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.
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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.
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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
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Neukom post-doctoral fellow Hilaria Cruz has developed a film that will be used for research on lesser-studied languages in Mexico.
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Before the turn of the next century, more than half of India’s 780 languages may die out. Dartmouth Linguistics Professor Laura McPherson discusses the challenge of dying languages in an article in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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