Saving the language of William the Conqueror: The Revitalisation of Sark's Norman tongue

Martin Neudörfl (Charles University, Prague).

Davidson Room, Peterhouse.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Ceylon Portuguese: Survival Against All Odds

Professor Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya (Visiting Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies School of Advanced Study, University of London).

Zoom.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-17:50

Revitalising Jèrriais: The Norman Language of Jersey

Please register for this webinar at: https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/centres/celc/conference-series

L'Office du Jèrriais.

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 17:00-18:00

Ideophone patterns across Kiranti languages (Eastern Nepal),

Please register for this talk at https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/centres/celc/conference-series

Dr Aimée Lahaussois (Université Paris 7).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 16:30-17:30

Revitalising Kanyen’kéha (Mohawk)

Various.

Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 17:30-19:00

The Future of Louisiana Creole

Various.

Zoom.

Friday 05 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Revitalizing Louisiana Creole

Various.

Zoom.

Friday 23 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cancelled: I know what you don't know: egophoricity and Jejuan morphosyntax

Dr Soung-u Kim (SOAS, University of London).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 17:00-18:00

North-eastern Neo-Aramaic narrative techniques and their areal parallels (Kurdish and Arabic)

Prof Eleanor Coghill (Uppsala University, Sweden).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Making circles out of lines: A view of the evolving relationship between academia and language communities

Ebany Dohle (SOAS, University of London) & Maria-Olimpia Squillaci (University of Naples "L'Orientale").

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Working with communities on language revitalisation: Some Australian experiences

Prof Peter Austin (SOAS, University of London).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 17:30-18:30

Nexus Analysis: A Natural Fit for Linguistic Ethnography

N.A. Wendte (Tulane University).

Faculty of English, Board Room.

Monday 10 June 2019, 10:00-11:00

Out in the Field with the Remaining Speakers of Neo-Aramaic in Northern Iraq

Dr Paul Noorlander (University of Cambridge), Dorota Molin (University of Cambridge).

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 17:30-18:30

Endangered languages, cultures and ecosystems: The case of Modern South Arabian

Prof Janet Watson, Leeds University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 18:30-19:30

What can endangered creoles tell us about language change? Three centuries of Louisiana Creole

Oliver Mayeux, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 18:30-19:30

On the impact of debasilectalization in language documentation: insights from the "missing Spanish creoles"

Danae Perez, University of Zurich.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 18:30-19:30

Languages, speakers and history: Romance and Greek in Southern Italy

Cristina Guardiano.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 18:30-19:30

Patagonian Afrikaans: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Friday 02 November 2018, 14:30-16:00

W(h)ither Language Diversity? The Perspective of Linguanomics

Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, University of Bristol.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 18:15-19:00

Elfdalian, a divergent Nordic dialect now and throughout the ages

Guus Kroonen, University of Copenhagen/Leiden University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 18:00-19:00

An extinct coastal Sami musical tradition – How, when and why?

Ola Graff, University of Tromsø.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 18:00-19:00

Louisiana Creole - a creole at the periphery

Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh (Universität Regensburg).

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Friday 09 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Speak white, speak black, speak American

Darryl G Barthe Jr (Universiteit van Amsterdam).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 18:15-19:00

Whistled Speech and Language Discrimination

Mary Ann Walter (Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus) .

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 18:10-19:00

Culture-based literacy: improving access to Lakota texts at Standing Rock

Elliot Bannister (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe).

Faculty of English, Boardroom.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 17:15-18:00

Endangered languages in contact: Domari in its ethnographic and cultural context

Yaron Matras (University of Manchester).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 18:10-19:00

A cluster of Aromanian varieties in North-Western Greece

Dr. Marios Mavrogiorgos, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 17:15-18:45

Norwegian Romani - the 'languageness' of a Para-Romani variety

Tea and biscuits from 16.45

Jakob Wiedner, University of Oslo.

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 17:15-19:00

VO-OV alternations and information structure in North Sami

Tea and biscuits from 17.45

Kristine Bentzen, University of Tromsø.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 18:15-20:00

The Arbëresh linguistic archipelago: a natural laboratory of contact-induced variation and change

Borana Lushaj (Leiden University).

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Monday 13 March 2017, 17:15-19:00

The revival of Italo-Greek: language ideologies and folklorization

Maria Olimpia Squillaci (University of Cambridge) and Manuela Pellegrino (Brunel University).

