You are cordially invited to this talk (either in person or via Teams), which will be delivered by our guest speaker from CNRS-IKER (Bayonne, France): Kattalin Bidart. More than half of the world’s population is bilingual, and this proportion continues to grow. Bilingualism is particularly widespread in the Basque Country, which spans parts of France...
You are warmly invited to a talk by Manar Hazzaa, award-winning Arabic children's author and postgraduate researcher in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies: Bridging Stories: Writing Arabic Picture Books with Diglossia and Shared Reading in Mind Drawing on both her experience as an author and her doctoral research, Manar will explore the challenges...
Dr Sarah White is a paediatric Speech and Language Therapist, and Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University. Sarah graduated from the University of Leeds with a BA (hons) in Linguistics and Phonetics, and qualified as a Speech and Language Therapist from Leeds Metropolitan University (now Leeds Beckett University) in 2007. She later completed a Masters...
Lulu Guo, Queen Mary University of London This talk is organised by the Linguistics satellite of Language@Leeds. There is an ongoing debate concerning the (non-)existence of Verb-Stranding VP Ellipsis (VSVPE). Landau (2020a,b, 2021, 2023 a.o.; contra Gribanova 2017,2020 a.o.) argues that there are no genuine cases of VSVPE. Rather, many purported instances reduce either to...