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SWAMP 2015 hosted by Michigan Linguistics

Visit to Chippewa Community in Upper Peninsula

Michigan Linguistics at the LSA Linguistic Institute

Deborah Keller-Cohen’s research featured on UM News website

Robin Queen and Julie Boland in “Linguistics Vanguard”

Will Nediger and Acrisio Pires at Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

Michigan alums take top honors in LSA Student Abstract Award

Robin Queen delivers keynote at "Language in the Media 6" in Hamburg, Germany

Congratulations, Dr. Sujeewa Hettiarachchi!

Congratulations, Dr. Jae-Young Shim!

Andries Coetzee deliver keynote at ICPP, Tokyo

Michigan at the "Linguistic Society of Southern Africa"

John Swales in "English for Specific Purposes"

Carmel O'Shannessy in Australia

Meet our incoming graduate students

In memoriam: Edward Mason Anthony Jr. (UM PhD, 1954)

Dragomir Radev Coaches US Linguistics Team to Multiple Wins at IOL

A very busy summer for Diane Larsen-Freeman

Carmel O'Shannessy featured speaker at workshop on at Australian National University

Welcome to baby Ilona Ilieva Smirnova!

Debby Keller-Cohen in "Research on Aging"

Harim Kwon receives best paper award at ICPhS 2015

Productive fieldwork trip for Carmel O'Shannesy

LSA Program Committee meeting in Ann Arbor

Michigan at the ICPhS 2015

A new website for the Linguistics Department

Michigan at the “Second Language Research Forum”

Anne Curzan and Robin Queen at "Investing in Ability Week"

Anastasia Smirnova in “Linguistic Inquiry”

Moira Saltzman visits “Mango Languages”

Honorary doctorate for John Swales

Robin Queen Elected to the LSA Executive Committee

Anastasia Smirnova in Journal of Language and Politics.

Will Nediger and Acrisio Pires present at BUCLD

Baxter/Sagart receive "Bloomfield Book Award" from LSA

Michigan Linguistics presence at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America

PhD Student Alan Ke (Co-authored with Professor Samuel Epstein, Richard Lewis, and Acrisio Pires) Published "The Quantificational Domain of Dou: An Experimental Study"

Sunny Hyon's (PhD '94) "Introducing Genre and English for Specific Purposes" Published by Routledge

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Marlyse Baptista Plenary Speaker at the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics

Marlyse Baptista Plenary Speaker at ACBLPE at the University of Stockholm

Marlyse Baptista and Team Conduct Field Work in Cape Verde

Marlyse Baptista delivers presentation at the Max Planck Institute for Human History in Jena, Germany

Marlyse Baptista Elected to Leadership Post at Linguistic Society of America

News from the Linguistic Society of America

Ezra Keshet Publishes Paper, Dynamic Update Anaphora Logic: A Simple Analysis of Complex Anaphora

Barbra Meek Presents Talk, Linguistics and the Fierce Urgency of Now

Natasha Abner and Savithry Namboodiripad are Giving Talks at the Workshop on the Emergence of Universals at The Ohio State University

Just Announced -- The Deborah Keller-Cohen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Pam Beddor, Andries Coetzee, and Will Styler Publish Plosive Voicing in Afrikaans: Differential cue Weighting and Tonogenesis

John M. Swales Gave a Colloquium to the English Department at the University of Arizona

Hayley Heaton Awarded a Presidential Honorary Membership in the American Dialect Society

Andries Coetzee and Megan Crowhurst Present Webinar for Linguistic Society of America

Barbra Meek Co-edited Engaging Native American Publics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Collaborative Key

Lucy Chiang awarded Rackham International Student Fellowship and the Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship

Undergraduate Linguistic field work experience in Australia

Pires and Rothman recognized by "International Journal of Bilingualism"

Associate Professor Carmel O'Shannessy Presents Paper in Australia

Assistant Professor Nick Henriksen Published in January 2016 Edition of Phonetica

Michigan Linguistics at the LSA Annual Meeting

Sally Thomason in the "Upper Swan Valley Historical Society" newsletter

Seven presentations for Diane Larsen-Freeman

Carmel O'Shannessy in "First Language"

Andries Coetzee at UC Berkeley and UC Merced

Linguistics PhD Student Will Nediger Hopes to Defend his Dissertation this Spring

Linguistics PhD Student Will Nediger is Working on a Dissertation on the Linguistic Properties of Idioms

A Festschrift for UM Emeritus Professor Robbins Burling Published

UM Linguistics Connects to High School Students in Maryland

Sally Thomason Takes Part in International Conference

From Doctoral Student to Student Services Coordinator, Jennifer Nguyen is a Wolverine Through and Through

Marjorie Herbert Earns First Publication for Her Work on German Sign Language

UM Professor San Duanmu Contemplates His Next Project

Professors From UM Linguistics Examine Reactions to Written Errors

Calling all Undergraduate Students Interested in Linguistics Research!

