ILS Colloquium: M.Carmen Parafita Couto 16 May 2024 Speaker:             Maria del Carmen  Parafita Couto Title: What if …? Imagining linguistic theory rooted in multilingual data   Abstract In this presentation we will explore a hypothetical scenario: What if linguistic theory had been grounded on bi-/multilingual practices and data, i.e. what if multilingualism had always…

Jakub Dotlacil will give the next ILS Colloquium talk. The talk is entitled Language, Linguistics and Memory All welcome! Abstract One challenge that linguistics faces is how to connect linguistic theories, which are often developed as rich symbolic and discrete systems that abstract away from cognitive capacities, to experimental behavioral data, which are continuous and…

The next colloquium talk will be given by Roberta D’Alessandro (UIL). The talk will be entitled Microcontact: 5 years later Abstract This talk will start out from where we left, in a presentation I held in at UiL-OTS in 2018. On the 15th of March 2018, I presented there my ERC project Microcontact, that had…

On the 19th of January, Marloes Oomen (UvA) and Floris Roelofsen (UvA) will give an ILS colloquium talk entitled Polar questions in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT). Abstract Relatively little is known about the way(s) in which polar questions (yes-no questions) are expressed in sign languages. It is often assumed that polar questions are…