Willow investigates the linguistics of languages of the world.
Next Willow session will discuss:
Chapter 5—First Words: From Spanish into Maya. (2010). In W. F. Hanks, Converting Words: Maya in the Age of the Cross (pp. 118–156). University of California Press.. https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520257702.003.0005
Willow Session
Date: Wed 26 Nov 3pm
Venue: F2930, 7GS
Next Willow session will discuss:
Robbins, J. (2010). First Words: From Spanish into Maya. In W. Hanks (Ed.), Converting Words: Maya in the Age of the Cross (p. 0). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520257702.003.0005
Willow Session
Date: Wed 19 Nov 3pm
Venue: F2930, 7GS
On our next Willow session, we will be discussing the following chapter:
Dobrin, L. M., & Good, J. (2009). Practical language development: Whose mission? Language, 85(3), 619–629. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.0.0152
Willow Session
Date: Wed 5 Nov 3pm
Venue: F2930, 7GS
On our next Willow session, we will be discussing the following chapter:
Cruz, E. C. (2020). Between the academy and the community: The trickster who dances at the party and shows her tongue (S. G. Pierson, Trans.). In E. C. Cruz (Ed.), Theoretical reflections around the role of fieldwork in linguistics and linguistic anthropology: Contributions of Indigenous researchers from southern Mexico (pp. 105–130). University of Hawai’i Press.
This is a translation from a chapter originally written in Spanish, which you can consult here.
Willow Session
Date: Wed 22 Oct 3pm
Venue: F2930, 7GS
Our next NILA session will be held on Tuesday 7 October at 3pm. We will be discussing:
Megan Lukaniec, 2022. "Managing Data from Archival Documentation for Language Reclamation", The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell, Eve Koller, Lauren B. Collister
Date: 7th October - 3pm
Venue: F29/30, 7 George Square
The first NILA session of this term 2025-2026 will be held on the 23th of September. We will be discussing:
Claire Bowern, 2022. "Managing Historical Data in the Chirila Database", The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell, Eve Koller, Lauren B. Collister
Date: 23th September - 3pm
Venue: F29/30, 7 George Square
Mora-Marín, D. F. (2008). Full phonetic complementation, semantic classifiers, and semantic determinatives in ancient Mayan hieroglyphic writing. Ancient Mesoamerica, 19(2), 195–213. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536108000345
We will be discussing:
Palakurthy, K. (2022). New speakers and language change in Diné Bizaad (Navajo). International Journal of Bilingualism, 26(5), 601-619. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069221110400
| Please note change of venue for next NILA session! F29/30 in 7GS 👀 |
Date: 27 March, 2pm
Venue: F29/30 in 7GS (2pm-3pm)
Next NILA session we will be reading about possible worlds semantics for Cuzco Quechua Evidentials (Faller, 2011).
Faller, M. (2011). A possible worlds semantics for Cuzco Quechua evidentials. In N. Li & D. Lutz (Eds.), Proceedings of SALT 20 (pp. 660–683). https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/SALT/article/view/2586
Date: 13 March 2025
Venue: S38, 7GS
In our next NILA meeting, we will be reading about contact in Western South America, mainly between Arawakan languages and Andean Languages (25 pages) on Thursday 27th February:
Pache, M. (2023). Traces of Contact in Western South America: Arawakan and Andean Languages. INDIANA - Anthropological Studies on Latin America and the Caribbean, 97-130 pages. https://doi.org/10.18441/IND.V40I1.97-130
