Monday, February 25h @ 2:00 PM, Location TBA Verbal acts in the songs of the old Greek underworld In this talk I discuss the discourse patterns that emerge in the lyrics of Rebetiko, an urban folk music genre that flourished in the port of Athens in the early 20th century. In the 1920s, a ghetto […]
Continue reading →Monday, February 11th @ 12:30 PM, Social Sciences 302 The authentication of Sierra Leonean refugees Competing ideologies of the acoustic characteristics of voice During the Sierra Leone civil war, 1991–2002, many European countries granted asylum to Sierra Leonean refugees. Those without documentation were given an opportunity to participate in a language analysis interview. There are […]
Continue reading →Monday, January 28th @ 12:30 PM, Social Sciences 302 Allocutive agreement and forms of address in Basque As in many other languages, Basque has a T-V distinction in the second person: ‘hi’ (and related pronominal and agreement forms) is used with close relatives and friends, while ‘zu’ (and related morphemes) is the neutral form. Although […]
Continue reading →Monday, October 15th @ 3 PM, Harper 140 Amawaka Speakers’ Creative Uses of Morphosyntactic Variation in Cultural Context Abstract: The 250 to 300 remaining speakers of Amawaka reside in the Western Amazonian lowlands along either side of the border that divides Peru and Brazil. Residents of most Amawaka villages serendipitously juxtapose (1) a reified system […]
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