As has been tradition for the last few years, we’re kicking off the workshop this year with a recap of students’ fieldwork from the last year. Our presenters this time will be Ksenia Ershova, Hannah McElgunn, Kat Montemurro, Adam Singerman, and Jessica Kantarovich. The meeting will be held on Friday, October 12th at 3:30 in […]
Continue reading →There will be a meeting of LVC this Friday, May 11th at 3:30 pm, in Rosenwald 301. Please see below for details. “Additivity in Potawatomi” Robert Lewis (UChicago) Potawatomi has a relatively rich inventory of additive particles — six in total. This inventory is sensitive to three distinctions: (i) a distinction between simple and scalar […]
Continue reading →This week the Language Variation & Change workshop is pleased to host Jack Martin from the College of William and Mary. He specializes in the documentation of numerous native languages of the American south. You can learn more about his work here. His talk will take place on Friday, February 23rd at 3:30 pm in RO 301. […]
Continue reading →There will be a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop this Friday, February 2nd at 3:30 pm in Rosenwald 301. Our speaker will be Britta Ingebretson. See below for details. We hope you can make it! “Rhotic coda usage as stance-taking in Southern China” Britta Ingebretson (UChicago) Mandarin Chinese has two standard variations, […]
Continue reading →LVC will host Tatiana Nikitina of CNRS – Paris at an unconventional time: this Monday, November 20th at 3:30 PM in Cobb 202. Information about her talk is below. As usual, there will be a reception after the talk and an opportunity to talk more with the speaker. Discourse reporting in narrative performance: A case […]
Continue reading →The Language Variation and Change workshop will host its first fieldwork recap session this Friday, November 17th at 3:30 PM in Rosenwald 301. Come learn where students are doing their fieldwork, their methods, and the challenges they face. This week we’ll hear from Hilary McMahan, Cherry Meyer, Kat Montemurro, and Adam Singerman! A small reception […]
Continue reading →Please join us for a talk by Adam Singerman at a joint meeting with the Morphology & Syntax workshop, on Friday, November 3rd at 1 PM in Cobb 119. Details in the attached abstract. Evidentiality, grammatical number, and physical position in Tuparí Adam Singerman (University of Chicago) voices.uchicago.edu/…/abstract_LVC_M-S-1e2wbmv.pdf
Continue reading →Please join us for a talk by visiting speaker Lev Michael of the University of California Berkeley. The talk will be Friday, April 14th at 3:30 PM in Rosenwald 011. Refreshments will be provided. Hope to see you there! “Lexical homology in computational phylogenetics: A comparative Tupí-Guaraní” Lev Michael UC Berkeley
Continue reading →Please join us this Friday, February 24th at 1PM in Rosenwald 208 for a joint meeting of LVC and the Morphology & Syntax workshops. Our speaker will be Adam Singerman. “Finite embedding and quotation in Tuparí” Adam Roth Singerman University of Chicago Tuparí (Tupían; Brazil) has innovated a finite embedding construction that bears the structural […]
Continue reading →NOTE: The location of this talk has changed! It will now take place in Foster 505. ————————————- LVC is very pleased to welcome Denny Moore, who is here for a CLAS workshop, Linguistic and Other Cultural Exchanges across Brazilian History, and has graciously agreed to talk to us about his extensive fieldwork in Brazil. Denny […]
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