Festivities | Talks and events | Excursions
Next week's edition of Calques is the last of this academic year. Please send information and news of departmental interest to Andrew Garrett.
Festivities
Graduation is coming up! The Linguistics ceremony will be held in Zellerbach Playhouse on Saturday, May 14, beginning at 2 pm. Tickets are required (and are available only to graduates and families).
Talks and events
- Friday, April 29
- 3–5: Rachel Rudolph (Berkeley), "The Language of Appearance" (Syntax and Semantics Circle, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Monday, May 2
- 11–12: Katie Sardinha (Berkeley), "The semantics of object case alternations in Kwaḱwala and what it tells us about manner-result complementarity" (Syntax and Semantics Circle, 1229 Dwinelle)
- 1–2: Line Mikkelsen (Berkeley), "Contrastive Topic in Karuk" (Syntax and Semantics Circle, 1229 Dwinelle)
- 1–2:30: Evan Klavon (Berkeley), "Lyric Viewpoint in the Reader's Brain" (CogNetwork, 1303 Dwinelle)
- 2–3: Nico Baier (Berkeley), "The Uniformity of Anti-Agreement and Wh-Agreement" (Syntax and Semantics Circle, 1229 Dwinelle)
- 3–4:30: Claire Bowern (Yale), "Computational phylogenetics for language: Theory, applications, and extensions" (Linguistics Colloquium, 370 Dwinelle)
- Tuesday, May 3
- 12:30–2: Claire Bowern (Yale), "Language change, change across the lifespan, and the Bardi historical record" (Fieldwork Forum, 1229 Dwinelle)
- Wednesday, May 4
- 4–5:30: Claire Bowern (Yale), "The phylogenetics of color systems" (*dhworom, 1229 Dwinelle)
- Friday, May 6
- 3–5: Joint meeting of CogNetwork and Syntax and Semantics Circle (1303 Dwinelle)
- Around the Bay Area
- UC Santa Cruz, Friday, April 29: Paul Kiparsky (Stanford), "Agent Nouns: The Morphosyntax of Mixed Categories"" (UCSC Linguistics Colloquium)
Excursions
Berkeley linguists are sharing their ideas far and wide. In Austin, the Linguistic Society of America Executive Committee meeting is being attended by Sharon Inkelas and LSA Vice President Larry Hyman. And in the twin cities of fen and brine, Cambridge and Salt Lake City, two of our syntax wizards are talking about their agreeable, discriminating ideas:
- Nico Baier, "The Uniformity of Anti-Agreement and Wh-Agreement", CamCoS 5 (Cambridge Comparative Syntax), May 6
- Amy Rose Deal, "Syntactic ergativity as case discrimination", WCCFL 34 (West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics), April 30
Closer to home, on May 6, four members of Team Awesome will be presenting their work at SULA 9 (Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas) in Santa Cruz:
- Amy Rose Deal, "Legacy documentation: What can we learn?"
- Andrew Garrett, "Cooking texts: Corpora and linguistic analysis"
- Line Mikkelsen, "Contrastive Topic in Karuk"
- Katie Sardinha, "The semantics of object case alternations in Kwaḱwala and what it tells us about manner-result complementarity"