TOOSARVANDANI IN HOUSTON

Maziar Toosarvandani travelled to Houston to give a talk (on February 6th) in the colloquium series of the linguistics department at Rice University in Houston. Maziar’s talk was on The temporal semantics of clause chaining in Northern Paiute and it led to a lively discussion with faculty and students afterwards. Maziar reports: I had the unexpected opportunity to meet Professor Emeritus Sydney Lamb, who reminisced with me about his important fieldwork in the 1950’s documenting the speech of some of the last fluent speakers of Mono, the most closely related language to Northern Paiute.