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 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 →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 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 →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
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