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Discipline of Linguistics
School of Humanities
Napier Building Level 7
Room 722
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005 AUSTRALIA

Phone: +61 8 8313 1044
Fax: +61 8 8313 4341
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The University of Adelaide
SA 5005 Australia

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Seminars

At these seminars visiting academics report on research, students present research in progress, and staff provide support for students undertaking their dissertation. The seminars are also a good opportunity to discuss ideas and engage with other students.


Linguistics Research Seminar 2013


Convener: Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann

EVERY THURSDAY AT 3PM, NAPIER 205
All welcome!

Download seminar list

You are also invited to the following Special Lectures in Linguistics:

Professor Victor Friedman, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Balkan and Slavic Linguistics, University of Chicago: Linguistic Morbidity and Vitality: The Sprachbund vs the Nation-State in the Balkans,
Wednesday 27 March 2013, 12 noon, Napier Building, Room LG28

Geoff Anderson (Member of the Wiradjuri Council of Elders) and Bruce Pascoe (accomplished writer, Secretary of Bidwell-Maap Aboriginal Nation), Language Revival and Mental Health,
Wednesday 3 April 2013, 12 noon, Napier Building, Room LG28

7 March Professor Lester-Irabinna Rigney, Adelaide
Aboriginal Language & Education
14 March

Dr Rob Amery, Adelaide      
A Matter of Interpretation: Working with Historical Linguistic Material

21 March

Dr Ian Green, Adelaide      
Daly River Languages: A Verbal History

28 March Dr Peter Mickan, Adelaide  
Book Launch: Language Curriculum Design & Socialisation (Multilingual Matters)
introduced by Hon Christopher Pyne MP   3:30pm Barr Smith Library Reading Room (via eastern doors)
4 April

Dr Christine Nicholls, Flinders University  
Bilingual Education in the Northern Territory's Aboriginal Schools - Noble Dream, Comparative Education Success & Policy Failure

11 April

Arianna Dagnino, UniSA      
Ployglossia & Translingualism in Transcultural Novels

mid-semester break

 2 May

Christine Lockwood, History & Politics, Adelaide 
Why Not Use English?  The Dresden Lutheran Missionaries' Use of the Mother Tongue

 9 May Revd Dr Matthew Anstey, Principal of St Barnabas Theological College 
Lost in Translation - The Word 'Word' in Classical Hebrew
16 May Handoyo Puji Widodo & Hasti Rahmaningtyas, Adelaide 
Exploring Visual & Verbal Artifacts - Language Material Design
23 May

Dr Joshua Nash & Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Adelaide
Toponyms in Revival Linguistics

30 May

Revd Dr Bill Edwards, UniSA  
A Personal Journey with Pitjantjatjara Language

6 June

Kateryna Katsman, Adelaide
Barossa German

Please contact Professor Zuckermann if you would like to give a presentation/lecture.

Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann
Discipline of Linguistics
Tel: 08 8313 5247
Mob: 0423 901 808


Semester 1, 2012 seminar list

Semester 2, 2012 seminar list

Past presentations

  • Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann: Israeli, Hebrew and Semitic Morphology (15 August 2011).
  • Prof Eija Ventola (Visiting Professor, University of Helsinki): Tourism Linguistics
  • Dr Karmila Mokoginta: Intercultural Analysis of Indonesian and Australian Students' Nonverbal Behaviour
  • Nayia Cominos: Academic literacy in undergraduate linguistics students
  • Dr Rob Amery: Language Reclamation - Kaurna Case Study
  • Celine Chu: Pedagogic discourse in guided reading genres
  • Hiromi Teramoto: Sociolinguistic representation of identity in first and second language
  • Johanna Motteram: "Tone" and language test rating scale descriptors