A look into our courses at V-NYI #9!

The course aims to introduce the students to the fundamental ideas and basic concepts of syntactic theory and the main principles of syntactic analysis, in line with the generative approach to grammar.
[Image ID: Introduction to Syntax. Irina Burukina, ELTE & Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics. End ID]

[Image ID: Mechanisms in language acquisition and change. Sigríður Björnsdóttir, University of Konstanz. End ID]

A look into our courses at V-NYI #9!

This co-taught advanced seminar will reflect on how to put the philosophy of decolonization into practice in daily life through decolonizing different structural, institutional, individual, collective and emotional spaces around us. Dr. Danielle Arendse will introduce the phenomenon of decolonization and decoloniality in details. Then, Dr. Sayan Dey will carry forward the introductory discourses towards the aspect of decolonizing colonial spaces around us. In order to facilitate the discussions, the readings will focus on decolonial theories, methodologies, and philosophies on the one side and on decolonizing universities, museums, walkways, beaches, and cafeterias on the other.
[Image ID: Decolonization, Spaces and Everyday Life. Danille Arendse, Stellenbosch University. Sayan Dey, Alliance University, Bangalore. End ID]

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V-NYI #8. Global Solidarity lecture series. "Decolonial communication and Afrikaaps: towards non-racial linguistic futures". Quentin Williams, University of the Western Cape. January 18, Thursday. 1:00-2:20 pm (NY), 7:00-8:20 pm (CET), 8:00-9.20 pm (Kyiv), 9:00-10.20 pm (St. P)
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In this talk, I discuss the non-racial future of Afrikaaps, an African ‘language’ that became the slave lingua franca of the indentured indigenous, enslaved populations and Khoi in the settler Cape Colony. I begin with an overview of the history of the language, pointing to concerted attempts to move away from colonial and apartheid communication practices, and towards decolonial communication practices. I analyze three research projects that seek to empower Afrikaaps speakers today: (1) the development of the first trilingual dictionary of Afrikaaps, (2) Afrikaaps bilingual learning materials, and (3) considerations for a descriptive grammar, orthography and standardization of Afrikaaps.

I conclude the talk by reflecting on whether the existing measures can successfully challenge the binaries inherent in the remains of colonial and apartheid communication practices.

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V-NYI #8. Distinguished Linguist lecture series. "Getting by without movement: cross-clausal dependencies in Georgian". Tanya Bondarenko, Harvard University. Wednesday, January 17. 11:30-12:50 pm (NY), 5:30-6:50 pm (CET), 6:30-7:50 pm (Kyiv), 7:30-8:50 pm (St. P)
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