News

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

• Remembering Robin Lakoff: A Memorial at UC Berkeley - Sunday Nov 2 - Alumni House - 1-4pm
• Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group - Tuesday Nov 4 - Dwinelle 1229 and Zoom - 3:40-4:30pm
  Presentation by Daniel Kaufman (Queens College, CUNY & Endangered Language Alliance) on Ladino documentation in New York City
• Language Revitalization Working Group - Wednesday Nov 5 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4pm
  Jonathan Cirelli: "Eastern Pomo Language Program at Habematolel"
• Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Friday Oct 31 - Dwinelle 5125 - 3-4pm
  Verónica Grajeda (UC Berkeley): "U.S. Spanish Nasal Neutralization: A Case Study on the production of /njV/ and /ɲV/"
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Nov 7 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3:10-4:30pm
  Talk by Daniel Aremu (Goethe University Frankfurt)

A new review of Andrew Garrett's book The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California has appeared, by William M. Chace, in Common Knowledge 31 (2025), pp. 230-232.

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

• Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Oct 29 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4pm
  Lewis Lawyer (UC Davis): "Two paths, walking together: Patwin fieldwork in the 21st century"
• Phorum - Friday Oct 24 - Dwinelle 1229 and Zoom - 4:10-5pm
  Nick Aoki (UC Davis): "When multiple-talker exposure is necessary for generalization: Insights into the emergence of sociolinguistic perception"
• Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Friday Oct 24 - Dwinelle 5125 - 3-4pm
  Verónica Grajeda (UC Berkeley): "U.S. Spanish Nasal Neutralization: A Case Study on the production of /njV/ and /ɲV/"
• Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Friday Oct 31 - Dwinelle 5125 - 3-4pm
  Special mystery meeting
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Oct 24 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3:10-4:30pm
  Melissa Cronin (Stanford): "What does it mean for 'used to' to be a past habitual?"

Eve Sweetser will be giving two talks in Germany in next two weeks:

• "Religious metaphors, embodiment and multimodality," keynote address for the International Conference on “Metaphors of Religion,” Ruhr Universität Bochum, Oct. 27, 2025
• "Embedded Narrative Viewpoint in Multimodal Story-telling," Linguistics Colloquium, University of Köln, Nov. 3, 2025

Maksymilian Dąbkowski has published an article titled "Morphological boundary glottals in A'ingae: A new argument for [δ]" in NELS 55: Proceedings of the Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistic Society, Volume One.

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

• Group in American Indian Languages - Wednesday Oct 22 - O'Hagan residence - 6pm
  Chloé Laplantine (Université Paris Cité): "Émile Benveniste's research on North American languages (1952-1953)"
• Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group - Tuesday Oct 21 - Dwinelle 1229 and Zoom - 3:40-4:30pm
  Presentation by Ester Alkanli, a longtime Berkeley resident and native speaker of Ladino from Istanbul
• Language Revitalization Working Group - Wednesday Oct 22 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3:10-4pm
  Cuitlahuac Arreola Martinez: "Balancing Identities in Language Work During Autumn"
• Phorum - Friday Oct 17 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4:10-5pm
  Grace Brown (Stanford): "Gender Identity and Ideology Shape Perceptions of Masculinity in Male Speech"
• Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Friday Oct 17 - Dwinelle 5125 - 3-4pm
  Becky Everson (UC Berkeley): "Linguistic Elicitation and Style in a Language Documentation Context: Variable Click Production in Tjhauba"
• Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Friday Oct 24 - Dwinelle 5125 - 3-4pm
  Verónica Grajeda (UC Berkeley): "U.S. Spanish Nasal Neutralization: A Case Study on the production of /njV/ and /ɲV/"
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Oct 17 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3:10-4:30pm
  Peter Jenks (UC Berkeley): "Pronouns and personhood in Thai"