Please join us for the first LVC of the year this Friday, Oct. 21 from 15:30-17:00 in Rosenwald 301. Akshay Aitha will be presenting on identity among people of Telugu heritage in America. “Erasure and emergence: How Telugu-ness has evolved in the American diaspora” While caste, religion, and region are among the most important axes […]

Please join us for the first LVC of the year this Friday, Oct. 7 from 15:30-17:00 in Rosenwald 301. Steven Castro will be presenting on ongoing linguistic changes in Fiji Hindi. “Plural-marking strategies in Fiji Hindi: The grammaticalization of log“ Grammaticalization literature has tended to focus on past or already completed instances of grammaticalization through […]

The Workshop on Language Variation & Change will be meeting once again in-person on Fridays from 15:30-17:00 p.m. in Rosenwald 301, starting October 7th. Check out our fall quarter schedule for more information on upcoming presenters!

In light of recent epidemiological circumstances, the organizers of LVC will be suspending all workshop activities for the spring quarter. We had had a wonderful lineup of speakers planned, and we are truly disappointed to have to do this. We hope that you will join us in Fall 2020.

Please join us the final meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop for the winter quarter, this Friday, March 6, from 3:30-5pm in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. Time perspective in phonology and morphology, studies in descriptive paradox Perry Wong, University of Chicago The purpose of this paper is to locate the […]

Please join us this week for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, this Friday, February 28, from 3:30-5pm in Rosenwald 301. Eliciting silence: Ellipsis as a constraint on morphosyntactic variation in African American English Tracy Conner, University of California, Santa Barbara Labov’s (1969) research documented that African American English (AAE) allows two […]

Please join us this week for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, this Friday, February 21, from 3:30-5pm in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. Stative participles in Hazara Hindko Elena Bashir, University of Chicago I will discuss a stative participle construction in the Hindko spoken in Hazara Division in Pakistan. […]

Please join us this week for a joint meeting of the Semiotics: Culture in Context and Language Variation & Change workshops, this Friday, February 14, from 3:30-5pm in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. Raciolinguistic ideologies: Theory/method/politics Jonathan Rosa, Stanford University In scholarly and popular discourse alike, racial categories and linguistic forms are often […]

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop on Friday, February 7, at 3:30-5pm in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. Deixis and the linguistic anthropology of cinema Constantine Nakassis, University of Chicago As a contribution to what I am calling “a linguistic anthropology of cinema,” in this paper […]

Please join us this week for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, this Friday, January 24, at 3:30-5pm in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. The evidential system of Potawatomi Robert Lewis, University of Chicago This talk provides an overview of the evidential system in Potawatomi. I show that the evidential […]