Please join us in Cobb Hall 202 on Friday, January 19 at 3:30 PM for the first LVC of the Winter Quarter! Our very own Kutay Serova will be talking about vowel harmony alternation in singular dative pronouns. Dative Pronoun Alternation in Turkic Languages: A Phonological Analysis and Diachronic Family-Internal Typology  Turkic languages are a […]

Please join us in Cobb Hall 115 on Friday, November 10 at 3:30 PM for the last LVC meeting of the quarter, where Prof. Lisa Davidson will be presenting on the phonology of Hawai‘an. Acoustic correlates to levels of stress in Hawaiian (ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi) Phonological analyses of metrical structure in Hawaiian (ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi) have posited […]

Please join us once more in Cobb Hall 115 on Friday, November 3 at 3:30 PM, where our very own Steven Castro will be presenting on his upcoming fieldwork in Fiji. Language Use Among Mixed-Race Individuals in the Fiji Islands: A Fieldwork Preview How has Fiji’s complex history with contact, linguistic, racial, and cultural mixing […]

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 […]