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April 4, 2024

Sande publishes on onomatopoeia in Guébie

Hannah Sande(link is external)'s chapter "Onomatopoeia in Guébie (Kru)(link is external)" has been published in a new handbook, Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages: A Comparative Handbook, edited by Lívia Körtvélyessy and Pavol Štekauer (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2024), pp. 223-235.

March 28, 2024

Holliday to join Berkeley Linguistics

We're thrilled to announce that Prof. Nicole Holliday(link is external) will be joining the UC Berkeley Department of Linguistics faculty as of July 1, 2024.

March 21, 2024

Jenks receives Distinguished Teaching Award

Prof. Peter Jenks(link is external) will receive UC Berkeley's 2024 Distinguished Teaching Award(link is external). Given annually to a handful of faculty, this is the highest campus honor in recognition of sustained excellence in teaching.

March 12, 2024

Skilton accepts position at Edinburgh

Berkeley alumna Dr. Amalia Skilton(link is external) (PhD 2019) has accepted a tenure-track position as a Chancellor's Fellow in the Department of Linguistics & English Language at the University of Edinburgh. Congratulations, Amalia!

Beguš featured in Harvard GSAS News

February 23, 2024

Dąbkowski and Beguš publish in Glossa

Maksymilian Dąbkowski and Gašper Beguš have published a new paper, "Complex diachronies of final nasalization in Austronesian and Dakota(link is external)", in Glossa 9/1 (2024). Abstract:

February 2, 2024

Dąbkowski coauthors paper in Journal of Semantics

Maksimilian Dąbkowski(link is external) and Scott AnderBois's paper "Rationale and Precautioning Clauses: Insights from A’ingae(link is external)" has appeared in Journal of Semantics. Abstract:

Deal publishes article in Linguistic Inquiry

Amy Rose Deal(link is external)'s paper "Interaction, Satisfaction, and the PCC(link is external)" has appeared in Linguistic Inquiry 55 (2024) 39-94. Abstract:

January 26, 2024

Proto-Algonquian Mini-Conference (March 2)
The Canadian Studies Program is pleased to announce a one-day conference on the UC Berkeley campus on Saturday, March 2, 2024, honoring the late David Pentland on the occasion of the posthumous publication of his Proto-Algonquian Dictionary. The speakers will be: Kevin Brousseau, David Costa, Rose-Marie Déchaine & Chris Wolfart, Ives Goddard, Will Oxford, and Richard A. Rhodes. More details may be found here(link is external).

January 11, 2024

Sande coauthors article in Phonological Data and Analysis

Hannah Sande(link is external) and Madeleine Oakley's article "A typological survey of the phonological behavior of implosives: Implications for feature theories(link is external)" has been published in Phonological Data and Analysis 5 (2023) 1-46. Abstract:

December 20, 2023

Garrett, Mikkelsen, et al. publish book chapter

A new chapter, "Karuk(link is external)", co-authored by Andrew Garrett(link is external), Susan Gehr, Erik Hans Maier, Line Mikkelsen(link is external), Crystal Richardson, and Clare S.

Drummond files dissertation

Congratulations to Emily Drummond(link is external), who has filed her dissertation, Clause structure and ergativity in Nukuoro(link is external). Emily is a Language Data Project Manager with IntelliPro in New York and also continues to manage the Nukuoro Documentation Project(link is external).

December 6, 2023

Beier, Hyman, and Michael at "Theory of Tone" workshop
Several Berkeley colleagues and past students took part in the "Theory of Tone" workshop at INALCO (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales), Paris, on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. This project is supported by a European Research Council grant (Valentin Vydrin, Principal Investigator). Its goal is to provide a Tonal Density Index for 250 tone languages over the next five years.

December 3, 2023

New book: "The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall" by Andrew Garrett

Andrew Garrett's new book, The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California, has been published by MIT Press. From the publisher's website(link is external):

November 30, 2023

Kavitskaya and Yu coedit book, "The Life Cycle of Language"

Darya Kavitskaya(link is external) and Alan C. L. Yu (Berkeley PhD 2003) have coedited a new book, The Life Cycle of Language: Past, Present, and Future(link is external) (Oxford University Press), dedicated to Andrew Garrett and with numerous Berkeley contributors (among others):

November 24, 2023

Hannah Sande to receive 2024 Halle Award for Phonology

Berkeley linguistics Prof. Hannah Sande(link is external) will receive the Linguistic Society of America's 2024 Morris Halle Memorial Award for Faculty Excellence in Phonology(link is external)! Congratulations, Hannah!

Katie Russell to receive 2024 Fromkin Prize for Phonology
Berkeley linguistics graduate student Katherine Russell(link is external) will receive the Linguistic Society of America's 2024 Victoria Fromkin Memorial Prize for Student Excellence in Phonology(link is external). Congratulations, Katie!
Hyman coauthors review article

Larry M. Hyman(link is external)'s co-authored review article (with William R. Leben) "Beauty of construction, richness of expression: Paul Newman and the history of Hausa"(link is external) has appeared in Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 15 (2023) 433-475. Abstract:

November 2, 2023

Sande publishes chapter in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology

Hannah Sande(link is external) published a chapter with Taylor L. Miller(link is external) (SUNY Oswego) on "Recursion in morphology" in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119693604.morphcom070(link is external)

October 27, 2023

Hyman publishes new chapter on Luganda tone

Larry Hyman(link is external) and Francis Katamba(link is external) have published a new chapter on "Tonology of the Luganda noun phrase" In Achiri Blasius (ed.), The Bantu NP: Issues and perspectives: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003254188/bantu-nou...(link is external)