Past events

October 2020

• Linguistic Circle
  • The variable-based account of indexical shift redux (Amir Anvari)

• Cognitive linguistics seminar
  • Welcome meeting

• Sociolinguistics reading group
  • On the origins of "sociolinguistics": democracy, development and emancipation
• Bilingualism research group
  • Joining the Dots in Research on Bilingualism (Antonella Sorace - online)

• Language evolution seminar
  • How Translatable are Common Words? Some Answers from Distributional Semantics

• Cognitive linguistics seminar
  • Formulae in language and music

• Language evolution seminar
  • Learning verb second (in the lab)

• Linguistic Circle
  • Language as an instrument of thought and communication. Evidence from interactional language. (Martina Wiltschko)

• Cognitive linguistics seminar
  • Cognition in construction grammar: Connecting individual and community grammars in Cognitive Linguistics

• Sociolinguistics reading group
  • Language Variation and Social Networks
• Bilingualism research group
  • Null and overt pronominalisation in Spanish: an exploration and implications for the study of Spanish-English bilingual populations (Martha Robinson - online)

• Cognitive linguistics seminar
  • Working memory and its implications for language evolution
• Language in context seminar
  • A Stornoway cove and a Broch quine – thoughts on regional voices, identity and attitudes to language in Ian Stephen’s novel A Book of Death and Fish (Karin Bosshard - online)

• Language evolution seminar
  • Learnability and cross-linguistic constraints on the meanings of clause-embedding predicates

• Language evolution seminar
  • Competition, selection and communicative need in language change: an investigation using corpora, computational modelling and experimentation
• Linguistic Circle
  • Calle Börstell, "Isn't it iconic? (Don't you think?)"

• Cognitive linguistics seminar
  • Children make use of relationships across meanings in word learning

September 2020

• Language evolution seminar
  • The forms and meanings of grammatical markers support efficient communication

August 2020

• Cognitive linguistics seminar
  • Nodes and networks in diachronic construction grammar

July 2020

• Language in context seminar
  • POSTPONED until further notice

• Cognitive linguistics seminar
  • Remarks on nominal grounding

• Language evolution seminar
  • Learning (im)possible number syncretisms: investigating innate featural representations

• Cognitive linguistics seminar
  • Analogy as relational priming: A developmental and computational perspective on the origins of a complex cognitive skill

June 2020

• Language evolution seminar
  • Linguistic Prescription, Ideological Structure and the Actuation of Linguistic Changes: Grammatical Gender in French Parliamentary Debates

• Language evolution seminar
  • The learnability consequences of Zipfian distributions

• Cognitive linguistics seminar
  • The Structure of Our Concepts: A Critical Assessment of Conceptual Metaphor Theory as a Theory of Concepts

• Language evolution seminar
  • Assessing integrative complexity as a predictor of morphological learning in the presence of phonological cues

• Language evolution seminar
  • Complexity/informativeness trade-off in the domain of indefinite pronouns

• Language evolution seminar
  • The Grammar of the Body and the ABCs of Language

May 2020

• Bilingualism research group
  • Exploring the impact of a Swiss bilingual program (French/German) on L2 and mathematics learning through a mixed method design (Emile Jenny - online)

• Cognitive linguistics seminar
  • The dynamics of the linguistic system: usage, conventionalization, and entrenchment

• Language evolution seminar
  • Cognitive Novelties, Informational Form, and Structural-Causal Explanations

• Language evolution seminar
  • All-or-nothing Tells us Little About Language Evolution

• Cognitive linguistics seminar
  • Standing out with the progressive

April 2020

• Language in context seminar
  • POSTPONED until further notice

• British Applied Linguistics Association Language and New Media SIG
  • POSTPONED until further notice

• Bilingualism research group
  • The Impact of Bilingualism on the Executive Functions of Autistic Children: A Study of English-Arabic Children (Shereen Sharaan - online)

• Centre for Language Evolution
  • Acquisition of grammatical and sociolinguistic variation: Evidence from artificial language learning (Betsy Sneller - online)

• Language in context seminar
  • No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Towards a materialist account of context and social change (Tom Bartlett - online)

• Cognitive linguistics seminar
  • The dynamics of the linguistic system: usage, conventionalization, and entrenchment

March 2020

• Language variation and change
  • CANCELLED due to strike action

• Meaning and grammar seminar
  • CANCELLED due to strike action

• Linguistic Circle
  • Sumin Zhao

• Meaning and grammar seminar
  • Elin McCready

• Language variation and change
  • POSTPONED until further notice
• Language in context seminar
  • POSTPONED until further notice

• Sociolinguistics reading group
  • POSTPONED until further notice

• Linguistic Circle
  • POSTPONED until further notice

• Language in context seminar
  • POSTPONED until further notice

• Meaning and grammar seminar
  • POSTPONED until further notice

February 2020

• Language evolution seminar
  • Ain't no sunshine. A brief excursion into negative dependencies.
• Meaning and grammar seminar
  • The Role of Information Structure in Relative Clause Processing (Hans Wilke)

• Edinburgh University Linguistics Society (LingSoc) - external website
  • Sociolinguistic variation and change in sign languages: What the British Sign Language Corpus is teaching us (Dr Adam Schembri)

• Developmental linguistics
  • Acquisition of Phonology in Icelandic Sign Language: A unique finding in a unique context

• Bilingualism research group
  • Sign language multilinguals: from policy to filling the gaps in research... and back (Helen Koulidovra)

• Cognitive linguistics seminar
  • The changing functions of competing forms: Attraction and differentiation

• 71st Language at Edinburgh lunch
  • Informal poster session
• Linguistic Circle
  • “Subjective applicativization”: A rare phenomenon that deserves a closer look (Fernando Zúñiga)

• Language in context seminar
  • POSTPONED until further notice

• Language evolution seminar
  • Inference, perspective taking, and cumulative cultural evolution
• Meaning and grammar seminar
  • Helen Koulidobrova

• Language variation and change
  • 'Everywhere' on the Solent develops impersonal subjects (Itamar Kastner)

• Linguistic Circle
  • Getting Crossover: An accessibility paradox (Gennaro Chierchia)

• Linguistic Circle
  • CANCELLED

• Language in context seminar
  • What is ‘legitimate’? (De)constructing binaries in transgender youth discourse (Lucy Jones)

January 2020

• Linguistic Circle
  • Lexically restricted phonological alternation: the case for via-rules (Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero)

• Language evolution seminar
  • Spoken iterated learning

• Language variation and change
  • Variationist data as a window into the syntax of negative concord in English (Mary Robinson)

• Language in context seminar
  • Migration to Scotland: translanguaging practices, semiotic repertoires and identities at a Turkish barber’s (Betül Seda)

• Cognitive linguistics seminar
  • Against stored abstractions: A radical exemplar model of language acquisition

• Bilingualism research group
  • Explaining metalinguistic knowledge

• Language evolution seminar
  • The role of learning in the evolution of semantic extremeness

• Linguistic Circle
  • Real crosslinguistic research: Focussing on the similarities, not the differences (Ben Ambridge)

• Sociolinguistics reading group
  • They just had such a sweet way of speaking’: Constructed voices and prosodic styles in Kodiak Alutiiq
• Cognitive linguistics seminar
  • A 'radical exemplar' account of language acquisition

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