Gašper Beguš was recently featured on the Wild Interest podcast (created by kids to communicate science to young audiences). You can listen to the episode (featuring other researchers such as zoologist Katy Payne) here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/animal-talk-part-one/id1728574320?i=1000685833202
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January 30, 2025
January 29, 2025
Congratulations to Isaac Bleaman, who will be giving an invited research talk titled "Holocaust Testimonies in Yiddish Language Research and Pedagogy" at the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies on February 24. More info is available here.
January 27, 2025
Larry Hyman and Peter Jenks have published chapters in Syntax in Uncharted Territories: Essays in Honor of Maria Polinsky, edited by Laura Clemens, Vera Gribanova, and Gregory Scontras:
Larry M. Hyman, "Bantu verb stem morphotactics revisited"
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9vb1h3cg
Peter Jenks, "Hyperraising from TP in Moro"
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2td561zq
The full volume on eScholarship is available here: https://escholarship.org/uc/uci_langsci_festschrifts_polinsky
The 2024-2025 colloquium series continues on Monday, February 3, with a talk by visiting scholar Carol Rose Little (University of Oklahoma), taking place in Dwinelle 370 and on Zoom (passcode: lx-colloq) from 3:10-4:30pm. Her talk is entitled "The syntax of accompanying in Ch’ol (Mayan)." In addition to the syntactic analysis, Carol Rose will discuss connections to her work as a Ch'ol courtroom interpreter. The abstract is as follows:
January 26, 2025
Here's the latest from the California Language Archive:
- Did you miss our end-of-year newsletter? Read it here!
- We have made available digital copies of 11 cassette tape recordings made by musicologist Susana Weich-Shahak in Peru in 1974 and 1975, consisting of stories, songs, and conversations in Arakmbut (Harakmbut), Ashaninka (Arawakan), Máíjĩ̵̀kì (Tukanoan), and Yagua (Peba-Yaguan), from the communities of Shintuya, Cutivireni, Sucusari, and Catalán, respectively (listen to an excerpt of Luis Ríos's (Bábì) story of Maineno in Máíjĩ̵̀kì here). The larger collection, the Colección de Materiales de Lenguas Peruanas de Susana Weich-Shahak, was previously accessioned, and additionally includes 8mm film and photographic slides, all of which are also now digitized.
- Zachary Wellstood, together with Nellie and R. David Zorc, has accessioned Documenting Aklanon Morphosyntax. The collection consists of materials spanning a field methods course at the University of Maryland in 2018 and 2019, with Maria Polinsky and Omer Preminger (recordings and notes in bundles 001-021), and telephone-based research afterward. The documentation focuses on grammatical topics.
January 25, 2025
Here are some photos of Berkeley linguists from the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (January 9-12 in Philadelphia)!
January 24, 2025
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
- Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group - Thursday Jan 30 - Dwinelle 1303 - 4-5pm (note the new day, time, and room)
Echar Lashon (Conversation Hour & Welcome Back! Snacks provided!) - Language Revitalization Working Group - Wednesday Jan 29 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4pm
LR Library Launch & Semester Welcome Event! (Snacks provided. We'll share what LR projects we're all working on this semester. If you can, bring language revitalization books to donate to the library!) - Phorum - Friday Jan 31 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
Maksymilian Dąbkowski (UC Berkeley): "The unpredictable but expected deglottalization in some former A'ingae derivatives"
January 23, 2025
Anushah Hossain (Script Encoding Initiative) gave a talk entitled "ISCII Imperialism: The Legacy of a Devanagari-Centric Character Code" on January 18 at Face/Interface, a conference on global type design at Stanford University.
She also gave an online talk on January 23 for World Endangered Writing Day titled "Script Encoding: The Future," which reviewed the Script Encoding Initiative's past work and new directions.
January 22, 2025
Congrats to the Berkeley linguists who will be presenting their work at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, taking place online from January 24 to 26:
- Anna Björklund: "The structure of the Nomlaki verb"
- Maksymilian Dąbkowski: "Teasing the A'ingae discourse and conditional marking apart"
January 21, 2025
Oliver Whitmore (French) presented a talk at the 2025 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, held in New Orleans from January 9-12, titled "Disputing Diglossia: When a sociolinguist doesn't see language."
Congratulations to Susanne Gahl on her new article (with R. Harald Baayen), "Time and thyme again: Connecting English spoken word duration to models of the mental lexicon," Language 100.4 (2024), 623-670.
Congratulations to Nicole Holliday on her new article, "My Memoji, my self: Prosodic correlates of online performed code-switching via avatar," published in Linguistics Vanguard!
January 20, 2025
Congratulations to Hannah Sande, who published a chapter, "Insertion or deletion? CVCV/CCV alternations in Kru languages," in a new volume Epenthesis and beyond: Recent approaches to insertion in phonology and its interfaces with Language Science Press, available here: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/469.
Andrew Garrett, Madeleine Strait, Rhosean Asmah, and Julia Peck attended the January workshop of the Yurok Language Program in Klamath on the Yurok Reservation, where Andrew led a session on numerals and the Yurok lunar calendar system. Andrew was recognized with a gift and gratitude for his longtime engagement and prioritization of community requests and needs! They also visited Rek'woy, the place where the Klamath River, now undammed thanks in part to Yurok and Karuk activism, flows freely into the Pacific Ocean (pictured).
'Echkwoh Rek'woy 'o tenem'.
There are a lot of sea lions at Rek'woy.
January 19, 2025
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies just launched a free (non-credit) Mam class for the spring semester. See here for more information.
December 18, 2024
Greg LeBlanc's podcast unSILOed features a new interview with Andrew Garrett on "The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall — Revisiting the Past and Renaming the Present" (including both audio and video versions).
December 12, 2024
Maksymilian Dąbkowski published a squib on "A Q-Theoretic Solution to A’ingae Postlabial Rounding" in Linguistic Inquiry. The paper can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00550. Congrats, Maks!
A review by Chloé Laplantine of Andrew Garrett's book The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California has appeared in the journal Histoire Épistémologie Langage 46/2 (2024):
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Languages, Cultures, and History of Contemporary Amazonia – Friday, December 13 - Dwinelle 1229 - 10am-4:30pm
- Phorum – Friday, December 13 - Dwinelle 1303 - 4-5pm
Meg Cychosz (UCLA): Harnessing children’s messy, naturalistic environments to understand speech and language development
Plus an event during break:
- LSA practice talks – Thurdsay, January 2 - 11am-1pm and Friday, January 3 - 11am-1pm - Dwinelle 1303 and on Zoom
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