UM Linguistics Ph.D. Student Gives Two Talks at Penn Linguistics Conference 40!

A Linguist Outside of Linguistics: Lorenzo García-Amaya

Sally Thomason featured in The Paris Review!

New Volume on Language Contact in Australia Marks a New Era of Linguistic Work Edited by Carmel O’Shannessy

Nicholas Henriksen Publishes Co-Edited Volume on Ibero-Romance Intonation

Marjorie Herbert Receives Prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from National Science Foundation

Carmel O'Shannessy Presents Paper at Australian Languages Workshop

Paper by Professor Acrisio Pires and PhD Alumnus Sujeewa Hettiarachchi in Proceedings of GALANA

San Duanmu Proposes a Solution to a Long-Standing Problem in Phonetic Transcriptions in His Newly Published Book!

Ling 497 Poster Session

UM Linguistics Ph.D. Candidate Will Nediger Helps UM Quiz Bowl Team to National Championship Title!

What Do You Know About the Pre-Speech & Hearing Club?

UM Undergraduates Meet Online with Students at Sakhnin Teachers' College, Israel

Professor Marlyse Baptista and Ph.D. Candidate Marcus Berger Spoke at LSUGA II

Marcus Berger, Moira Saltzman, and Kate Sherwood Have Each Been Awarded Funding Grants to Further Their Research!

Marlyse Baptista is the New Guest Columnist for the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

UM Linguistics Professor Andries Coetzee Nominated as Next Editor of Language!

From Student to Candidate: Marcus Berger Successfully Completes His Qualifying Research Paper

End of Year Message from the Chair

What are your thoughts on the Oxford comma?

Justin Craft Participated in the Spring Training in Experimental Psycholinguistics (STEP)

Associate Professor Ezra Keshet Presented on Dynamic Update Anaphora Logic (DUAL)

Hayley Heaton Gives Guest Talk on “Representing American Southern English in Fictional Television Dramas”

Eric Swanson Will Speak at the 2016 Philosophical Linguistics and Linguistic Philosophy Conference Later This Week

Warlpiri Speakers and U-M Professor Participate in Kriol and Contact Languages Workshop in Australia

Carmel O'Shannessy Presents at Workshop on the Emergence of Modern Hebrew

Bilingual Communities in South America

U-M Linguists Starting a Project to Document the Language and Culture of Native Americans in Michigan

Five-Minute Linguist Finalists Announced!

U-M Linguistics Well Represented at Speech Prosody 2016

Sally Thomason Gives Plenary Talk at the University of Brasilia

Jon Brennan and Coauthors Publish Paper on Neural Responses to Phonotactics in Autism Spectrum Disorder

University of Michigan Linguistics Community Well Represented at LabPhon15

Ezra Keshet and the Phenomenon of Language Peevishness in Epic Grammar Fails

Carmel O'Shannessy was a Keynote Speaker at BilForum 2016

Carmel O'Shannessy Published in Linguistic Variation

Andries Coetzee Publishes Paper on Phonological Variation in Phonology

Carmel O'Shannessy Involved in Project Awarded Funding by Australian Research Council

Marjorie Herbert Presents QRP Work on Contact Between Spoken English and American Sign Language (ASL) at LCILP

U-M Professor's Work Featured in British Museum Exhibition

Doctoral Student Marjorie Herbert and Professor Acrisio Pires Presented at BilForum 2016

Marlyse Baptista Has Been Named a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America

Ariana Bancu Presents Research on Transylvanian Saxon at NWAV45 in Vancouver

GradeCraft Lets Students Fail Productively

Giving Blueday is November 29, 2016!

