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February 20, 2020
Congrats to Susanne Gahl, who has been voted into the Board of Directors of the Aphasia Center of California! The Aphasia Center is a resource and community for people with aphasia, built on the principles of the Life Participation Approach to Aphasia (https://leader.pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/leader.FTR.05032000.4 ).
February 14, 2020
- George Foster's 13 notebooks on the culture and language of the Yuki people of northern California, dating from 1937 (Oswalt.007.001 through Oswalt.007.013). Foster (1913-2006) received his PhD under A.L. Kroeber in 1946, and was later Professor of Anthropology, until 1979. His wife, Mary LeCron Foster (1914-2001), received a PhD from this department in 1965, and the campus's anthropology library is named after them. The notebooks were originally given to Robert Oswalt (PhD 1961). Consultants were Charlie Doorman, Cecilia Logan, George Moore, Ralph Moore, Eben Tilletson, and Old Toby.
- George Foster's 3 notebooks on Huchnom (Yukian; CA) culture, also dating from 1937 (Oswalt.007.014 through Oswalt.007.016). The consultant was Lula Johnson.
- George Grekoff's 3 notebooks on the Clayoquot dialect of Nuu-chah-nulth, a Wakashan language of British Columbia, dating from 1966 and 1967 (Grekoff.002.001 through Grekoff.002.003). Grekoff (1923-1999) was a student of Mary Haas in this department. He did not complete the PhD, but later taught at the University of Washington. Consultants were Hyacinth David, Winifred David, and Odelia Hunter.
- George Grekoff's 5 notebooks on Skagit, a Lushootseed variety (Salishan; WA), dating from 1964 to 1967 (Grekoff.002.004 through Grekoff.002.008). The consultant was Louise George.
- George Grekoff's notebook on Southeastern Pomo (Pomoan; CA), dating from 1957 (Grekoff.002.009). The consultants were Effie and John Kelsey.
In and around the linguistics department in the next week:
February 11, 2020
Raksit Lau, Wendy López Márquez, Alice Shen and Edwin Ko will present a short course at Splash on Sunday, March 8th.
Splash brings over 400 high school students to Berkeley's campus for "a day of unlimited learning".
Mystery Language! Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
February 7, 2020
In and around the linguistics department in the next week:
- BLS Workshop - Phonological Representations: At the crossroad between gradience and categoricity - Friday Feb 7 and Saturday Feb 8
See the full program here! - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Feb 7 - 1303 Dwinelle - 3-4:30pm
Prerna Nadathur (Stanford): Causality, aspect, and modality in actuality inferences
- Linguistics Department Colloquium - Monday Feb 10 - 370 Dwinelle - 3-5pm
Hannah Sande (Georgetown): TBA - Thomas Garden Barnes Lecture - Tuesday Feb 11 - 223 Moses Hall - 12:30-2pm
Richard A. Rhodes (Berkeley): Maps, Indigenous Territory, and the Problem of Anachronism - Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Feb 12 - Social Science Matrix 8th Floor (Barrows Hall) - 4-5.30pm
Mary Hermes (University of Minnesota; Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe): Forest Walks in Ojibwemowin: Documentation and Analysis for Reclamation - Linguistics Department Colloquium - Friday Feb 14 - 3335 Dwinelle - 3-5pm
Anthony Yates (UCLA): TBA
February 4, 2020
Congratulations to Andrew Cheng, whose paper "Cross-linguistics f0 differences in bilingual speakers of English and Korean" just came out in JASA-Express Letters!
January 31, 2020
In and around the linguistics department in the next week:
- Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Jan 31 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
Madeline Bossi: Pronouns in Scottish Gaelic - Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Feb 5 - Dwinelle 1303 - 4-5.30pm
Tyler Lemon: TBA - BLS Workshop - Phonological Representations: At the crossroad between gradience and categoricity - Friday Feb 7 and Saturday Feb 8
See the full program here! - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Feb 7 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
Prerna Nadathur (Stanford): TBA
January 30, 2020
Congrats to Meg Cychosz, first author of another new article just accepted:
Cychosz, M., Erskine, M., Munson, B., & Edwards, J. (to appear). A lexical advantage in four-year-old children's word repetition. Journal of Child Language. [preprint]
January 29, 2020
Now that 2019 is in the books, congratulations to our 2019 PhD alumni!