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 18:15-19:30

The hidden multilingualism of Italy: issues and challenges

Dr. Marco Tamburelli, Prifysgol Bangor/Bangor University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 18:15-19:30

Fox's son, they slept five, imitation of people: Kuikuro numerals and counting

This talk is held in conjunction with the Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc; http://camlingsoc.soc.srcf.net/)

Bruna Franchetto, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Monday 05 December 2016, 17:15-19:00

The Creole Language and its Relationship to Regional French in Louisiana

Thomas A. Klingler, Tulane University.

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 8/9.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 17:15-19:00

Awakening Dreaming Beauties: Language Reclamation and Social Wellbeing

Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, University of Adelaide.

Nightingale Room, Peterhouse.

Monday 14 November 2016, 17:15-19:00

The Kvens and planning of a minority language

Eira Söderholm, University of Tromsø.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 17:15-19:00

Morphological complexity in Skolt Saami, an endangered Finno-Ugric language

Tim Feist, University of Surrey.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 17:15-19:00

Cantonese: the biggest endangered language?

Cherry Lam (PhD candidate, DTAL, Cambridge) & Ricky Chan (PhD candidate, DTAL, Cambridge).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 17:15-19:00

Shawi, Quechua and Spanish: a Sea of Languages

Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics – Department for Language and Cognition.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 17:15-19:00

“Human Towers for Democracy:” The Use of Cultural Performances for Catalan Nation Building and Independence

Mariann Vaczi.

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 17:15-19:00

Understanding the function dimension of language endangerment with specific evidence from Runyakitara

Fridah Katushemererwe, Department of Linguistics, English Language Studies and Communication Skills Makerere University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 17:15-19:00

Writing vernacular languages online: a case study of writing strategies of Taiwanese on social network sites among young generation

Chi-Cheng Tsai .

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 17:15-19:00

Saami in Russia: "Kuess ne poluchaetsja samas, rushas polegche"

David Pineda Dijkerman.

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 03 June 2015, 17:15-19:00

Laterals in Estonian Swedish

Professor Francis Nolan, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 17:15-19:00

Language situation and endangerment in Uganda: Facts and perspectives

Dr. Saudah Namyalo.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 17:15-19:00

The Sami Health Transition - a Success Story in an Indigenous Culture Context

Peter Sköld, Centre for Sami Research, Umeå University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 17:15-19:00

Irish language policy from its beginnings to the 20-year strategy - An assessment

Harold Flohr.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 17:15-19:00

Catalan: past, present and future

Dr Víctor Acedo Matellán, University of Cambridge, Queens' College.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 17:15-19:00

Women's names and the shift to Latin in ancient Italy

Nicholas Zair (University of Cambridge).

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 17:15-19:00

The Dialects of Campania. A Perspective of Linguistic Echology

Rosanna Sornicola, Giovanni Abete, Margherita Di Salvo, Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II.

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 17:15-19:00

The decipherment of some recently found ostraca from Post-Roman North Africa

Dr Sabine Ziegler, Saxonian Academy of Sciences at Leipzig / Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 17:15-19:00

'A language to catch birds with': Sami values and world-view as expressed in traditional terminology, art and poetry.

Prof. Harald Gaski, Universitetet i Tromsø.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 17:15-18:45

The problem of finding sources for the study of Norn, the Scandinavian language of Caithness and the Northern Isles.

Dr Ragnhild Ljosland, Centre for Nordic Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Friday 17 January 2014, 17:15-19:00

Probabilistic ergative case in the languages of Manang (Nepal)

Dr. Oliver Bond, University of Surrey.

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 7.

Wednesday 04 December 2013, 17:15-19:00

Traditional and Contemporary Torres Strait Languages and Dialects

Tanisha Pabai, Stephen Yamashita, Zach Bani, Amelia Mari and Valent Kirk.

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 7.

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 17:15-19:00

'The challenges of documenting an endangered dialect group spoken by diaspora communities: The case of Modern Aramaic'

Last talk of term

Professor Geoffrey Khan (Regius Professor of Hebrew, University of Cambridge).

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 8/9.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 17:00-18:30

Allochthonous languages, Brazilian Zeeuws, and Dummy Auxiliaries

Andrew Nevins (co-authored with Gertjan Postma and Elizana Schaffel-Bremenkamp).

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 8/9.

Wednesday 20 March 2013, 15:30-17:00

Levantine Iberian script: linguistic and epigraphic contacts in northern Spain and southern Gaul during the second Iron age

Coline Ruiz Darasse.

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 8/9.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 17:15-19:00

Latin influence on the Gaulish language

Prof. Dr. Karin Stüber (Zurich).

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 7.

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 17:15-19:00

The Italian minority in Crimea: linguistic identity and cultural belonging

Dr Paola Bocale (Cambridge).

