in Sign Language Phonology Harry van der Hulst (University of Connecticut)
• 16 Apr
  Conference | Workshop Historical pragmatics and letter-writing practices
• 17 Apr
  Lecture | Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series Colonial government by correspondence: the British government's communicative practice in colonial bureaucracy at the turn of the twentieth century in southern Africa Susan Fitzmaurice (University of Sheffield)
• 17 Apr
  Lecture | LUCL Colloquium | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars Modality without moods? Preliminary considerations for a systematic study of modal strategies in Hittite Theresa Maria Roth (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
• 23 Apr
  Lecture | SMILE - Experimental Linguistics series Formants are better predictors of vowel markedness than features Benjamin Storme
• 24 Apr
  Lecture | This Time for Africa! series Disentangling ghost segments and number marking in Sengwer nouns Federico Falletti (University of Edinburgh)
• 29 Apr
  Lecture | CHiLL series Equative Interpretation in Mandarin Copular Clauses: The Syntax and Semantics of jiù shì 就是 Linda Badan
• 13 May
  Lecture | CHiLL series How Syntactic Structure and Classifier Congruency Shape Mandarin Sentence Production: Behavioural and ERP Insights Qi Zhang
• 13 May
  Lecture | Sign Languages & Deaf People A Historical and Etymological Look at Co-Speech Gestures and Signs Emily Shaw (University of Gallaudet)
• 19 May
  Lecture | LUCL Colloquium Mind tools, language and the origins of AI Stephen C. Levinson
• 21 May
  Lecture | SMILE - Experimental Linguistics series What language-specific ‘first aid kits’ can tell us about bilingualism Tim Laméris
• 22 May
  Lecture | Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series Pragmaticalization or grammaticalization? A multidimensional model of the evolution of pragmatic markers Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (University of Manchester)
• 28 May
  Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series Negation in Dutch Sign Language Marloes Oomen (University of Amsterdam)
• 29 May
  Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars Sealing and bookkeeping practices in Hittite Anatolia Willemijn Waal
• 05 Jun
  Conference LLRC conference 2026: Language teacher research