<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Happy New Year everyone</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
Our first departmental seminar this term will be by Irina Nikolaeva (Linguistics Department, SOAS): 'On the expression of Tense-Aspect-Mood on nouns: Evidence from Tundra Nenets' (for details see <a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/deptseminars/07jan2014-on-the-expression-of-tense-aspect-mood-on-nouns-evidence-from-tundra-nenets.html" target="_blank">http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/deptseminars/07jan2014-on-the-expression-of-tense-aspect-mood-on-nouns-evidence-from-tundra-nenets.html</a>)  </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Date: Tuesday 7th January 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
Time: 3:30 - 5:00 pm</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Venue: Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building, Thornhaugh St., Russell Square, London WC1 </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
(nearest tube stations: Russell Sq., Goodge St., Euston, Euston Sq.)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
All are welcome.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">We have an exciting programme coming up in Term 2, including: </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div>14/01/14 Dr Kakia Chatsiou, SOAS<br>Adventures with Boliarika: Documenting an endangered secret trade language of Central Greece<br><br>21/01/14 Dr John Wynne, University of the Arts, London<div>
Language Endangerment and Sound Art: Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Research Ethics</div><div><br>28/01/14 Dr Andrew Spencer, University of Essex<br>How words are related</div><div><br>18.2.14 Dr Oliver Bond (with Kristine A. Hildebrandt and Dubi Nanda Dhakal), University of Surrey</div>
<div>Referential density and Differential Argument Marking in Manange, Nar and Manang Gurung<br><br></div><div>25.2.14 Professor Ad Neeleman, UCL</div><div><br>4.3.14 Dr Nathan Hill and Dr Edward Garrett, SOAS</div><div>Tibetan in Digital Communication: building a diachronic part of speech tagged corpus of Tibetan texts<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>11.3.14 Professor Tania Kouteva, SOAS / University of Dusseldorf</div><div>Linguistic categorization: a case study</div><div><br>18.3.14 Dr Kirsty Rowan, SOAS</div><div>The Phonological Manipulation of Èfìk in the Abakuá Ritual Language</div>
<div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">For details of upcoming seminars please see the departmental website <a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/" target="_blank">http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/</a> (which is periodically updated).</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">I look forward to seeing you there</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Julia</div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
Dr. Julia Sallabank<br>Senior Lecturer in Language Support and Revitalisation, <br>Endangered Languages Academic Programme, <br>Department of Linguistics,<br>School of Oriental and African Studies, <br>Thornhaugh Street <br>
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