Awesomeness | Welcome | Talks | Conference abstract deadlines | Grant deadlines | Participation deadlines
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Awesomeness
Congratulations to us! At this January's meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas in Portland, there will be seven talks and one organized session by current Berkeley linguists — more than from any other college or university.
- Kayla Carpenter and Justin Spence (UC Davis), "Beyond words: Enhancing a learner's dictionary with texts in Hupa (Athabaskan)"
- "Dictionaries, text editions, and corpora: Ensuring value for multiple stakeholders", session organized by Andrew Garrett and Joana Jansen (Oregon)
- Andrew Garrett, Erik Maier, Line Mikkelsen, and Clare Sandy, "Exploring Karuk morphology in a parsed text corpus"
- Lev Michael, "The prosodic system of Iquito as a mixed tone-stress system"
- Zachary O'Hagan, "The grammaticalization of purpose clause markers in Proto-Omagua-Kokama"
- Richard Rhodes, "The semantics of Algonquian motion verbs"
- Amalia Skilton, "Structural change under language obsolescence in an Amazonian speech community"
- Amalia Skilton and Stephanie Farmer, "Máíhiki serial verb constructions challenge the typology of one-word serial verbs"
Welcome
Yang Xu is a postdoctoral researcher working with Terry Regier in the Language and Cognition Lab. Dr. Xu obtained his PhD in machine learning from Carnegie Mellon University, developing computational methods for brain imaging and using these methods to study the neural basis of visual category learning. His present work explores computational principles underlying systems of semantic categories across languages, with a current focus on numeral systems. He is also interested in semantic change. Welcome to Berkeley!
Talks
- Berkeley Linguistics Colloquium (M 3-4:30)
- Oct. 27: Patience Epps (University of Texas at Austin)
- Berkeley Language Center lecture (F 3-5, B4 Dwinelle Hall)
- Oct. 17: Andrew Garrett (Berkeley), "Linguistic Contributions to Native California Language Teaching"
- CogNetwork (W 1–2:30, 2308 Tolman)
- Oct. 22: Rick Dale (UC Merced), "Languages as Adaptive Systems"
- Fieldwork Forum (Fforum, W 11–12, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Oct. 22: Christine Beier (Cabaceras Aid Project), "Discussion: Being a woman in the field"
- Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences (ICBS seminar, F 11–12:30, 5101 Tolman)
- Oct. 17: Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins), "Gradient symbolic computation"
- Oct. 24: Reza Shadmehr (Johns Hopkins), "A memory of errors in sensorimotor learning"
- Linguistic Anthropology Working Group (F 4-6, Gifford Room, Kroeber Hall)
- Oct. 17: Terrence Deacon (Berkeley), "How the symbol concept became corrupted and how to resurrect it"
- Sociophonetic Reading Exchange and Discussion (SPREAD, F 1-2, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Syntax & Semantics Circle (F 3–4:30, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Oct. 17: Andrea Beltrama (Chicago & Stanford), "From semantic composition to Valley Girl talk: Intensifiers at the socio-semantics interface"
- Oct. 24: NELS practice talks
- Stanford Linguistics Colloquium (F 3:30-5, Greenberg Room, Building 460, Stanford)
- Oct. 17: Alan Prince (Rutgers), "Testing the boundaries: aspects of typological structure in OT"
Conference abstract deadlines
- WCCFL 33: West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (Simon Fraser Univ., March 27-29)
- abstract deadline Oct. 21
- BLS 41: Berkeley Linguistics Society (Berkeley, Feb. 7-8)
- abstract deadline Oct. 31
- "Linguistic Landscape: Questioning Boundaries, Opening Spaces" (Berkeley, May 7-9)
- abstract deadline Nov. 1
- ICLC 13: International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Northumbria Univ., Newcastle, July 20-25)
- abstract deadline Nov. 3
- CSANA 2015: Celtic Studies Association of North America, meeting with the 37th California Celtic Conference (Berkeley, March 5-8)
- abstract deadline Nov. 20 (submit abstracts by email to Eve Sweetser)
- Formal Semantics Meets Cognitive Semantics (Nijmegen, Jan. 22-23)
- abstract deadline Nov. 21
- GLOW 38: Generative Linguistics in the Old World (Paris, April 15-18)
- abstract deadline Dec. 1
- SALT 25: Semantics and Linguistic Theory (Stanford, May 15-17)
- abstract deadline Dec. 1
- ACAL 46: Annual Conference on African Linguistics (U. Oregon, March 26-28)
- abstract deadline Dec. 8
- CLS 50: Chicago Linguistic Society (Chicago, April 10-12)
- abstract deadline Jan. 7
Grant deadlines
For faculty
- Townsend Center Faculty Fellowships: Nov. 14
- NSF Linguistics Research Grants: Jan. 15
For students
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships: Oct. 22
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowships: Nov. 3
- Townsend Center Dissertation Fellowships: Nov. 14
- NIH Individual Research Fellowships: Dec. 8
- NSF Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Jan 15
Participation deadlines
- National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages (June 1-12)
- application deadline Nov. 15
- Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (Jan. 8-11)
- preregistration deadline Dec. 19