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November 11, 2016

Calques 4.12

Veterans Day|Big Give|Talks and Events

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November 4, 2016

Calques 4.11

Big Give|Grammarama|Talks and Events

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October 28, 2016

Calques 4.10

Awesomeness|BLS Deadlines|Festivities|Grammarama|Talks and Events

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October 26, 2016

Big-league (or bigly)

Berkeley's Susan Lin has gotten a lot of attention lately for her phonetic analysis of presidential candidate Donald J. Trump's adverbial use of big-league (which many listeners hear as bigly). Pieces in the blogosphere and media include the following:

October 21, 2016

Calques 4.9
We're excited to announce a celebration of the career and work of our very own George Lakoff, on Saturday, December 10.

October 14, 2016

Calques 4.8

Awesomeness|Newly published|Travels|Enterprising linguists|Talks and events

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October 7, 2016

Calques 4.7

Awesomeness|Welcome|Grammarama|Talks and events

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October 3, 2016

Dakota Access Pipeline statement

At its meeting today, October 3, 2016, the Linguistics faculty unanimously adopted the following statement:

September 30, 2016

Calques 4.6

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September 23, 2016

Calques 4.5

Festivities|Website news|Talks and events

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September 16, 2016

Calques 4.4
Calques 4.4 for September 16, 2016

September 9, 2016

Calques 4.3

Bnews | Travels | Talks and events

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September 2, 2016

Calques 4.2

Lydgate, manuscript, "Damage and destruction in realmes"

Awesomeness | Talks and events

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August 26, 2016

Calques 4.1

Awesomeness | Transitions | Fall classes | Talks and events

Welcome back for the fall semester! Calques is a weekly newsletter that's only as informative as your contributions. Please send information and news of departmental interest to Andrew Garrett.

Awesomeness

Great news for two graduate students:

May 6, 2016

Calques 3.31

Awesomeness | Festivities | Talks and events | Obituary

This is the last issue of Calques for the 2015-16 academic year. For volume 4, number 1, scheduled for August 19, please send contributions (information and news of departmental interest) to Andrew Garrett. Meanwhile, the editors wish everyone a relaxed, productive summer.

April 29, 2016

Calques 3.30

Festivities | Talks and events | Excursions

Next week's edition of Calques is the last of this academic year. Please send information and news of departmental interest to Andrew Garrett.

April 22, 2016

Calques 3.29

Festivities | Tubularity | Talks and events | Future events | Excursions

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April 15, 2016

Calques 3.28

Awesomeness | Talks and events | Excursions | Festivities

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April 8, 2016

Calques 3.27

Awesomeness | Talks and events | Excursions | Festivities

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Awesomeness

This week two Berkeley linguists have academic job news:

April 1, 2016

Calques 3.26

Awesomeness | Newly published | Talks and events | Deadlines | Excursions | Festivities

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