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McKelvey School to honor Alum Brent Ramerth (’07) with Emerging Leader Award
Alumni at SOTA IV
Alumni present research at fourth meeting of the Society for Typological Analysis
Faculty and Alumni at LSA
Washington University was well represented this year in New Orleans at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
Professor Bruce Hayes of UCLA presented on constraint-based grammars for Hausa verse and song.
The Hausas of northern Nigeria never recite their poetry but rather sing it. This talk is an attempt to show that tools from modern linguistic theory can help elucidate the process of Hausa verse composition and the rendering of verse in song.