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SUMMARY:Reading James Baldwin through the Lens of Black Deaf and Disability Studies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a public conversation with Dr. Rezenet Moges-Riedel on reading Baldwin through a Black Deaf and Disability Studies lens on Thursday\, April 10. Dr. Moges-Riedel is an Assistant Professor and Co-Assistant Director of the ASL Linguistics and Deaf Cultures Program at California State University Long Beach. She is a linguistic anthropologist and a leading scholar of D/deaf identity and intersectionality\, in particular how D/deaf culture intersects with race and gender in different societies\, and has conducted research on the intersectional experiences and retention of deaf faculty of color working at postsecondary institutions. Her concept of “Black Deaf Gain” rethinks the provocative concept of “deaf gain” (rather than hearing loss) from a racialized perspective. \nDr. Moges-Riedel will be in conversation with Dr. Kelsey Henry\, Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in Race and Ethnicity Studies in the Society of Fellows and Lecturer in the Humanities Council and African American Studies. Dr. Henry is an interdisciplinary historian whose work integrates perspectives from Black studies\, histories of science and medicine\, and disability studies\, and her research focuses on histories of race\, antiblackness\, and developmental disability within the United States. In this conversation\, Dr. Moges-Riedel and Dr. Henry will reflect on their experiences researching and teaching in Black Disability Studies and Black Deaf Studies in dialogue with James Baldwin’s writings\, including Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time. In this stimulating discussion\, they will focus on how James Baldwin’s ideas might help us think about the building of various Black identities and the state of the civil rights movement today\, including the possibly/soon-to-dismantled Section 504 and other Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion policies—urgent issues of our time. The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Timothy Loh\, Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows and Lecturer in the Humanities Council and Anthropology. \nThis event was organized by Timothy Loh and Noah Buchholz\, Senior Lecturer in the Humanities Council and the Program in Linguistics and Director of the American Sign Language Program.
URL:https://linguistics.princeton.edu/event/reading-james-baldwin-through-the-lens-of-black-deaf-and-disability-studies/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Canonical and non-canonical conversion in Baltic
DESCRIPTION:Conversion is best known from languages like English where nouns may be used as verbs and vice versa without any formal marking\, e.g.\, email (n) – email (v)\, walk (v) – walk (n). Such pairs can be interpreted either as instances of derivation without overt affixation or as cases of lexical multifunctionality. I pose the question of whether the concept of conversion can be successfully applied to inflectionally rich languages like Latvian and Lithuanian (Baltic\, Indo-European)\, and argue for recognizing a continuum of phenomena based on the canonical typology approach developed by Greville G. Corbett and colleagues. I begin with canonical cases of conversion where the change of word class has no formal expression\, and move on to less canonical examples characterized by inflectional class change\, vowel\, consonant\, and tone alternations. \n  \nJurgis Pakerys is a professor of Baltic linguistics at the Department of Baltic Studies\, Vilnius University. His recent research includes studies on derivational networks\, verbal inflection classes\, and onomatopoeia\, as well as on transitivity pairs and morphological and periphrastic causative constructions in the Baltic languages. Currently\, he focuses on interpreting conversion in Baltic and evaluating derivational productivity in Lithuanian.
