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 →Please find the schedule for this quarter’s Language Variation & Change meetings below. All meetings will take place at 3:30 pm in Rosenwald 301. Week 1, 3/30: Savithry Namboodiripad (University of Michigan) Week 2, 4/6: Alan Yu (Linguistics, UChicago) Week 3, 4/13: Emily Smith (NELC, UChicago) Week 4, 4/20: Ashwini Deo (OSU) Week 7, 5/11: […]
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 →This week the Language Variation & Change workshop is pleased to host Jack Martin from the College of William and Mary. He specializes in the documentation of numerous native languages of the American south. You can learn more about his work here. His talk will take place on Friday, February 23rd at 3:30 pm in RO 301. […]
Continue reading →Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop this Friday, February 16th at 3:30 pm in Rosenwald 301. Our speaker will be E-Ching Ng, who is doing her postdoc in the Linguistics Department. Please see below for details about her talk. “Word-final vowel epenthesis: An L2 sound change?” E-Ching Ng […]
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 →This Friday, January 26th, LVC will host a talk by Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. We will meet at the usual time, 3:30 pm in Rosenwald 301. Information about her talk is below. Hope you can make it! “Dative or no dative: The function of the morpheme -iš in […]
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 →Below is the schedule of talks for Winter 2018. All talks will be at 3:30 PM in Rosenwald 301, unless otherwise noted. Week 2 (1/12): Yaroslav Gorbachov (UChicago), “Slavic ‘animacy’/’virility’ as a contact phenomenon?” Week 3 (1/19 at 12:30 PM in Classics 110): Isaac Bleaman (NYU), “Hasidic Yiddish Syntax on the Internet: Competing Trends […]
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