March 16, 2026
Berkeley linguists past and present are attending the Isolate Languages Workshop at Ghent University in Belgium this week:
- Bernat Bardagil (postdoc 2018-2020): "An Anti-Swadesh Look at the Juruena Valley: Charting the Limits of Lexical Comparison across Unrelated Languages"
- Stephanie Farmer (PhD 2015): "Muniche, an isolate no longer?"
- Zachary O'Hagan: "What was the language of the Tabalosos, Lamas, and Suchiches of Peru? Evidence from a 17th-century Census"