Prenominal Possessives in English: What's the Stimulus?
Seminar
Presented as part of the ANU Linguistics Seminar SeriesGenerative Grammar is based on the idea that there is a `Poverty of the Stimulus' problem, in that the data to which children are exposed and thereby learn their native language is relatively limited, probably not more than several tens of…
From Elegy to Epic: The Propertian Character of Lucan’s Pompey and Vergil’s Dido
Seminar
Presented as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series The archaic Greek elegy is, as Saïd and Trédé remind us, a poetry of war and politics which Solon and Theognis in the sixth century invested with distinct moral character. Here, I propose to re-examine Vergil’s…
Book launch: 'Spanish Clitics on the Move' by Elisabeth Mayer
Book launch
Please join us in launching Elisabeth Mayer's new book Spanish Clitics on the Move: Variation in Time and Space (De Gruyter Mouton). This volume explores the complex relationship between primary agreement by means of object marking or differential object marking (DOM), and…
SLLL HDR Conference 2017
Conference
The SLLL HDR Convenors are pleased to invite you to the 2017 HDR Conference to be held on 30 October 2017 in the Baldessin Precinct building. All SLLL staff, students and the wider ANU community are welcome. SLLL HDR Conference Program (310KB PDF) SLLL HDR Conference…
Quasi-Factives and Cognitive Efficiency
Seminar
Presented as part of the ANU Linguistics Seminar Series We begin by describing a sub-class of non-factive sentences containing factive verbs. In particular, we focus on sentences such as ‘Rob has not realized that Obama is in jail’ which we call ‘quasi-factives’. To explain the jargon, the verb ‘…
Filling in the ‘blank page’ of literary history: What were women fighting for in WWII Japan through their poetry?
Seminar
Presented by Rina Kikuchi as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series When compared, women’s poetry (as well as women’s writing in general) during the war-time Japan (1941-45) seems to be shockingly different before and after WWII. Their strong belief in feminism and modernism seems to have…
ANU Language Teaching Forum
Lecture
Presented by Gabriele Schmidt as part of the ANU Language Teaching Forum The ANU Language Teaching Forum provides a discussion platform for language teachers and researchers across ANU colleges. It also welcomes language educators from outside the university such as secondary school teachers and…