Hello! I'm Ziqi (pronounced Zee-Chee). I'm a PhD student in linguistics from the University of Chicago, and I'm visiting UC Berkeley for the spring semester. My research interests largely lie in sociophonetics, language contact, and language ideology. My dissertation focuses on the so-called "New Immigrant Cantonese," a variety that emerged from the contact between Cantonese, Mandarin, and other Sinitic languages and spoken by immigrants who came from Mainland China to Hong Kong.
Freja Lauridsen is a Ph.D. student in linguistics at Lund University. Her research interests lie in historical language change, with a particular focus on historical morphosyntax in the Germanic languages, especially the Scandinavian languages and English. Her Ph.D. project investigates the parallel development of modal auxiliary verbs in Danish and English, including the evolution of the so-called losers of grammaticalisation - that is, preterite-present verbs that underwent partial grammaticalisation but never fully developed into modal auxiliaries. ...
