Linguistics Circle (LingCircle) is colloquium and workshop series sponsored by the CU Linguistics Department.You will need to use your CU identikey to log in to Zoom if it is a Zoom event.LingCircle events are open to all members of the CU community.

Fall 2024

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

ECCS 1B12

Dr. Wesley Leonard

AssociateProfessor, Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside

Indigenous Peoples, Ethics, and Linguistic Data: Approaches to Decolonizing Linguistics


Spring 2024

Wednesday, April10, 2024

11:30am - 1:30pm

Duane Phsyics 1B27

Dr. Archie Crowley

Assistant Professor, English, Elon University

“Get off my lawn! What are all these labels?”: Intra-community Evaluations of Transgender Linguistic Innovation

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

11am - 1pm

UMC 247

Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.

Independent Cognitive Scientist

Our Metaphorical Bodies: Why Metaphor May be Everywhere!

Fall 2023


Thursday, December 7, 2023

4:00-6:00pm

UMC 245

Karen Boyd

University of Colorado Boulder

Thursday, November 2, 2023

3:30-5:00pm

LBB 430

Kristine Stenzel

University of Colorado Boulder / Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

My talk, others' talk - Quoted speech and evidentials in Kotiria conversation

Spring 2023


Wednesday, April 26, 2023

4:00-5:30pm

CASE E351

Kate L. Lindsey

Boston University

Ghost Elements in Ende Phonology


Wednesday, April 19, 2023

4:00-5:30pm
CASE E422

Linguistics Circle Capstone Lecture

Joan Bybee

University of New Mexico

Hyperbole and Bleaching in Semantic Change: the Case ofgrab


Fall 2022

Monday, October 31, 2022

4:00-5:30pm

UMC 247

Nathan Schneider

Georgetown University

The Ins and Outs of Preposition Semantics: Challenges in Comprehensive Corpus Annotation and Automatic Disambiguation


Wednesday, November 30, 2022

4:00-5:30pm

CASE E422

Megan Figueroa

University of Arizona

I Tried to Study Language Development and All I Got Was Linguistic Discrimination