GLOWing 2024/25: How do we learn about language?

This year’s GLOWing lecture’s topic is “How do we learn about language?”. Every lecture will feature a speaker and a discussant working with different methodologies on different subfields. The lecture series aims to present different angles and perspectives of linguistic research, how different methodologies and foci guide our research, and how all of them are important for generative grammar and our understanding of natural language.

The lectures will be held on zoom, a YouTube recoring will be made available after the lecture. All GLOW members receive the zoom link via email. If you are not a GLOW member, sign up HERE to get free access to the lecture.

UPCOMING LECTURES

Jenneke van der Wal & Sjef Barbiers

Linguistic Fieldwork
January 17, 15:00 CET, 09:00 EST

Athulya Aravind & Adriana Belletti

Language Acquisition
March 21, 15:00 CET, 09:00 EST

Sandra Villata & Shota Momma

Experimental Linguistics
June 6, 15:00 CEST, 09:00 EST

PAST LECTURES

  • Discussant: Jonathan Bobaljik
  • October 11, 2024
  • Slides
  • Due to a technical error during the recording, there is unfortunately no YouTube stream available
  • David Adger: Why is syntax local where it is and not where it isn’t?
  • Laura Kalin: Morphology: from agglutinating to compli-freakin’-cated

ABOUT

The GLOWing lecture series is a part of GLOW’s efforts of community-building, outreach, and strengthening of the generative community. The goal of GLOWing lectures is to provide tools, insights, and puzzles that will bring out why generative linguistics is important, invigorating, and relevant.

GLOWing lectures are intended to be exciting, inspiring, educational, and accessible across generative subfields. There are two broad categories of GLOWing lectures:

  • What should should know about subfield X? These lectures teach professionals from other generative subfields important tools and technologies of one subfield.
  • What is exciting in subfield X? These lectures provide significant discoveries and results from one subfield.

Both types of GLOWing lectures inspire further engagement within the subfield of the lecture and/or create discussions across subfields. Furthermore, both also provide material and resources (to be made available to the GLOW membership) for further teaching and outreach. 

In 2023−2024, we will host talks in the subfields (not necessarily in this order) semantics, phonology, morphology, syntax, field research/linguistic variation, experimental linguistics. In future years, we may add further areas of interest for the generative community.

The first talks will be open to anyone (later, only GLOW members will receive the link to attend the talks—but remember that GLOW membership fees are very low for now!).

MODALITIES

The GLOWing lectures will be held via Zoom and live-streamed via YouTube to give as many people as possible the opportunity to attend. The zoom link will be sent via e-mail to all GLOW members. During this first year pilot period, everyone is welcome to join, GLOW member or not. If you are not a GLOW member but still would like to attend via Zoom, please sign up HERE so we can send you the Zoom link.

GLOWing lectures have a 120 minute slot, with a lecture between 45−60 minutes, 30 minutes for discussions, and a remaining time for chatting and socializing. Partial attendance will, of course, be encouraged as well.

For each speaker there will be a moderator from another subfield leading the discussion. This shall encourage the interdisciplinary character of the GLOWing lectures.