Events

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Workshops

2019 Mediums of Discourse Exchange

2018 Referentiality Workshop

2013 Linguistic and Interactional Units in Everyday Speech: a Cross-Linguistic Perspective

2010 Workshop on the preparation of a digital corpus of Japanese everyday talk

2009 3rd Turn Continuation Workshop in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

2008 Noun Modification Symposium Talks

Talks

2019

Oct 31 Hongyin Tao (UCLA)

Social, Cultural, and Linguistic Dimensions of Creative Language Use in China’s Internet and New Media

2017

Sept 13 Sung-Ock Sohn (UCLA)

Discourse, prosody and grammaticalization: An analysis of mwusun ‘what’ in Korean

2016

Nov 23 Yaqiong Liu (Shanghai Maritime University)

Interactional Functions of the Utterance-Final “le” in Museum Guide's Talk

2014

Aug 21 Ross Krekoski (University of Toronto)

On formally undecidable 'fragments' of speech and other speech-like systems, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the incompleteness theorem

Mar 28 Liang Tao (Ohio University)

Classifier loss and syntactic tone: Usage based language change in Chinese

Mar 28 Regina Wu (San Diego State University)

A conversation analysis of self-praising in Mandarin conversation: Reporting another’s words and reporting “just the facts”

2012

Mar 1 K.K. Luke (Nanyang Technological University)

On the use of multiple ethnic identities as an interactional resource

Mar 30 Thomas Pellard (CRLAO, EHESS, CNRS, INALCO)

The Ryukyuan languages and their relationship with Japanese

Mar 12 Ross King (UBC)

Glossing and the problem of cosmopolitan and vernacular on both extremities of the Eurasian landmass: Current research trends

Mar 13 The graphic imagination: Script primordialism and the imagining of script in Korean antiquity

2010

Mar 9 John Bentley (Northern Illinois University)

What Ryukyuan can teach us about Classical Japanese

Mar 22 Yuka Hayashi (Kyoto University)

Dissertation Research on Ikema