Prospie Week/end Events!

UB North Campus Baldy 603

There will be FREE COFFEE, BAGELS, AND DONUTS for anyone who can come and hang out with us in Baldy 603.

Linguistics Colloquium

UB North Campus 603 Baldy Hall

The Department of Linguistics will be hosting a colloquium talk on Friday, March 4th in 280 Park Hall, from 3:30 - 5 PM. We would be delighted if you could join us for: Adaptation of language for efficient communication

Prospie Week/end Events!

Saturday morning we are going to go for breakfast at The Thirsty Buffalo restaurant at 11 am, followed by an outing... RSVP to Ali by THURSDAY morning.

Prospie Week/end Events!

Ali's Home

An informal grad student prospie party will be Saturday night at 7pm at Ali's house.

Causality Across Languages (CAL): Training Workshop Program

UB North Campus 603 Baldy Hall

CAL_Workshop_Program_Buffalo The Causality Across Languages project will host a training workshop March 17-20 (yes, during spring break - sorry!). The goal of the workshop is to instruct project members in the goals, methods, and procedures of the project. Duplicate workshops will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in April and at Beihang […]

Women and Linguistic Fieldwork

A roundtable about the unique issues facing women doing fieldwork, particularly the potential problems, hassles and challenges that aren't usually discussed and their potential solutions. This is a 2-hour event with a keynote speaker followed by small presentations of the graduate students and a roundtable discussion. Its goal is to provide a platform for female […]

Colloquium: Maya Ravindranath, University of Rochester

UB North Campus 603 Baldy Hall

Sociolinguistic approaches to the study of language shift and endangerment Maya Ravindranath Abtahian, University of Rochester The rate of language endangerment worldwide is rapid, with linguists currently estimating that 50 – 90% of the world’s languages will be lost in the coming decades (Crystal 2000, Krauss 1992).

Launch of Socio Reading Group

UB North Campus 603 Baldy Hall

Wolf Wölck will be inaugurating the Sociolinguistics Lab with a talk on community profiles, ethnolects, language attitudes, and language standardization, this afternoon, at 3pm, in the Wolf Wölck Seminar Room (603 Baldy Hall). All welcome, and there will be baked treats and refreshments.