NEW WORKING GROUP IN MESO-AMERICAN LANGUAGES

WLMA (Workshop on the Languages of Meso-America) [‘wɪlmə] is a freshly launched working group, bringing together students and faculty interested in languages of Meso-America. It is open to all and continues a long tradition within the department of theoretical investigation and documentation of these languages. Current participants are working with speakers of Lake Pátzcuaro P’urhepecha, San Martín Peras Mixtec, Santiago Laxopa Zapotec, and Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec, among other languages.

Co-organized by Lauren McGarry and Maho Morimoto, the group will meet every other Wednesday to discuss papers, hear about participants’ own ongoing research, and hear talks by outside speakers. For the inaugural meeting this coming Wednesday (October 12), Steven Foley will lead a discussion of a paper by Jessica Coon et al. entitled “The Role of Case in A-Bar Extraction Asymmetries: Evidence from Mayan.”

All meetings will take place at 5:30 pm in Stevenson 217. Please email wlma@ucsc.edu with any inquiries or requests to be added to our mailing list.