Linguistics Department News (Calques)

In early April, Zachary O'Hagan was in Paris and Berlin in order to process archival materials from the late 1970s and early '80s related to Máíhɨ̃̀kì (Tukanoan; Peru), and to attend the annual meeting of the Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archives Network (DELAMAN). In early May, he participated in the 1st Workshop on Endangered and Minoritized Languages, hosted online by the Universidade do Minho (Portugal), giving a presentation titled "The Role of Linguistic Heritage Materials from Berkeley in California and Beyond."

At the 17th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference in Buenos Aires, July 14-18, Schuyler Laparle (PhD, 2022) and Eve Sweetser will present a paper titled "Projecting viewpoint: Material and immaterial discourse anchors." Eve Sweetser will also present a paper "PANDEMIC IS WAR metaphors: Multimodal blends with varied inputs and meanings."

In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:

• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday May 9 - Dwinelle 1303 (and Zoom by request) - 3-4:30pm
  Shweta Akolkar (UC Berkeley): "Two structures for modal clauses in Marathi and implications for case"

News from the Script Encoding Initiative:

Helena Kansa is the Program Manager of the Script Encoding Initiative (SEI). She is a recent graduate of the University of California, Irvine, and has a background in linguistics, anthropology, and foreign languages such as Italian and Arabic. In her role at SEI, Helena provides administrative and logistical support, oversees special projects like the script status database, and develops new initiatives like the upcoming SEI fieldwork fellowship. With a passion for advancing language accessibility, she is excited to assist SEI in promoting the digital representation of minority writing systems. As representative of SEI’s communications with the public, Helena hopes to cultivate new opportunities for collaboration with UC Berkeley students and the surrounding community. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, traveling, boxing, and working on her car. Helena welcomes anyone interested to reach out to her for any questions about SEI.

Please give her a warm welcome to the department. Helena is starting her role remotely, but will be around in person starting this summer. Feel free to drop by SEI's new office at Dwinelle 1224 to say hello!