The final Language Variation & Change workshop meeting of the year will take place this Friday, May 25th at 3:30 pm in RO 301. Our speaker will be Guglielmo Inglese, a visiting student from the University of Pavia and the University of Bergamo. Please see below for more information. “The middle voice in Hittite: between […]
Continue reading →There will be a meeting of the Language Variation and Change Workshop this Friday at the usual time and place (3:30 in RO 301). Our speaker is Andrew Ollett, a visiting professor in the SALC department. Please see below for details. Hope to see you there! “The Disappearing iti: Clausal Complements in Middle Indic” Andrew […]
Continue reading →Our visiting syntax guru, Ricardo Etxepare, will be speaking at LVC this Wednesday, May 2nd at 12 pm in Foster 103. Lunch will be served. Details about his talk can be found below, and you can learn more about his research at his website: http://www.iker.cnrs.fr/etxepare-ricardo.html Hope you can make it! “Economy governed microparameters: a view […]
Continue reading →LVC is pleased to be hosting Ashwini Deo of the Ohio State University this week. (You can learn more about her work at her website: http://u.osu.edu/deo.13/) Her talk will take place this Friday, April 20th at 3:30 pm in Rosenwald 301. Please see below for more information. I hope you can make it! “Case syncretism […]
Continue reading →LVC will have another talk this Friday, April 13th at 3:30 pm in Rosenwald 301 (back in the usual room). Our speaker will be Emily Smith. Please see below for her abstract. Hope to see you there! “Reflexivity and Middle Voice in Old and New Hittite” Emily Smith (UChicago) The Hittite middle voice and the […]
Continue reading →Please join us for the last LVC meeting of the quarter, to take place this Friday, March 9th at 3:30 pm in Rosenwald 301. Our speaker will be Tran Truong. Details about his talk are below. Hope to see you there! “Containment, suppletion, & interspeaker variation in Japanese honorifics” Tran Truong (UChicago) Containment effects have […]
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 →This Friday, January 26th, LVC will host a talk by Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. We will meet at the usual time, 3:30 pm in Rosenwald 301. Information about her talk is below. Hope you can make it! “Dative or no dative: The function of the morpheme -iš in […]
Continue reading →Please join us for the first LVC meeting of the quarter on Friday, January 12th at 3:30 PM in Rosenwald 301. Our speaker will be Yaroslav Gorbachov. Please see below for details about his talk. Slavic ‘animacy’/’virility’ as a contact phenomenon? Yaroslav Gorbachov (University of Chicago) It appears to be commonplace in the literature to […]
Continue reading →Please join us for a talk by yours truly at LVC on October 6th at 3:30 PM in Rosenwald 301. Details about the talk are below. Alignment shift in Chukotkan: the case against contact-induced change Jessica Kantarovich University of Chicago The Chukotkan branch of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan family displays an unusual kind of ergativity, with unambiguously […]
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