Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, this Friday, March 1 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. This workshop coincides with our prospective student visit. A reception will follow. Who owns the local sound change? Sharese King, UChicago Recent work has illustrated considerable regional variation across and within African Americans’ […]

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change Workshop, this Friday, February 15 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. Patterns and parallels in Greek orthography of Egyptian names in Late Antiquity Ella Karev, UChicago The fifty-two Greek texts in the corpus of papyri from Elephantine are an […]

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change Workshop, this Friday, February 8 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. Following the talk, please join us for the fieldworkers’ social at the Pub. Social context and lexical structure in homesign systems Laura Horton, UChicago In this talk, I will present an analysis of […]

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change Workshop, this Friday, February 1 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. Properties of para-phonemic sounds: Clicks in American English Betsy Pillion, UChicago Clicks in English are known to occur in transitional periods of talk, during word searches and as […]

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change Workshop, this Friday, January 25 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. Motivating ‘exceptional’ animates in Ojibwe: the link between gender and classifiers Cherry Meyer, UChicago The Algonquian language of Ojibwe has both a gender system and a classifier system. […]

Please join us for this quarter’s first meeting of the Language Variation & Change Workshop, this Friday, January 18 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. On object shift, ergativity, and microvariation in Inuit Michelle Yuan, UChicago This talk investigates variation in the ergative system of the Inuit dialect continuum, for which […]

Please join us for this quarter’s final meeting of the Language Variation & Change Workshop, this Friday, December 7 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. In search for Greek-Egyptian lexicon: methodologies of analysis Sofia Torallas-Tovar, UChicago The sources we have for the Egyptian variant of post-classical Greek spoken and written in […]

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change Workshop, this Friday, November 16 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. Ideophones…beyond expressiveness Natalia Bermúdez, UChicago In this talk, I look at the humorous use of ideophones in Naso (Chibchan, Panama) through a social lens, and show what it […]

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change Workshop, this Friday, November 16 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. Masculinity and coarticulation influence sibilant categorization in nonce words Jacob Phillips, UChicago Previous research has found that listeners shift category boundaries in response to both coarticulatory context and […]

On Friday, October 19, at 11:30am in Harper 141, LVC will be holding a joint meeting with the Morphology & Syntax workshop (please note the special time and place!). Joanne Vera Stolk (University of Oslo) will be presenting on non-standard spelling and morphology in Greek. Please find the abstract below: Hearing Greek, writing Coptic? Explaining non-standard spelling and morphology in […]