Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop this Friday, November 8, at 3:30-5pm in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. The past is upriver: Documenting Wauja (Xingu Arawak) ecologies of language in Brazil Christopher Ball, University of Notre Dame This talk describes the aims and methods of an […]

Please join us for our yearly Fieldwork Recap, hosted by the Language Variation & Change workshop, Friday, October 25 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. A light Halloween-themed reception will follow. Ömer Eren, Corinne Kasper, and Jessica Kantarovich will talk about their ongoing fieldwork on Laz, Potawatomi, and Chukchi. Fieldwork recaps provide members of the department […]

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, this Friday, October 18 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. Light refreshments will be served. Language is complex, not complicated…and what it shares in common with seemingly unrelated phenomena Michał B. Paradowski, University of Warsaw A growing body of 21st-century research has sought […]

Please join us for the first meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop of the 2019-20 academic year. We ask you to note the exceptional time and location: Saturday, October 12 at 3:30pm, on the third floor of Ida Noyes (1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637). Professor Cruz’s lecture is the last event […]

Please join us for the final meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop of the 2019-20 academic year. Daniel Lam will be presenting on his research this Friday, May 24 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. Determiner-noun fusion in Haitian Creole: A statistical learning perspective Daniel Lam, UChicago Since its inception, creole linguistics has been […]

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, this Friday, April 12 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. Number, animacy, and inalienability in Hopi possessive constructions Hannah McElgunn, UChicago This talk is a first attempt to understand the interaction between number and animacy in Hopi possessive constructions in relation to Smith-Stark’s […]

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, this Friday, April 26 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. Modeling dynamic processes of language emergence in creole genesis Marlyse Baptista, Jinho Baik, Ken Kollman, and Alton Worthington University of Michigan This paper features an agent-based model of language creation and acquisition that […]

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, this Friday, April 19 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. Up north there eh?: Fieldwork, variation and explaining (socio)linguistic patterns Sali A. Tagliamonte, University of Toronto In this talk, I will offer insights from the Ontario Dialects Project, which has been documenting ways […]

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, next Friday, April 12 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. Please see below for our other talks this quarter. Minor languages of Balochistan & Sindh, with special reference to the Brahui language and its phonetics and phonology Saeed Ahmed Lehri, University of Balochistan […]

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, next Thursday, April 11 at 4:30pm, in Haskell 101. A reception will follow. Introducing Mayan from Cunén: Constructing an ethnography from the inside out Perry Wong, UChicago Summary: I provide an introduction to the focal site for this study: Cunén, El Quiché, […]