Friday, February 24 at 1 PM: Adam Singerman (UChicago) – Joint with Morph&Syn

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 […]

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6 May: Galen Sibanda (Michigan State)

Monday, May 6th @ 3 PM, Wieboldt 408 An Overview of Nguni Verbal Reduplication with Special Reference to Ndebele Previous works on verbal reduplication in Nguni (isiNdebele, siSwati, isiXhosa and isiZulu) such as Downing (1996, 1997a) and Sibanda (2004) have not paid much attention to possible verbal morphology inaccuracies but have been concerned mainly with […]

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11 March: Ashwini Deo, (Yale University)

Monday, March 11th @ 12:30 PM, Social Sciences 302 The particular–characterizing contrast in Indo-Aryan copulas and the diachronic emergence of overt tense marking Several Indo-Aryan languages  are characterized by (at least) two distinct  copular expressions in both the present and the past tenses  (e.g. hai and hota hai in Hindi or ahe/asato in  Marathi). The distribution  of these copulas in non-verbal […]

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