Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, this Friday, April 19 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. Up north there eh?: Fieldwork, variation and explaining (socio)linguistic patterns Sali A. Tagliamonte, University of Toronto In this talk, I will offer insights from the Ontario Dialects Project, which has been documenting ways […]
Continue reading →Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, next Friday, April 12 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. Please see below for our other talks this quarter. Minor languages of Balochistan & Sindh, with special reference to the Brahui language and its phonetics and phonology Saeed Ahmed Lehri, University of Balochistan […]
Continue reading →Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, next Thursday, April 11 at 4:30pm, in Haskell 101. A reception will follow. Introducing Mayan from Cunén: Constructing an ethnography from the inside out Perry Wong, UChicago Summary: I provide an introduction to the focal site for this study: Cunén, El Quiché, […]
Continue reading →Please join us for our last Language Variation & Change workshop meeting of the quarter, this Friday, March 8th at 3:30 PM in Rosenwald 301. Our speaker will be Maria Polinsky (http://www.mariapolinsky.com/). Please see below for information about her talk. The Landscape of Exceptives Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland, College Park) Exceptives are constructions that […]
Continue reading →Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change workshop, this Friday, March 1 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. This workshop coincides with our prospective student visit. A reception will follow. Who owns the local sound change? Sharese King, UChicago Recent work has illustrated considerable regional variation across and within African Americans’ […]
Continue reading →Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change Workshop, this Friday, February 15 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. Patterns and parallels in Greek orthography of Egyptian names in Late Antiquity Ella Karev, UChicago The fifty-two Greek texts in the corpus of papyri from Elephantine are an […]
Continue reading →Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change Workshop, this Friday, February 8 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. Following the talk, please join us for the fieldworkers’ social at the Pub. Social context and lexical structure in homesign systems Laura Horton, UChicago In this talk, I will present an analysis of […]
Continue reading →Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change Workshop, this Friday, February 1 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. Properties of para-phonemic sounds: Clicks in American English Betsy Pillion, UChicago Clicks in English are known to occur in transitional periods of talk, during word searches and as […]
Continue reading →Please join us for a meeting of the Language Variation & Change Workshop, this Friday, January 25 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. Motivating ‘exceptional’ animates in Ojibwe: the link between gender and classifiers Cherry Meyer, UChicago The Algonquian language of Ojibwe has both a gender system and a classifier system. […]
Continue reading →Please join us for this quarter’s first meeting of the Language Variation & Change Workshop, this Friday, January 18 at 3:30pm, in Rosenwald 301. A light reception will follow. On object shift, ergativity, and microvariation in Inuit Michelle Yuan, UChicago This talk investigates variation in the ergative system of the Inuit dialect continuum, for which […]
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