Humanities Grad School

At 4 o’clock today, William Croft, a world-renowned linguist most known for his work on construction grammar, will give a lecture entitled “Mechanisms of language change (and cultural transmission)". In his talk, Croft will introduce an evolutionary framework for understanding language change for a theory of how linguistic variation is generated and then propagated through a speech community. Join us on Zoom!
https://ut-ee.zoom.us/j/93708139171?pwd=QlNsSEl3bVZiaGRaL2JwRVNpZ1UxQT09

Our first lecture will be by Rebecca Braun (National University of Ireland Galway), who will talk about exploring literary texts as tools for social transformations. In her own words: “I show how literary texts allow their readers to reposition themselves in relation to multiple possible worlds and sketch out distinct plans of action, for both themselves and others, that are informed by powerfully imagined lived experience.” Join us on Zoom at 9:30!