URL:https://linguistics.princeton.edu/event/jurgis-pakerys/
LOCATION:1-S-5 Green Hall\, 1-S-5 Green Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:Princeton Phonology Forum (PɸF 2025) - Sound Patterns and Human History
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URL:https://linguistics.princeton.edu/event/princeton-phonology-forum-p%c9%b8f-2025-sound-patterns-and-human-history/
LOCATION:Friend Center Convocation Room (Rm 113) and via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Revitalizing Lunaapeew: Bridging Disciplines and Collaborating Efforts for a Vibrant Linguistic Future
DESCRIPTION:This lecture is co-sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)\, Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES)\, Program in Linguistics\, and Department of Spanish and Portuguese. \n  \nIn an era where indigenous languages face the threat of extinction\, the revitalization of the Lunaapeew language emerges as a beacon of cultural resilience and linguistic heritage. Exploring innovative approaches to breathe new life into Lunaapeew\, a polysynthetic language rich in complexity and expressive capability. By employing the root word method\, this study delves into the intricate structure of Lunaapeew\, highlighting how its morphemes combine to create meaning. Studying and analyzing key root words reveals the foundation of the language\, illustrating the dynamic process of word formation and the cultural narratives embedded within. This revitalization effort not only aims to preserve the Lunaapeew language but also fosters a deeper understanding of its grammatical framework\, empowering the community\, future generations\, and linguists alike. Through collaborative educational initiatives and immersive language programs\, we demonstrate that Lunaapeew is not merely a means of communication but a vital link to identity and heritage. This revitalization journey exemplifies the power of language as a living entity that can adapt\, thrive\, and reconnect future generations to their ancestral roots. \n  \nAbout Velma Noah-Nicholas \nI am known as Velma Noah-Nicholas\, but my real name is Medweanakwedokwe. I am of the Turkey clan from Eelunaapeewi Lahkeewiit. I currently hold the position of Lunaapeew Language Coordinator for Kinoomadziwin Education Body. \nI have been an Ontario-certified Teacher for 17 years and have worked in all areas and levels of Education. I began my language-learning journey as a college student and haven’t looked back. Although I am the daughter of a residential school survivor\, my language has been a passion since my children were young.  \nI graduated from Lakehead University with a Native Language Instructors Diploma in 2009. Following this\, I attended Queen’s University to complete a Diploma in Education. I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences\, majoring in Indigenous Studies. Currently\, I am a Master’s student in the Indigenous Language Revitalization Program at the University of Victoria\, and I am looking forward to graduating in 2026.  \n I am always eager to contribute and learn in this amazing language work that I love\, and assist others in their language journeys.
URL:https://linguistics.princeton.edu/event/revitalizing-lunaapeew-bridging-disciplines-and-collaborating-efforts-for-a-vibrant-linguistic-future/
LOCATION:1-S-5 Green Hall\, 1-S-5 Green Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:The synchrony\, diachrony\, and anachrony of Sievers’s Law in Gothic
DESCRIPTION:Sievers’s Law in Germanic refers to the realization of yod + vowel sequences as nonvocalic after light syllables (*V̆CjV)\, but vocalic after heavy syllables (*V̄CijV\, *VCCijV). The resulting allomorphy has left important traces in the nominal and verbal inflection of Old English and other older Germanic languages\, but in Gothic\, phonologically the most archaic Germanic language\, SL is widely assumed to have still been a synchronic phonological process. Recent studies have analyzed SL in terms of syllable structure or “prosodic optimization”\, setting up repair rules or constraints to generate the attested outcomes. However\, it is argued from the existence of variant forms and widespread occurrence of superheavy syllables that SL was in fact no longer part of the synchronic grammar of Gothic\, and that the relevant alternations were morphologically conditioned just as in the other Germanic languages. This finding not only contributes to our understanding of Gothic phonology\, but highlights the importance of clearly distinguishing synchrony from diachrony and taking full account of variation\, loanwords\, and other often overlooked evidence in premodern languages. \nRonald I. Kim ’96 is Associate Professor in the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. His research interests include the historical linguistics of Indo-European and Semitic as well as language typology\, sociolinguistics\, language contact\, and dialectology. He is author of two monographs and over 80 articles dealing with all aspects of Indo-European linguistics\, and has held research grants from the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic and Polish National Science Centre. Kim is also coeditor of the journal Indo-European Linguistics and editor of several volumes\, including Uriel Weinreich’s Languages in Contact (2011)\, Diachronic Perspectives on Suppletion (2019)\, and Hrozný and Hittite: The First Hundred Years (2019). \nThis lecture is sponsored by the Program in Linguistics and the Department of Classics. Lunch will be provided.
