Events

Professor Marianne Hundt - English Department, University of Zurich (https://www.es.uzh.ch/en/Subsites/Personal/mhundt.html) Abstract In English, lot is used in the complex quantifier a lot of (as in a lot of fun) and as a degree adverb (e.g. a […]

Dr. Rudolph Glitz - Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam (https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/g/l/r.w.h.glitz/r.w.h.glitz.html) Abstract Shakespeare’s second history tetralogy has long been recognised as centring round Prince Hal’s legendary coming of age. In […]

Professor Paul Crawford - School of Health Sciences, The University of Nottingham (https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/people/paul.crawford) Abstract In this talk, Professor Crawford will report on a key strand of his £1.5m Creative Practice as […]

Dr. Simon Alderson - Cygnet Communications Ltd (https://www.cygnet.com.hk/about.html) Abstract For a number of reasons, the English ballad and popular song have always stood in an uncomfortable relationship with traditional literary […]

Dr. Miles Link - Department of English, Fudan University Abstract After Adam and Eve’s temptation in John Milton’s biblical epic Paradise Lost, the Earth is drastically altered to reflect humans’ fallen […]

Professor Isobel Armstrong - Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-staff/emeritus-staff/isobel-armstrong) Abstract Generally dominated by the Aesthetic Movement and Decadent poets, mainly male, in critical discussion, I […]

Professor Johan van der Auwera - Department of Linguistics, University of Antwerp (https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/johan-vanderauwera/my-website/) Abstract The talk reports on a typological study of negative indefinites, i.e., the counterparts to standard English nobody and nothing, […]