Research seminars in linguistics and sign language 2026

Here you will find our seminar program for spring 2026.

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The seminar programme for spring 2026 is set!

We are happy to welcome speakers from international as well as Swedish universities who will present on a wide range of topics. The seminars are usually held on Thursday afternoons. When seminars are held in hybrid format, we use the e-meeting service Zoom. The seminars are held in English and you can find the full program below or in the calendar.

If you wish to book sign language interpretation for a seminar, please contact the convernors as soon as possible:
Alice Bondarenko
or
Anastasia Panova.

Seminars spring 2026

January 29

Half-time seminar: Amanda Kann (PhD student at the Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University): Extracting Word Order Typology from Text: Issues and Uses.

February 12

Kirill Kozhanov (Potsdam University): Romani and the stability of linguistic features in contact.

February 17

Hendrik Buschmeier (Bielefeld University): Human and Machine Understanding in Reference Games and Game Explanations.

February 19

Benjamin Anible (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): No such thing as a fish: Differing morphosyntactic integration of expressive forms in Norwegian Sign Language.

February 26

Half-time seminar: Qiang Xia (PhD student at the Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University): Turn-taking in conversation with delay.

March 12

Nicole Marx (University of Cologne): What Makes Some Migrant Students More Successful? Effects of Individual and Contextual Factors on Reading Development.

March 26

Margaret Zellers (Stockholm University): Multimodal cues in conversation across languages.

April 23

Kasper Boye (University of Copenhagen): What drives grammaticalization? The raison d’être of grammar in a usage-based theory..

May 7

Micaella Bruton (PhD student at the Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University): Title TBA.

May 7

Crina Tudor (PhD student at the Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University): Title TBA.

May 21

Alice Bondarenko (PhD student at the Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University): Title TBA.

May 21

Stina Andersson (PhD student at the Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University): Title TBA.

Seminars 2025

January 23

Professor emeritus Östen Dahl (Stockholm University): Directionals in TAME systems.

February 6

Dr Anna Jon-And (Stockholm University):The role of sequence representation in the evolution of language.

February 20

 Jonas Beskow, Johanna Mesch, Simon Alexanderson, Anna Klezovich, Fredrik Malmberg (KTH/Stockholm University): SIGNBOT – Generative AI for Sign Language

March 6

Tove Nilsson Gerholm, Signe Tonér, Stina Andersson, Elin Fryleskog, Helena Engström, Rebecca Finndell, Elisabet Cortes (Stockholm University): Challenges ahead: how to identify roots of development in First Language Acquisition?

March 10

Associate Professor Ian Joo (Otaru University of Commerce, Japan): Let’s play with Phonotacticon

March 19

Professor Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University): Perspectives on universal dependencies

April 3

Dr Matteo Tarsi (Uppsala University): Metaphorical pathways to human cognition: Evidence from Indo-European

April 24

Dr Sofia Pereswetoff-Morath (Stockholm University) and Vadim Frolov (Microsoft development center Norway): AI in the service of runology: first results of a pilot project

May 15

Dr Eline Visser (Uppsala University): Leveraging LLMs for language documentation

June 10

Professor Ronice de Quadros (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)

September 11

Dr. Riccarda Funk (Friedrich Schiller University Jena): The acoustic and perceptual correlates of gender in children's voices – Insights from the German LoKiS corpus

September 22

Professor Morten Christansen (Cornell University, USA/Aarhus University, Denmark): Language Acquisition as Skill Learning.

October 7

Dr. Octavian E. Robinson (The Ohio State University) Crip Linguistics for the University Professor.

October 9

Professor Niclas Burenhult (Lund University): Sensory encoding in demonstratives: typology and a case study (Jahai, Austroasiatic, Malay Peninsula).

October 23

Dr. Gláucia Laís Salomão (Stockholm University): Decoding Emotional Inner Voices with Multivariate Pattern Analysis (MVPA). A Pilot Study.

November 6

Dr. Susanne Fuchs (ZAS Berlin): Does multimodal communication change when people stand on an unstable surface?

November 20

Dr. Anna Sjöberg (Stockholm University/Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena): Knowing, thinking, seeing – cross-linguistic sematics through Behavioural Profiles.

