Tags: Colloquia


Reflections from Linguistic Fieldwork with the Guajajará Communities of Maranhão, Brazil

Dr. Pilar Chamorro will be presenting a talk as part of the 27th Annual Conference on the Americas and the UNESCO Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032. Pilar Chamorro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia. Her main areas of specialization are semantics and pragmatics with particular interest in cross-linguistic variation of form-meaning mappings. Her…


Shulin Zhang: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Quantifying Discourse Support for Omitted Pronouns

Using computational methods, this study quantifies context coherence in the discourse, and examines how it supports omitted pronouns in Chinese, Brazilian Portugese, and Spanish. This study discusses the effect of verb syncretism and its effect on pro-drop. 


Dr. Marjorie to present research "Logoori verb tones and the phonology-morphology interface"

We are pleased to be hosting a presentation by Dr. Marjorie Pak from Emory University who will be presenting research entitled “Logoori verb tones and the phonology-morphology interface”. The abstract for Dr. Pak’s presentation is provided below.   This event will be held on Friday, February 4th at 12:40 in the MLC, room 147 as part of the Spring Linguistics Colloquium. Attendees are invited to participate in person or remotely using Zoom (…


Dr. Lena Borise presents "Focus Projection Need Not be Based on Pitch Accents: Evidence from Georgian"

Please join us on Wednesday April 21 at 12:40PM EST for a discussion with Dr. Lena Borise, a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Linguistics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a Departmental Associate in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University, as she presents "Focus Projection Need Not be Based on Pitch Accents: Evidence from Georgian". To register for this Zoom event, please click on the following link: https…


Joy Peltier presents "Language in Context and in Contact: The Pragmatics of Multifunctional Items in Kwéyòl Donmnik"

Join us for a discussion with Joy Peltier, PhD Candidate in linguistics at the University of Michigan. She will discuss her research on the pragmatics of multifunctional items in Kwéyòl Donmnik (KD), an understudied French- and English-influenced Lesser Antillean Creole. To access this event, please using the following Zoom link with your UGA credentials: https://zoom.us/s/99029600375   As a Creole language emerges and evolves, its creators…


Digi Colloquium

Join us for a discussion with Lars Hinrichs, associate professor of linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, and Axel Bohmann, assistant professor of English at University of Freiburg in Germany. They will discuss the building of the Digital Archive of Texas English Speech, a legacy archive containing recordings from 1934 to 2020, and how it can be used to map linguistic changes in Texas English over time. For quite some time, the…


Spring 2020 Colloquium - Jonathan Crum

Title: Armenian Pseudo-Incorporation


Spring 2020 Colloquium - Nakita Barakadyn

Title TBA


Spring 2020 Colloquium - Kit Callaway

Title: "A Wise Man Always Watches Their Words: Acceptability Variation in Singular 'They'"


Spring 2020 Colloquium - Kyle Vanderniet

Title: "#language change"
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