Ling Fridays – Hu: Multilingual NLP
OnlineMultilingual NLP: Cross-lingual Transfer Learning and Applications Junjie Hu, UW-Madison, Biostatistics & Computer Science Over the last decade, the phenomenal success of NLP systems has been mostly driven by deep neural networks and supervised machine …
Ling Fridays – Tejedo & Doroga: Negative Analogy
OnlineNegative Analogy: A New Direction for Analogical Change Fernando Tejedo (UW-Madison, Spanish & Portuguese) and Jason Doroga (Ouachita Baptist University) Analogy is generally described in historical linguistics as a mechanism of linguistic change that …
Ling Fridays – Vasquez: Existentials & Locatives in Ibero-Romance
OnlineTo Be, You Need a Place: A Diachronic Outlook of Current Existential and Locative Expressions in Ibero-Romance Luis Fernando Vazquez, UW-Madison, Spanish & Portuguese This study explores the current situation of thetic (i.e., existential) and …
Ling Fridays – AnderBois: A’ingae Language Documentation Project
OnlineDocumenting Switch Reference in A'ingae Scott AnderBois, Brown University In this talk, I present an overview of the A'ingae Language Documentation Project, a collaborative project to document A'ingae (Cofán, ISO code: con), and isolate spoken …
Ling Fridays: Camacho-Rios on Quechua motion verbs
OnlineAssociated motion and direction in South Bolivian Quechua Linguistics Fridays Colloquia talk Gladys Camacho-Rios University of Texas at Austin Online (Email rashields@wisc.edu for the link) This talk discusses associated motion (AM)/directional polysemy in …
Ling Fridays: Namboodiripad on contact-induced change
OnlineAn experimental approach to contact-induced change: Characterizing "contact" Linguistics Fridays Colloquia talk Savithry Namboodiripad University of Michigan Online (Email rashields@wisc.edu for the link) How does language contact contribute to cross-linguistic variation? This talk …
Ling Fridays: Bigolin on Italian verb-particle constructions
206 Van HiseA morphosyntactic approach to Talmy’s typology. The case of Italian verb-particle constructions Linguistics Fridays Colloquia talk Alessandro Bigolin PhD student, Universtat Autonoma de Barcelona In person in 206 Van Hise Hall In this talk …
Ling Fridays: Natvig on phonological chain shifts
201 Van HiseWhat chain shifts tell us about phonological substance in sound change Linguistics Fridays Colloquia talk David Natvig, University of Stavanger - Norway Note time and location change! Hybrid modality: in person in Van Hise …
Ling Fridays: Elliot on Negation in Enxet Sur
OnlineThe Path(s) to Zero Negation in Enxet Sur Linguistics Fridays Colloquia talk John Elliot Post-doctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Online (Email rashields@wisc.edu for the link) Enxet Sur , an Enlhet-Enenlhet …
Ling Fridays: Hou on Directional Verbs in home sign
OnlineGiving puppies: Children’s development of directional verbs in making hands Linguistics Fridays Colloquia talk Lina Hou, University of California, Santa Barbara Online (Email rashields@wisc.edu for the link) Existing research on child acquisition of …