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 […]

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 […]