Linguistic Convergence Laboratory

We focus on studying language contact and developing spoken corpora. Our primary area of interest are languages of Russia, including Daghestan.

[George Moroz @aGricolaMZ]

Have you ever dream about glossing in rmarkdown and automatically collect glosses and their definitions? Meet my new package lingglosses

https://t.co/z9GNLrkwDW

[Linguistic Convergence Laboratory @lingconlab]

Join us today for "Person agreement in East Caucasian languages" by Nina Sumbatova!

[Linguistic Convergence Laboratory @lingconlab]

Yakov G. Testelets will discuss "Ergativity in East Caucasian" tonight at 19.00!

[Linguistic Convergence Laboratory @lingconlab]

Our next lecture "East Caucasian postpositions from a typological perspective" by Tatiana Philippova & Polina Nasledskova is today!

[Linguistic Convergence Laboratory @lingconlab]

Join us today for the discussion of directionality in East Caucasian! By Michael Daniel.

[Linguistic Convergence Laboratory @lingconlab]

Today! Lecture by Johanna Nichols: Auto-gender and lexical root structure.

[Samira Verhees | toot.community/@smrms @kajomka]

Tonight Steven Kaye discusses nominal stems in East Caucasian. Because why would you just slap a case on a nominal if you can have ridiculously complex patterns of oblique stem formation. 19:00-20:30 (UTC+3)

https://t.co/T2XSudpsmR

[Linguistic Convergence Laboratory @lingconlab]

Join us today for the discussion of nominal stems in East Caucasian by Steven Kaye! 19:00-20:30 Moscow time (UTC+3)

[Samira Verhees | toot.community/@smrms @kajomka]

Tonight: a lecture on morphological wishing and cursing in East Caucasian and beyond, by Nina Dobrushina. 19:00-20:30 (UTC+3) https://t.co/oqI8DOCVOP

[Samira Verhees | toot.community/@smrms @kajomka]

- Sponsored message (not really) - Tomorrow Yuri Koryakov and I will give a more general talk about this topic in the eastern Caucasus in particular; you can register to join us via zoom, or watch via @lingconlab's Youtube channel

[Linguistic Convergence Laboratory @lingconlab]

Dear colleagues,
we launch a new cycle of our Online course on East Caucasian languages! The lectures will be held each Wednesday at 19.00-20.30 (UTC+3), starting from the 3rd of November. For more information see the webpage of the series https://t.co/P3JWN9jWGV.

[Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath]

It's wonderful to see this paper on loanwords in Dagestanian languages published. It takes the quantitative study of borrowing to a new level of empirical detail and rigor. Kudos to M. Daniel, I. Chechuro, S. Verhees, and N. Dobrushina.
https://t.co/GDtBZk6XQQ

[Linguistic Convergence Laboratory @lingconlab]

Till Feb 15, we have an open vacancy for POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW in our Lab! Spread the word or apply! You can ask your questions here in direct or see full description: https://t.co/iXcVI9BzBM

[Linguistic Convergence Laboratory @lingconlab]

Michael Daniel, Nina Dobrushina, Yuri Koryakov, Yury Lander, Timur Maisak, Johanna Nichols -- members of the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory contributed chapters to new Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus: https://t.co/hsl8fsOXra

[Linguistic Convergence Laboratory @lingconlab]

Our online course on Nakh-Daghestanian languages was a wonderful success. See how it was: https://t.co/ucouX3dlKg

[Linguistic Convergence Laboratory @lingconlab]

Today is the next lecture of our Online course on East Caucasian languages! "Information structure in East Caucasian languages" by Diana Forker. Everybody is welcome!

More details about the course: https://t.co/P3JWN9jWGV

[Linguistic Convergence Laboratory @lingconlab]

Today is the next lecture of the Online course on East Caucasian languages, and you still have an opportunity to attend! "Agreement in East Caucasian languages" by Marina Chumakina.

More details: https://t.co/P3JWN9jWGV

[Linguistic Convergence Laboratory @lingconlab]

The next lecture of the Online course on East Caucasian languages is today! "The encoding of evidentiality in East Caucasian: different types of marking and areal distribution" by Samira Verhees.

More details: https://t.co/P3JWN9jWGV

[Linguistic Convergence Laboratory @lingconlab]

Today is the lecture of the Online course on East Caucasian languages and you still have an opportunity to attend! "The verb in East Caucasian languages" by Timur Maisak.

More details: https://t.co/P3JWN9jWGV

[Linguistic Convergence Laboratory @lingconlab]

Today is the fifth lecture of our Online course on East Caucasian languages! "Pronominal deixis in East Caucasian, stability and renewals" by Gilles Authier (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes). Everybody is welcome!

More details about the course: https://t.co/P3JWN9jWGV