Friday, March 8: Maria Polinsky (Maryland)

Please join us for our last Language Variation & Change workshop meeting of the quarter, this Friday, March 8th at 3:30 PM in Rosenwald 301. Our speaker will be Maria Polinsky (http://www.mariapolinsky.com/). Please see below for information about her talk. The Landscape of Exceptives Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland, College Park) Exceptives are constructions that […]

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Friday, March 30: Savithry Namboodiripad (UMich)

This week we will be hosting Savithry Namboodiripad of the University of Michigan. Her work focuses on how language contact affects linguistic variation, in particular constituent order in the world’s languages. Her dissertation examined this question in Malayalam via psycholinguistic experimental methodology (you can read more here: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2sv6z8bz). Please see below for information about her […]

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