Please join us for our last Language Variation & Change workshop meeting of the quarter, this Friday, March 8th at 3:30 PM in Rosenwald 301. Our speaker will be Maria Polinsky (http://www.mariapolinsky.com/). Please see below for information about her talk. The Landscape of Exceptives Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland, College Park) Exceptives are constructions that […]
Continue reading →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 →This week we will be hosting Savithry Namboodiripad of the University of Michigan. Her work focuses on how language contact affects linguistic variation, in particular constituent order in the world’s languages. Her dissertation examined this question in Malayalam via psycholinguistic experimental methodology (you can read more here: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2sv6z8bz). Please see below for information about her […]
Continue reading →This week the Language Variation and Change workshop is co-sponsoring an event with Comparative Literature, who is hosting Isaac Bleaman of NYU (https://wp.nyu.edu/ibleaman/). Isaac will give a talk on “Hasidic Yiddish Syntax on the Internet: Competing Trends in Language Change” this Friday 1/19 at 12:30 PM in Classics 110. (Note the unusual meeting time for […]
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 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 →LVC is very pleased to be hosting Brian Joseph of OSU this Friday, March 3rd. We hope you can join us for his talk at 3:30 PM in Rosenwald 301. As always, there will be a small reception following the talk. “Social and Semantic Factors in the Diffusion of Morpho-Syntactic Change — Evidence from the […]
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