Jonah Francese (UChicago): “Hñähñu Language Revitalization through Indigenous Mexican Hip Hop”

Please join us this Friday at 15:30 in Cobb Hall 301 for a presentation by Jonah Francese on language revitalization through music in the Hñähñu language! Jonah is the coordinator for EthNoise!, a grad-run workshop on campus that focuses on how music, language, and culture interact. We’re excited to combine the LVC and EthNoise! audiences, […]

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Durk Gorter (University of the Basque Country): “Advancements in linguistic landscape studies”

Please join us this upcoming Friday at 15:30 in Cobb Hall 301 (note the room change from last quarter). Once again, we will be having a special guest from abroad: Prof. Durk Gorter, who is visiting here from the Basque Country! Prof. Gorter researches pedagogy, minority languages, and contact, and will be presenting on multilingualism […]

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Inî Mendoza (UChicago): “Dynamic social and spatial relations shape mutual intelligibility between two Mixtec communities”

Please join us Friday, Feb. 4th, Cobb Hall 107 at 15:30 for a presentation by one of our own workshop coordinators: Inî Mendoza! Inî will be discussing previous work he’s done with the Mixtec community. Note that after the talk, those interested can walk over with us to the Fieldworkers’ Lab panel, where a group […]

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Darragh Winkelman (UChicago): “Ottoman Turkish Rendering of Perso-Arabic Borrowings”

LVC is happening this Friday, February 3rd from 15:30-17:00 in Cobb Hall 107. Our own Darragh Winkelman will be presenting on some of his ongoing qualifying paper research. Please join us! Ottoman Turkish Rendering of Perso-Arabic Borrowings. Perso-Arabic borrowings are ubiquitous in many forms of Anatolian Turkish, historical and modern. While some borrowings entered gradually […]

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Isaac Bleaman (UC Berkeley): “Contemporary and historical perspectives on sociolinguistic variation in Yiddish”

Please join us this Friday, January 20th from 15:30-17:00 in Cobb Hall 107 for the first LVC of the winter! Prof. Isaac Bleaman will be speaking on Yiddish varieties and what they could say about differences between communities. This meeting will be both in-person and on Zoom; if you would like the Zoom link for […]

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