Linguistics Association of Great Britain Annual Meeting

This is the first time the LAGB is coming to Northern Ireland, in acknowledgement of the team’s strong presence in the UK linguistic community.

Programme

View the conference programme.

Speakers

The conference will feature the following speakers and special sessions:

Summer School

This year’s summer school will take place on the afternoon of Monday 12th September. It will include sessions on cognitive linguistics, language acquisition, diachronic syntax and attendees will have the opportunity to engage with the speakers. The host institution will lead a workshop on experimental design, and we invited ULAB to provide tips on how to turn your undergraduate work into an article. An informal networking event will take place at the end of the day.

Special sessions

• Language analysis in UK schools
• Descriptive and documentary work on languages with less-accessible description and documentation
• Linguistic distance in language reconstruction and language acquisition
• Advances and challenges in teaching linguistics at university
• Minoritized languages' impact on linguistic theory
• Contrastive focalization: Challenges and solutions
• Agents: Grammar or roots?

Sponsored by Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press will be offering a special discount on their books for attendees of the LAGB 2022 annual meeting.