URL:https://linguistics.princeton.edu/event/the-synchrony-diachrony-and-anachrony-of-sieverss-law-in-gothic/
LOCATION:0-S-6 Green Hall
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SUMMARY:APOLLOPOP
DESCRIPTION:It has been clear since the 1890s that some pieces of ancient Greek vocal music display a correlation between the melody that is inherent in the text\, on the one hand\, and the melody to which is it sung\, on the other. The Delphic hymns (127 BCE) provide the fullest picture of that phenomenon. For example\, there is good\, non-musical evidence that the circumflex accent marked a high-to-low fall in linguistic tone. Correspondingly\, in the Delphic hymns\, circumflected syllables are usually sung to a two-note falling interval. In other words\, linguistic tone and musical melody usually fall in parallel. \nNineteenth century scholars (Crusius\, Wackernagel) made three astute generalizations about the correlation\, e.g. that the accented syllable of a word is sung at least as high as any of its other syllables. With a few interesting exceptions\, little has been added since. Current handbook treatments of the topic essentially consist of those three rules. \nOutside of Classics\, from the early twentieth century onward\, scholars have studied similar phenomena in other traditions of vocal music including Cantonese pop music (Cantopop)\, Vietnamese “new music\,” Tommo So folk song\, and many more. Especially in recent decades\, that work has yielded valuable insights about the nature of tone-melody matching and raised questions for further study. \nMy presentation considers tone-melody matching in the Delphic hymns against the typological backdrop provided by those other traditions. I suggest ways in which (a) they can guide us to a more sophisticated understanding of text-setting in ancient Greek vocal music and (b) Greek can contribute to our understanding of how tone-melody matching works in general.
URL:https://linguistics.princeton.edu/event/apollopop/
LOCATION:East Pyne 161
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SUMMARY:“Articulate” Book Talk with Rachel Kolb
DESCRIPTION:Join us on November 7 for a book talk and signing by deaf writer and educator\, Rachel Kolb\, who grew up between signing and speaking worlds as part of the “ADA generation\,” people with disabilities whose legal right to accessibility in the United States was guaranteed when the Americans with Disabilities (ADA) Act was passed in 1990. In her memoir\, Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice (Ecco Press\, 2025)\, Kolb reflects on articulation as an ongoing and relational process. Publishers Weekly calls it “required reading”: “Accessible\, fascinating\, and heartfelt\, this thorough examination of contemporary Deafness moves and edifies in equal measure.” \nKolb will be in conversation with conversation with Noah Buchholz\, Senior Lecturer in the Program in Linguistics and the Director of the ASL Program at Princeton. In this conversation\, they will discuss what it means to have a voice\, how language expresses our humanity\, and how to communicate across difference—questions critical to our moment. There will be American Sign Language interpreters\, and Labyrinth Books will be on-site to sell copies of the book. \nRachel Kolb is a writer whose work explores communication\, language\, and disability as central components of human experience. A graduate of Stanford University\, she was the first signing deaf Rhodes scholar at Oxford before receiving her Ph.D. in English literature from Emory University and then completing a junior fellowship in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Her work has been published in The New York Times and The Atlantic\, among other venues\, and she is the author of the new memoir Articulate (Ecco\, 2025). \nNoah Buchholz is Senior Lecturer and Director of the American Sign Language (ASL) Program within the Program in Linguistics at Princeton University. Buchholz is a Certified Deaf Interpreter\, an ASL-English translator\, and an ASL performing artist\, as well as a PhD candidate in Religion and Society at Princeton Theological Seminary\, where he is pursuing research at the intersections of political theology\, disability and Deaf studies\, and postcolonial/decolonial studies. \nThis event is organized by Timothy Loh\, Cotsen Fellow in the Society of Fellows and Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Anthropology at Princeton University. Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology\, the Program in Linguistics\, the American Sign Language Program\, the Humanities Council\, and Labyrinth Books. 
