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SIL colloquium will feature Stuart Thiessen July 26
Stuart Thiessen will present his findings on “A Grammar of SignWriting” at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 26, in 300 Merrifield Hall. He holds a master’s in Linguistics from UND, and has presented on SignWriting and deaf languages at several workshops in the U.S. and internationally. Thiessen’s research stems from a long interest in writing systems, [...]
Stephen and Cathy Marlett featured in National Geographic
Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) professor Stephen Marlett and his wife Cathy, like Cathy’s parents before them, have worked for decades among the Seri people of Mexico. The Marletts’ work recently was featured prominently, including several pages of photographs, in an article about the world’s vanishing languages in the current issue of National Geographic, both [...]
Linguistics colloquium will feature Albert Bickford July 19
Albert Bickford will present “Adapting EGIDS for Signed Languages” at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 19, in 300 Merrifield Hall. The Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS) is used to measure the vitality of a language, or conversely, the degree to which it is endangered. It was originally developed for spoken, not signed, languages. However, there [...]
SIL colloquium will feature Cathy Marlett July 12
Cathy Marlett will present “A Seri Ethnography of Mollusks” at 8 p.m. Thursday, July12, in 300 Merrifield Hall. Through ethnography, Marlett explores the linguistic issues of naming and classification. While working on a simple list of shell names in the Seri language (Mexico), Marlett was allowed to enter into a fascinating linguistic and cultural world [...]
SIL colloquia will feature Keren Rice July 2 and 5
Keren Rice, president of the Linguistic Society of America, will be speaking Monday, July 2, on “Ethics in Fieldwork,” and again Thursday, July 5, on “Relationship of Linguistic Theory to Fieldwork.” Both presentations will be at 8 p.m. in 300 Merrifield Hall. Rice is a full professor at the University of Toronto, where she holds [...]
SIL colloquium will feature Kevin Sparks June 28
Banker-linguist Kevin Sparks will speak at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 28, in 300 Merrifield Hall on analysis of the US Financial Crisis of 2008-2009 from a linguistic perspective, examining the persuasive and often manipulative communication between bankers and politicians. From a Relevance Theoretic framework, he illustrates the cognitive and communicative forces at play in utterances [...]
Summer Institute of Linguistics celebrates 60 years of language training excellence
“It was UND’s idea to start this program here,” said Albert Bickford, director of the UND-SIL. “The SIL program here is accredited–not all SIL programs are–and all of the courses carry UND course numbers and are approved by curriculum committees.” Bickford, who came to UND as a student in 1978 and was a teaching assistant [...]
William Croft to lecture on semantics and cognition at special SIL colloquium
William Croft, professor of linguistics at the University of New Mexico, will present two special lectures on social cognition and spatial semantics as part of the colloquium series offered by the Summer Institute of Linguistics. Professor Croft’s interests lie in the areas of meaning and understanding in language, and in the diversity of languages of [...]
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