Talks by Topic
Syntax
February 26, 2021: "Verbless Clauses and the Extended Projections of Irish"
March 19, 2021: "Focussed by not in Focus: The strange case of Gaelic pronouns"
April 16, 2021: "Using social-media data to investigate syntactic variation and change in Welsh: Pronouns, auxiliaries and focus"
April 30, 2021: "Differences in syntax and the lexicon in the urban/Gaeltacht Irish divide"
October 22, 2021 - "The history of the future: investigating the grammaticalization of Welsh mynd i 'going to'"
Sylvia Schreiner George Mason University
February 2, 2022 - "A second perfect in Scottish Gaelic"
Gillian Ramchand University of Tromsø
March 18, 2022 - "Deriving VSO in Scottish Gaelic: Getting From Hierarchical Representations to Word Order"
March 5, 2021: "An investigation on embedded verb-second"
Gary Thoms New York University
April 1, 2022 - "On the derivation of prepositional dative constructions in Irish and Scottish Gaelic"
Phonology
April 23, 2021: "Three puzzles in Welsh phonology"
May 7, 2021: "Welsh consonantal mutation: triggering, blocking and lexical insertion"
May 14, 2021: "Variation in Breton grammatical gender and initial consonant mutation across 'new' and 'traditional' speakers"
Thomas Stewart University of Louisville
February 11, 2022 - "Figure and Ground in Initial Mutation"
May 6, 2022 - "Hebrides English: A Gaelic-influenced contact variety on Scotland's West Coast"
Computational
March 26, 2021: "Emerging NLP technologies for Scottish Gaelic"
November 19, 2021 - "Reconstructing eighteenth-century Manx: Bible translations as a linguistic data source"
December 3, 2021 - "Computational models for predicting Celtic initial mutations"
Caoimhín Ó Donnaíle
November 18, 2022 - "Bunadas: A network database of cognate words with an emphasis on Celtic"
April 16, 2021: "Using social-media data to investigate syntactic variation and change in Welsh: Pronouns, auxiliaries and focus"
Revitalization
March 12, 2021: "The role of language professionals in minority language revitalisation: Variation in rhotic production"
January 28, 2022 - "Re-thinking revitalisation in the 21st century through new language geographies"
December 10, 2021 - "Facilitating Saibhreas: Navigating issues of authenticity in the intergenerational transmission of Irish"
Stephen Moal
March 17, 2023 - "The present sociolinguistic situation of Breton: what role for the Breton language media?"
John Walsh
April 28, 2023 - "Minority language media as a policy tool: community radio and the revitalisation of Irish"
Historical & Geographical
April 30, 2021: "Differences in syntax and the lexicon in the urban/Gaeltacht Irish divide"
October 22, 2021 - "The history of the future: investigating the grammaticalization of Welsh mynd i 'going to'"
May 6, 2022 - "Hebrides English: A Gaelic-influenced contact variety on Scotland's West Coast"
November 19, 2021 - "Reconstructing eighteenth-century Manx: Bible translations as a linguistic data source"
January 28, 2022 - "Re-thinking revitalisation in the 21st century through new language geographies"