Andries Coetzee Elected Editor of "Language"

Jon Brennan Awarded an NSF Grant for Project on Neurocomputational Models of Natural Language Processing

New Directory for the Department of Linguistics Installed

U-M Linguistics Presents at Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America & the Acoustical Society of Japan

Nicholas Henriksen and Sarah Harper Published in Journal of the International Phonetic Association

Anne Curzan will be the 2017 Recipient of the Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award

Tamarae Hildebrandt Research Evolves Beyond Syntax to Phonetics and Phonology

Marjorie Herbert Presents Poster of QRP Project at LSA 2017

Chia-Wen Lo Awarded 2016-2017 Rackham International Student Fellowship / Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship

Will Nediger’s Research Evolves Due to Collaborative Environment at U-M Linguistics

Jelena Krivokapić Awarded NSF Grant for Project on Prosodic Structure

Interest in the Individual, the Place, and Language Drives Barbara Johnstone’s Research

Professor Emeritus John M. Swales Gave Plenary Talk for Conference at Moscow State University

PhD Student Justin Craft Just Wants to Be Happy

Naomi Gottschalk Traveled to Basque Country to Study Their Language Isolate

Dave Ogden Seeks to Make a Difference and Improve Lives with His Research

“Overcoming Empirical Challenges for an Extended Approach to Condition C” by Will Nediger Featured in Winter 2017 Volume of "Linguistic Inquiry"

William Baxter Travelled to Singapore, Germany, and China for Talks and Conferences

Two Teams Featuring Members from U-M Linguistics Awarded 2017 Proposal Development Grants

U-M Linguistics Doctoral Student Ariana Bancu Awarded 2017 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award

Professor Samuel Epstein Gave a Talk Entitled “The Nature of Nurture and Non-Linguistic Language Variation” at The University of Arizona

Natasha Abner to Join U-M Linguistics Faculty

Emily Atkinson Joins U-M Linguistics as Language Learning Assistant Professor

Savithry Namboodiripad to Join U-M as Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics

U-M Linguistics Was Well-Represented at the 2017 Georgetown University Round Table

Carmel O'Shannessy Gave Keynote Speech at Colloquium in Freiburg, Germany

Moira Saltzman and Carmel O'Shannessy Represented U-M Linguistics at ICLDC and ComputEL-2 in Hawaii

Dave Ogden Awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for the 2017/18 Academic Year

“Speaking in Code” Explores Where Computer Science Meets the Humanities

U-M Linguistics Reaches Out to Seaholm High School

PhD Student Emily Rae Sabo Organizing 2017 Andean Circle Conference

Jelena Krivokapic Publishes Kinematic Study of Prosodic Structure in Articulatory and Manual Gestures

Jeff Heath Receives Funding From the National Endowment for the Humanities as Part of the Documenting Endangered Languages Program

U-M Linguistics Alumnus Chris Odato Featured on The Humanities PhD Project

Marlyse Baptista Gives Keynote Speech at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

Marlyse Baptista, Rocky Meade and Sarah Thomason Pay Tribute to John Holm

Will Nediger Successfully Defends his Dissertation

Marlyse Baptista and Team Conduct Fieldwork in the Cape Verde Islands

Congratulations to Jelena Krivokapić on Her Promotion to Associate Professor of Linguistics

Ariana Bancu, From Student to Linguist

Marjorie Herbert Finds the Perfect Combination of Language and Science in Linguistics

Ariana Bancu Presents Paper at Michicagoan 2017

The Newest Little Linguist Has Arrived

Michael Opper to Join College of International Studies at Southwest University

University of Kelaniya Building Named After U-M Alumna Manique Gunesekera (PhD ‘89)

U-M Linguistics Remembers PhD Alumna Kazuko Inoue, One of the Leading Generative Linguists in Japan

End of Year Message from the Chair

In Exploring Activities With Her Border Collie, U-M Linguist Robin Queen Discovered a New Research Interest

Language of the Creole-Speaking People of Cape Verde Passed Down Through Generations in a Way Similar to Genetics

Acrisio Pires Co-Authors Journal Paper on "Bilingualism and Language Change: The Case of Pronominal Clitics in Catalan and Spanish"

LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellowship Program - Deadline to Apply is October 2, 2017

Five-Minute Linguist Finalists Announced

Nicholas Henriksen Published in Journal of Phonetics

Marjorie Herbert Presents Work at GALA 17

PhD Student Kelly E. Wright Led a Workshop at the LSA Summer Linguistic Institute

PhD Student Kelly E. Wright to Give Talk at Seminar Slam

Will Styler Gives Colloquium at Michigan State University

Dr. Hiba Babiker to Visit U-M Linguistics Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Fully Funded Summer Opportunity for Training in Linguistic Fieldwork and Language Documentation in Indonesia

