Language in Times of War and Conflict
Conference
Language in Times of War and Conflict An Interdisciplinary Symposium to be held at the Australian National University, Canberra 13-14 November 2017 This interdisciplinary symposium aims to bring together scholars and researchers working on diverse aspects of the topic of language in times of war…
Language shaming: enacting linguistic subordination
Seminar
Presented as part of the ANU Linguistics Seminar SeriesLinguistic discrimination is embedded in linguistic hierarchies where some ways of using language are seen as more or less valuable than other ways of using language. That means linguistic disadvantage is not random but experienced by those…
Sex and Gender in Russian and some other European languages
Seminar
Presented as part of the ANU Linguistics Seminar SeriesGender is a grammatical category in the Indo-European languages (and in some but by no means all other language families). One would assume that, in nouns designating animate beings, sex and gender should coincide, but that is far from being…
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…