Raffle Items

  • Jewelry
    • Mukudu is the Aikanã word for traditional body adornments. This jewelry is made out of palm nuts and other natural materials by the women of the Terra Indígena Tubarão-Latundê in western Brazil as a way to share their culture and style while supporting their community.
  • Art Class Discount Tickets for The Harwood Art Center Art School Offerings
  • United Soccer Tickets Voucher
    • New Mexico United is an American professional soccer team based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Founded June 6, 2018, the team currently plays in the USL Championship, the second division of American soccer.
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    • Contact NM United to redeem the tickets from the voucher
  • Gramática Española: Variación Social.
    • Potowski, Kim & Naomi Shin. 2024. Gramática Española: Variación Social. Routledge.
    • Gramáticaespañola: Variación social introduces intermediate to advanced students of Spanish to the main grammatical features of the language in a way that emphasizes the social underpinnings of language. Written in Spanish, this unique approach to the study of grammar guides students in an examination of how Spanish grammar varies depending on place, social group, and situation. Students examine why some varieties of Spanish are considered prestigious while others are not, drawing on current and historical sociopolitical contexts, all while learning grammatical terminology and how to identify categories and constructions in Spanish. Keywords: Spanish grammar, Spanish sociolinguistics, bilingualism, sociogrammar
  •  Questioning theoretical primitives in linguistic inquiry
    • Shin, Naomi L. & Daniel Erker (Eds.). 2018. Questioning theoretical primitives in linguistic inquiry. John Benjamins.
    • Each contribution to this volume reminds us of the need to routinely revisit, clarify, and assess our positions on what constitutes the elemental content, methodology, and goals of linguistics. This is a necessity because, in the study of human language, deciding how and where to begin is itself a theoretical move, one that has substantial downstream effects on what the ensuing investigation will (and can) discover. In the same way that the location and structure of an observatory shapes how its users view, and therefore, describe and explain the cosmos, so does the nature of the edifice of linguistic science shape how we see and understand language. This book amounts to a self-inspection of the load-bearing components of that edifice. That is, in this volume, a collection of leading linguists can be seen doing the work of their craft in order to probe the soundness of the very categories, concepts, and units of observation that make this work possible. These foundational components are what the first half of the book's title is meant to capture. By first principles, we refer to the theoretical primitives that guide linguists in their search for an understanding of human language. An insight shared by these papers is that such primitives have a deep impact on how that search unfolds. First names determine the types of questions that are deemed valid, the kinds of data that are considered relevant, and the sets of goals that are celebrated as worthy of the field. Among those interrogated here are such familiar primitives as the linguistic sign, a language, structural relations, noun, verb, grammar, acquisition, bilingual, heritage language, linguistic variable, falsifiability, and the envelope of variation. Though the contributors to the present volume work across a range of research traditions (e.g. generativist, variationist, functionalist, etc.) they are, like the work of the scholar they are meant to honor, bound together by a concern for transparency and deliberation at the outset of analysis. In some cases, they argue that a particular primitive should be thrown out and replaced. In others, recalibration is suggested instead. Together they make a powerful case for careful consideration of where we begin in linguistic inquiry. Keywords: linguistic theory, first principles, linguistic sign
  •  Lobo Bike Shop $60 Tune-up Certificate
    • Bring your bicycle to the Lobo Bike Shop (in Johnson Gym)
    • https://recservices.unm.edu/outdoor-adventure-center/lobo-bike-shop.html
    • Tune-up includes:
      • Clean and lube chain
      • Minor shifting adjustment and lubrication
      • Minor brake adjustmentand lubrication
      • Precision wheel true
      • Headset and bottom bracket adjustment
      • Front and rear hub adjustment
      • Drivetrain cleaning
      • Check tire air pressure
      • Safety check
  •  UNM Outdoor Recreation Services $60 rental gear certificate
    • The Outdoor Rental & Resource Center is your one stop shop for everything outdoors. Whether you need to rent outdoor equipment or want help planning a day trip to a multi-week adventure, let our experienced and professional staff assist you.
    • Potential items to rent include: bikes, stand-up paddle boards, camping gear, skis and gear, snowboards and gear, snowshoes and gear, bouldering gear
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  •  Original copy of the Proceedings of the First High Desert Linguistics Society Conference(1998)
    • Edited by: Catherine Berkenfield, Dawn Nordquist and Angus Grieve-Smith
  •  Coffee paraphernalia from Michael Thomas Coffee Roasters
  • One signed copy of Language, usage and cognition by Joan Bybee
    • Bybee, Joan. 2010. Language, Usage and Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511750526
    • Language demonstrates structure while also showing considerable variation at all levels: languages differ from one another while still being shaped by the same principles; utterances within a language differ from one another while exhibiting the same structural patterns; languages change over time, but in fairly regular ways. This book focuses on the dynamic processes that create languages and give them their structure and variance. It outlines a theory of language that addresses the nature of grammar, taking into account its variance and gradience, and seeks explanation in terms of the recurrent processes that operate in language use. The evidence is based on the study of large corpora of spoken and written language, what we know about how languages change, as well as the results of experiments with language users. The result is an integrated theory of language use and language change which has implications for cognitive processing and language evolution.