[RNLD] 3rd Linguistics Research Student Conference @ SOAS 3rd-4th June 2016

[Peter Austin]

*3rd Linguistics Research Student Conference @ SOAS 3rd-4th June 2016*

We are pleased to announce that registration for LRSC3 is now open at
http://bit.ly/1WA9IIS.

The fee for the conference is as follows and includes lunch, tea/coffee and
a drinks reception on Friday evening:

*Friday only* £5
*Saturday only* £5
*Both days* £8

Please register by the *27th May* so that we can arrange catering for the
day. Unfortunately, it will not be possible to register on the door.

For more information on the conference go to:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/3rd-linguistics-research-student-conference-and-workshop-soas/.
The final programme for the two-day conference and workshop is below.

Looking forward to seeing you there,
LRSC at SOAS Organising Committee

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Friday 3rd June 2016

9.00-9.20 am Registration in V122
9.20-9.30 am Welcome Address in V121
Workshop on ‘Methodology, Methods and Data Collection in Language
Documentation and Description’
Session A. Language Documentation and Description (LDD), V121 Chair:
Charlotte Hemmings
9.30 – 10 am Karolina Grzech (SOAS): Creating a Corpus of Tena Kichwa: With
‘the community’ but for whom?
10 – 10.30 am Eleanor Ridge (SOAS): Quantitative Analysis of Loan Verb
Usage in Southeast Ambrym (Vanuatu) using FLEx and R

10.30 – 11 am Coffee Break in V122

11 – 12.30 pm Session B. Round Table Discussion on Corpus Creation and
Analysis in LDD, V121 Chair: Sophie Mu Facilitated by Dr Alex King

12.30 - 1.30 pm Lunch Break in V122

3rd SOAS Linguistics Research Student Conference
Session C. Morphosyntax, V121 Chair: Robert Laub
1.30 - 2 pm Joey Lovestrand (Oxford): Historical development of a dual
pronoun in Barayin (Chadic)
2 - 2.30 pm Andrew Harvey (SOAS): Gender or noun class? Gorwaa as an
intermediate case
2.30 - 3 pm Eleanor Ridge (SOAS): Auxiliary verbs in Southeast Ambrym,
Vanuatu

3 – 3.30 pm Coffee Break in V122

Session D. Corpus Linguistics and Historical Linguistics, V121 Chair: Harry
Willoughby
3.30 - 4 pm Sadiq Altamimi Almaged (Swansea): Getting the Gist: Preparing
Analytical Data from Large Corpora
4 - 4.30 pm Joanna Nolan (SOAS): Lingua Franca on the Barbary Coast: a
foreshadowing of 21st century Superdiversity and Metrolingualism

4.30-6.00 pm Drinks Reception in V122

Saturday 4th June 2016
9.30 - 10.30 am Plenary Address by Dr Alex King, L67 Political Ethnopoetics
in Language Documentation

10.30 – 11 am Coffee Break in G51

Session E. Language Pedagogy, L67 Chair: Kamaal Ahsan Majeed
11 - 11.30 am Ling Fan (Polytechnic University, Hong Kong): Teaching
Chinese language to foreigners by weichat
11.30 – 12 pm Hui Sun (Birkbeck): Role of Learning Context in the L2
Motivational Orientation: A Comparative study of Chinese Learners of
English in EFL and ESL Contexts
12-12.30 pm Daniel Pun (Polytechnic University, Hong Kong): Learners'
desire and investment under neoliberalism: a case of L2 learners of English
in Hong Kong

12.30–2 pm Lunch Break in G51

Session F. Sociolinguistics, L67 Chair: Zeina Eid
2-2.30 pm Khadija Chennoufi-Gilkes (SOAS): An analysis of Amazigh identity
claiming in a corpus of Facebook representations
2.30-3 pm Sarah Croome (SOAS): Dominant themes in the discursive
construction of present day Cornish

3 – 3.30 pm Coffee Break in G51

Session G. Language Policy, L67 Chair: JoJo Zhou
3.30 – 4 pm Fiona Victory (UCL): A comparative analysis of the factors
explaining variation in medium of instruction policy choice for state
school systems
4 – 4.30 pm Ellen Foote (SOAS): Language policy at the Mary Chapman School
for the Deaf, Yangon, Myanmar
4.30 – 5 pm Closing Remarks: Peter Austin, L67

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Prof Peter K. Austin
Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics
Research Tutor and PhD Convenor
Department of Linguistics, SOAS
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
United Kingdom

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