Please join us once more in Cobb Hall 115 on Friday, October 27 at 3:30 PM, where Dr. Darya Kavitskaya of the University of California, Berkeley, will present on the historical developments of vowel harmony in Crimean Tatar. Dialects of Crimean Tatar: Fieldwork and Its Challenges Crimean Tatar is an understudied Turkic language, spoken mainly […]

Please join us once more in Cobb Hall 115 on Friday, October 20 at 3:30 PM, where our very own Anna-Marie Sprenger will be presenting on their upcoming fieldwork in Romania. Sound, Place, and Space in Iași, România: Fieldwork Preview How has the political situation in Eastern Romania affected the language practices of its residents? […]

Please join us in Cobb Hall 115 on Friday, October 13 at 3:30 PM for the first LVC of the year, hosted with our sister workshop Language Evolution and Processing! Dr. Matthew Goldrick, Professor of Linguistics and Psychology at Northwestern University, will be talking about the cognitive mechanisms of code-switching. This week we will also […]

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 […]