Please join us in Rosenwald 301 on Friday, April 19 at 3:30 PM for the next LVC meeting of the Spring Quarter! Our very own Gabriel Gilbert will be presenting on the results of a corpus study on the distribution of a class of morphemes in Hawaiian known as directionals and its implications for L2 […]

Please join us in Rosenwald 301 on Friday, April 12 at 3:30 PM for the next LVC meeting of the Spring Quarter! Adam Cleveland will be presenting on the effect of lexical access and frequency on the acquisition of 2nd person pronominal forms among heritage and second language speakers of Spanish. Tú and Usted: Lexical […]

Please join us in Rosenwald 301 on Friday, April 5 at 3:30 PM for the first LVC of the Spring Quarter! Andrew Zulker will be presenting a diachronic account for a verbal form in Biblical Hebrew. The Enigmatic Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew: Refining the Diachronic Account The Biblical Hebrew verbal system has been described […]

Please join us in Cobb Hall 202 and on Zoom on Friday, March 8 at 3:30 PM for the last LVC meeting of the quarter. Dr. Claude Rilly will be talking about the classification of the extinct eastern African language of Meroitic. Meroitic Phonology, Syntax, and Linguistic Family Meroitic was the main language of the […]

Please join us in Cobb Hall 202 and on Zoom on Friday, February 23 at 3:30 PM for the next LVC meeting of the quarter. Dr. Anna Belew will be talking her sociolinguistic findings in Iyasa-speaking communities in Cameroon and its implications for language documentation and revitalization. Ten Years Beyond the Ancestral Code: Growing Into […]

Please join us in Cobb Hall 202 on Friday, January 19 at 3:30 PM for the next LVC meeting of the quarter. Corinne Kasper will be talking about the verbal paradigms that L2 Potawatomi speakers use in conversational settings. Verbal Orders in L2 Potawatomi Discourse Potawatomi is an endangered Algonquian language spoken around the Great […]

Please join us in Cobb Hall 202 on Friday, January 19 at 3:30 PM for the next LVC meeting of the quarter. Camilla Kleeman-Andersen will be talking about standardization and its effects on a dialect of Kalaallisut (Greenlandic). Can Anything Good Come out of Upernavik? Language Ideologies in Greenland Turkic languages are a strongly suffixing […]

Please join us in Cobb Hall 202 on Friday, January 19 at 3:30 PM for the first LVC of the Winter Quarter! Our very own Kutay Serova will be talking about vowel harmony alternation in singular dative pronouns. Dative Pronoun Alternation in Turkic Languages: A Phonological Analysis and Diachronic Family-Internal Typology  Turkic languages are a […]

Please join us in Cobb Hall 115 on Friday, November 10 at 3:30 PM for the last LVC meeting of the quarter, where Prof. Lisa Davidson will be presenting on the phonology of Hawai‘an. Acoustic correlates to levels of stress in Hawaiian (ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi) Phonological analyses of metrical structure in Hawaiian (ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi) have posited […]

Please join us once more in Cobb Hall 115 on Friday, November 3 at 3:30 PM, where our very own Steven Castro will be presenting on his upcoming fieldwork in Fiji. Language Use Among Mixed-Race Individuals in the Fiji Islands: A Fieldwork Preview How has Fiji’s complex history with contact, linguistic, racial, and cultural mixing […]