Maria Polinsky, Harvard University
“Does English Have Resumptive Pronouns?”
Co-sponsored by the Linguistics Program and the UK Department of English
Venue: Niles Gallery, Fine Arts Library
Dr. Edward Vadja "The Ket Language of Siberia"
a part of the University of Kentucky Linguistics Lecture Series and the College of Arts and Sciences Russia's Realms
Dr. Edward Vadja "The Peopling of the Americas and the Dene-Yeniseian Connection"
a part of the University of Kentucky Linguistics Lecture Series and the College of Arts and Sciences Russia's Realms
Most of us heard that the world was going to possibly end on December 21st, 2012, and that it was predicted by the traditional Mayan calendar. In this podcast, Rusty Barrett, a linguist and scholar of Mayan culture and history, explains the superstitions and misunderstandings surrounding December 21st, and a little bit about how the Mayan calendar works.
Wednesday December 5, 2012 at 4.30 at Niles Gallery Benjamin Kinsella, will present his undergraduate Honors Thesis and share the results of his research on the use of prepositions in Spanish with the movement verb ir. (see attached poster)
Based on the data of the ALGR (Guarani-Romance Linguistic Atlas) and under the supervision of Prof. Haralambos Symeonidis, Kinsella has identified evidence of the influence of Guarani on Spanish/Portuguese in the Guaranitic area in South America and for the first time presents his original research on linguistic maps.
The presentation will be in Spanish.
J.R.R. Tolkien, wildly popular for his authorship of the fantasy trilogy, "The Lord of the Rings", was actually by profession an unprepossessing Medievalist and historical linguist. His extensive knowledge of world languages both ancient and modern lent itself to his creation of the artificial languages that add so much realistic depth to his fictional writing. This presentation describes the languages Tolkien created for his Middle Earth by revealing their connection with the actual spoken languages he studied during his academic career. Explore the ingenious sound symbolism and etymological connotations employed by this master storyteller - and learn a great many things about the real languages of Eurasia along
the way.
Professor Dan Collins
Ohio State University "Recovering Written and Unwritten Messages: The Pragmatics of (Im)politeness in Medieval Russian Birchbark Letters"
Department of Linguistics and a part of the Russia's Realms Series
Professor Dan Collins
Ohio State University "Everyday Communication on Birchbark in Medieval Russia"
Department of Linguistics and a part of the Russia's Realms Series
More than thirty of the world's leading morphologists are contributing to a book that will be out in spring of 2014 - and they're working together with the help of an online collaboration tool developed by the Hive. Professors Andrew Hippisley and Greg Stump are currently compiling and editing the upcoming Cambridge Handbook of Morphology.
Dr. Stephen R. Anderson
""Defaults" and Morphological Structure" Defaults in Morphological Theory Workshop University of Kentucky May 21-22, 2012
