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 →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 →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 →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 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 […]
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 →Please join LVC this Friday, December 2 at 3:30 PM in Rosenwald 301. It will be our last meeting of the quarter and our speaker is our own Jacob Phillips. Hope you can make it! “Retraction in Action: Examining phonological and prosodic effects on /s/-retraction in the laboratory” Jacob Phillips University of Chicago An ongoing […]
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