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Changelings: The Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, and Contact Linguistics Discussion Group

Changelings is a discussion group that focuses on issues of language change and variation in the areas of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and language contact. Via weekly meetings, faculty and students drawn from the Departments of Linguistics, Education, English, and various language departments present papers and discuss their research in a friendly and supportive environment. Often times, members use the group as a forum for presenting "trial runs" of talks that will later be presented to fill milestone requirements within the department of linguistics or at local and national conferences. Occasionally, visiting speakers from other departments and universities will present special talks for the group, so Changelings also presents a forum for external collaboration.

Recent talks at Changelings have included presentations on the order and meaning of preverbs in Sanskrit; a reconstruction of proto-Indo European language ideology; language variation in the speech of the Columbus, OH middle class; the use of gender markings in Koti discourse; and the morphosyntax of Gbe relative clauses.

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