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Wed, 4/19 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

Documenting the ASL communities: MoLo and O5S5 projects

Julie A. Hochgesang, Gallaudet University

Program in Linguistics

Wed, 4/12 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Bua Comparative Project: Documentation and history of a language family of southern Chad

Pascal Boyeldieu, Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer and Florian Lionnet, LLACAN-CNRS - Paris, France; Universities of Frankfurt, Bayreuth and Mainz, Germany; Princeton University

Program in Linguistics

Wed, 3/29 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

Conceptual arguments for ellipsis as null exponence

Craig Sailor, Trinity College Dublin

Program in Linguistics

Wed, 3/8 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

The role of demonstratives across languages

Dorothy Ahn, Rutgers University

Program in Linguistics

Wed, 3/1 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Variation in color expression in languages of Cameroon

Nadine Grimm, University of Rochester

Program in Linguistics

December 7, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

On the origins of Cikunda, “a language without a land” (Presentation of the OriKunda project)

Rozenn Guérois, LLACAN (African Languages and Cultures Laboratory) - CNRS, Paris

Program in Linguistics

November 30, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Experiments in Euphemism Detection

Anna Feldman, Montclair State University

Program in Linguistics

October 26, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

My talk, others’ talk — Quoted speech and evidentials in Kotiria conversation

Kristine Stenzel, University of Colorado, Boulder

Program in Linguistics

September 14, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

“Us” as “one”: First person plurals as impersonals in Mayan

Carol Rose Little, University of Oklahoma

Program in Linguistics

April 7, 2022 · 7:32 pm ·

Julia Hochgesang – To be rescheduled

Julia Hochgesang, Gallaudet University

Program in Linguistics

March 23, 2022 · 6:15 pm ·

Juliette Blevins – to be rescheduled

Juliette Blevins, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Program in Linguistics

March 2, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

How Food and Sex Delayed or Prevented the Emergence of Pidgins

Salikoko S. Mufwene, University of Chicago

Program in Linguistics

February 16, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

Form and Meaning in a Sign Language Lexicon

Naomi Caselli, Boston University

Program in Linguistics

November 17, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

Anna Feldman (to be rescheduled)

Anna Feldman, Montclair State University

Program in Linguistics

November 10, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

3rd Person Singular and Default Case in Child African American English

Lisa Green, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Program in Linguistics

October 25, 2021 · 12:30 pm1:30 pm · via Zoom

Translating Between Modalities: The Case Study of American Sign Language and English

Amelia Becker, Princeton University, Council of the Humanities and Program in Linguistics

Program in Translation


April 21, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

The role of tone in phrasing in Bemba and an initial tonal experimental study

Nancy Kula, University of Essex

Program in Linguistics

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