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.

DateSpeakerSeminar title
12 November 2025Lameen Souag"Reconstructing syntactic change in Nilotic and beyond"
26 November 2025Sam Hellmuth"Prosodic variation in Arabic – and where T.F. Mitchell got it right"
28 January 2026María Arche"Theoretical linguistics pushing for changes in criminal justice procedures across countries"
4 February 2026Merve Özsüllü"Arabic in the Maltese Education System: The Trajectory of Educational Policies and Their Current Implications"
11 February 2026Oliver Bond, Dávid Gyorfi"Analogical growth of extensive Co-headed Verb Systems"
18 February 2026Antonella Sorace"Joining the dots: native language change and intergenerational transmission in bilingual speakers"
11 March 2026Iskandar Ding"Clause cosubordination: the Yaghnobi case"
18 March 2026Joey Lovestrand, Guillaume Guitang, Jenia Gutova and Aicha Belkadi"Rethinking TAM categories in Berber and Chadic"
15 April 2026Chun Liu"The subtitling of impoliteness and its humour effects in telecinematic fiction: A multimodal perspective"
22 April 2026Giuliano Castagna"The morphopragmatics of Modern South Arabian"


 

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