“Linguistic Manifestations in Encounters of Loss” Barbra Meek University of Michigan The prediction for most aboriginal languages has been extinction and a scholarly orientation toward “loss.” However, many of these languages are still with us today, including those presumed lost. This means that someone somewhere has imagined a future for these languages, for current language […]
Continue reading →“Covering: Mutable Characteristics and Perceptions of (Masculine) Voice in the U.S. Supreme Court” Daniel Chen Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse School of Economics Using data on all 1,901 U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments between 1999 and 2013, we document that voice-based snap judgments based solely on the introductory sentences of lawyers predict Justices votes. The connection […]
Continue reading →LVC is pleased to announce the following talks for the Spring quarter! All talks will be at 3:00-4:30, unless otherwise noted. Locations TBA! — April 12 – Adam Singerman – joint with Morphosyntax workshop “Negation in Tupari” April 21 (12:15 PM) – Hans Boas (UT Austin) – joint with CLS “What can Texas German tell us about […]
Continue reading →Friday, April 1st at 3:00PM, location TBA Frames of reference in discourse: Spatial descriptions in Bashkir (Turkic) Tatiana Nikitina CNRS, Paris Cross-linguistic and individual variation in the use of spatial reference frames has been one of the central questions in the study of semantic typology (Pederson et al. 1998; Levinson 2003, inter alia). It is […]
Continue reading →Friday, March 1st @ 3:00PM in Rosenwald 015 Shepu or Mandarin? Attention and second order indexicality in a Chinese yoga studio Britta Ingebretson University of Chicago In this talk, I will examine how the phonetic qualities of language become mobilized in processes of second-order indexicality in a yoga studio in Huangshan, China. Shepu, a portmanteau […]
Continue reading →“How to construct a digital museum with a large scale web-archive” Yukinori Takubo Kyoto University In this talk we will propose a new design of a digital museum for endangered languages. Just like a real museum, the digital museum proposed here consists of (1) a storage space, where items are archived, and (2) an exhibition space, where […]
Continue reading →Friday, February 12th @ 3:00PM in Rosenwald 015 “Is ‘huh’ really a universal word? Clicks, kisses & whistles in Cameroon” Betsy Pillion, Sarah Kopper & Lenore Grenoble University of Chicago, MSU, University of Chicago Cameroon, a linguistically diverse country of more than 240 languages, is host to a set of cross- linguistic communicative signals that […]
Continue reading →LVC is pleased to announce the following updated schedule for our remaining talks of the Winter quarter. All will be held on Fridays from 3:00-4:30 in Rosenwald 015. February 12th: Betsy Pillion, Sarah Kopper & Lenore Grenoble (University of Chicago & MSU) “Is ‘huh’ really a universal word? Clicks, kisses & whistles in Cameroon” March 1st (TUES): Yukinori […]
Continue reading →Friday, December 4th @ 3:00PM in Rosenwald 301 Understanding Basque Differential Object Marking from Typological, Contact and Attitudinal perspectives Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Differential Object Marking (DOM) has enjoyed abundant scholarly interest insomuch as theoretical explanations of its key parameters (Aissen 2003; Malchukov and Swart 2008; Hoop and Swart 2007), language-specific constraints […]
Continue reading →Friday, November 13th @ 3:00 PM in Rosenwald 301 Language use in MOBA Gaming Communities Ross Burkholder University of Chicago In this talk I discuss a recent project investigating language use in Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) games, focusing in particular on language use in the community surrounding the game DOTA 2. During the course […]
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