Fables of the Reconstruction: Andrew Byrd
Proto-Indo-European, which Dr Byrd studies, is the prehistoric ancestor of hundreds of languages, including English, Spanish, Greek, Farsi, Armenian, and more.
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Translated Justice? Ixhil Maya Participation in the Trial of Ríos Montt for Genocide in Guatemala
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Break dancing with the dead: Popular music and the role of ancestors in Maya language revitalization
Dr. Barrett will talk about Maya understandings of the dead, funerary practices, and ways of communicating with the ancestors, and then discuss the emergence of rock and hip hop music performed in Mayan languages and the ways they emphasize the ancestors in their music.
El Dr. Barrett explicará como los Mayas se comunican con sus ancestros, las prácticas funerarias que los mayas tienen y sus pensamientos en cuando a los muertos. También hablará sobre como los ancestros tienen un rol en la inspiración de la música Maya y como el rock y hip hop ha influenciado a esta cultura.
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Niles Gallery
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Languages, Dialects, or Repertoires? Approaches to ethnic language with a focus on Jewish English
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Niles Gallery
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Truth-Conditional Pragmatics and Semantic Presuppositions
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Student Center 228
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Linguistics Program's Andrew Byrd Discusses Proto-Indo-European Language with BBC Newsday
Just recently, the Linguistics Program's Andrew Byrd was interviewed by the BBC's Newsday radio series. The interview served to highlight Byrd's work studying the "Proto-Indo-European" language which dates back thousands of years. In the interview, Byrd gives listeners a glimpse of the language's history and a chance to hear the language given breath.
Book It - Recent Publications From the Department of English
It was an excellent summer for the Department of English as six faculty members published books in highly-regarded presses.
When Grammar Meets Programmer
UK linguistics Professor Gregory Stump co-authored "Morphological Typology: From Word to Paradigm," with computer science Professor Raphael Finkel.
Time Well Spent: Eli Edwards
English Professor Armando Prats said something that stuck in Elijah Edwards' head, "We are, in great measure, the living expression of our influences." It's a powerful sentiment that recent English graduate Edwards reflects in his own story.
Alan Timberlake - "Differentiated Object Marking in (North) Russian, Spanish, and Uzbek".
Alan Timberlake, Columbia University. "Differentiated Object Marking in (North) Russian, Spanish, and Uzbek". LIN Seminar Series - Part of Year of Russia's Realms. University of Kentucky - College of Arts and Sciences