Uppsala Working Group on Empirical linguistics
What are you?
Uppsala Working Group on Empirical Linguistics (WoGEL) is an informal association of researchers interested in language. Our home base is Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University, but anybody regardless of affiliation is welcome to join.
We meet weekly in order to:
do internal informal peer-review (discuss each other's article drafts, research projects etc.);
do talk rehearsals and dry runs;
present work in progress;
read and discuss literature;
do any other interesting stuff that is related to language and linguistics.
Bonnie McLean serves as a group coordinator.
We also have a special-interest group: Language and Statistics Self-study Group (LASSEG), administered by Bob Borges. LASSEG has its own agenda and mailing list, read about it here.
When and where do you meet?
Usually on Fridays, 15:15, room 9-3042, Campus Engelska Parken, Uppsala University. Changes will be announced in advance.
How do I join?
Meetings are open for everyone, just come. If you want to become a regular member and join our mailing list, please send an e-mail to the group coordinator (bonnie.mclean@lingfil.uu.se).
Schedule for Autumn 2021:
2021-10-15
Maja Robbers (UU) - Underlying Paths in minimally bipartite Source expressions (Abstract)
2021-10-22
Harald Hammarström (UU) & Tom Güldemann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & MPI Leipzig) - Broad not Tall!: Climatic conditions drive the east-west spread of language families (Abstract)
2021-10-29
Caspar Jordan (UU) - The historical development of the (formerly) strong verbs in Gutnish (Abstract)
2021-11-26
Maryam Nourzaei (UU) - Language Contact in Kholosi (Abstract)
2022-02-11
Ian Joo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) - Building EuraPhon, a phonological database of Eurasia (Abstract)
2022-02-18
Magnus Pharao Hansen (University of Copenhagen) - The Nahuatl Space Project (Abstract)
2022-02-25
Erik Elgh (UU) - The Dialect Continuum Tree (Abstract)
2022-03-25
Simeon Floyd (Universidad San Francisco de Quito) - The historical linguistics of the Quechuan languages: history and some new findings (Abstract)
2022-04-22
Roger Blench (University of Cambridge) - Is Basic Colour Theory a load of tosh? Evidence from three contiguous societies in Central Nigeria
2022-04-29
Tiago Tresoldi (Uppsala University) -- Some ideas for phonology in phylolinguistics
2022-05-13
Jakob Lesage (Humboldt-Universität) -- Triangulation is not enough: disentangling words-and-things approaches to the history of ‘iron’ in sub-Saharan Africa
2022-05-27
Erik Elgh (Uppsala University) -- Details to come
2022-06-03
Bonnie McLean (Uppsala University) -- What's in a name? On the persistence of motivated form-meaning mappings in lexicons
2022-06-10
John Huisman (Uppsala University) -- Investigating patterns of linguistic diversification in dialect continua
2022-10-07
Philippe Antoine Martinez (NYU Abu Dhabi) -- Details to come