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 […]

Please join us for this Friday, Feb. 10th from 15:30-17:00 in Cobb Hall 107 for the next LVC meeting. Jessica Kantarovich (UChicago) will be giving a practice job talk on her research in Chukchi morphosyntax (abstract forthcoming). The talk will also be available via Zoom; please email the workshop coordinators for the link.

LVC is happening this Friday, February 3rd from 15:30-17:00 in Cobb Hall 107. Our own Darragh Winkelman will be presenting on some of his ongoing qualifying paper research. Please join us! Ottoman Turkish Rendering of Perso-Arabic Borrowings. Perso-Arabic borrowings are ubiquitous in many forms of Anatolian Turkish, historical and modern. While some borrowings entered gradually […]

Please join us this Friday, January 20th from 15:30-17:00 in Cobb Hall 107 for the first LVC of the winter! Prof. Isaac Bleaman will be speaking on Yiddish varieties and what they could say about differences between communities. This meeting will be both in-person and on Zoom; if you would like the Zoom link for […]

Please join us this Friday, Dec. 2nd from 15:30-17:00 in Rosenwald 301 for the very last LVC of the quarter! Prof. Hilaria Cruz from the University of Louisville will be presenting on tone in Chatino. Note that she will be speaking in-person, but that we will also have a Zoom link for those who can’t […]

Please join us this Friday, Nov. 18 from 15:30-17:00 in Rosenwald 301. Dozandri Mendoza from UC Santa Barbara will be presenting on the linguistics of nightlife culture as it pertains to trans people. Note that Dozandri will be speaking over Zoom, but that we will watch together in Rosenwald. If you are unable to make […]

Last week UChicago’s own Corinne Kasper presented her ongoing dissertation work on L2 Potawatomi. Thanks to Corinne for a great talk! “L2 Potawatomi” Potawatomi is an endangered Algonquian language spoken around the Great Lakes. With fewer than a dozen fluent first language speakers, whose numbers were approximately halved during the current Covid-19 pandemic (Lewis under […]

Please join us this Friday, Nov. 4, at 15:30 in Rosenwald Hall, Rm. 301 for Prof. Petra Goedegebuure’s talk on the effects of linguistic contact in ancient Anatolia and what a particular instance of code-switching might tell us about this linguistic landscape. See abstract below: “‘The people of Hatti often speak about my match!’ A […]