Linguistics Circle (LingCircle) is a weekly to biweekly colloquium and workshop series sponsored by the CU Linguistics Department. During the Academic year 22-23, LingCircle events may take place on Zoom, in person or or as a hybrid event. 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 2023  


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 of grab


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