Please join us for the final LVC session of the quarter, today, December 1st, at 3:30 PM in Rosenwald 301. We’ll hear about fieldwork with very different languages, in a variety of places. Our speakers will be Carlos Cisneros, Ksenia Ershova, Jessica Kantarovich, and Tran Truong.
Continue reading →LVC will host Tatiana Nikitina of CNRS – Paris at an unconventional time: this Monday, November 20th at 3:30 PM in Cobb 202. Information about her talk is below. As usual, there will be a reception after the talk and an opportunity to talk more with the speaker. Discourse reporting in narrative performance: A case […]
Continue reading →The Language Variation and Change workshop will host its first fieldwork recap session this Friday, November 17th at 3:30 PM in Rosenwald 301. Come learn where students are doing their fieldwork, their methods, and the challenges they face. This week we’ll hear from Hilary McMahan, Cherry Meyer, Kat Montemurro, and Adam Singerman! A small reception […]
Continue reading →Welcome to another year of the Language Variation and Change workshop! The current schedule for this quarter is given below; check back here for updates throughout the quarter and also look for individual announcements. If you would like to be added to the LVC mailing list, please email jkantarovich@uchicago.edu. Friday, October 6th at 3:30 PM […]
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 →Please join us for a talk by visiting speaker Lev Michael of the University of California Berkeley. The talk will be Friday, April 14th at 3:30 PM in Rosenwald 011. Refreshments will be provided. Hope to see you there! “Lexical homology in computational phylogenetics: A comparative Tupí-Guaraní” Lev Michael UC Berkeley
Continue reading →Please find below the preliminary spring schedule for the Language Variation and Change workshop. All talks will be held in Rosenwald 011, unless otherwise noted. Friday, 4/14 at 3:30: Lev Michael (UC Berkeley), Lexical homology in computational phylogenetics: A comparative Tupí-Guaraní case study Friday, 4/28 at 3:30: Cécile Vigouroux (Simon Frasier University) Monday, 5/8 at […]
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 […]
Continue reading →Please join us this Friday, February 24th at 1PM in Rosenwald 208 for a joint meeting of LVC and the Morphology & Syntax workshops. Our speaker will be Adam Singerman. “Finite embedding and quotation in Tuparí” Adam Roth Singerman University of Chicago Tuparí (Tupían; Brazil) has innovated a finite embedding construction that bears the structural […]
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