Past Event Category: Talk
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Apr 29Fisher on morphosyntax of AAE475 Van Hise
AAE Morphosyntactic Feature Use Among High School Students: Effects on Sociolinguistic Awareness and School Discipline Sabriya Fisher, Wellesley College This talk examines use of AAE morphosyntactic features among high school students in two cities: Boston and Philadelphia. Using a Dialect Density Measure (DDM) and other measures of morphosyntactic feature use, I show (1) differences in …
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Apr 22Can Pixabaj on Mayan language MamOnline
The journey of a language and its speakers: Mam of the Chiapas-Guatemala border Telma Can Pixabaj CIMSUR-UNAM (Chiapas, Mexico) The aim of this talk is to share some findings about the state of the Mayan language Mam spoken by a community along the Chiapas-Guatemala border. This variety of Mam is considered at high risk of …
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Apr 15Litty on Historical Sociolinguistics475 Van Hise
Historical sociolinguistics in the digital age: Methods and approaches for analyzing multilingualism in the Duchy of Schleswig Samantha M. Litty, Europa-Universität Flensburg Principal Investigator, Visibilizing Normative Regional Historical Multilingualism: Ideology, Policy, Practice (ViNoRHM) Historically multilingual settings are often characterized by a hidden complexity due to the visibility (or lack thereof) of certain varieties (Davies et …
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Apr 1King on Race and language in the legal system475 Van Hise
Racialization as meaning-making: A multidisciplinary approach to race and language in the criminal legal system Sharese King, University of Chicago Despite progress in contiguous fields like sociology and anthropology in complicating essentialist or static views of race, linguistics has lagged in our theorizing of race and language, with our statement on such just being released …
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Mar 18dos Santos on Kawahíva RelativesOnline
Relativization in Kawahíva Wesley dos Santos, University of Texas-Austin and UW–Madison In many languages of the Americas and Asia, relativization is described as consisting of a nominalization that modifies another head noun (Yap et al. 2011; Zariquiey et al. 2019). From this perspective, it follows that relativization in these languages is achieved by the adnominal …
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Feb 25Pérez González on the Mocho’ Language Documentation Project
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What Can We Learn from the Mocho’ Language Documentation Project? Jaime Pérez González University of California, Santa Barbara In this presentation, I talk about strategies and methodologies that we have implemented in our community-based language documentation project dedicated to preserve and revitalize Mocho’, a highly endangered Mayan language. The project not only involved creating …
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Feb 18Reed on Place in Appalachian EnglishOnline
Rootedness, Language Variation, and Appalachia: Place’s place in language Paul E. Reed, University of Alabama Regional variation, that is, variation in linguistic productions by folks from different places, is one of the more widely noticed aspects of language in the United States and around the world. As such, recognizing the role of place and how …
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Jan 28Awai-Jennings on social meaning in use of Hawai`i Pidginonline
Da Kine Tawk: Identity and Social Meaning Through the Use of Basilectal Pidgin in Hawai`i Clint Awai-Jennings, Ohio State University In the State of Hawai`i, there are over 600,000 speakers of Hawai`i Creole English, known to its speakers as Pidgin. Pidgin emerged from the sugarcane plantations in the Hawaiian Kingdom during the last part of …
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Dec 3Jung, Ahn, & Cho on motion events in Korean and Russian367 Van Hise
L1 and L2 conceptualization and expression of motion events: the case of Korean and Russian Hakyung Jung (Professor, Department of Russian, Seoul National University, Korea) Hyug Ahn (Associate Professor, Department of Russian, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea) Jacee Cho (Associate Professor, Department of English and Language Sciences, UW–Madison) Abstract Languages across the world differ with respect …
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Nov 26Somers on early German Syntax367 Van Hise
The literization approach to early German syntax Katerina Somers, Department of German, Nordic, & Slavic+ In this talk I present a new approach to the study of early German syntax that focuses on each historical attestation as an ad hoc, individual literization—or scriptus (plural scripti)—of a speaker’s exclusively oral vernacular. I define literization as …