Congrats to fifth-year grad student Virginia Dawson, whose paper A new kind of epistemic indefinite was recently published in the Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22!
Students
October 3, 2018
The program for this year's LSA annual meeting has been released, and Berkeley linguistics will be represented in 14 talks and posters (plus an organized session) by students, faculty, and very recent alumni:
- Kenneth Baclawski Jr.: Optional wh-movement is discourse-connected movement in Eastern Cham
- Amalia Skilton and David Peeters (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics): Speaker and addressee in spatial deixis: new experimental evidence
- Zachary O'Hagan: Two Sorts of Contrastive Topic in Caquinte
- Emily Clem and Virginia Dawson: Feature sharing and functional heads in concord
- Noga Zaslavsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Karee Garvin, Charles Kemp (University of Melbourne), Naftali Tishby (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and Terry Regier: Color-naming evolution and efficiency: The case of Nafaanra
- Susan Lin and Myriam Lapierre: Articulatory patterns in contrasting nasal-stop sequences in Panará
- John Merrill (PhD '18): Polarity rules in Kobiana consonant mutation
- Jesse Zymet: Learning lexical trends together with idiosyncrasy: MaxEnt versus the mixed logit
- Andrew Cheng: Style-shifting, Bilingualism, and the Koreatown Accent
- Emily Clem: The cyclic nature of Agree: Maximal projections as probes
- Nicholas Rolle (PhD '18): A cyclic account of a trigger-target asymmetry in concatenative vs. replacive tone
- Virginia Dawson: Disjunction scope can be lexically encoded: Evidence from Tiwa
- Tessa Scott: Cyclic linearization and the conjoint/disjoint alternation in Ndengeleko
- Martha Schwarz, Myriam Lapierre, Karee Garvin, and Sharon Inkelas: Representing Segment Strength: New Applications of Q Theory [in the special session on Inside Segments, organized by Myriam Lapierre, Karee Garvin, Martha Schwarz, Ryan Bennett, and Sharon Inkelas!]
Congrats all!
This weekend features two conferences at which Berkeley Linguistics will have a major presence, one each in the east and the west:
- The Annual Meeting on Phonology, at UC San Diego, features work by faculty Larry Hyman and Jesse Zymet, along with alumni Nik Rolle (PhD 2018, now at Princeton), Hannah Sande (PhD 2017, now at Georgetown), Gabriela Caballero (PhD 2008, now at UCSD), Alan Yu (PhD 2003, now at Chicago), and Eugene Buckley (PhD 1992, now at Penn).
- NELS 49, at Cornell, features presentations by graduate students Emily Clem, Schuyler Laparle, and Tessa Scott, along with alum Maziar Toosarvandani (PhD 2010, now at UC Santa Cruz).
Congrats all!
The Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21 have just been published, containing four papers by faculty, students, and/or alumni:
- Pranav Anand & Maziar Toosarvandani (Ph.D. 2010)
Unifying the canonical, historical, and play-by-play present. pdf - Amy Rose Deal & Julia Nee
Bare nouns, number, and definiteness in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec. pdf - Peter Jenks, Andrew Koontz-Garboden, & Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso
On the lexical semantics of property concept nouns in Basaá. pdf - Peter Sutton & Hana Filip (Ph.D 1993)
Restrictions on subkind coercion in object mass nouns. pdf
Congrats all!
September 28, 2018
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!
September 27, 2018
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!
September 21, 2018
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
September 20, 2018
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!
September 12, 2018
Congrats to fifth-year grad student Virginia Dawson on receiving a grant from the American Philosophical Society's Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research! The grant project is entitled "Strategies of disjunction in Tiwa", and will support her field research in Assam, India.
Taking advantage of the visual possibilities afforded by the new Calques format, we present some recent evidence of Berkeley linguists out and about. Send your photos of linguistics-in-action to Calques!
The Berkeley Crew at LabPhon16: Yao Yao (PhD 2011), Charles Bond Chang (PhD 2010), Grant McGuire (former postdoc), Keith Johnson, Matt Faytak (PhD 2018), Myriam Lapierre, Jeremy Steffman (BA 2016), Hannah Sande (PhD 2017), Alice Shen, Andrew Cheng and Alan Yu (PhD 2003)
The Berkeley Crew at Sinn und Bedeutung 23: Emily Clem, Virginia Dawson, Amy Rose Deal, Peter Jenks, Rachel Rudolph, Ruyue Agnes Bi
Two new doctors in celebratory gear: Jack Merrill (PhD 2018) and Nik Rolle (PhD 2018)
September 7, 2018
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
August 31, 2018
Berkeley Papers in Formal Linguistics is a new online working papers series edited by Line Mikkelsen and Amy Rose Deal. Since launching in June, BPFL has published 7 papers by faculty and students (both graduate and undergraduate), representing work in formal linguistics across a number of subdisciplines. We welcome submissions of new research or work in progress in any area of formal linguistics; please contact the editors for submission details!
- Grammatical tone: Typology and theory
Nicholas R. Rolle - The Semantics of Kwak'wala Object Case
Katherine Ann Sardinha - Contrastive topic in Eastern Cham
Kenneth Baclawski - Spell-out, Chains, and Long Distance Wh-movement in Seereer
Nicholas Baier - Overt versus Zero Pronouns in Mandarin Chinese
Ruyue Bi - Definite Spans and Blocking in Classifier Languages
Peter Jenks - The Syntax of Matsigenka Object-Marking
Zachary O'Hagan
Continuing the news of the summer: Congrats to third-year grad student Myriam Lapierre on winning the Best Student Paper Award for Poster Presentations at this summer's meeting of LabPhon! Myriam's award-winning poster is entited 'Patterns of nasal coarticulation in Panará' and is joint work with Susan Lin. Facebook users can find a photo of Myriam demonstrating a vowel from the poster in question on the Friends of Berkeley Linguistics facebook group.
August 24, 2018
A hearty congratulations to the new PhDs awarded in the past few months:
- Nico Baier, PhD!
Anti-Agreement - Auburn Barron-Lutzross, PhD!
Speech Stereotypes of Female Sexuality - Matt Faytak, PhD!
Articulatory uniformity through articulatory reuse: insights from an ultrasound study of Sūzhōu Chinese - Jack Merrill, PhD!
The Historical Origin of Consonant Mutation in the Atlantic Languages - Nicholas Rolle, PhD!
Grammatical tone: Typology and theory - Tammy Stark, PhD!
This year's meeting of the World Conference of African Linguistics (WOCAL) starts tomorrow in Rabat, Morocco, and features talks by two Berkeley graduate students:
Tessa Scott: "Obligatory Resumption in Swahili"
Karee Garvin: "Direct Object Placement in Nafaanra Word Order"
Congrats, Tessa and Karee!
The June issue of Language and Speech contains a new paper by third-year graduate student Yevgeniy Melguy:
Congrats, Yevgeniy!
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