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ACLC Seminar

Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)

Upcoming lectures

Previous lectures

Information about the ACLC seminar

In the second semester of the period 2009-2010, most lectures in the ACLC seminar series will take place in room 420 of the Bungehuis (please note exceptions). Lectures will still start at 15.30 and stop at 16.45, followed by drinks on the 3rd floor.

Upcoming lectures

March 19: Martin Everaert (Utrecht University)

The lexical encoding of idioms
15.30-16.45
room BH 420

April 8: Workshop 'Acquisition of Inflection and Beyond'

This workshop is organized on the occasion of the thesis defense of Daniela Polišenská earlier this day.

April 9: Linguistics in Amsterdam

Programme t.b.a.
room BH 420

April 23: Mary Schleppegrell (University of Michegan)

The role of a meta-language in supporting academic language development
15.30-16.45
room BH 420

May 7: René Genis (ACLC, UvA)

title t.b.a.
15.30-16.45
room BH 420

May 21: Fred Weerman (UvA, ACLC)

title t.b.a.
15.30-16.45
room BH 420

June 11: Daniel Garcia Velasco (Universidad de Oviedo / UvA, ACLC)

title t.b.a.
15.30-16.45
room BH 420

June 18: Jeroen Arendsen (TU Delft)

title t.b.a.
15.30-16.45
room BH 420

Previous lectures

March 12: Gary Morgan (University College London)

Deafness, language and cognitive development
15.30-16.45
room BH 420

March 12: ACLC workshop 'Psycholinguistic factors involved in understanding sign language'

10.00-12.00
PC Hoofthuis, room 5.31

March 5: Leston Buell (UvA, ACLC)

Purpose WHY in vP, reason WHY in CP: evidence from Zulu
15.30-16.45
room BH 420

February 26: Eve V. Clark (Stanford University)

Adults use speech and gesture to inform young children about new word meanings
15.30-16.45
room BH 004(!)

February 19: Jan Hulstijn (UvA, ACLC)

Learnability and the place of linguistics in cognitive neuroscience
15.30-16.45
room BH 420

February 5: Catherine Snow (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)

The nature of deep reading comprehension
15.30-16.45
Room M1.01, Roeterseilandcomplex, Plantage Muidergracht 12, Amsterdam

January 29: no lecture

No ACLC lecture because of the MA termpaper festival.

December 18: OAP dag

13.00-17.00 (followed by the 'kerstborrel')
VOC-room, Oost-Indisch huis

December 11: no lecture (oration Wim Honselaar)

More information about this event can soon be found under Events > Upcoming events

December 4: Richard A. Rhodes (University of California, Berkeley)

Palatalization and the Structure of the Ojibwe Verb
BH, room 420
15.30-16.45

November 26: ACLC Workshop 'Language contact in and around the Indian Ocean'

9.30 -16.45
Aula Allard Pierson (morning) and Bungehuis (afternoon)

November 20: Gemma Barbera (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

Pronouns, classifiers and space: defining salience in a signed discourse
BH, room 420
15.30-16.45

November 6: Fred Landman (Tel-Aviv University/ILLC) & Susan Rothstein (Bar-llan University)

Incremental homogeneity in the semantics of aspectual 'for'-phrases
BH, room 420
15.30-16.45

October 23: NAP-dag

UvA PhD candidates of ACLC and ILLC present their research. Bungehuis, room 401, 9.45-17.00.

October 16: ACLC Workshop 'Specific Language Impairment and bilingualism'

This workshop takes place from 9.30-12.15 in BH 420 and features talks by Johanne Paradis (University of Alberta), Paul Fletcher (University College Cork) and Esther Ruigendijk (University of Oldenburg).

October 9: ACLC Workshop preceding thesis defence Marina Dyakonova

This workshop takes place from 9.15-12.15 in BH 420 and features talks by Luigi Rizzi (University of Siena), Lisa Cheng (Leiden University) and Roland Pfau (UvA).

October 2: Learnability lecture Paul Boersma

Emergent effects in simulations of language acquisition and evolution
BH, room 420
15.30-16.45

September 24 (Thursday!): ACLC Workshop 'Recent Developments in Language Typology'

This workshop takes place from 13.00-17.00 in the Universiteitstheater, Amsterdam and features talks by Sonia Cristofaro (University of Pavia), Helen de Hoop (RU), Eva van Lier (UvA) and Andrej Malchukov (MPI Leipzig).

September 18: Asifa Majid (MPI, Nijmegen)

Action and perception semantic categories across languages
BH, room 420
15.30-16.45

September 4: no lecture (inauguration Wim Jansen)

More information about this event can soon be found under Events > Upcoming events

July 3: Workshop 'Learning about nouns and verbs'

BH, room 420
Time 10.00-12.00

June 19: Núria Alturo Monne (University of Barcelona/ACLC)

Aspect as (Non)Discreteness and (Non)Movement
BH, room 420 (!)
15.30-16.45

June 12: Luca Alfieri (Univ. La Sapienza, Rome/ACLC)

Adjectival categorization in Vedic
BH, room 401
15.30-16.45

June 8 (Monday!): Liubov' Radnaeva (Saint Petersburg State University, Buryat State University)

The Buryat language and its sound system
BH, room 420 (!)
15.30-16.45

June 4 (Thursday!): ACLC workshop on Asian-Portugese varieties

International workshop related to the thesis defence of Hugo Cardoso.

May 29: Peter Ackema (University of Edinburgh)

Saving Lexical Integrity from Japanese Causatives
BH, room 401
15.30-16.45

May 19 (Tuesday!): Symposium ACLC research group 'the DP/NP in Germanic and Romance languages'

On the occasion of Robert Cirillo's defense of his PhD Thesis a minisymposium is organised by the research group 'the DP/NP in Germanic and Romance languages'.

May 15: Alla Peeters-Podgaevskaja (UvA, ACLC)

Spatial language and spatial cognition
BH, room 401
15.30-16.45

May 8: Wolfgang Kehrein (UvA, ACLC)

Wilse speu1le of wilse speu2le? On tonal accent in (not only) Franconian
BH, room 401
15.30-16.45

April 24: Crit Cremers (Leiden University)

The mean machine
BH, room 420
15.30-16.45

April 17: Elise de Bree & Annemarie Kerkhoff (Utrecht University)

Plif, saen, jik and lut: Category formation in phonology and grammar in infants
BH, room 401
15.30-16.45

April 3: Willem Adelaar (Leiden University)

Inverse markers in Andean languages
BH, room 401
15.30-16.45