LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS
Special Events
- Austronesianists will be interested to know that the
Eleventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (11-ICAL)
will be held from June 22-26, 2009, in Aussois, France, a small village in the French Alps.
Dr. Bob Blust will be one of three keynote speakers, along with Nikolaus Himmelmann and
Aone van Engelenhoven. Check out the above link to find out more.
Regular Events
- The Department holds a weekly Tuesday
Seminar, where local or visiting scholars present research
talks. The Colloquium is held in St. John 11 from Noon to 1:15.
- The Austronesian Circle sponsors talks on topics
relating to Austronesian linguistics on
Thursday evenings throughout the school year. There are usually from
four to eight talks a
semester, depending on the availability of speakers. The Austronesian
Circle has been meeting
for more than thirty years. Professor Albert Schütz, schutz@hawaii.edu is the organizer
of the Austronesian Circle. Anyone interested in speaking should
contact Dr. Schütz.
- The Language
Acquisition and Development reading group is an informal
reading group focusing on the acquisition of human language.
- The Cognitive
Linguistics Research Group is an informal
research group focusing on language as a cognition function and the
relation between language and other cognitive functions. Meetings are
more or less every other week during the semester. For information,
contact the organizer, Sachie Maruyama at sachiem@hawaii.edu or So Young
Kim at kims@hawaii.edu.
- The UH Language
Documentation Project For information,
contact the coordinator at uhdoc@ling.lll.hawaii.edu.
Occasional Events
Conferences
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