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Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (LAGB) 2022

Posted on 25 October 2022

LLS researchers at the Annual Meeting of the LAGB

L&LS staff and students were extremely well represented at the recent Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (LAGB), which took place at Ulster University, Belfast, from 12-15th September 2022.

• PhD student Victoria Noble won the prestigious ‘Best Student Abstract’ prize for her work with George Tsoulas on ‘Exoskeletal Iceberg Semantics for the mass/count distinction’. 
• PhD student Shiyang Fu presented his work with Norman Yeo on ‘Extraction from coordinate structures in Mandarin Chinese’.
• Two research papers were presented by members of Giuseppe Longobardi’s interdisciplinary team probing language prehistory through syntactic distances and on the relationship between linguistic distances and genetic distances across Eurasia, as part of a special session on linguistic distance in language reconstruction. 
• Claire Childs presented initial findings from her AHRC funded work on North-South Dialect Variation in England with Beth Cole on was/were variation in English, and from joint work with Laura Bailey (U Kent) on negative concord.
• Sam Hellmuth and Julia Kolkmann presented their joint work with Marina Cantarutti on the delivery of academic skills and initial subject content through Problem-Based Learning, in a special session on advances and challenges in teaching linguistics at university. 
• And last but not least, Sam Hellmuth, Claire Childs, Norman Yeo and Victoria Noble showcased the Department’s work to promote language analysis in schools, in the LAGB Education Committee special session on ‘Language analysis in UK schools’. 

‘It was great to be one of many representatives from the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the LAGB Annual Meeting in Belfast. The LAGB is not limited to one particular sub-field of linguistics, as you can see from our talks which spanned topics including semantics, syntax, language reconstruction, sociolinguistics, teaching linguistics in Higher Education, and bringing linguistics into the primary/secondary school curriculum.’ - 

Dr Claire Childs, Department of Language and Linguistic Science