Andries Coetzee Named Associate Director of the African Studies Center

Eric Swanson to Present at Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)

Professor Sally Thomason Presents a Talk on Deliberate Language Changes

HistLing Reading for Nov 3

Sally Thomason to Give a Distinguished University Professorship Lecture on the Vanishing of the World’s Languages and Why We Should Care

Professor Sally Thomason to Receive Linguistic Society of America's Victoria A. Fromkin Prize for Distinguished Service

Festschrift Published in Honor of Professor Emerita Diane Larsen-Freeman

Giving BlueDay is Almost Here!

Should Language Be More Gender Neutral?

Deaf Hip-Hop Artist Sean Forbes Visits University of Michigan

Jiseung Kim Awarded Barbour Scholarship

Berger and Ke Awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowships

Hayley Heaton Successfully Defends Dissertation

LSA Article Highlights Baptista's Research

Bouavichith receives 2018 Deborah Keller-Cohen Award

Congratulations, Linguistics Class of 2018

Natasha Abner Invited to Present Lecture at UCLA

Congratulations to Andries Coetzee on his Promotion to Professor of Linguistics

Colloquium Series

Discussion Group Events

Archived Events

SoConDi: Haley Heaton on "Prosody of Southern television characters"

HistLing: Sally Thomason on sound suppression and sound change

MLK Colloquium: Walt Wolfram (NC State)

Phondi: Kuniko Nielsen on nasality and VOT

Pizza and a Movie: "First Language: The Race to Save Cherokee"

HistLing: Piotr Michalowski: Changing a dead language: the standardization of Sumerian

Colloquium: Acrisio Pires: "Syntactic competence and access to Universal Grammar by second language learners"

SoConDi: Group member introductions with prospective students

SynSem: Shim and Epstein on "Unification of Theta Relations"

Phondi: Dave Ogden: "Phonetic Context Effects in L2 Phonetic Category Discrimination"

Linguistics Journal Club: "How Nature Meets Nurture"

SonConDi: Eric Acton on pragmatics and social meaning

HistLing: English as a Viking Language

Phondi: Benjamin Swets on "Individual Variation in the Scope of Sentence Planning"

Colloquium: Lisa Green, UMass "Inversion in African American English: When Negation Isn’t Enough"

Phondi: Emily M. Provost, "Human-Centered Computing: Using Speech to Understand Behavior"

Faculty Brown Bag Lunch

Colloquium: Meredith Tamminga (UPenn) "Towards a dynamic view of sociolinguistic production"

SoConDi: Anastasia Smirnova on "Linguistic biases survive a military conflict: Language ideology in Ukraine"

HistLing: Ben Fortson on "Reflections on retroflexion across word-boundary in the Rigveda: Knotty, naughty, and nutty nati."

Phondi: Sagan Blue

LINGFO: Linguistics Information Session

SynSem: Jan-Wouter Zwart presents

Linguistics Journal Club: Fodor on the mind and cognitive science

Phondi: San Duanmu "Phonological Analysis and Marginal Syllables"

Colloquium: Barbra Meek: Idealizing (NDN) language

SoConDi: Tridha Chatterjee and Marlyse Baptista on :Copular predicates in Bengali"

SynSem: Marjorie Herbert on Language Change in German Sign Language

HistLing: Bill Baxter on Tangut

Phondi: Kate Sherwood

Capstone Seminar Poster Presentations

Colloquium: Sujeewa Hettiarachchi and Batia Snir (Linguistics Graduate Students)

Phondi: Coetzee, García-Amaya and Henriksen: Rhythmic transfer in language contact: Spanish and Afrikaans in Patagonia

HistLing: Ben Fortson on the history of Burushaski

Phondi: Krivokapic et al: "Temporal effects of prosodic structure on articulatory and manual gestures"

Colloquium: Amy Schafer: "Processing coreference: Evidence from Korean, English, and Japanese/Korean learners of English"

Phondi: Pam Beddor & Andries Coetzee: "The relation between production and perception of coarticulation"

Department Holiday Lunch

Capstone Poster Sessions

Colloquium: Yan Dong and Will Nediger

SoConDi: Ariana Bancu on "Transylvanian Saxon in Romania"

HistLing: Ratliff and Taguchi on Mo Piu (North Vietnam)

