32.595, Confs: Celtic; Gen Ling/Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-595. Wed Feb 17 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.595, Confs: Celtic; Gen Ling/Online

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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:50:14
From: Kerry McCullough [kmccullough at email.arizona.edu]
Subject: Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics

 
Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics 
Short Title: FACL II 

Date: 26-Feb-2021 - 07-May-2021 
Location: Tucson, AZ (Online), USA 
Contact: Andrew Carnie 
Contact Email: carnie at email.arizona.edu 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/email.arizona.edu/facl2 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Celtic 
Meeting Description: 

The University of Arizona Celtic Linguistics Group would like to invite you to
the Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics remote talk series. FACL II will
be presented as a distributed virtual speaker series in spring 2021 (hopefully
repeating in future years as well). We are pleased to be able to host talks
from Celtic language experts from across Europe and the United States in our
first installment of this series. Registration is open and available on our
event website (https://sites.google.com/email.arizona.edu/facl2/registration).
 

Program Information: 

Events will include a 45-minute presentation from the speaker and a 15-minute
moderated Q&A session. Each talk will take place on Fridays at 11am Arizona
Time (*unless otherwise indicated). Keep in mind that most of Arizona,
including the university, does not observe daylight savings, so the times may
appear to change. Please see our list of scheduled talks below:

February 26, 2021 - Jim McCloskey, UC Santa Cruz
   ''Verbless clauses and the Extended Projections of Irish''​​

March 5, 2021 - Mélanie Jouitteau, Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique
   ''An investigation on embedded verb-second''

March 12, 2021 - Claire Nance, Lancaster University
   ''The role of language professionals in minority language revitalisation:
Variation in rhotic production''

March 19, 2021 - David Adger, Queen Mary University of London
   ''Focus in Pronouns in Scottish Gaelic''

March 26, 2021 - William Lamb, The University of Edinburgh
   ''Emerging NLP technologies for Scottish Gaelic''

April 16, 2021 - David Willis, University of Oxford

*April 23, 2021 - SJ Hannahs, Newcastle University

April 30, 2021 - Brian Ó Broin, William Patterson University
   ''Differences in syntax and the lexicon in the urban/Gaeltacht Irish
divide''

May 7, 2021 - Maggie Tallerman, Newcastle University
   ''Welsh consonantal mutation: triggering, blocking and lexical insertion''

Individual Zoom links will be posted to the event website approximately one
week before the scheduled talk. For event reminders and more detailed
information please register at
https://sites.google.com/email.arizona.edu/facl2/registration.

The Arizona Celtic Linguistics Group is dedicated to upholding a tradition of
interdisciplinarity, collaboration, integrity, and fun/exciting dialogue. This
spring’s speaker series is our opportunity to share these values with a larger
audience and celebrate the research the Celtic language family has inspired.





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