FOLEY AT SSILA

Earlier this month at SSILA, Steven Foley presented a paper titled “The derivation of verb-initiality in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec”. This was on behalf of his fellow budding Zapotecanists (including Jeff, Jed, & Kelsey S, under Maziar‘s aegis), who have been investigating SLZ since first working on the language in last spring’s Field Methods course. He reports warm reception from scholars of Zapotec and other Native American languages, who pointed out some promising avenues for future research.