Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
Linguistics Research Days (LRD)
The Linguistics Section hosts a Linguistics Research Day (LRD) once a semester, usually in Week 8 or 9. The main goal of the LRD is to have both members of staff and postgraduate students share their research. Sometimes final-year undergraduates have presented aspects of their final year projects. LRD has also been combined with a Career Symposium. LRD has also been jointly held via teleconferencing with staff and students from the Mona and Cave Hill campuses.
Linguistics Open and Research Day 2018
Linguistics Open and Research Day 2018 from 9:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Centre for Language Learning Auditorium 9
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Undergraduate Open Day
1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Research Presentations
- Dr Ben Braithwaite: Working with Caribbean Micro-Community Sign Languages: Hold Onto Your Kite!
- Dr Renée Figuera, with Corleen Cox: Doh Go Dey: Discursive Agency and Crime in Conversations with Gang Members
- Dr Jo-Anne Ferreira: Caribbean Languages Crossing Borders: Haitian Creole in Brazil
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Postgraduate Open House and MA TESOL Student Presentations
Thursday 24 March 2016 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the CLL Auditorium
Friday 07 November 2014 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the CLL Lecture Room
Read more on Research Notes 2.
LRD May 2012
Wednesday 02 May 2012 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in CLL Auditorium
Morning Session
María Landa Buil: DP in the Spanish Interlanguage of Swahili Speakers
James Bukari: A Benchmarking Study of West African Language Policy: Focus on Ghana and Burkina Faso
Jo-Anne Ferreira: Questions of the kohe/kõre and -bo type(s) in Karajá
Rómulo Guédez An interpretation of L2 listening comprehension progress and learning strategies used by university students
Afternoon Session
Jairo Sánchez Galvis: Translating the Caribbean: Towards a Corpus of Literary Caribbean Spanish
Sha-Renáe Alexander: Phonological Processes in the Speech of Hard-of Hearing Trinidadian Children
Ben Braithwaite: Language and Religion in Trinbagonian and Guyanese Deaf Communities
LRD December 2011
Friday 02 December, 2011 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in FHE SB2
LRD 2011
Morning Session
Benjamin Braithwaite - The Art of Marking without Marking: Agreement in Southern Wakashan
Adanma Graham - A Cartographic Approach to the Descriptive Analysis of the Nominal in Tobagonian (English Creole)
Ferne Regis - East meets West in the Guyanese Blend Tunes: Transitional Linguistic Features within the Indic Subculture
Joseph Farquharson - Preparing The Dictionary of Africanisms in Jamaican
Afternoon Session
Alicia Lamb: The Sociohistorical Foundations of Trinidad & Tobago Sign Language
Jennifer De Silva: Trinidadian Bhojpuri: A Descriptive Analysis of Some Aspects of its Syntax
Istrophle Ali-Aziz: A Description of the Creative Writing Progress of Students in Several Primary Schools in Trinidad
LRD 2010
Past LRDs: 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2007-2008, 2009-2010, 2010-2011 (LING 6701), 2010-2011 (Staff). In Semester I (2010/2011), the Section was pleased to host two research days:
LRD 1 - LING 6701 students presented all day (8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) on Friday 19th November 2010 (CLL 2 and CLL 30). Here is the programme.
LRD 2 - Staff presented on Friday 26 November 2010 at the Centre for Language Learning (CLL Lecture Room). Read the abstracts here.
In Semester II of 2010-2011, the Section hosted its Research Day, Linguistics and Its Interfaces on Tuesday 22 March 2011. We were pleased to welcome our guests, staff and students, from the University of Freiburg in Germany. Click for the programme.
Other Events
We also celebrate annually
- UNESCO's International Mother Language Day (IMLD - 22 and 23 February),
- World Voice Day (16 April), and
- Jounen Kwéyòl Entennasyonnal/Toupatou Asou Latè-a (International Créole/Creole/Patois Day - 28 October, in Créole Month).
