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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

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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

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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

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October 7, 2016

Calques 4.7

Awesomeness|Welcome|Grammarama|Talks and events

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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

September 9, 2016

Calques 4.3

Bnews | Travels | Talks and events

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September 2, 2016

Calques 4.2

Lydgate, manuscript, "Damage and destruction in realmes"

Awesomeness | Talks and events

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August 26, 2016

Calques 4.1

Awesomeness | Transitions | Fall classes | Talks and events

Welcome back for the fall semester! Calques is a weekly newsletter that's only as informative as your contributions. Please send information and news of departmental interest to Andrew Garrett.

Awesomeness

Great news for two graduate students:

May 6, 2016

Calques 3.31

Awesomeness | Festivities | Talks and events | Obituary

This is the last issue of Calques for the 2015-16 academic year. For volume 4, number 1, scheduled for August 19, please send contributions (information and news of departmental interest) to Andrew Garrett. Meanwhile, the editors wish everyone a relaxed, productive summer.