At this week's S-Group meeting, Mohammed Abuhaib and Turki Alwahibee will discuss their joint work in progress on direct object relatives in Najdi. Fri, Mar 11, 12 noon, Johnston G35 (Syntax/Semantics Lab) All are welcome!
This week's P-Group meeting: Zafer Al Lababidi: "The L2 Perceptual Mapping of Arabic and English Consonants by American English Learners" Fri, Mar 11, 1pm, Johnston 137 All are welcome!
Universals and variation in the organization of talk: Evidence from Alto Perené Arawak of Peru Based on extensive linguistic an ethnographic fieldwork in 2009-2015, this talk will examine a variety of language-specific linguistic resources and generic base of interactional organization […]
Language Contact and Language Standardization in Iberian Perspective: the Galician Case Gabriel Rei-Doval is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. His research interests include Hispanic sociolinguistics, historiography of linguistics, language shift and […]
The Electa Quinney Institute is hosting the 48th Algonquian Conference at UWM, Fri Oct 14 – Sun Oct 16.
Language as resource: The role of context in code choice
Linguistics Department Colloquium: Lewis Gebhardt (Northeastern Illinois University) "The Crow Determiner Phrase In a Mostly Configurational Language" Abstract: Crow, a polysynthetic incorporating language, exhibits high configurationality in its nominal phrases. The elements in the extended NP are not only linearly […]