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Charles B. Chang colloquium: ‘Phonological learning in multilingual contexts’

Charles B. Chang (Boston University) will present a colloquium titled ‘Phonological learning in multilingual contexts’. Click to join Zoom meeting. The passcode is 635410. (The meeting ID is 647 6334 5823.) Phonological learning in multilingual contexts This talk will report on recent and ongoing work examining aspects of phonological learning in the context of multilingualism. First, […]

Peggy Speas colloquium

Peggy Speas of the University of Massachusetts Amherst will present a colloquium. Click to join the Zoom meeting. The passcode is 635410. (The meeting ID is 647 6334 5823.) Time and Evidence in Matses and in General Fleck (2007) characterizes the Panoan language Matses as having “one of the most intricate evidential systems ever described.” In […]

Heather Burge Indigenous Language Representation in Linguistic Classrooms

This professional development workshop will present Indigenous perspectives on language, data, and representation in the classroom. The goal is to begin a discussion on how Indigenous languages can be represented in a way that aligns with Indigenous goals & Indigenous knowledge around language and language learning, and how TAʼs and professors can more respectfully engage […]

Judith Tonhauser colloquium

Judith Tonhauser (University of Stuttgart) will present a colloquium. Please note that this colloquium is taking place at a different time; i.e., in the morning, from 9:00 am – 10:30 am. Click to join Zoom meeting. The passcode is 635410. (The meeting ID is 647 6334 5823.) Projection variability in English and Paraguayan Guaraní Projective content […]

Eva Csipak & Sarah Zobel research seminar

Eva Csipak (UBC) & Sarah Zobel (Uni Oslo) will present a research seminar entitled “Discourse particles and the connection between conditionals and questions”. In this talk, we address the well-described observation that conditional antecedents and interrogative clauses show striking cross-linguistic similarities in their forms (e.g., Bhatt & Pancheva 2006) from a pragmatic point of view, […]

Ryan Bochnak research seminar

Ryan Bochnak (UBC) will present a research seminar entitled, “Degreefulness is the result of functional inventory, not a parameter” (joint work with Margit Bowler, Emily Hanink and Andrew Koontz-Garboden, University of Manchester) Beck et al (2010) propose the Degree Semantics Parameter (DSP), by which languages vary in the lexical semantics of their inventory of gradable predicates […]

Flash talks (part 2) research seminar

The event will be held via Zoom: ubc.zoom.us/j/64763345823.The passcode is 635410. (The meeting ID is 647 6334 5823.) The department will host a series of very brief flash talks on current research from students and faculty.  

Donka Farkas colloquium

The event will be held via Zoom: ubc.zoom.us/j/64763345823.The passcode is 635410. (The meeting ID is 647 6334 5823.) Donka Farkas (University of California Santa Cruz) will present a colloquium entitled, “Canonical and non-canonical questions and assertions”. Canonical and non-canonical questions and assertions The general issue addressed in this talk is how best to characterize canonical and non-canonical […]

Molly Babel, Megan Keough, Elise McClay and Lisa Matthewson research seminar

The event will be held via Zoom: ubc.zoom.us/j/64763345823.The passcode is 635410. (The meeting ID is 647 6334 5823.) Molly Babel, Megan Keough, Elise McClay and Lisa Matthewson will present a research seminar entitled “Being Bossy: Intonational meaning in English imperatives”. Abstract: English imperatives can be used to convey a range of different speech acts, including orders, requests, […]