News

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"

Congratulations to Amy Rose Deal, who has a new article entitled "Uncentered attitude reports" out in the Journal of Semantics.

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

• Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Oct 15 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4pm
  Nadine Grimm (Rochester): "Tone in Grammar and Grammar-Writing"
• Phorum - Friday Oct 10 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4:10-5pm
  Hannah Sande and Sansan Claude Hien (UC Berkeley): "Puzzles in the Lobi (Gur) tone system: Downstep and floating tones"
• 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 10 - Dwinelle 5125 - 3-4pm
  Julian Vargo (UC Berkeley): "Acoustical Diphthongal Trajectory Variation in Hispanic Californian English"
• 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"
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Oct 10 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3:10-4:30pm
  Philip Shushurin: "Rethinking Adjacency: Deriving linear constraints in the Russian Noun Phrase (and beyond)" (Zoom talk)

Lev Michael and Christine Beier have just published a chapter titled "Non-verbal predication in Zaparoan languages" in Non-verbal predication in the world's languages, edited by Pier Marco Bertinetto, Luca Ciucci, and Denis Creissels (De Gruyter Brill).

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

• Linguistics Department Colloquium - Monday Oct 6 - Dwinelle 370 and Zoom (passcode: lx-colloq) - 3:10-4:30pm
  Tom McCoy (Yale): "Using neural networks to test hypotheses about language acquisition"
• Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group - Tuesday Oct 7 - Dwinelle 1229 and Zoom - 3:40-4:30pm
  Julian Vargo (UC Berkeley): "Introduction to Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Speech and Text Corpora: Resources, Processing, and Analysis"
• Phorum - Friday Oct 3 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4:10-5pm
  Katie Russell (UC Berkeley): "The typology of nasal contrast: The view from Kwa"
• Phorum - Friday Oct 10 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4:10-5pm
  Hannah Sande and Sansan Claude Hien (UC Berkeley): "Puzzles in the Lobi (Gur) tone system: Downstep and floating tones"
• Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Friday Oct 3 - Dwinelle 5125 - 3-4pm
  Talk by Shulin Liu (UC Berkeley)
• Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Friday Oct 10 - Dwinelle 5125 - 3-4pm
  HLS/LSA practice talk by Julian Vargo (UC Berkeley)
• Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Oct 3 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3:10-4:30pm
  Bernat Bardagil (Ghent): "Interlocutor morphology in Mỹky"