News and Events

News and Events 2012 
NEWS

LMS Prof Awarded AcRF Tier 2 Grant to Undertake Language-Preservation Work

Welcome Zhang Xiuyan
Welcome Professor Leitner
Welcome Laura Terassa
Welcome Mark Seilhamer
Welcome Professor Randy John LaPolla
LMS Pioneer Batch Graduates
LMS Students Awarded SNU ISI Fellowship
LMS Student Wins 3rd Prize for URECA@NTU Poster On Singapore English.
LMS Student Noel Ng Snags ciNE65 awards.

EVENTS

Seminar

Date

Time

Venue

Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Multilingualism and Identity

26 - 27 Nov 2012

9.30am - 5.00pm

HSS Conference Room (HSS-05-57)

"Pushing Hands": Getting Translation Down to a Fine (Martial) Art
By Professor Chunshen Zhu, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, CIty University of Hong Kong

16 Nov 2012

1.00pm - 2.00pm

HSS Meeting Room 2
(HSS-03-83)

Information Presentation and Translation: Towards a Computer-aided On-line Mode of Translator Training
By Professor Chunshen Zhu & Dr Yuanyuan Mu, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, CIty University of Hong Kong

16 Nov 2012

11.00am - 12pm

HSS Seminar Room 3
(HSS-B1-10)

National Language Planning & Language Maintenance: The Case of Two Cities
By Dr. Dipika Mukherjee, Affiliated Fellow, International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, The Netherlands

12 Nov 2012

10.30am - 11.30am

HSS Meeting Room 1
(HSS-03-65)

How to Mix Languages
By Professor Bao Zhiming, Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore

2 Nov 2012

1.00pm - 2.00pm

HSS Seminar Room 7
(HSS-01-06)

English as a Global Lingua Franca: A Threat to Multilingualism?
By Professor Dr. H. C. Juliane House, Hamburg University and Hellenic American University

31 Oct 2012

4.30pm - 5.30pm

HSS Meeting Room 3
(HSS-03-85)

45th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL45)

26 - 28 Oct 2012

9.00am - 5.00pm

HSS Meeting Rooms

Conceptualizing English - And Its Uses
By Professor Dr. Gerhard Leitner, Department of English, Free University Berlin, Germany    

10 Oct 2012

4.00pm - 5.00pm

HSS Meeting Room 3
(HSS-03-85)

A Very Long-Distance Anaphor?
By Professor Mary Dalrymple, University of Oxford

21 Sep 2012

1.00pm - 2.00pm

HSS Seminar Room 7
(HSS-01-06)

Automatic Transfer Rule Extraction And A Grammar Design Accommodating Incremental Processing
By Dr Petter Haugereid, Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University

31 Aug 2012

1.00pm - 2.00pm

HSS Seminar Room 7
(HSS-01-06)

Going, Going, Gone?
Eastern Australian Indigenous Languages: Endangerment and Revitalisation

By Professor Peter K Austin, School of Oriental and African Studies    

14 Aug 2012

4.00pm - 5.00pm

HSS Seminar Room 3
(HSS-B1-10)

Accounts of Lying and Deception in the Therapy Session
By Dr. Don Bysouth and Dr. Keiko Ikeda,
Osaka University and Kansai University

16 Jul 2012

4.00pm - 5.00pm

HSS Meeting Room 2
(HSS-03-83)

The Role of the Intermediate Phrase in French Prosody: Form Production to Perception
By Dr Amandine Michelas, Erasmus Mundus Multi

15 Jun 2012

 

4.00pm - 5.00pm

HSS Seminar Room 3
(HSS-B1-10)

The Second International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse

9 - 11 June 2012

9.00am - 8.30pm

HSS Auditorium

Orthography Matters in Temiar
By Dr Geoffrey Benjamin,
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)

25 May 2012

4.00pm - 5.00pm

HSS Seminar Room 3
(HSS-B1-10)

Language and Evolution Theory
By Professor William Shi-Yuan Wang

13 Apr 2012

4.00pm - 5.30pm

 

 

Executive Seminar Room 4, S3.2, South Spine
(S3.2-B3-07)

 

Sumi Semantic and Pragmatic Markers: A Case of Ye and No
By Amos Teo, Visiting Research Fellow,
Australian National University

10 Feb 2012

 

4.00pm - 5.00pm

HSS Seminar Room 3
(HSS-B1-10)

A Constructionist Approach to Transitivity
By Professor Randy LaPolla, La Trobe University

 

8 Feb 2012

 

10.30am-12.00pm

HSS Conference Room
(HSS-05-57)

Neural Changes Associated with Grammatical Competence in Late L2 Acquisition
By Dr Cheryl Frenck-Mestre, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique Universites d'Aix-Marseille

20 Jan 2012

4.00pm - 5.00pm

HSS Seminar Room 3
(HSS-B1-10)