{"618793":{"#nid":"618793","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Linguistics Invited Speaker, Dr. Marjorie Pak, Introduces Native Language of Lulogooli","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Marjorie Pak and her colleagues are teaching a course at Emory University in which they pay an Atlanta-based Kenyan-American to provide insight into her native language of Lulogooli.\u0026nbsp; During those consultations, Dr. Pak has noticed some interesting facts about how negation (\u0026quot;not\u0026quot;) is expressed in Lulogooli: there are several different words for negation, and the system seems to be changing rapidly over time.\u0026nbsp; Dr. Pak came to Georgia Tech on Friday, February 22, to share her findings with School of Modern Languages students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMore broadly, across languages, negation markers tend to shift over time, in a process known as \u0026quot;Jesperson\u0026#39;s Cycle\u0026quot;.\u0026nbsp; As a more familiar example, the French negation \u0026quot;ne....pas\u0026quot; historically involved only the word \u0026quot;ne\u0026quot;, with \u0026quot;pas\u0026quot; added for emphasis; but over time, \u0026quot;pas\u0026quot; became the true marker of negation and \u0026quot;ne\u0026quot; became redundant and optional.\u0026nbsp; In Lulogooli, a similar process seems to be taking place, with multiple different negation markers co-occurring redundantly and patterning differently in older texts compared to the present day.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn sum, Dr. Pak introduced students to the idea of fieldwork on under-studied languages (possible in a global city of immigrants such as Atlanta!) and revealed interesting patterns across languages and across time in the expression of negation (\u0026quot;not\u0026quot;).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Modern Languages guest reveals interesting patterns across languages "}],"uid":"34815","created_gmt":"2019-03-05 15:34:54","changed_gmt":"2019-03-08 16:50:59","author":"esnelling3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-03-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-03-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"618794":{"id":"618794","type":"image","title":"Marjorie Pak","body":null,"created":"1551800172","gmt_created":"2019-03-05 15:36:12","changed":"1551800172","gmt_changed":"2019-03-05 15:36:12","alt":"","file":{"fid":"235554","name":"majorie pak.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/majorie%20pak.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/majorie%20pak.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":257020,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/majorie%20pak.jpg?itok=zxoaWNli"}}},"media_ids":["618794"],"groups":[{"id":"612000","name":"Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC)"},{"id":"611608","name":"Global Media and Cultures (GMC)"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"},{"id":"554011","name":"_OLD: School of Modern Languages Student Blog"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEmily Snelling\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarketing and Events Coordinator\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}