Every quarter we have a Fest at which people bring items to present from ANY language (every language is indigenous to somewhere…). This quarter we’ll look at tense and aspect. Obviously you can’t tell us everything about the tense/aspect system of your language, but we’d love to hear about interesting facts! If you’d like to...
Richard Stockwell and Carson Schütze will be giving two joint practice talks for the Linguistic Society of America meeting in January. 1. Dialects “haven’t got” to be the same: modal microvariation in English We propose a unified analysis of dialectal differences between British (Br) and North American (NoAm) English regarding ‘have-got’ – its modal scope...