Hello everyone! For the Spring 2015 quarter, LVC is pleased to announce the following talks. Please be attentive to start times and rooms.

Friday, April 17th: Asia Pietraszko (Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago); joint presentation with the Workshop on Language, Cognition, and Computation
“The morphology of compound tenses in Ndebele”

Friday, May 8th: Professor Jerrold Sadock (Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago)
“West Yiddish: The Extinct Ethnolect of German Jews”

Tuesday, June 2nd: Katie Franich (Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago)
11am: Wieboldt 130
“Finding the Beat in a Tone Language”

Friday, June 5th: Professor John Haviland (Department of Linguistics, UC San Diego); joint presentation with the Semiotics Workshop
1:30pm: Social Sciences 122
“Complementary indexicalities: gaze, pointing, and conversational scaffolding in an emerging sign language”

Monday, June 8th: Professor Petra Goedegebuure (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations & the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
3:30pm: Rosenwald 432
“The rise of split ergativity (or rather split accusativity) in Hittite”

Tuesday, June 9th: Adam Singerman (Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago)
12pm: Rosenwald 011