- Kenneth Paul Baclawski, Jr., PhD!
Discourse connectedness: The syntax-discourse structure interface - Kelsey C. Neely, PhD!
The Linguistic Expression of Affective Stance in Yaminawa (Pano, Peru) - Amalia E. Skilton, PhD!
Spatial and non-spatial deixis in Cushillococha Ticuna - Emily C. Clem, PhD!
Agreement, case, and switch-reference in Amahuaca
Zach O'Hagan sends the following update from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages:
- We archived a new collection of sound recordings and transcriptions of Kupang Malay (West Timor), which derive from the spring 2013 undergraduate field methods course (Linguistics 140) taught by Sarah Cutfield, with language consultant Adriana Tunliu. Sarah was a lecturer at the time, having just finished her PhD in 2012 at Monash University (Australia) with a dissertation titled "Demonstratives in Dalabon: A Language of Southwestern Arnhem Land."
January 27, 2020
Amy Rose Deal will be in New York City this week to give an NYU colloquium on Interaction, satisfaction, and the PCC.
January 26, 2020
Gabriella Licata of Romance Linguistics writes to share that her quantitative work on language attitudes towards Genoese and Italian is in the Ligurian news. The article, by Andrea Acqarone of the newspaper Secolo XIX, sums up her results (in Genoese) for a nonlinguistic audience, explaining how gender can condition the way we speak and perceive language.
January 24, 2020
In and around the linguistics department in the next week:
- Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Jan 24 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
Round robin -
Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Jan 29 - Dwinelle 1303 - 4-5.30pm
Round Robin: Summer Fieldwork 2020: Anyone is invited to present their plans for fieldwork this summer for discussion and feedback. - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Jan 31 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
Madeline Bossi: Pronouns in Scottish Gaelic
January 23, 2020
Congrats to Meg Cychosz, first author of a new paper to appear:
Here is a link to the Open Science Framework ethics repository created for the article.
The proceedings of NELS 49 are now in print, featuring a paper each by Schuyler Laparle and Tessa Scott:
- Laparle, S. 2019. Locative inversion without inversion. In NELS 49: Proceedings of the Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 2, eds. Maggie Baird & Jonathan Pesetsky, 199-208. [preprint]
- Scott, T. 2019. Clitic placement in Mam (Mayan) requires a host requirement. In NELS 49: Proceedings of the Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 3, eds. Maggie Baird & Jonathan Pesetsky, 117-126. [preprint]
Congrats both!
January 22, 2020
January 21, 2020
A new article by Lev Michael and Natalia Chousou‐Polydouri on Computational phylogenetics and the classification of South American languages has just appeared in the journal Language and Linguistics Compass. Congrats Lev and Natalia!
January 20, 2020
Zach O'Hagan sends the following update from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages:
- In December we published the first Survey Report in five years, Jane and Kenneth Hill's 1473-page magnum opus "Comparative Takic Grammar," which covers a wide range of topics related to this branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family in incredible detail. Jane Hill, born in Berkeley in 1939, received her PhD in anthropology from UCLA in 1966, with a dissertation titled "A Grammar of the Cupeño Language." She went on to become Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Arizona beginning in 1983, retiring in 2009. Sadly, Jane passed away in November 2018, as Ken writes in the preface, shortly after the completion of the first draft of this monograph.
January 17, 2020
In and around the linguistics department in the next week:
- Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Jan 17 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
Virginia Dawson (UC Berkeley): A new kind of epistemic indefinite -
Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Jan 22 - Dwinelle 1303 - 4-5.30pm
Gabriella Licata (UC Berkeley): Opposing overt and covert language attitudes: Implications for the revitalization of Genoese - Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Jan 24 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
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