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 8/9.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 17:15-19:00

Language Endangerment: Methodologies and New Challenges

Registration fee: £30 (payable at CRASSH) (cash only please). The fee includes lunch and a wine reception

Plenaries by Nicholas Ostler (Foundation for Endangered Languages) and Tjeerd de Graaf (Frisian Academy).

CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

Friday 06 July 2012, 08:45-17:45

The Role of Documenting Semantics and Pragmatics in Understudied Languages

Tyler R.G. Peterson (Leiden).

CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

Wednesday 16 May 2012, 17:15-19:00

The Preservation of Fragile Irish Language Speaking Communities as Sustainable Language Communities

Éamon Ó Cuív T.D..

CRASSH.

Wednesday 02 May 2012, 14:30-16:30

A Historical View on Language Ecology and Language Planning

Nadège Lechevrel (EHESS, NIAS).

CRASSH.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 17:15-19:00

Manx as a Partial Pidgin and Language Ecology in the Isle of Man

Mark Williams (Oxford).

CRASSH.

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 17:15-19:00

Sustaining Myth: How Languages Get and Lose their Mojo

John E. Joseph (Edinburgh).

L1, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 17:15-19:00

The Limba Sarda Comuna (LSC) and the Traditional Dialects of Sardinian

Roberto Bolognesi (Amsterdam-Groningen).

L1, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 17:15-19:00

Stop, Revive, Survive! --- Towards a New Discipline: Revival Linguistics

Ghil'ad Zuckermann (Adelaide).

Room 8-9, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

Tuesday 04 October 2011, 17:15-19:00

Mapping Linguistic Endangerment: The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Professor Christopher Moseley (UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages).

CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

Tuesday 17 May 2011, 17:15-19:00

Language revitalisation: issues and outcomes

Dr Julia Sallabank (SOAS).

CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

Tuesday 03 May 2011, 17:15-19:00

East of Andes: resonances and continuities in 500 years of Uwa self-defence

Dr. Nicholas Ostler (Foundation for Endangered Languages).

CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

Tuesday 08 March 2011, 17:15-19:00

Endangered Ancestors: Language Shift and the Loss of Theodiversity in Tribal India

Dr. Piers Vitebsky (Cambridge).

CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

Tuesday 22 February 2011, 17:15-19:00

Languages in contact and isolation: mature phenomena and societies of intimates.

Professor Peter Trudgill.

CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

Tuesday 08 February 2011, 17:15-19:00

Bushmen of the Southern Kalahari: the puzzle of what is real

Dr Hugh Brody (Fraser Valley).

CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

Tuesday 25 January 2011, 17:15-19:00

Bardi Documentation for Preservation and Revitalisation

Dr Claire Bowern (Yale).

CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

Tuesday 23 November 2010, 17:15-19:00

Northwest Amazonian multi-lingualism: the past, present and future of a unique system

Dr. Stephen Hugh-Jones (Cambridge).

CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

Tuesday 09 November 2010, 17:15-19:00

The last days of Armenian in Jerusalem

Dr Bert Vaux (Cambridge).

The Henry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 26 October 2010, 17:15-19:00

(Dis)owning Culture but Preserving Access: Reflections on Field Methods from the World Oral Literature Project

Dr. Mark Turin (Cambridge).

CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

Tuesday 12 October 2010, 17:15-19:00

Raising Languages from the Dead: Recent Efforts to Revitalize Australian Aboriginal Languages

Dr Michael Walsh (Sydney).

Oldham Hall Seminar Room, Lucy Cavendish College.

Thursday 24 June 2010, 14:00-15:00

The Discourse of Language Endangerment

Professor Nikolai Vakhtin (European University of St. Petersburg).

Leslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 18:00-19:00

A proposed research project on the Occitan language movement

Co-hosted with the Cambridge French Linguistics Research Seminar

Dr Tim Jenkins (Cambridge).

The Small Parlour, Peterhouse.

Wednesday 05 May 2010, 19:00-20:00

Language and Identity in the Romeyka-speaking communities of Pontus

Dr. Ioanna Sitaridou (Queens' College, Cambridge).

Room 7, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

Wednesday 17 March 2010, 15:00-16:00

Fieldwork on Semitic Languages

Prof Geoffrey Khan, University of Cambridge.

Room 7, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

Monday 01 March 2010, 18:30-19:30

Creating an electronic dictionary for an endangered language: Linguistic and extralinguistic implications

Dr Marina Chumakina, University of Surrey.

Room 7, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

Wednesday 10 February 2010, 18:30-19:30