HLLWG Colloquium

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is partnering with the Hispanic & Lusophone Linguistics Working Group to present the HLLWG Colloquium

When
1 to 2 p.m., Nov. 17, 2022

This event features:

  • "Optionality in Spanish Adjunct Control Structures" | Katie VanDyne, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • "White Supremacists' Weaponization of Heritage Languages and Language Revitalization" | John Powell, University of Arizona. 

About the speakers:

Katie VanDyne

Spanish Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Katie is a PhD candidate in Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her general research interests include theoretical syntax, as well as semantics and Romance linguistics. Specifically, her current research focuses on the licensing of adjunct control clauses by object clitics in Spanish.

John Powell

Linguistics, University of Arizona John Powell is a PhD candidate and University Fellow in the Linguistics Department at the University of Arizona. He specializes in historical linguistics, morphosyntax, language revitalization, and linguistic geography. He studies several language families, including Yuman, Iranian, Western Romance, and Celtic. He collaborates with the Piipaash (Maricopa) community in their language and revitalization work.

 

For more information, please contact: Hispanic & Lusophone Linguistics Working Group, coh-hllwg@email.arizona.edu

AY22-23 Coordinators Alicia M Brown & Laura Fontana-Soares