Linguistics seminar series - Sabrina Meier on language in the Soloman Islands
Sabrina Meier
Come along to the first in a series of free seminars on linguistics. Sabrina Meier will kick off the series by sharing information about her field-based research on an unusual language of the Solomon Islands in her talk titled ‘Possessive constructions encoding core arguments of nominalsed predicates in Mono-Alu (Northwest Solomonic).’
Sabrina Meirer completed her graduate studies in linguistics at Bielefeld University in Germany with a focus on language description. She first experienced the documentation of an endangered language was working on Baure (South Arawak). For her BA she studied the structure of the NP in Teribe (Chibchan). During her MA studies she did field work in Tbilisi, Georgia investigating nominal number marking in Georgian (Kartvelian). As student assistant to a research project she studied Gela (Oceanic), with a focus on word classes and information structure, and did field work in the Solomon Islands. She's now into the third year of her PhD candidature at UON, studying Mono-Alu (Oceanic), a language spoken in the Solomon Islands. The investigation of morphosyntactic alignment and word class flexibility are at the centre of her current research project, which also involves field work.
This is a free event and all are welcome. It will be followed by refreshments.
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- About the ELDTA Linguistics research program
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