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SUMMARY:The Serving Library: Liverpool Biennial 2018: Aliens\, Fieldwork\, 
 and Universal Grammar – Jessica Coon and Vincenzo Latronico
DESCRIPTION:Aliens\, Fieldwork\, and Universal Grammar – Jessica Coon and
  Vincenzo Latronico\n\nBOOK NOW\n\nA talk by Jessica Coon (Associate Profe
 ssor of Linguistics\, McGill University\, Montreal) and a conversation wit
 h Vincenzo Latronico (Writer\, translator and guest co-editor of The Servi
 ng Library Annual 2018/19\, Paris and Milan) curated by The Serving Libra
 ry in partnership withLJMU’s Exhibition Research Lab for Liverpool Bienn
 ial 2018\n\nIf aliens arrived\, could we communicate with them? How would 
 we do it? What are the tools that linguists use to decipher unknown langua
 ges? How different can human languages be from one another? The recent sci
 ence-fiction film Arrival touches on these and other real questions in t
 he field of linguistics. In the movie\, linguistics professor Dr. Louise B
 anks (Amy Adams) is recruited by the military to translate the language of
  the newly-arrived Heptapods in order to answer the usual question: why ar
 e they here? Language\, it turns out\, is a crucial piece of the answer. A
 lthough she has never worked with an alien\, Coon was employed as scientif
 ic consultant for the linguistics in Arrival. In this talk and a subseque
 nt discussion with novelist Vincenzo Latronico\, she will discuss her own 
 fieldwork on Mayan languages\, what these languages can tell us about ling
 uistic diversity and Universal Grammar\, and how much any of this will hel
 p us at first contact.\n\nThe Liverpool Biennial 2018 public programme of 
 talks concludes with the release of the new issue ofThe Serving Library An
 nual 2018/19 and the new volume of the Biennial’s free online journalSt
 ages.\n\nThe Serving Library Annual 2018/19 is guest co-edited by Italian
  translator and novelist Vincenzo Latronico\, and is loosely assembled aro
 und the idea of ‘translation as medium’. Stages\, edited by Professor
  Joasia Krysa\, brings together contributions by some of the participants
  to the public programme\, in connection with Liverpool Biennial 2018’s 
 call Beautiful world\, where are you?\n\nJessica Coon (b.1981) is Associa
 te Professor of Linguistics at McGill University and holds the Canada Rese
 arch Chair in Syntax and Indigenous Languages. Her research focuses on top
 ics in syntactic theory\, with a special focus on languages of the Mayan f
 amily. In addition to theoretical work\, she leads collaborative language 
 documentation and revitalisation projects with indigenous communities in C
 anada and Latin America. In 2015 she worked as the scientific consultant f
 or the film Arrival\, which stars Amy Adams as a linguistic fieldworker w
 ho is recruited by the military to decipher the language of the recently-a
 rrived Heptapods. Since the film\, Coon has helped create a public dialogu
 e about linguistics and endangered languages through interviews and writte
 n work in outlets including Wired Magazine\, The Washington Postand CBC'
 s The Current.\n\nVincenzo Latronico (b.1984) is a novelist and translato
 r who lives between Paris and Milan. After the German publication of his s
 econd novel\, La cospirazione delle colombe (The conspiracy of the doves
 )\, he has been named ‘a new master of Italian literature’ by the Fra
 nkfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. After publishing radical new translations of 
 authors including H. G. Wells and Oscar Wilde\, he is currently working on
  a new Italian version of Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte-Cristo.\n
 \nJoin us from 6pm for drinks and conversation ahead of a prompt 6.30pm st
 art.\n\nThis event is part of the public programme for Liverpool Biennial
  2018\, which includes a series of talks by leading thinkers and artists i
 n response to the question Beautiful world\, where are you?
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