Phondi: Theo Stern on South African English Vowels in the UK

Faculty Brown Bag Lunch

SynSem: Batia Snir on "Coherence Relations"

HistLing: Marcus Berger on Proto-Zaparoan Syntax

Phondi: O'Shannessy/Bancu on the Phonology of Mixed Languages

Colloquium: Robert Podesva on the Three Waves in Sociolinguistics

SenSem: Smirnova on Evidentiality in Bulgarian

SoConDi: Tridha Chatterjee on English acquisition by English-Bengali speakers

Phondi: Yan Dong on elastic word length in Chinese

Faculty Brown Bag Lunch

Journal Club: Utopian for Beginners

Hist Ling: Ben Fortson reports on UCLA Indo-European Conference

SoConDi: Sandhya Narayanan on Quechua-Aymara-Spanish contact

Phondi: Arthur Brakel on Portuguese verb structure

Colloquium: Nicholas Henriksen on "Vowel harmony in Eastern Andalusian Spanish"

SoConDi: Hayley Heaton on Southern Dialects on TV

Linguistics Department Undergraduate Open House

Phondi: Harim Kwon on Korean stops

Journal Club Meeting

SynSem: Marjorie Herbert on German Sign Language

HistLing: Coptic in the history of Egypt

Colloquium: Patricia Keating (UCLA) - "Linguistic Voice Quality"

SoConDi/SynSem: Discussion about semantic fieldwork

Phondi: Henriksen et al. on falsetto in Andalusian Spanish

SynSem: Will Nediger presents

HistLing: Organizational & Sally Thomason on Pacific Northwest Languages

SoConDi: Organizational & Carmel on her fieldwork

Phondi: Theo Stern on high, front vowels in South African English

Colloquium: Adriana Hanulikova (University of Freiburg, Germany -"How does the brain deal with language variability?"

Colloquium: Adriana Hanulikova (University of Freiburg, Germany) - "How does the brain deal with language variability?"

HistLing/SoConDi: Bilingual Language Development: Turkish and German in Berlin 1983-2013

Phondi: Organizational meeting

Capstone Poster Session

Grad Student Colloquium - Stephen Tyndall & Jae-Young Shim

Syntax/Semantics - Sujeewa Hettiarachchi

Colloquium: Heather Brookes - "Urban Youth ‘Languages’ in South Africa: A Case Study of tsotsitaal in a South African township"

SoConDi - Ariana Bancu

Department Journal Club

Colloquium: Robert Henderson - "Dependent Indefinites and Their Post-Suppositions"

SoConDi - Barb Meek (SALSA keynote)

Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction

Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction

Syntax/Semantics

Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction

Colloquium: Jon Brennan - "Linking Linguistic and Neural Impairments in Autism"

SoConDi - Dave Ogden (Corpus Analysis of Child Language)

Syntax/Semantics - Marcus Berger

Department Journal Club

SoConDi - Daniel Davis (Teaching Courses on Arab American English)

Colloquium: Shigeru Miyagawa - "The Integration Hypothesis of Human Language Evolution and Its Implications for the Study of Contemporary Languages"

Syntax/Semantics - Danuta Allen

Department Journal Club

SoConDi - Language and Diversity on Campus Brainstorm

Colloquium: Carole Chaski - "Science and Conscience in Forensic Linguistics"

Syntax/Semantics: Ed Cormany

Graduate Student Colloquium - Tridha Chatterjee and Harim Kwon

SoConDi: Marlyse Baptista

PhonDi Research Group - Nick Henriksen

SoConDi: Inge Kral - Youth Language in Australia

PhonDi: Jelena Krivokapic

Agraphia Discussion Group

Linguistics Department Undergraduate Open House

Colloquium: Mark Janse - "Definitely an Object? Differential Object Marking and Agglutinative Inflections in Asia Minor Greek"

SoConDi: Robin Queen

HistLing: Mark Janse - "Wanna Be a Dennil Floss Tycoon? The development of dental fricatives in Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek)

PhonDi: San Duanmu

Agraphia Discussion Group

Syntax/Semantic Discussion Group

PhonDi: Yan Dong

Cognitive Science Major Information Session

Department Journal Club Meeting

SoConDi: Hayley Heaton - Authenticity in the portrayal of Brenda Johnson in "The Closer"

Agraphia Discussion Group

Colloquium: John Hale - "Entropy Reduction and the Subject Advantage across East Asian Languages"

