Just under a year ago, my brand new colleague Betsy Sneller and I decided to launch a research project together. At that time, we called it “MI-COVID Diaries”. Betsy had signed her hiring paperwork with…
Last year, Xiaomei Wang and I were invited to contribute to the Selected Proceedings from New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 48) in the University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics series. Edited by Penn…
In our new paper in Canadian Journal of Linguistics, “The long tail of language change: A trend and panel study of Québecois French futures“, Gillian Sankoff and I return to the future temporal reference data…
I was featured this week in a story by the MSU College of Arts and Letters, Understanding the Language of Change Through Linguistics. (It was also published in the university’s daily news publication, MSU Today,…
My long-time collaborator and former advisor, Gillian Sankoff, gave a live lecture today for the Brazilian Linguistic Association, Abralin, on the topic of language change across the lifespan. The talk includes our joint work on…