HistLing Discussion Group: Discussion of Explanation in Typology

Assistant Professor Savi Namboodiripad and Linguistics graduate student Alex Kramer will present "Discussion of Explanation in Typology: Diachronic sources, functional motivations, and the nature of evidence."

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).