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"Much of Andrew Garrett’s book The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California (MIT Press, 2023) is grounded in The Bancroft Library’s collections relating to anthropologist and linguist Alfred Kroeber; Kroeber’s family, including his second wife, Theodora, and his daughter, Ursula K. Le Guin; his colleagues, students, and collaborators throughout California; and Phoebe Hearst, who directed and funded his work. In this presentation, Garrett will talk about a few of the archival objects — manuscripts and photos — that had a significant impact on how he framed his argument about Kroeber’s documentation of Indigenous stories."

• Aurora Martinez Kane: "In-community attitudes toward Traditional New Mexican Spanish"

Several UC Berkeley linguistics faculty and students will present at NELS 55, to be held at Yale on October 17-18, 2024.

• Hannah Sande, plenary talk on "Discontinuous harmony in Guébie: Consequences for cyclic spellout"
• Amy Rose Deal and Zachary O'Hagan, talk on "Person and aspect in Taushiro split ergativity"
• Elango Kumaran (former Berkeley undergraduate linguistics major), talk on "No categorical gang effects"
• Akil Ismael and Jessica Göbel, poster on "The clause-medial vP phase is real: Evidence from Moselle Franconian"
• Maksymilian Dąbkowski, poster on "Morphological boundary glottals in A'ingae: A new argument for [δ]"
• Wesley dos Santos (PhD 2024), poster on "Person hierarchy effects from Φ-agreement at the left periphery in Kawahíva"

Congrats, all!

The Script Encoding Initiative led by Anushah Hossain and Deborah Anderson was awarded two grants this summer to continue its work on making writing systems available on digital devices. A four-year grant from the Mellon Foundation will support research on over twenty writing systems that are not yet incorporated in the Unicode Standard, a widely-implemented communication standard. A second two-year grant from the Internet Society Foundation will support science communication projects to demystify SEI’s work on language technologies for public audiences. Visit SEI’s websiteto learn more about their work.

 Two talks will feature Berkeley linguists at the upcoming workshop on Understanding Obviation at McGill (https://obviationworkshop2024.wordpress.com)