Garry W. Davis, Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Translation Many languages use tone (differing levels of pitch) to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning. In languages such as Chinese or Thai, for example, each syllable of a word can carry its […]

Petra Eccarius, Purdue University When analyzing a spoken language, it is unwise to assume that sounds behave or are distributed consistently across the entire language; this is because social and historical factors influence language change unevenly across different types of […]

Yair Mazor, Hebrew Studies Program, Department of Foreign languages and Linguistics This presentation aims to introduce my part in a forthcoming co-taught MALLT seminar (Spring of '09/'10). The seminar will be about literary theories and their application to both the […]

Elena Mihas, Department of English In the last fifteen years we've seen the rise of a branch of linguistics called documentary linguistics. The emergence of this discipline which is concerned with making and keeping records of the world's small languages […]

William C. Calin, Graduate Research Professor of French, University of Florida An internationally-known medieval scholar, Professor William Calin has authored eleven books and over a hundred articles and chapters in books. His areas of expertise include medieval literature (epic, romance, […]

Demetrius Williams, Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature Employing the contemporary literary theory of intertextuality for analyzing the author's use of the prophecy of Joel in the Acts of the Apostles (Hebrew Bible/OT 2:28-32 //parallel, New/Christian Testament Acts 2:1-42), […]

Elena Mihas, Department of English The talk focuses on the classifying morphemes in Ashéninka Perené, of the Kampan subgrouping of Arawak. It discusses the inventory of classifiers in Ashéninka, their morphosyntactic loci, semantics, functions, and origin, and presents the preliminary […]

Simonetta Milli Konewko, Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature L'Agnese va a morire, a neorealist novel of 1949 by Renata Viganó, is inspired by the life of an Italian woman who joined the partisan movement and performed operations of […]

Patricia Lunn, Professor Emerita, Spanish and Portuguese, Michigan State University The recent publication of Winter Journey, Patricia Lunn's translation of Viatge d'hivern, a collection of short stories written in Catalan by Jaume Cabré, brings up the question of what constitutes […]

Elena Mihas, Department of English Ashéninka Perené is a poorly documented Amazonian Arawak language spoken in the Perené River valley in Chanchamayo and Perené Districts of Junin Province, Peru. The language is highly endangered due to the evident language transmission […]