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February 24, 2017

Calques 4.21

Calques 4.21 (February 24, 2017)

Newsletter, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley

Excellence | Newly Published | Talks and Events

February 17, 2017

Calques 4.20

Calques 4.20 (February 17, 2017)

Newsletter, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley

Awesomeness | Summer 2017 | Newly Published | Talks and Events

February 10, 2017

Calques 4.19

Calques 4.19 (February 10, 2017)

Newsletter, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley

True Awesomeness | Talks and Events

Please send information and news of departmental interest to Andrew Garrett.

February 3, 2017

Calques 4.18

Calques 4.18 (February 3, 2017)

Newsletter, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley

BLS Awesomeness | New Undergraduate Scholarship | Talks and Events

January 27, 2017

Calques 4.17

Calques 4.17 (January 27, 2017)

Newsletter, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley

BLS Awesomeness | Newly Published | Talks and Events

January 20, 2017

Calques 4.16

Calques 4.16 (January 20, 2017)

Newsletter, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley

December 7, 2016

Calques 4.15

Calques 4.15 (December 7, 2016)

Newsletter, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley

A Celebration of George Lakoff | Talks and Events

November 28, 2016

Calques 4.14

Celebrations and Symposia | Talks and Events

Please send information and news of departmental interest to Andrew Garrett.

November 18, 2016

Calques 4.13

Awesomeness|Newly Published|Talks and Events

Please send information and news of departmental interest toAndrew Garrett.

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

Please send information and news of departmental interest toAndrew Garrett.

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

Please send information and news of departmental interest toAndrew Garrett.

October 7, 2016

Calques 4.7

Awesomeness|Welcome|Grammarama|Talks and events

Please send information and news of departmental interest toAndrew Garrett.

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

Please send information and news of departmental interest to Andrew Garrett.

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