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SUMMARY:The Serving Library: The Serving Library: Liverpool Biennial 2018: 
 Aliens\, Fieldwork\, and Universal Grammar – Jessica Coon and Vincenzo L
 atronico
DESCRIPTION:Aliens\, Fieldwork\, and Universal Grammar – Jessica Coon and
  Vincenzo Latronico\n\nA talk by Jessica Coon (Associate Professor of Ling
 uistics\, McGill University\, Montreal) and a conversation with Vincenzo L
 atronico (Writer\, translator and guest co-editor of The Serving Library A
 nnual 2018/19\, Paris and Milan) curated by The Serving Library in partne
 rship withLJMU’s Exhibition Research Lab for Liverpool Biennial 2018\n\n
 If aliens arrived\, could we communicate with them? How would we do it? Wh
 at are the tools that linguists use to decipher unknown languages? How dif
 ferent can human languages be from one another? The recent science-fiction
  film Arrival touches on these and other real questions in the field of 
 linguistics. In the movie\, linguistics professor Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Ad
 ams) is recruited by the military to translate the language of the newly-a
 rrived Heptapods in order to answer the usual question: why are they here?
  Language\, it turns out\, is a crucial piece of the answer. Although she 
 has never worked with an alien\, Coon was employed as scientific consultan
 t for the linguistics in Arrival. In this talk and a subsequent discussio
 n with novelist Vincenzo Latronico\, she will discuss her own fieldwork on
  Mayan languages\, what these languages can tell us about linguistic diver
 sity and Universal Grammar\, and how much any of this will help us at firs
 t contact.\n\nThe Liverpool Biennial 2018 public programme of talks conclu
 des with the release of the new issue ofThe Serving Library Annual 2018/19
  and the new volume of the Biennial’s free online journalStages.\n\nThe
  Serving Library Annual 2018/19 is guest co-edited by Italian translator 
 and novelist Vincenzo Latronico\, and is loosely assembled around the idea
  of ‘translation as medium’. Stages\, edited by Professor Joasia Krys
 a\, brings together contributions by some of the participants to the publ
 ic programme\, in connection with Liverpool Biennial 2018’s call Beauti
 ful world\, where are you?\n\nJessica Coon (b.1981) is Associate Professor
  of Linguistics at McGill University and holds the Canada Research Chair i
 n Syntax and Indigenous Languages. Her research focuses on topics in synta
 ctic theory\, with a special focus on languages of the Mayan family. In ad
 dition to theoretical work\, she leads collaborative language documentatio
 n and revitalisation projects with indigenous communities in Canada and La
 tin America. In 2015 she worked as the scientific consultant for the film
  Arrival\, which stars Amy Adams as a linguistic fieldworker who is recru
 ited by the military to decipher the language of the recently-arrived Hept
 apods. Since the film\, Coon has helped create a public dialogue about lin
 guistics and endangered languages through interviews and written work in o
 utlets including Wired Magazine\, The Washington Postand CBC's The Curr
 ent.\n\nVincenzo Latronico (b.1984) is a novelist and translator who lives
  between Paris and Milan. After the German publication of his second novel
 \, La cospirazione delle colombe (The conspiracy of the doves)\, he has 
 been named ‘a new master of Italian literature’ by the Frankfurter Al
 lgemeine Zeitung. After publishing radical new translations of authors inc
 luding H. G. Wells and Oscar Wilde\, he is currently working on a new Ital
 ian version of Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte-Cristo.\n\nJoin us f
 rom 6pm for drinks and conversation ahead of a prompt 6.30pm start.\n\nThi
 s event is part of the public programme for Liverpool Biennial 2018\, whi
 ch includes a series of talks by leading thinkers and artists in response 
 to the question Beautiful world\, where are you?
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