Events

Oct 16

Ling Fridays: ELAN Workshop

Wesley dos Santos

October 16, 2026 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm 254 Van Hise

Introduction to ELAN Assistant Professor Wesley dos Santos, Language Sciences Program In this session, I will introduce ELAN, one of the most standard software tools used in language documentation and other linguistics projects. ELAN is described as: “an annotation tool for audio and video recordings. With ELAN a user can add an unlimited number of textual …

Oct 23

Syntax Circle

October 23, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am 1120 Van Hise

SynC is a space to discuss all things syntax, including syntax documentation, description, and theoretical work, especially related to under-described and under-represented languages, and topics relevant to syntacticians. This month the circle will discuss the following reading: Chapters 1 & 2 of The Merge Hypothesis: A theory of aspects of syntax (Hornstein, 2024) Contact organizers …

Nov 13

Ling Fridays: Sprenger on individual variation

Anna Marie Sprenger

November 13, 2026 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm TBD

Beyond Gay /s/: Speaker-Level Variation in a Queer Romanian Community Anna-Marie Sprenger, Chicago What does it mean to sound queer in a place where queerness itself is precarious and unevenly legible? This talk examines /s/ production among queer speakers in Iași, Romania, drawing on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork and 12,574 /s/ tokens from 15 …

Nov 20

Syntax Circle

November 20, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am 1120 Van Hise

SynC is a space to discuss all things syntax, including syntax documentation, description, and theoretical work, especially related to under-described and under-represented languages, and topics relevant to syntacticians. This month the circle will hear an LSA practice talk by our Linguistics PhD student Yongjia Deng. Contact organizers Grant Armstrong and Wesley dos Santos with questions.