November 2022

Week of November 14

Linguistics Circle Workshop

Elizabeth Coppock (Boston University)

Title: Towards a typology of ratio markers

Abstract: Quantities can be added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided. Are there expressions of natural language that express the concept of division (or in other words, ratio, or...

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Week of November 7

Linguistics Circle Workshop

Will Oxford (University of Manitoba)

Title: How to be(come) a direct/inverse language

Abstract: In a “direct/inverse” alignment system, the agreement morphology that indexes a particular nominal is determined by the nominal’s rank on the person hierarchy...

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