View some of our and others' previous events.
Past Events
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September 21, 2018
Experimental/Theoretical Considerations on Exhaustivity in Embedded Clauses (Linguistics Colloquium)
Malte Zimmerman (University of Potsdam) will be presenting Experimental/Theoretical Considerations on Exhaustivity in Embedded Clauses
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September 20, 2018
Linguistics Research Seminar - Samuel Akinbo
UBC Linguistics student Samuel Akinbo will be presenting Backness Harmony in Fungwa.
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September 14, 2018
The (Event) Semantics of Serial Verb Constructions in Igbo (Linguistics Department Colloquium)
Malte Zimmerman (University of Potsdam) will present The (Event) Semantics of Serial Verb Constructions in Igbo.
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September 14, 2018
Welcome Back to Language Sciences!
Language Sciences welcomes new and returning members back to UBC this fall! At the Welcome event, we will provide a summary of what the LangSci Initiative at UBC has been up to, and then host roundtable introductions and updates where every member is invited to say a few words, and then leave…
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June 26, 2018
Dr. Maite Taboada - Fantastic internet comments and where to find them
Please join us as we welcome Dr. Maite Taboada, Professor of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University, director of the Discourse Processing Lab, and Affiliate Member of the UBC Language Sciences Initiative, for her talk Fantastic internet comments and where to find them. …
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June 23 - June 24, 2018
Fourth Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-4)
The 4th Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-4) Cantonese Linguistics in the Pacific Rim: Theory and Applications The 4th Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-4) will take place on June 23 and 24, 2018, at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver,…
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June 22, 2018
Cantonese Worlds 2 Workshop
Cantonese Culture and Language in the World: What’s Next? The Cantonese Program of the University of British Columbia Department of Asian Studies is hosting the Second Cantonese Worlds (CW2) Workshop at UBC St. John’s College and the Richmond Public Library. First held in April…
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June 21, 2018
Cantonese Worlds 2 Workshop
Cantonese Culture and Language in the World: What’s Next? The Cantonese Program of the University of British Columbia Department of Asian Studies is hosting the Second Cantonese Worlds (CW2) Workshop at UBC St. John’s College and the Richmond Public Library. First held in April…
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April 18, 2018
The Great 8: Frequently Asked Questions about Graduate Students and Careers
Danielle Barkley from UBC’s Centre for Student Involvement & Careers will be providing an information session for Language Sciences graduate students on careers beyond academia! All graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in Language Sciences and in associated departments are…
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April 13, 2018
Language Science Talks: Dr. Nobuaki Minematsu, 'Speech Structure and Its Derivatives - What is the skeleton of spoken language? '
Speech Structure and Its Derivatives - What is the skeleton of spoken language? Prof. Nobuaki MINEMATSU Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo Abstract Speech has huge acoustic variability in nature but humans use this fragile media as default media for language…