Syntax/Semantic Discussion Group

PhonDi: Theo Stern

Historical Linguistics Discussion Group

Agraphia Discussion Group

Colloquium: Rajesh Bhatt - "An Argument for Semantically Contentful Head Movement"

SoConDi: John Swales - Citation Practices

PhonDi: Jiseung Kim

Syntax/Semantics Discussion Group

Colloquium: Marlyse Baptista, Susan Gelman & Erica Beck - "Testing the Convergence Hypothesis in Creole Genesis"

Syntax/Semantics Discussion Group

Historical Linguistics Discussion Group

PhonDi: Harim Kwon

Dissertation Defense: Erica Beck - "The Role of Socio-indexical Information in Regional Accent Discrimination by 5-7 Year Old Children"

Journal Club Meeting: Infant and Pet Directed Speech

SoConDi: Anne Curzan on Prescriptivism

HistLing: Stephen Tyndall on Akkadian Gender Morphology

Phondi: Nick Henrickson on the prosody of Manchego Spanish

Colloquium: Andrew Wedel

Phondi: Kuniko Nielsen on phonetic imitation

Joint Phondi/SoConDi Meeting: Amy Hemmeter on Vocal Fry

HistLing Meeting: Bill Baxter on Tibetan Tonogenesis

Colloquium speaker: Eric Russell Webb

SoConDi: Nick Emlen presents

HistLing Meeting: Discussion of Bowern's paper on syntactic change

Phondi: Sagan Blue and Kate Sherwood present

SoConDi Meeting: Hayley Heaton on Lebanese English in the South

Colloquium: Ezra Keshet on the Effect of Context on Meaning

Syntax/Semantics Discussion Group: Chou and Hettiarachchi presents

Joint HistLing/SoConDi Meeting: Sally Thomason presents

Phondi: Jon Yip presents

Journal Club Meeting: McConnel-Ginet on "Words in the World"

SoConDi meeting: Roland Kouassi on Urban Talk in Post-Colonial Africa

HistLing Meeting: Nick Emlen

Phondi: San Duanmu on "word stretching" in Chinese

Linguistic Institute Information Session

Colloquium speaker: Lisa Levinson

SoConDi: Research roundup

Phondi Meeting: (i) Mike Opper presents, (ii) Information about MidPhon

MLK Colloquium with Ann Charity Hudley

Phondi Meeting: Kuniko Nielsen presents

SoConDi: Hayley Heaton presents

HistLing Meeting:Stephen Tyndall presents

Phondi Meeting: Mike Opper presents

Colloquium: Rick Lewis (U-M Psychology Department)

Journal Club Meeting: On the reliability of data in syntax

SoCondi: Karla Mallette on Lingua Franca

HistLing Meeting: Bailey Doolittle on Middle English Syntax

Phondi Meeting: Yan Dong presents

Film Screening: Voices from El-Sayed

Phondi Meeting: Nick Henriksen presents

Syn/Sem Discussion: Presentation by Marisa Boston

SoConDi: Sally Thomason on Language Endangerment

HistLing: Bill Baxter presents on Chinese etymology

Phondi Meeting: Andries Coetzee on voicing co-ocurrence in Afrikaans

Journal Club Meeting: Poplack on syntax and language contact

Phondi Meeting: Jon Yip presents

Rackham Centennial Colloquium: Loraine Obler (The City University of New York)

SoConDi: Q&A with Alison Cornish

Syntax Support Group: Presentation by Ljiljana Progovac

HistLing: Sound change in Elvish

Department Coffee Hour

Phondi Meeting: Discussing paper by Andrew Wedel

Phondi Meeting: San Duanmu presents

First meeting of the new Journal Club

HistLing Meeting: Mythbusters

SoConDi: Organizational meeting

Syntax/Semantics Discussion Group: David Medeiros to present

Fall Welcome Picnic

Departmental Round Table Colloquium

Phondi: Organizational Meeting

Recruitment Colloquium-department speaker TBD

En Nuestra Lengua: L1 acquisition of object pronouns in Heritage Spanish-English speakers

Linguistic Methodology in Editing Old English Laws

Tracking Choice

Linguistic Structure and Linguistic Working Memory

Linguistic Masking in Speech-in-Speech Perception

Colloqium, Round Table Discussion

Syllable Onsets in Haitian and Saramaccan: Between Substrate and Superstrate

Majoring and Minoring in Linguistics

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