Calques 2.15

Awesomeness | Talks | Last call | Deadlines

This is the penultimate fall issue of Calques. Please send contributions (information and news of departmental interest) to Andrew Garrett.

Awesomeness

Results are in! Listed below are the total numbers of talks by authors affiliated with the institutions named, at January's Portland meetings of the Linguistic Society of America, American Dialect Society, and Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Just sayin'.

• Berkeley 23
• Stanford 21
• Chicago 20
• Penn 16
• UBC 13
• MIT 12
• NYU 12
• Yale 10

Talks

• CogNetwork (W 11:30–3, 1229 Dwinelle)
  • Dec. 3: Sean Trott (ICSI)
• Historical linguistics forum (*dhworom, W 3–4, 1229 Dwinelle)
  • Nov. 26: Terry Kaufman (Pittsburgh), "Reconstructed proto-Celtic and the decipherment of Tartessian"
• Meaning Sciences Club (Tu 2:30–4, 234 Moses Hall)
  • Dec. 2 : Line Mikkelsen (Berkeley), "On the Meaning of Propositional Nouns and their Complements"
• Sociophonetic Reading Exchange and Discussion (SPREAD, F 1-2, 1303 Dwinelle)
• Syntax & Semantics Circle (F 3–4:30, 1303 Dwinelle)
  • Dec. 5: Eric Prendergast (UCB)

Last call

• GLOW 38: Generative Linguistics in the Old World (Paris, April 15-18)
  • abstract deadline Dec. 1
• SALT 25: Semantics and Linguistic Theory (Stanford, May 15-17)
  • abstract deadline Dec. 1

Deadlines

• NIH Individual Research Fellowships
  • abstract deadline Dec. 8
• ACAL 46: Annual Conference on African Linguistics (U. Oregon, March 26-28)
  • abstract deadline Dec. 8
• Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (Jan. 8-11)
  • preregistration deadline Dec. 19
• CLS 51: Chicago Linguistic Society (Chicago, April 10-12)
  • abstract deadline Jan. 3
• The Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (Potsdam, June 3-5)
  • abstract deadline Jan. 9
• NSF Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants and Research Grants
  • application deadline Jan. 15
• ELDP Documentation Grants
  • application deadline Jan. 15
• Association for Linguistic Typology (U. New Mexico, August 1-3)
  • abstract deadline Jan. 15
• Institute of International Studies Pre-dissertation research grant
  • application deadline Jan. 20
• Chateaubriand Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences, for research in France
  • application deadline Jan. 20
• Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (UC Santa Barbara, May 8-9)
  • abstract deadline Feb. 15