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Canonical and non-canonical conversion in Baltic

1-S-5 Green Hall 1-S-5 Green Hall, Princeton

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 […]

Reading James Baldwin through the Lens of Black Deaf and Disability Studies

219 Aaron Burr Princeton

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 […]

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