URL:https://linguistics.princeton.edu/event/book-talk-with-rachel-kolb/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T163000
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SUMMARY:Why a language may lack productive argument demotion strategies: Zenzontepec Chatino valency patterns in lexicon and discourse
DESCRIPTION:Languages display a range of strategies for adding or promoting arguments (e.g. causatives\, applicatives) and removing or syntactically demoting them (e.g. passives\, antipassives)\, but not all languages do these things in the same ways or to the same extent. Zenzontepec Chatino\, a Zapotecan (Otomanguean) language of Mexico\, displays minimal valence reducing strategies that would demote arguments\, especially P (object-like) arguments\, and this talk addresses the question of why a language might display such a profile. Extensive lexicographic research finds that the verbal lexicon is highly intransitive\, and thus there are few P arguments in the syntax to demote in the first place. When we look at language use\, people often avoid expressing agents\, using patientive intransitive verbs\, even when an agent is known from context and a suitable transitive verb is available\, or by encoding the understood agent indirectly as the possessor of an S argument or dative oblique. Over time\, culturally-grounded discourse patterns shaping language use have likely resulted in and sustained extensive intransitive lexicalization. It is suggested that strongly transitivizing languages may be poised to lack robust argument demotion strategies. \n  \nEric W. Campbell (Ph.D. 2014\, University of Texas at Austin) specializes in typological\, functional\, and community-based approaches to phonology\, morphology\, syntax\, language change\, language documentation\, and lexicography\, especially regarding Otomanguean languages\, in collaboration with community members based in Mexico and the California diaspora.
URL:https://linguistics.princeton.edu/event/why-a-language-may-lack-productive-argument-demotion-strategies-zenzontepec-chatino-valency-patterns-in-lexicon-and-discourse/
LOCATION:Green Hall 0-S-9
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SUMMARY:The role of tone in Rere topic and focus constructions
DESCRIPTION:Tonal correlates of topic and focus constructions in African tone languages are often indirect\, manifested as restrictions on tone spreading or tone marking on non-focused or non-topic elements. Rere (Koalib) is a Kordofanian language of Sudan that exhibits both of these characteristics. In this talk\, I will show how high tone indexes topic and focus of nominals in Rere by marking the verb. In addition\, topic determines the grammatical role of pronominal enclitics attached to the verb\, indicated by tonal case marking. Two patterns of progressive high tone spreading occur within the verbal complex\, bounded and unbounded. These patterns interact with other high tones in different ways. High tone that marks case and topic blocks unbounded spreading and favors bounded. Conversely\, high tone that marks aspect-mood-deixis favors unbounded spreading and prevents bounded spreading. \n  \nSharon Rose is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California\, San Diego. Her research is in phonology\, investigated through in-depth fieldwork on African languages. Her main topics of interest are long-distance harmony and tone. Recent projects investigate the prosody of topic and focus\, and musical pitch perception by speakers of African tone languages. She has worked primarily on Semitic languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea and on Kordofanian languages of Sudan.
URL:https://linguistics.princeton.edu/event/the-role-of-tone-in-rere-topic-and-focus-constructions/
LOCATION:1-S-5 Green Hall\, 1-S-5 Green Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260305T163000
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SUMMARY:On projection and the shadow of [wh]
DESCRIPTION:Much work on syntactic locality has shown that processes like wh-movement are subject to several kinds of locality restrictions. In addition to being sensitive to intervening wh-phrases\, wh-movement must proceed successive cyclically through various points in the clause\, and in some cases/languages\, may not cross intervening arguments (see e.g. Branan and Erlewine (2022) for a recent overview). \nIn this talk\, I propose that these locality restrictions are interconnected. More specifically\, I suggest that they reduce to a particular view of how selection influences the projection of category information from daughter nodes to their mothers (following Zeijlstra 2020). I show that by examining the nature of selection and projection\, we can leverage the architecture of grammar to predict the requirement for wh-movement to be successive-cyclic: the projection rule makes it so that wh-phrases create their own barriers for extraction if their wh-features get too high\, meaning they have to move outside the scope of their own features in order to extract. The theory entails that movement must be successive cyclic\, but does not say through which positions. By varying the different allowed parameters in this theory\, I show that it also captures the variable the sensitivity of wh-movement to intervening arguments. \n  \nElise Newman is an assistant professor at MIT. She works primarily on syntax\, with additional interests in semantics/pragmatics and first language acquisition. She finished her PhD at MIT in 2021\, and then worked as a postdoc at the University of Edinburgh\, where she collaborated with researchers from Edinburgh\, Goettingen\, and Stony Brook on a project about syntactic locality effects.
