News

Fifth-year grad students Andrew Cheng and Emily Clem were each recognized by the LSA this week in connection with the upcoming annual meeting in New York City.  Andrew was named a finalist for the Five-minute Linguist event, which features short, informative, engaging, and accessible talks about linguistics research on a variety of topics. Andrew's presentation is entitled Style-shifting, Bilingualism, and the Koreatown Accent. Emily has been named as the third place winner of this year's Student Abstract Award, recognizing "the three best abstracts submitted by a student for a paper or poster presentation at Annual Meeting". Emily's prize-winning abstract is entitledThe cyclic nature of Agree: Maximal projections as probes. 

Congrats, Andrew and Emily! 

In and around the linguistics department in the next week: 

• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Sept 28- Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
  Three NELS practice talks:  Emily Clem on Cyclic expansion in Agree: Maximal projections as probes;  Schuyler Laparle on Locative inversion without inversion; and Tessa Scott on Anti-clitic host requirement on second position clitic in SJA-Mam
• Phorum - Monday Oct 1 - Dwinelle 1303 - 12-1pm
  Florian Lionnet (Princeton): Phonetically grounded gradient faithfulness: the case of conditional feature affixation in Laal
• Fieldwork Forum - Thursday Oct 4 - Dwinelle 1303 - 4-5:30pm 
  Saul Schwartz (UC Berkeley): The Afterlife of a Formerly Endangered Language: Producing Chiwere as Cultural Heritage
• SLUgS - Thursday Oct 4 - Dwinelle 1229 - 5-7pm
  Movie night!

Congrats to grad student Kenneth Baclawski Jr. whose paper Diglossia and change from below in Eastern Cham has just been been posted online in the latest issue of the journal Asia-Pacific Language Variation!

In and around the linguistics department in the next week: 

• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Sept 21 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm 
  Sabrina Grimberg (Stanford): Between Economy and Recoverability: The Case of Subject Doubling in Colloquial Finnish
• Linguistic Anthropology Working Group - Friday Sept 21 - 221 Kroeber Hall - 4:30-6:30pm
  Erin Debenport (UCLA): Voicing Secrets: The Language of (In)visibility in the Pueblo Borderlands
• Phorum - Monday Sept 24 - Dwinelle 1303 - 12-1pm  
  Amanda Rysling (UC Santa Cruz): TBA
• Linguistics Department Colloquium - Monday Sept 24 - Dwinelle 370 - 3:10-5 pm
  Keith Johnson (UC Berkeley): Four phonetic discoveries: How I spent my sabbatical “vacation”
• Special guest lecture in Ling 220A - Tuesday Sept 25 - Dwinelle 1303 -  12:40-2pm
  Elisabeth Huber (LMU Munich): Tripartite English noun compounds
• Fieldwork Forum - Tuesday Sept 25 - Dwinelle 1303  - 4-5:30pm
  Martha Schwarz (UC Berkeley): TBA
• SLUgS - Thursday Sept 27 - Dwinelle 1229 - 5-7pm
  Head grad advisor Lev Michael will be giving a talk on the topic of graduate school!
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Sept 28- Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
  We will hear three NELS practice talks: Emily Clem on Cyclic expansion in Agree: Maximal projections as probes;  Schuyler Laparle on Locative inversion without inversion; andTessa Scott on Anti-clitic host requirement on second position clitic in SJA-Mam

A group of students, faculty, alumni, and friends of Berkeley linguistics were on hand this Wednesday evening to cheer the Oakland A's to a 10-0 victory over the visiting LA Angels!

The annual meeting of Sinn und Bedeutung, taking place this week in Barcelona, features five presentations by Berkeley students, faculty, and very recent alumni:

• Emily Clem: Attributive adjectives in Tswefap: Vague predicates in a language with degrees
• Virginia Dawson and Amy Rose Deal: Third readings by semantic scope lowering: prolepsis in Tiwa
• Amy Rose Deal and Vera Hohaus: Vague predicates, crisp judgments
• Ruyue Agnes Bi (BA '18) and Peter Jenks : Pronouns, radical pro-drop, and ellipsis in Mandarin
• Rachel Rudolph (Berkeley philosophy): A Closer Look at the Perceptual Source in Copy Raising Constructions