Linguistic Anthropology Seminar: Summer 2006
The Linguistic Anthropology Seminar provides an informal, interdisciplinary venue for presentations of work-in-progress by faculty, students, and visiting scholars. Seminars are held on a more-or-less biweekly basis, Fridays from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm (unless otherwise noted). We meet in the Brooks Hall Library, on the third floor of Brooks Hall.Want to volunteer a talk or discussion topic? Contact Daniel Lefkowitz.
Summer 2006 Schedule
| Wednesday,
19 July 06 Brooks Hall Library 12:30-2:30pm |
Ellen Contini-Morava"The myth of grammatical agreement." Suggested ReadingContini-Morava, Ellen. 1996. "Things in a Noun-Class Language: Semantic Functions of Agreement in Swahili." IN: Edna Andrews & Yishai Tobin (eds.), Toward a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in Markedness, Distinctive Features, and Deixis, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (Pp. 251-290) |
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| Wednesday,
26 July 06 Brooks Hall Library 1:00-2:30pm |
Peter Hook"Agreeing to Disagree: Concordant Adverbs and Discordant Adjectives in Marathi and other Indo-Aryan Languages." Suggested ReadingCorbett, Greville. 2001. |
| Thursday,
3 August 06 Brooks Hall Library 12:30-2:30pm |
Prashant Pardeshi"Transitivity: Beyond Intentionality and Affectedness." Professor Pardeshi teaches in the Linguistics Dept at Kobe University (Japan). He will be visiting U.Va. and Charlottesville for a week in early August. For background reading suggestions see Dr. Pardeshi's |
| Wednesday,
9 August 06 Brooks Hall Library 12:30-2:30pm |
Mark Sicoli & Daniel Lefkowitz"On Creak." Suggested Reading Sapir, Edward. 1949. |
