Please join us in Cobb Hall 301 on Friday at 15:30 for the very last LVC of the year! Perry Wong, from the Anthropology Department at UChicago, will be talking about Kunentenko. This week we will also have a Zoom option, so if you are unable to join us in-person, please reach out to the […]

Please join us once more on Friday at 15:30 in Cobb Hall 301! Our own Jaehong Shim will be presenting on his past and ongoing work with Korean. On the insubordination of the Korean nominalizer -(u)m This talk examines the phenomenon of insubordination in the Korean language, specifically with regard to the use of nominalized […]

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, […]

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 […]

Please join us this Friday from 15:30-17:00 in Cobb Hall 107 for the very first LVC of the spring quarter! We will be having a special guest all the way from Norway: Prof. Pia Lane, who specializes in multilingualism, language contact, and linguistic identity and policy. She will be speaking on language revitalization of the […]

Hi everyone! Unfortunately, Inî Mendoza’s talk on Mixtec, scheduled for tomorrow, is canceled due to illness. However, please stick around for the Fieldworkers’ Lab Panel happening in Cobb 301 at 17:00! Dinner will be provided.

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 […]

Please join us for this Friday, Feb. 10th from 15:30-17:00 in Cobb Hall 107 for the next LVC meeting. Jessica Kantarovich (UChicago) will be giving a practice job talk on her research in Chukchi morphosyntax (abstract forthcoming). The talk will also be available via Zoom; please email the workshop coordinators for the link.

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 […]

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 […]