Linguistics Circle and Graduate Proseminars

Linguistics Circle (LingCircle) is colloquium and workshop series sponsored by the CU Linguistics Department. You will need to use your CU identikey to log in to Zoom if it is a Zoom event. LingCircle events are open to all members of the CU community. 

 

Fall 2024  

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

ECCS 1B12

Dr. Wesley Leonard

Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside 

Indigenous Peoples, Ethics, and Linguistic Data: Approaches to Decolonizing Linguistics

 

 

 


Spring 2024  

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

11:30am - 1:30pm

Duane Phsyics 1B27

Dr. Archie Crowley 

Assistant Professor, English, Elon University

“Get off my lawn! What are all these labels?”: Intra-community Evaluations of Transgender Linguistic Innovation

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

11am - 1pm

UMC 247

Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. 

Independent Cognitive Scientist

Our Metaphorical Bodies: Why Metaphor May be Everywhere!

Fall 2023  


Thursday, December 7, 2023

4:00-6:00pm

UMC 245

Karen Boyd

University of Colorado Boulder

Thursday, November 2, 2023

3:30-5:00pm

LBB 430

Kristine Stenzel

University of Colorado Boulder / Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

My talk, others' talk - Quoted speech and evidentials in Kotiria conversation

Spring 2023  


Wednesday, April 26, 2023

4:00-5:30pm

CASE E351

Kate L. Lindsey

Boston University

Ghost Elements in Ende Phonology


Wednesday, April 19, 2023  

4:00-5:30pm
CASE E422

Linguistics Circle Capstone Lecture  

Joan Bybee

University of New Mexico

Hyperbole and Bleaching in Semantic Change: the Case of grab


Fall 2022

Monday, October 31, 2022

4:00-5:30pm

UMC 247

Nathan Schneider

Georgetown University

The Ins and Outs of Preposition Semantics: Challenges in Comprehensive Corpus Annotation and Automatic Disambiguation


Wednesday, November 30, 2022

4:00-5:30pm

CASE E422

Megan Figueroa

University of Arizona

I Tried to Study Language Development and All I Got Was Linguistic Discrimination

 

 

  

 

During the Academic year 24-25, LingCircle events may take place on Zoom or as an in person or hybrid event. You will need to use your CU identikey to log in to Zoom if it is a Zoom event. Registration details are given below. For professional development events, the Department encourages PhD and MA students to attend the weekly  (GRoW). You can also watch the 2021 Linguists at Work career exploration series.