Past Event Category: Talk
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Feb 2Charity Hudley on Black linguistic cultural reparations
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An Educational Model for Black Linguistic and Cultural Reparations Anne Charity Hudley, Stanford University Abstract: This current time of pandemics and protests is a visceral and constant reminder that the racial and economic legacies of slavery were not only unresolved but continue to determine the course of our daily lives. Few universities have attempted to …
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Feb 2Sámi revitalization brown bag talk
South and Lule Sámi Language Revitalization and Nord University, Norway Professors Inger Johansen and Asbjørn Kolberg Co-sponsored by the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+, Language Sciences, the Language Institute, Enwejig Indigenous Language Advocates, the Center for European Studies, and the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures. Sámi Language Revitalization flier
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Dec 9Ling Fridays: Weber on Blackfoot prosody
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The synchrony and diachrony of prosodic structure in Blackfoot Linguistics Fridays Colloquia talk Natalie Weber, Yale University Phonological processes are frequently limited to particular prosodic constituents arranged into a hierarchical prosodic structure (Hayes 1989; Nespor & Vogel 1986; Selkirk 1986, 2011). It is an open question how diachronic changes in prosodic structure condition reanalysis …
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Dec 2Ling Fridays: Hou on sign language acquisition
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Giving 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 sign languages, including emerging ones, tends to emphasize the role of input of a ‘critical mass of signers’ in educational …
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Nov 18Ling Fridays: Elliot on Enxet Sur morphology
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The 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 [ISO639-3:enx], an Enlhet-Enenlhet language of the Paraguayan Chaco, uses a complex and cross-linguistically unusual standard negation construction in which a confluence of multiple …
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Nov 14Ling Fridays: Natvig on sound change
201 Van Hise
What 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 201, and will also (hopefully) be livestreamed online. I discuss in this talk phonetic and phonological change, with a …
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Nov 4Ling Fridays: Bigolin on Italian verb morphology
206 Van Hise
A 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 I provide an overview of Talmy’s (2000) typology of motion and change events and I discuss the advantages of adopting …
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Oct 28Ling Fridays: Namboodiripad on contact-induced change
An 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 asks how the relationship between language experience and processing/acceptability might help explain contact and change in the ordering of subjects, …
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Oct 21Ling Fridays: Camacho-Rios on verbs of motion in Quechuaonline
Associated 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 an undocumented variety of South Bolivian Quechua (SBQ). To understand the orientation of this polysemy, the deictic center must be …
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Apr 29Ling Fridays: AnderBois on A’ingae morphology
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Documenting 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 by ~1,500 people in Amazonian Ecuador and Colombia. Our team is collecting an online corpus of annotated video and audio …