[Somean] meeting with Lisa Green

[Andrea Sims]

Dear Changelings, SoMean, and Lacqueys members,

There are still timeslots available for faculty and students to meet 
with Lisa Green tomorrow(Monday). For students especially: a one-on-one 
meeting is a great opportunity to talk about your research interests and 
to network with a major scholar in the field. A primary reason that we 
bring scholars to give talks is so that students can meet with them. It 
is also good for the department to show what interesting things our 
wonderful, engaged students are doing.

You can sign up for a meeting with Lisa here: 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EuGvSxNigjHeItrtQk6S_B7VWhaq6c4CTnf1DsATZGI/edit?usp=sharing 
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EuGvSxNigjHeItrtQk6S_B7VWhaq6c4CTnf1DsATZGI/edit#gid=0>

A description of Lisa Green's research (from her website 
<https://www.umass.edu/linguistics/member/lisa-green>): Green’s research 
investigates variation within and across varieties of English, with a 
focus on African American English (AAE). In moving away from the 
traditional approach of studying isolated features of AAE that differ 
maximally from constructions in the standard and mainstream varieties of 
English, she considers systems in the AAE grammar, such as the systems 
of tense/aspect marking and negation. Green’s work also explores the 
link between discourse and structural positions of elements in the left 
periphery. Her work on child AAE addresses questions about optionality 
and variation in language development.

And don't forget about Lisa's Hammond Lecture (4:30pm Monday, U.S. Bank 
Theater, Ohio Union) and the grad student lunch (12:15-1:15, Oxley 122)!

Best,
AS

-- 
Andrea D. Sims
Associate Professor
Undergraduate Program Director and Honors Advisor for Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures
The Ohio State University
sims.120 at osu.edu

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