A special “Mayan Linguistics” edition of the journal Language and Linguistics Compass was just published, featuring articles by Ryan Bennett, Jessica Coon, and Robert Henderson. (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lnc3.v10.10/issuetoc)
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Language and Linguistics Compass
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Pedro Mateo Pedro’s visit
Pedro Mateo Pedro (Universidad del Valle de Guatemala; University of Maryland) visited McGill this week in connection with the Chuj lab’s collaborative language research and documentation project. Pedro gave a guest lecture in LING 410 Structure of Mayan, and presented his work with the Field Station in Guatemala, a joint project between U.V.G. and U. Maryland.
Pedro presenting at Ling-Tea
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Chuj Lab
This week Chuj lab says a fond farewell to RA and McGill Linguistics alum Lizzie Carolan, and to recent graduate Cora Lesure. But this year we welcome two new Chujistas: incoming PhD student Clint Parker, and Concordia BA student Justin Royer!
Chuj Lab: Clint, Lizzie, Cora, Magdalena, Jessica, Justin
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CoLang 2016!
I just returned from CoLang: The Institute for Collaborative Language Documentation, hosted this summer at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. In addition to meeting lots of inspiring people, I took classes on various digital tools, consent and intellectual property rights, and oral annotation methods.
CoLang 2016
From the press release:
The Institute of Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) has gathered since 20th June, 2016, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). In attendance are language activists, learners, linguists, speakers, students, teachers, elders, wiki bloggers, archivists, and publishers hailing from the Miyako/Ryukyuan, Mohawk, Tlingit, Potawatomi, Tunica/Biloxi, Tututni, Ahtna, Hän, Navajo/Dineì, Dene, Denaakk’e, Unangam Tunuu, Blackfoot/Blackfeet, Wendat, Karuk, Catalan, Kristang, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek, and Ekegusii language communities, among others.
Congratulations graduates
Congratulations to recently-graduated Fieldwork Lab members! Colin Brown completed his MA, and Douglas Gordon and Cora Lesure received their BAs.
Cora and Jessica at McGill convocation
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Gitksan fieldwork
Colin Brown is in Northern British Columbia from May 2nd until May 12th working with Gitksan speakers across five villages (photos below are of neighbouring Nisga’a territory).
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Martha Schwarz to India
Congratulations to Martha Schwarz, who will be spending the summer doing fieldwork in India through a MITACS Globalink Research Award. She will be staying in the Nepali-speaking Darjeeling region, collecting data on Nepali ergativity and Nepali laryngeal contrasts. The ergativity project is co-supervised by Ayesha Kidwai (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi). Martha recently present work on Nepali ergativity at the MOTH Syntax Workshop at University of Toronto Mississauga.
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Mi’gmaq Research Partnership and WSCLA in the news
The Mi’gmaq Research Partnership was featured last week in the Montreal Gazette and in the Journal Métro, in connection with Mi’gmaq work being presented at this year’s WSCLA 2016. The full articles are here: http://montrealgazette.com/news/indigenous-languages-go-under-the-microscope and here http://journalmetro.com/actualites/national/942295/des-dictionnaires-pour-les-langues-autochtones/
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McGill at WSCLA
This year’s Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) will take place at UQÀM, April 1st–3rd. Presentations by current and former Fieldwork Lab affiliates include…
- Colin Brown (McGill) – Revisiting ergativity in Gitksan
- Lauren Clemens (SUNY-Albany) and Jessica Coon (McGill) – Deriving Mayan V1: A Fresh Look at Ch’ol
- Hadas Kotek (McGill) and Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (Singapore National University) – Non-interrogative wh-constructions in Chuj
- Carol-Rose Little (Cornell) – Agreement and animacy on Mi’gmaq transitive verbs
- Elise McClay (UBC) and Violet Birdstone (UBC) – Interpretation of Ktunaxa wh-indefinites
WSCLA is co-organized by former Post-doc Richard Compton. The rest of the program is available here.
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Carol-Rose Little and Maddie Metallic on Canadian Language Museum
Carol-Rose Little (McGill BA ’12) and Maddie Metallic (Listuguj community member and McGill summer intern) are featured this week on the Canadian Language Museum blog. For the full post click here.
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