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Through a public conversation, facilitated workshop, keynote from UM leadership, and a panel with funders, the 1.5 day long event will bring together experts\u2013those engaging \u201cimpact\u201d in their research, those in leadership, and those community partners with whom we work\u2013and put them in conversation with arts and humanities leadership and researchers at the University of Michigan. 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He has written on the topics such as the semantics of AAE tense\/aspect markers, single-speaker level language variation, quantifying the use of style-shift in African American adolescents, and, most recently, how dialectal differences can affect non-Mainstream English speaking 2nd graders\u2019 performance on tests of mathematical reasoning. \n\nColloquium Title: What Speakers Do with Done: Pragmatics, Persistence, and Speaker Agency in African American English\n\nAbstract: The social and grammatical structures that speakers inherit from their surroundings constrain how they express themselves. Neither, however, fully determines that expression, as neither social conditions nor grammar uses language. Speakers do. In making linguistic choices about what to say, when, and how, speakers simultaneously navigate the constraints these structures pose and draw on the resources they provide to make meaning.\n\nBecause linguists are typically less interested in speakers than in kinds of speakers, we abstract away from individual speaker choices to identify larger linguistic patterns: repeated uses of a marker or other linguistic resource that often perform shared social and grammatical functions.\nOf particular interest are patterns that repeat across generations, regions, and social situations. Their persistence reinforces their associations with socially defined communities and classes of grammar based on structural similarities. This, in turn, provides constructs such as African American English (AAE) with relatively stable identities useful in a wide range of analytical pursuits.\n\nAfrican American use of the marker done in sentences like you done messed up plays a role in a number of such patterns. It has therefore figured prominently in characterizations of African American speech, with special attention often given to the marker\u2019s use in expressing indignation and sass.\n\nRather than locate such meanings in the semantics of the marker itself, the analysis of AAE done developed in this talk assigns the marker a relatively abstract semantics based on stativity. It leaves many, if not most, of the meanings commonly associated with done to be derived pragmatically by speakers. These include not only richer affective interpretations, such as indignation, but more grammatical interpretations, such as recency and completion. Because pragmatic interpretation depends on what speakers do with markers in context, the analysis brings speaker choice into clear view. In doing so, it may also help explain the persistence of done in part as a matter of conversational utility.\n\nBy highlighting pragmatic choice in the use of this feature so strongly associated with African American language practices, the analysis aims to make visible the role of speaker agency in bringing social structure and grammatical organization together in actual language use.", "occurrence_notes":null, "guid":"153850-21916560@events.umich.edu", "permalink":"http:\/\/events.umich.edu\/event\/153850", "building_id":"1005177", "building_name":"North Quad", "campus_maps_id":"553", "room":"2435", "location_name":"North Quad", "has_livestream":1, "livestream_type":"zoom", "livetream_require_login":0, "livestream_id":"99774053256", "livestream_link":"https:\/\/umich.zoom.us\/j\/99774053256", "cost":"", "tags":["colloquium"], "website":"https:\/\/lsa.umich.edu\/linguistics", "sponsors":[ { "group_name":"Department of Linguistics", "group_id":"3480", "website":"" } ], "image_url":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/attachments\/2026\/10\/event_153850_original-1.jpg", "styled_images":{ "event_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2026\/10\/event_153850_original-1.jpg", "event_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large\/media\/attachments\/2026\/10\/event_153850_original-1.jpg", "event_large_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large_2x\/media\/attachments\/2026\/10\/event_153850_original-1.jpg", "event_large_lightbox":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large_lightbox\/media\/attachments\/2026\/10\/event_153850_original-1.jpg", "group_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/group_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2026\/10\/event_153850_original-1.jpg", "group_thumb_square":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/group_thumb_square\/media\/attachments\/2026\/10\/event_153850_original-1.jpg", "group_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/group_large\/media\/attachments\/2026\/10\/event_153850_original-1.jpg", "group_large_lightbox":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/group_large_lightbox\/media\/attachments\/2026\/10\/event_153850_original-1.jpg", "event_large_crop":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_large_crop\/media\/attachments\/2026\/10\/event_153850_original-1.jpg", "event_list":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_list\/media\/attachments\/2026\/10\/event_153850_original-1.jpg", "event_list_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_list_2x\/media\/attachments\/2026\/10\/event_153850_original-1.jpg", "event_grid":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_grid\/media\/attachments\/2026\/10\/event_153850_original-1.jpg", "event_grid_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_grid_2x\/media\/attachments\/2026\/10\/event_153850_original-1.jpg", "event_feature_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_feature_large\/media\/attachments\/2026\/10\/event_153850_original-1.jpg", "event_feature_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_feature_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2026\/10\/event_153850_original-1.jpg" }, "occurrence_count":1, "first_occurrence":21916560 } }