New Perspectives on the Flint Water Crisis
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Several students, accompanied by Assistant Professor Natasha Abner, visited Flint last Friday and Saturday to conduct town hall events with the local Deaf community to gather information about their experience of the Flint water crisis. The town halls are part of an honors thesis project conducted by Alice Hanlon, an undergraduate student in the Program in the Environment, whom Abner advises. Margaret Peters, a research assistant in the Sign Language and Multi-Modal Communication Lab, facilitated the town halls. Linguistics graduate students Marjorie Herbert and L.R. 'Nik' Nikolai provided research assistance and support. Read more.
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Articles by Faculty and Graduate Students in the Annual Review of Linguistics
The current volume of the Annual Review of Linguistics (Vol. 6, 2020) features two articles authored by U-M Linguistics faculty and graduate students: “Language and Discrimination: Generating Meaning, Perceiving Identities, and Discriminating Outcomes” is coauthored by PhD students Justin T. Craft, Kelly E. Wright, and Rachel Elizabeth Weissler, and Professor and Chair Robin Queen. “Fantastic Linguistics,” is coauthored by Professor Sally Thomason and linguist William Poser. Read more.
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Ezra  Keshet Presents Research at University of Amsterdam and MIT
Associate Professor Ezra Keshet recently presented a paper titled “Dynamic Unioning Plural Logic” at the 2019 Amsterdam Colloquium, held in December, and gave a colloquium talk at MIT titled “Pronouns in 3-D.” Read more.
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Several of Sally Thomason's Writings Recently Published
Special Issue on Indigenous Languages
Professor Sally Thomason edited a Special Issue on Indigenous Languages, containing a selection of articles from the journal Language. The two-volume set was published online recently by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in observance of the United Nations’ International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019. Professor Thomason selected the articles and wrote the introduction. Read more.
Recent Articles
“Historical linguistics since 1968: on some of the causes of linguistic change” (in Hans C. Boas and Marc Pierce, eds., New Directions for Historical Linguistics, 110 -131, E.J. Brill, 2019).
A review of Carrie Gillon & Nicole Rosen's Nominal contact in Michif (Oxford University Press, 2018), published in Language 95:806-811, December 2019.
“Fantastic Linguistics” (co-authored with Bill Poser) in the Annual Review of Linguistics 6:457-468, 2020.
 Books
A Greek translation of Professor Thomason’s 2001 textbook Language Contact: An Introduction was recently published by Edinburgh University Press Ltd.
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