Calques 2.16

Birthdays | Festivities | Talks | Deadlines: December | Early January | Later

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

Birthdays

A faculty member's birthday is today. Dies natalis felix sit!

Festivities

Linguistics Holiday Potluck Partay

• M Dec. 8, 12 noon, in and around 1229 Dwinelle
• door prizes!

Talks

• Colloquium (M 3-4:30, 370 Dwinelle)
  • Dec. 8: Séamas Mac Bhloscaidh (UC Santa Cruz), "Ellipsis in Irish and the Calculus of Redundancy"
• CogNetwork (W 1–2:30, 2308 Tolman)
  • Dec. 10: André Coneglian (Mackenzie Presbyterian University; FAPESP), "Causal and concessive adverbial subordinators in Brazilian Portuguese"
• Historical linguistics forum (*dhworom,W 4–5, 1229 Dwinelle)
  • Dec. 10: Michael Weiss (Cornell & Berkeley), "Nazis in the Midst: Illiberal Ideology and Historical Linguistics"
• Phonetics and Phonology Forum (Phorum, M 12–1, 1303 Dwinelle)
  • Dec. 10 (W 1-2:30, 3401 Dwinelle): LSA Practice Talks (unusual time, day, location!)
  • Dec. 15: Robert Eklund (Linköping University), "The neural correlates of filled pauses: An fMRI study of disfluency perception"
• 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), "Locative determiner omission and the articulation of definiteness in Albanian prepositional phrases"

December deadlines

• Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (Jan. 8-11)
  • hotel discount registration deadline Dec. 6
  • meeting preregistration deadline Dec. 19
• ACAL 46: Annual Conference on African Linguistics (U. Oregon, March 26-28)
  • abstract deadline Dec. 8
• NIH Individual Research Fellowships
  • application deadline Dec. 8

Early January deadlines

• 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
• LSA Linguistic Institute Fellowships
  • application deadline Jan. 15
• 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
• EFL Mobility Grants
  • "grants for a period of 3 months each ... to PhD students in linguistics and related fields"
  • application deadline Jan. 15

Later

• 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
• Cogsci 2015: Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting (Pasadena, July 23-25)
  • abstract deadline Feb. 5
• Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (UC Santa Barbara, May 8-9)
  • abstract deadline Feb. 15