Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics General Linguistics Seminar Trinity Term 2018 The following seminars will be given at 5:15 pm on Mondays Weeks 1 – 5 Taylorian Institute Room 2 ALL WELCOME 1st Week: 23rd April Victor AcedoMatellan (University of Oxford) Preverbs, directional datives and the goal/nongoal distinction in Latin 2nd Week: 30th April Gesa Hartwigsen (MaxPlanck Institute) The neural basis of language comprehension 3rd Week: 7th May Nicholas Evans (Australian National University) Time, diversification and dispersal on the Australian continent: three enigmas of linguistic prehistory 4th Week: 14th May Wolfgang de Melo (University of Oxford) Varro's De lingua Latina: our first Latin grammar 5th Week: 21st May Núria Sebastián Gallés (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) Divide and conquer: The onset of bilingual language learning Conveners: Profs. Aditi Lahiri Ash Asudeh Wolfgang de Melo