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
The LinguisticsNEW workshop brings together the linguistics departments at UBC and Simon Fraser University to discuss our recent work and generally build community. This year it will consist of two rounds of poster sessions. If you would like to present your work, submit an abstract here.