November 27

Professor emeritus Jan-Ola Östman and Doctoral researcher Maria Andersson-Koski (University of Helsinki): Om svenskans ansvar för teckenspråk.

December 4

Dr. Guglielmo Inglese (Università di Torino): Where do labile verbs come from? A cross-linguistic perspective.

Seminars 2024

January 11

Dr. Naomi Caselli (Wheelock College of Education & Human Development): How Early Sign Language Experience Shapes Learning and Development

February 22

Dr. Anna Eva Hallin (Karolinska institutet): Interaction between speech and language

April 11

Dr. Felix Koch and Dr. Anette Sundqvist (Linköping University): Growing up in a digital world: digital media and child language development

April 15

Dr. Anne Hermes (CNRS/Sorbonne-Nouvelle): Age effects on speech: Patterns of variability and stability

May 2

Dr. Sara Bögels (Radboud University): Investigating the processes underlying turntaking in conversation

June 4

Prof. Annelies Kusters (Heriot-Watt University): Calibration and the semiotic repertoire

September 17

Zygmunt Frajzyngier (University of Colorado Boulder): Semantic and syntactic properties of motion verbs: A non-conventional analysis

September 19

Benjamin Munson (University of Minnesota): Racial Identity, Racialization, and Speech Intelligibility in American English

October 2

Vadim Kimmelman (University of Bergen): Analysis of negative headshake in sign languages using Computer Vision: first results

October 24

Anastasia Panova (Stockholm University): Half-time seminar: On the way to a grammatical description of Gawarbati

October 31

Tatiana Nikitina (CNRS): Indirect elements in direct quotation: Towards a typology

November 14

Hannah Lutzenberger (Stockholm University/Tilburg University): Language socialisation in Kata Kolok, the sign language of a Balinese village

December 5

Iris-Corinna Schwarz & Lisa Gustavsson (Stockholm University): Qualitative and quantitative aspects of infant-directed speech and their role in language development

December 12

Quintino Lopes (Institute of Contemporary History, IHC, Lisbon): The PHONLAB project – Armando de Lacerda and the Coimbra Experimental Phonetics Laboratory (1930–1979)

Seminars spring 2023

4 May

Linda Forssman: "The impact of interactive book-sharing on child developmental outcomes and potential mechanisms"

20 April

Victoria Johansson: "Att lära sig skriva är att lära sig sudda ut: hur revisionsstrategier förändras från lågstadieelever till expertskribenter" (Seminar in Swedish)

5 April

Maria Khachaturyan: "Doing things with grammar"

30 March

Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen: "A typology of linear and non-linear forms of pragmaticalization (and how they differ from grammaticalization)"

16 March

Matti Miestamo: "Typology and discourse – The case of the asymmetry between affirmation and negation"

23 February

Päivi Juvonen: "Om nyanlända elevers lärande i gymnasieskolan" (In Swedish)

12 January

Laura Álvarez Lopez and Matti Marttinen Larsson: "Variation in the use of definite article before possessive pronouns in contemporary varieties of African, Brazilian and European Portuguese"

Seminar: Definite article before possessive pronouns in contemporary varieties of Portuguese

2022

Dag Lindeberg: "Language variation in American Sign Language: The role of cross-linguistic influence" (24 Nov)

Bernhard Wälchli: "Towards a typology of the imperative 'come!'-domain" (3 Nov)

Helen Koulidobrova: "Questions of (non)modality and multilingualism: Crip Linguistics for all, and especially for most deaf/hard of hearing kids" (27 Oct)

Ute Bohnacker: "Nya rön och metoder för bedömning av språkutveckling hos flerspråkiga barn i Sverige" (In Swedish) (20 Oct)

Julia Uddén:"Language is not enough for brains in conversation" (6 Oct)

Julio Cesar Cavalcanti: "Multiparametric analysis of acoustic-phonetic measures in genetically related and unrelated speakers: some forensic implications" (22 Sep)

 

Contact

Welcome to contact us if you have questions about our seminars. If you wish to attend and need a sign language interpreter, please let us know in advance.

Alice Bondarenko, PhD student

Anastasia Panova, PhD student

Last updated: 2026-02-11

Source: Department of Linguistics

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