URL:https://linguistics.princeton.edu/event/on-projection-and-the-shadow-of-wh/
LOCATION:1-S-5 Green Hall\, 1-S-5 Green Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:Giuseppe Giuranna - Deaf performing artist
DESCRIPTION:Giuseppe Giuranna is a Deaf performing artist out of Berlin\, Germany. Through his acting roles around the world\, Giuseppe Giuranna has gained wide international recognition. He has led numerous Visual Vernacular workshops and seminars\, enabling Deaf artists worldwide to explore and experiment with Visual Vernacular.
URL:https://linguistics.princeton.edu/event/giuseppe-giuranna-deaf-performing-artist/
LOCATION:Maeder Hall Auditoriun
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260317T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260317T173000
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SUMMARY:Program in Linguistics Sophomore Open House!
DESCRIPTION:Come to our Open House to learn about the LIN minor and/or the brand new LIN major! \nProspective students are also invited to stay for dinner after the Open House\, for our monthly gathering of current LIN (independent) majors – a great opportunity to see what kinds of junior and senior research LIN majors can pursue. \nWe look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://linguistics.princeton.edu/event/sophomore-open-house-3/
LOCATION:Green Hall 1-C-4C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260407T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260407T180000
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SUMMARY:Constructing Spanishness in Africa: Language Shift and Contact in Equatorial Guinea
DESCRIPTION:The Spanish colonization of Equatorial Guinea (1778–1968) profoundly transformed the territory’s political\, cultural\, and linguistic landscape. Central to this process was the imposition of Spanish as the official language. Through indirect colonial strategies –particularly the expulsion of British and American Protestant missionaries and the consolidation of Catholic evangelization–Spanish authorities sought to language shift and secure linguistic hegemony. The goal was not only administrative control\, but also the expansion of Spanish as a lingua franca across diverse ethnolinguistic groups. During colonization\, contact between Spanish and local languages did not result in the formation of a Spanish-based creole (Lipski 1984); it did produce a variation of the Spanish language whose characterization is yet to be agreed. \nThis talk situates the case of Equatorial Guinea within theoretical discussions of language contact and shift (Thomason & Kaufman 1988). From a glottopolitical perspective (Arnoux 2000; Del Valle 2007)\, I analyze the conditions that prevented the creolization of Spanish and trace the linguistic changes from the colonial period to the present. \nSusana Castillo-Rodríguez is an Associate Professor at SUNY Geneseo. She teaches Spanish Socio/Linguistics courses. She is the co-coordinator of Black Studies/Africana Programs and the faculty leader of the study abroad program in Equatorial Guinea. Her research focuses on Missionary\, Colonial\, and Decolonial Linguistics in West Africa. She is the author of more than 20 articles and book chapters related to Spanish children evacuated to the Soviet Union during the Spanish Civil War\, migration and health\, and migration and gender. From 2010 onward\, she focused her work on Afro-Hispanic cultural studies\, missionary linguistics\, and the linguistic colonization of Equatorial Guinea\, especially on issues related to the official status of Spanish\, language policy\, the linguistic landscape\, and the maintenance of vernacular languages. \nHer recent book Lengua\, cultura y glotopolítica en Guinea Ecuatorial: una mirada histórica (Vervuert/Iberoamericana 2025) explores the question of the coloniality of Spanish as a language of power in Equatorial Guinea by examining–through the reconstruction of its political\, linguistic\, and cultural history–the mobilization of the human\, economic\, legislative\, political\, and educational resources that were required to transform the being and knowledge systems of the local population. For a full list of articles: https://geneseo.academia.edu/SusanaCastilloRodriguez/chapter-in-an-edited-book \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Program in Linguistics\, Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES) and Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
URL:https://linguistics.princeton.edu/event/constructing-spanishness-in-africa-language-shift-and-contact-in-equatorial-guinea/
LOCATION:1-S-5 Green Hall\, 1-S-5 Green Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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