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article Linguistics Homecoming Lecture Fall 2018

October 05, 2018

The Tonal Comparative Method: Leveraging Lexical Tone in Historical Linguistics, Rikker Dockum, Yale University, D'04,Tues., Oct. 23, 2018, 4:30 pm, Reed Hall 104, Free and open to the public....

article Tone Survey with Professor McPherson

June 28, 2018

Please consider participating in a brief survey as part of a research study being conducted by Laura McPherson from the Linguistics Program at Dartmouth College. The research study is designed to look at attitudes towards tone in linguistics. It should take no more than 5-10 minutes. The aim of the survey is to get a more concrete understanding of how our field handles tone in teaching and research and where we could improve. Your participation is voluntary. Feel free to pass along to colleagues and friends at any level (undergraduate to faculty).

article LING 11 Public Exhibit Baker Library February 19-22, 2018

February 12, 2018

There will be a public exhibit—in the main lobby of the Baker Library from February 19 to February 22— of children’s-books in three indigenous North American Languages: Objiwe, spoken in Minnesota, Hupa, spoken in California, and the Chatino, spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico. The books were constructed in her LING 11/NAS 40 course this winter term....

article Where can we find a morpheme for ourselves?

December 21, 2017

Egophoric systems with binary indexing distinctions have been described for a number of languages of Northwest China’s Amdo Sprachbund. Lecture by Keith Slater, SIL, Univ. of North Dakota, Thurs. Feb. 22, 2018, Reed 108 @ 4:45 pm, free and open to the public....

article When Grammaticalization Is Seen and Not Heard!

December 18, 2017

Signed languages provide a fascinating view of grammaticalization: the process of language change in which words or phrases take on new grammatical functions. Lecturer: Kate Mesh, University of Haifa, Israel, Wed. 2-7-18, 12:15 pm, Rockefeller Class of 1930's room...