Maksymilian Dąbkowski presented a talk titled "Boundary Glottals and A’ingae Information Structure: A Morphological Argument for a Discourse Feature Geometry" at Stanford's Syntax and Morphology Circle (SMircle) on Friday, October 24.
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October 26, 2025
October 24, 2025
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?"
October 22, 2025
Hannah Sande will present a talk titled "Puzzles in the Lobi (Gur) tone system" at Stanford's P-interest (a phonetics/phonology working group) on Friday, October 24.
Anushah Hossain will be speaking at Alphabetica II: Entering Otherworlds, a symposium at the West Den Haag Museum in the Netherlands, on October 26, 2025. The symposium and accompanying exhibition explore dream-inspired alphabets from historical, typographic, and sociolinguistic perspectives.
The Script Encoding Initiative is recruiting a Postdoctoral Scholar for a two-year NSF-funded project on the politics of digitizing newly invented writing systems.
The role is ideal for researchers with strong qualitative or mixed-methods skills and an interest in writing systems and digital infrastructures. Regional expertise in West Africa or South Asia is a plus but not required. The position can start as early as January 2026, with flexibility in the start date.
Application review will begin November 18, 2025 (ignore the earlier portal date).
Full listing here: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05167
October 21, 2025
An article by Gašper Beguš and coauthors titled "What if We Understood What Animals Are Saying?: The Legal Impact of AI-Assisted Studies of Animal Communication" just appeared in Ecology Law Quarterly. You can read it here.
Isaac Bleaman will be traveling to Sweden to give two talks at Lund University on November 11 and 12:
- "'Reading' Spoken Yiddish: Transcribing and Analyzing Holocaust Survivor Testimonies," a paper delivered at a panel on "Histories of Reading: The Case of Yiddish Literature," YES - Seminars in Yiddish, European and East and Central European Studies, and Slavistics
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"Preserving the Past, Forging the Future: Digital Voices in Yiddish and Holocaust Studies," a research talk for the NORAH Seminar on Antisemitism and Holocaust Studies
October 20, 2025
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
October 19, 2025
October 17, 2025
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"
October 16, 2025
Congratulations to Maksymilian Dąbkowski, who filed his dissertation, "Metrical stress and glottal stops in A'ingae: A study of cyclicity and dominance at the interface of phonology and morphology," on October 8! Maks has accepted a position as Research Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) beginning January 1.
Zachary O'Hagan is speaking about Indigenous languages and archives at the Berkeley Breakfast Club on Friday, October 17.
Amy Rose Deal and Zachary O'Hagan have published an article on "Person and aspect in Taushiro split ergativity" in NELS 55: Proceedings of the Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society.
Here's the latest from the California Language Archive:
- We have accessioned the Wilma Moman Collection of Northern Sierra Miwok Sound Recordings (Miwokan; California), consisting of 41 audio recordings of short language lessons developed and spoken in 1997 by Mrs. Moman. The recordings were made and donated by her family.
- We have accessioned the Alice Anderton Collection of Indigenous Language Sound Recordings, consisting of nine cassette tape copies in the possession of Dr. Anderton at the time of her death in 2016. The tapes were first deposited with the Native American Languages collection of the Sam Noble Museum (University of Oklahoma) and transferred to the CLA last year.
- We have accessioned the Russell Schuh Collection of African Language Materials. The written materials in this collection consist primarily of notebooks on Bade, Bole, Ciwogai, Diri, Mburku, Ngas, Ngizim, Siri, and Warji, all languages of Nigeria, many including texts written by native-speaker authors. There are also audio recordings and other prepared material.
Gašper Beguš's project titled "Deep language learning: from fiwGAN to LLMs" has won the Peder Sather Grant. The grant will allow a collaboration and several workshops at the University of Oslo and UC Berkeley.
October 14, 2025
Congratulations to Amy Rose Deal, who has a new article entitled "Uncentered attitude reports" out in the Journal of Semantics.
October 13, 2025
Richard Rhodes will be giving a paper at the 57th Algonquian Conference, hosted at the University of Winnipeg from October 17 to 19, 2025. The title of his presentation is "On the History of the Cree Languages."
On October 3, Line Mikkelsen gave the 2025 Prytanean Lecture in connection with homecoming. She spoke about her cross-Atlantic collaboration with Kalaallisut speakers Grethe Schmidt and Ellen Thrane.
October 10, 2025
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)
October 7, 2025
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).
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