Linguistics Program - Princeton University

Upcoming Events  

• Lecture: Thursday, Feb. 25, 4:30 pm, Michael Wagner

  Michael Wagner, Cornell University
  “TBA”
  010 East Pyne

• Lecture: Monday, Apr. 12 4:30 pm, Donka Farkas

  Donka Farkas, University of California, Santa Cruz
  219 Aaron Burr Hallbr
  TBA

• Lecture:  Tuesday, Apr. 20, 1:30 pm, David Harrison, "Endangered Languages:  Global and Local Trends" 

  David Harrison, Swarthmore College

  Approximately half of the world's 7,000 languages are predicted to go extinct in this century. In this talk I discuss how language death leads to intellectual impoverishment in all fields of science and culture. I also detail efforts to sustain, value and revitalize linguistic diversity worldwide. Local perspectives on language endangerment and extinction are illustrated with original field materials and recordings of last speakers. Global trends in language diversity are explored through the use of a new quantitative model "Language Hotspots."

Past Events

• Lecture:  Monday, Jan. 11, 4:30pm, Martina Wiltschko “A case for caselessness.  Exploring nominal licensing in two tenseless languages”

  Martina Wiltschko, Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia
  
  “In her presentation Professor Wiltschko will show how one of the fundamental mechanisms of syntax – nominal licensing – must be reconceived to accommodate findings that have arisen in her extensive field work on the Halkomelem and Blackfoot languages.”
   

• Brown Bag Lunch: Wednesday, Dec 9, 12:00, Christiane Fellbaum “Word Sense Disambiguation: Man vs. Machine”

  Christiane Fellbaum, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University
  Room 15 Joseph Henry House 

• Lecture: Thursday, Dec. 3rd 4:30 pm, Lisa Green “Negative Inversion in African American English: Evidence from Child Language”

  Lisa Green, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director, Center for the Study of African American Language, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  Council of the Humanities Old Dominion Fellow
  209 Scheide Caldwell House

• Lecture: Friday, Nov. 20th 1 pm, Ray Jackendoff “A Domain-General Approach to Ellipsis”

  Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University
  209 Scheide Caldwell House

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Program in Linguistics
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Princeton University
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