Professor Enoch Aboh to deliver 2026 Robert Le Page Lecture

Event details

The Department of Language and Linguistic Science is pleased to announce the full details for the 2026 Robert Le Page Lecture. Professor Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) will deliver a talk titled "Universal Multilingualism: From Creolistics to Theoretical Linguistics" on 12 March 2026.

The Robert Le Page Lecture series honours the department's founding professor, the eminent linguist and creolist Robert Le Page (1920–2006). His pioneering research on language contact, creolisation and multilingualism continues to shape the field today. This will be the second annual lecture in the series.

Professor Aboh is a leading scholar in theoretical syntax and language creation. His research explores the learnability of human language, with a particular focus on comparative syntax across language families including Kwa, Germanic, Romance, Sinitic and Caribbean creoles.

The lecture is open to all. For those travelling to the university, information on transport and parking is available online: https://www.york.ac.uk/about/transport-maps-parking/.