News

Congratulations to Amy Rose Deal, whose article "Constraints on Agreement" has just appeared in the Annual Review of Linguistics.

The College of Letters & Science interviewed Line Mikkelsen, Katherine Russell, and Hannah Sande about their paper (in press) — co-authored with Berkeley alumni Emily Clem (UCSD) and Myriam Lapierre (McGill) — on LRAP and its sister programs at other universities. Read the story here!

Here's the latest from the California Language Archive:

• We have accessioned a new collection of course materials from the 2009 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, which was hosted here. Berkeley faculty members who were instructors included Susanne Gahl, Andrew Garrett, William Hanks, Leanne Hinton, Larry Hyman, Sharon Inkelas, Lev Michael, Line Mikkelsen, Johanna Nichols, John Ohala, Richard Rhodes, and Eve Sweetser. Instructors included other Berkeley alums as well!

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

• Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Feb 4 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4pm
  Julianne Kapner (UC Berkeley): "Doing fieldwork locally: Insights from the Armenian Language in the Bay Area Project"
• Phorum - Friday Feb 6 - Dwinelle 1229 and Zoom - 4:10-5pm
  Larry M. Hyman (UC Berkeley): "A Gap in OCP Tonal Effects"
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Jan 30 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3:10-4:30pm
  Freja Lauridsen (Lund University): "A modal in motion: On the emergence of the English modal mun"
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Feb 6 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3:10-4:30pm
  Talk by Yi-Chi (Yvette) Wu (Harvard)

Marguerite Morlan's article "Metalinguistic evaluations of language choice in the linguistic landscape of Catalonia" has just been published in the International Journal of Multilingualism. Congratulations!

Gašper Beguš was recently a guest on the podcast The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk. Listen to the episode here!

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

• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Jan 30 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3:10-4:30pm
  Talk by Freja Lauridsen

Gašper Beguš is giving a presentation and a fireside chat (in person and online) at OpenAI Forum on Thursday, January 29. More info is available here.

The Center for Jewish Studies is sponsoring a lecture on "Hebrew: From Sacred Language to Mother Tongue" by Keren Mock (Stanford and Sciences Po Paris), taking place on Tuesday, February 3 from 5-6:30 PM in 370 Dwinelle Hall. Click here for more information and the link to register.

Calques is happy to introduce a visiting scholar in Linguistics! Freja Lauridsen is a Ph.D. student in linguistics at Lund University. Her research interests lie in historical language change, with a particular focus on historical morphosyntax in the Germanic languages, especially the Scandinavian languages and English. Her Ph.D. project investigates the parallel development of modal auxiliary verbs in Danish and English, including the evolution of the so-called losers of grammaticalisation - that is, preterite-present verbs that underwent partial grammaticalisation but never fully developed into modal auxiliaries. A central focus of the project is the Common Germanic etymon 'munu' and its grammaticalisation paths in Danish and English. The project adopts a corpus-based approach, drawing on historical manuscript data.

Freja will share an office in Dwinelle 1228.

Tyler Lemon (PhD 2024) has begun an internship on the Data Analytics & Engineering team at Fleetio, a truck fleet management software company based in Birmingham, Alabama. Tyler is working primarily on internal data questions and database management.

Nicole Holliday recently published an article entitled "Socially prescriptive speech technologies: Linguistic, technical, and ethical issues" in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.