We are pleased to announce the 40th ELC Research Seminar (online). Details follow here:
- Date and time: Tuesday, 14 February, 5:00 – 6:30 pm, via Microsoft Teams
- Speaker: Prof. Dr. Holger Diessel (University of Jena, Germany)
- Title of talk: “Exploring the constructicon: Construction families, grammatical paradigms and syntactic neighborhoods”
- Convenor: Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez
Registration is free, but required. The registration form can be found at: https://forms.office.com/e/0h3iFj4Xdc
Upon registration, a link will be sent to registered attendees a few days ahead of the seminar.
ELC seminars are intended for members of staff and MA and PhD students at Departments of English and, more generally, for anyone interested in linguistics.
Brief profile: Holger Diessel is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Jena (Germany). He holds an M. A. (1995) in Linguistics from the University of Buffalo and a PhD. (1998) in Linguistics from the same university; in 2002 he completed his Habilitation thesis at Leipzig University and Max-Planck Institut for Evolutionary Anthropology. In 2004 he was appointed Professor of English Linguistics at Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena. Holger Diessel’s main research interests lie in the domain of cognitive linguistics, linguistic typology, grammaticalization, and construction grammar.