The Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab will be meeting on Monday, October 31, from 12-1pm in room 002.
Justin Royer will be presenting about nominal classifiers in Chuj.
The required reading is Craig (1986), “Jacaltec Noun Classifiers: A Study in Grammaticalization”. Sections 2, 5, and 6 are the most important parts of the paper for Justin’s presentation, so please focus on those sections.
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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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The Fieldwork Lab will be meeting on Monday, 10/24, in room 002. The focus of this meeting will be ergativity. Meghan, Lisa, and Clint will be presenting the ergativity questionnaire.
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The Fieldwork Lab will be meeting on Monday, October 17th, from 12-1pm in room 002.
Lydia Felice will be presenting about the Free State/Construct State distinction in Kabyle.
Recommended reading: Guerssel (1992) “On the Case System of Berber”
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There will be no Fieldwork Lab meeting this Monday, October 10th.
The next meeting will be on Monday, October 17, from 12-1pm in room 002. Lydia Felice will be presenting on Kabyle. Stay tuned for more information.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Welcome back!
This semester, the Fieldwork Lab and the Ergativity Lab will be having joint weekly meetings on Mondays from 12-1pm in room 002. Information will also be posted here, as well as on McLing. All are welcome!
At this week’s meeting, Mikael Vinka will be presenting on Saami.
Abstract:
This presentation will bring up two themes. On the one hand, when working with an endangered indigenous language like South Saami, it is not uncommon to encounter disparities in grammaticality judgments among L1 speakers. At least some of these inconsistencies are probably best viewed as heritage speaker effects. I will illustrate the issue with data on VP anaphora in South Saami.
The second theme deals with training L1 speaking elders in language documentation. The elders have mastered transcription programs such as ELAN and PRAAT. 45 audio transcription of spoken South Saami are published at http://digitaltmuseum.no/search?page=2&type_filter=Audio&query=saemien%20sijte, as a result of efforts in the local community.
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If you have any questions, or want to be added to the Fieldwork Lab email list, please contact me (Lydia) at lydia.felice@mail.mcgill.ca. I am the lab organizer this semester, and I would love to hear from you!
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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.
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…
WSCLA is co-organized by former Post-doc Richard Compton. The rest of the program is available here.
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This year’s Summer Language Workshop was a huge success, thanks to a great organizing committee, guest speakers, and interactive booths. Nice work everyone!
Organizing Committee: Diamond, Shoshana, Lola, Maddie, and Carol
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A farewell lunch for Yuliya Manyakina who is finishing up her MA thesis on noun incorporation in Mi’gmaq. Congratulations Yuliya!
Sigwan, Madeleine, Taha, Janine, Yuliya; Alan, Mike, Jessica
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