Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, Friday, January 17, at 3:30-5pm in Rosenwald 301. Cross-word nasal harmony in Ebrié Hannah Sande, Georgetown University I present data collected with three speakers of Ebrié (Kwa) in Côte d’Ivoire in Summer 2019 showing a cross-word nasal harmony process that affects both consonants and vowels: […]

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop this Friday, December 6, at 3:30-5pm in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. Argument structural variation in a shifting linguistic community: Findings from a controlled production study of Chukchi Jessica Kantarovich, University of Chicago Speakers in endangered language communities often evidence […]

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop this Friday, November 8, at 3:30-5pm in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. How de-Castilianized is this Maya? Bilingualism and the emerging Yucatec Maya standard Christopher Bloechl, University of Chicago This talk describes a feature of standardized Yucatec Maya that would […]

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop this Friday, November 8, at 3:30-5pm in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. The past is upriver: Documenting Wauja (Xingu Arawak) ecologies of language in Brazil Christopher Ball, University of Notre Dame This talk describes the aims and methods of an […]

Please join us for our yearly Fieldwork Recap, hosted by the Language Variation & Change workshop, Friday, October 25 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. A light Halloween-themed reception will follow. Ömer Eren, Corinne Kasper, and Jessica Kantarovich will talk about their ongoing fieldwork on Laz, Potawatomi, and Chukchi. Fieldwork recaps provide members of the department […]

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, this Friday, October 18 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. Light refreshments will be served. Language is complex, not complicated…and what it shares in common with seemingly unrelated phenomena Michał B. Paradowski, University of Warsaw A growing body of 21st-century research has sought […]

Please join us for the first meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop of the 2019-20 academic year. We ask you to note the exceptional time and location: Saturday, October 12 at 3:30pm, on the third floor of Ida Noyes (1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637). Professor Cruz’s lecture is the last event […]

Please join us for the final meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop of the 2019-20 academic year. Daniel Lam will be presenting on his research this Friday, May 24 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. Determiner-noun fusion in Haitian Creole: A statistical learning perspective Daniel Lam, UChicago Since its inception, creole linguistics has been […]

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, this Friday, April 12 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. Number, animacy, and inalienability in Hopi possessive constructions Hannah McElgunn, UChicago This talk is a first attempt to understand the interaction between number and animacy in Hopi possessive constructions in relation to Smith-Stark’s […]

Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, this Friday, April 26 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. Modeling dynamic processes of language emergence in creole genesis Marlyse Baptista, Jinho Baik, Ken Kollman, and Alton Worthington University of Michigan This paper features an agent-based model of language creation and acquisition that […]