After Barbara Partee’s wildly popular online keynote (>2000 views), the “Abralin ao Vivo” lecture series will feature two additional UMass linguists:

• Michael Becker will participate in the panel “Desafios teóricos e descritivos para a morfologia na atualidade” with Alina Villalva, Ana Paula Scher, and Luiz Schwindt, Wednesday, June 17 at 9am EDT. Link to the live transmission.

• Luiz Amaral will present “Revitalização, retomada e manutenção de línguas ameaçadas: estratégias para a realidade brasileira” the same day, Wednesday, June 17 at 6pm EDT. Link to the live transmission.

The Brazilian Linguistic Association (abralin.org), in a joint project with the Permanent International Committee of Linguists (ciplnet.com), the Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina (mundoalfal.org), the Sociedad Argentina de Estudios Lingüísticos (sael.com.ar) and the Linguistic Society of America (linguisticsociety.org) is organizing a virtual event: Abralin ao Vivo – Linguists Online. The event is designed to give students and researchers free access to state-of-the-art discussions on the most diverse topics related to the study of human language during this difficult quarantine period.

For more information about Abralin ao Vivo – Linguists Online, please visit: abral.in/aovivo. For updates on the event’s programme, follow Abralin at abral.in/insta. All the lectures are also available on Abralin’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/abralin.