SOAS Linguistics Research Seminar Series

SOAS Linguistics Research Seminar Series (2025-26)

The SOAS Linguistics Research Seminar series hosts talks on a wide variety of linguistic topics given by experts from around the UK and beyond.

Any interested students and staff are warmly welcomed to attend.

All talks are from 4-5pm on Wednesdays during teaching weeks in room S209.

Date	Speaker	Seminar title
12 November 2025	Lameen Souag	"Reconstructing syntactic change in Nilotic and beyond"
26 November 2025	Sam Hellmuth	"Prosodic variation in Arabic – and where T.F. Mitchell got it right"
28 January 2026	María Arche	"Theoretical linguistics pushing for changes in criminal justice procedures across countries"
4 February 2026	Merve Özsüllü	"Arabic in the Maltese Education System: The Trajectory of Educational Policies and Their Current Implications"
11 February 2026	Oliver Bond, Dávid Gyorfi	"Analogical growth of extensive Co-headed Verb Systems"
18 February 2026	Antonella Sorace	"Joining the dots: native language change and intergenerational transmission in bilingual speakers"

In this section

College of Humanities, Department of Linguistics & School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

SOAS journal explores negative feelings towards Nigerian pidgin English

A reflection on Yorùbá language changes among London families, and an analysis of why some university students feel negatively towards Nigerian Pidgin English are some of the research papers published in a new SOAS journal.

School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics & Department of Linguistics

MPhil/PhD in Translation Studies

Research Degrees (MPhil/PhD) in Translation Studies at SOAS University of London

4 February 2026

Arabic in the Maltese Education System: The Trajectory of Educational Policies and Their Current Implications

This talk explores how Maltese and Arabic's linguistic proximity contrasts with the complex positioning of Arabic within the Maltese educational context.