Stephen C. Levinson -

Presentations

• Levinson, S. C. (2010). Landscape: A crossroads for language, culture and cognition. Staldac, Cambridge, April.
  
• Levinson, S. C. (2009). The senses in language and culture. AAA session (org. with Asifa Majid). Philadelphia, December.
  
• Levinson, S. C. (2009). Linguistic diversity and its implications for the language sciences. Ken Hale Lecture. LSA Institute, Berkeley, USA, July 30.
  
• Levinson, S. C. (2009). Rethinking the Language Sciences. Talk given at the conference 'Why aren't the Social Sciences Darwinian?' Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Cambridge, May 15.
  
• Levinson, S. C. (2009). The Language Sciences in the Darwin Centenary. Festvortrag at the opening of the Graduate School Empirical and Applied Linguistics, Münster University, April 29.
  
• Levinson, S. C. (2009). Time and space in Yélî Dnye. Talk given at the 'Time in Space' workshop, MPI Nijmegen, April 14.
• Levinson, S. C. (2008). Semplates - Implicit conceptual templates in language - and their origin. AAA, San Francisco, November.
• Levinson, S. C. (2008). Levels of distinction: On the regimentation and lamination of linguistic levels. Panel discussion, AAA, San Francisco, November.
  
• Levinson, S. C. (2008). From landscape to grammar. Talk given at the meeting of the Philological Society, Manchester, November 7.
• Levinson, S. C. (2008). The elements of motion. Talk given at the workshop on Human locomotion across languages. MPI, June 6.
• Levinson, S. C. (2007). Towards principles of primate social life. Workshop Competition meets cooperation, Radboud University and MPI, October.
• Majid, A. & Levinson, S. C. (2007). Quantifying semantic regularity across languages. ALT VII International conference, Paris, September.
• Levinson, S. C. (2007). Guugu Yimithirr narrative as multimodal interaction. Talk given at the Cape York workshop, MPI, January.
• Levinson, S. C. (2006). The ‘interaction engine’: A core ethology and its diverse manifestations. Presidential symposium. San Jose, CA: American Anthropological Association conference, November.
• Levinson, S. C. (2006). Reciprocals in Yélî Dnye, the Papuan language of Rossel Island. Talk given at the Reciprocals workshop, MPI Nijmegen, April.
• Levinson, S. C. (2006). Questions about questions. Talk given at the workshop: Questions and their responses, MPI Nijmegen, March.
• Levinson, S. C. (2006). Enrolling other sciences in language documentation: Describing an isolate language, Yélî Dnye, in Papua New Guinea. Plenary at the meeting of the 28th DGfS conference, Bielefeld, February.
• Levinson, S. C. (2005). Spatial relationships in Oceania: Language, mind and culture. Talk given at the AAA Annual meeting, Washington, DC, December.
• Janzen, G., Haun, D. B. M. & Levinson, S. C. (2005). Neural correlates of intrinsic and relative frames of reference. Poster presented at the 13^th Conference of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology, Leiden, August 31^st –September 3^rd.
• Levinson, S. C. (2004). Diversity in human spatial cognition: where prehistory, culture, language and biology meet. Influential Thinkers Series, Department of Anthropology, UCLA. March 1.
• Levinson, S. C. (2004) Living with Manny's dangerous idea. Talk given at the Symposium: Theories and Models of Language, Interaction and Culture UCLA. February 27-8.
• Levinson, S. C. (2003). The evolution of human spatial cognition: Or how we nearly lost our bearings. Talk given at the Founding conference ‘From brain to behaviour: The evolution of human cognition’. Leverhulme Center for Human evolutionary studies. Univ. of Cambridge, November.
• Levinson, S. C. (2003). Rossel and Sudest. Conference Pioneers of Island Melanesia. King’s College, Cambridge. April.
• Levinson, S. C. (2003) Thoughts on notions of projection. Workshop on Projection in Interaction. MPI Nijmegen, March.
• Levinson, S. C. (2003). Evolutie en taal. Course given at the University of Nijmegen, Honours Program, April 3.
• Brugman, H., Wittenburg, P., Levinson, S. C. & Kita, S. (2002). Multimodal annotations in gesture and sign language studies. Paper presented at the LRECC conference, Las Palmas, May.
• Levinson, S. C. (2002). Prospects for a new field: Semantic typology. Paper presented at the International Linguistics Conference ‘Reviewing linguistic thought: Perspectives into the 21^st century’. Athens, May 21-24.
• Meira, S. & Levinson, S. C. (2002) Patterns of semantic discrimination in spatial adpositional systems. International Conference on Adpositions of Movement, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, January 14-16.
• Levinson, S. C. (2001) ‘Diversity in spatial language and cognition’. Lectures to the Linguistic Society of America, Linguistics Institute, Santa Barbara, July-August.
• Levinson, S. C. (2000) ‘Color and culture’. Symposium at the College de France, Paris, March 30.
• Levinson, S. C. (1998) 'Language as nature and language as art'. Plenary session at the Pontifical Academy "Changing concepts", Vatican City, October 28.