Eleanor Chodroff (University of Zürich) will give a virtual colloquium via Zoom. To participate, register for it with Zoom. This process will result in you receiving a Zoom link. The additional nuisance is regrettable but necessary.
Panelists Drs. Guofang Li (Professor of LLED and Canada Research Chair, Mandarin/multilingualism), Zoe Lam (Lecturer in Asian Studies, Cantonese), Asma Afreen (LLED graduate, Bangla), and Joash Gambarage (Linguistics, Swahili) will discuss their respective heritage language education projects with speaker communities. The panel is moderated by Dr. Molly Babel. RSVP (for in-person or virtual attendance): https://languagesciences.ubc.ca/events/panel-sustaining-multilingualism-heritage-language-education-diverse-communities IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/DFV_EZBhDVn/ FB: https://shorturl.at/apEO9
Alexis K. Black will give a research seminar. Title: Decoding words: using brain and behaviour to understand how we perceive and learn about chunks of sound Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss two lines of research in my lab that aim to understand how we perceive and learn about words. In the first half, […]
Scott AnderBois (Brown University) will give an in-person colloquium. Title: Discourse coherence and the typology of conjunction Abstract: Typological and formal literature on conjunction often assumes that conjunction involves a cluster of properties across different levels of the grammar (e.g. cross-categoriality, a flat syntactic structure, restrictions on extraction such as the Coordinate Structure Constraint). Although various […]
Dr. Ross Perlin shares his insights from his book Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York. He follows six remarkable yet ordinary speakers of endangered languages deep into their communities to learn how they are maintaining and reviving their languages against overwhelming odds. RSVP for in-person or virtual attendance: https://languagesciences.ubc.ca/events/book-talk-language-city-dr-perlins-insights-preserving-endangered-mother-tongues IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/DE267EqTgzo/ FB: https://shorturl.at/e4GAm
Elena Castroviejo-Miró (University of the Basque Country) will give a virtual colloquium via Zoom. This will take place at an unusual time in the morning. To participate, register for it with Zoom. This process will result in you receiving a Zoom link. The additional nuisance is regrettable but necessary. Commitments and speech acts: an empirical […]
Martina Martinović (McGill) will give an in-person colloquium. The title and abstract are below. Clitics in Wolof: Syntax all the way up This talk explores the properties and placement of Wackernagel-like clitics in the Niger-Congo language Wolof. I affirm the proposal initially put forth by Dunigan (1994), that Wolof clitics move to the highest head […]
Linguistics doctoral student Starr Sandoval will give a Linguistics Outside the Classroom colloquium. On responsible drivers and good passengers: the influence of quality modifiers on nouns A noun modified by a subsective adjective is standardly said to denote a subset of the unmodified noun’s extension; skillful surgeon is a subset of surgeon (Siegel 1976, […]
Eleanor Chodroff virtual colloquium
Scott AnderBois colloquium
Martina Martinović colloquium
Starr Sandoval LOC colloquium