April 3, 2015
Awesomeness | Conference travel | Newly published| Talks
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Awesomeness
This issue reveals that Dartmouth grads have some of the best Linguistics Department websites. Go Keggy!
Conference travel
Your inattentive editor failed to note an impressive roster of Berkeley linguists speaking at two recent conferences:
- 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (University of Oregon, Eugene, March 26-28)
- Larry M. Hyman, "Outward Looking y/Ø Alternations in Luganda"
- Jack Merrill and Matthew Faytak, "New Evidence for Fricativized High Vowels in Proto-Bantu"
- Florian Lionnet, "Nominal Classification in Laal: An African Exception"
- Nicholas Rolle and Ethelbert E. Kari, "Degema Serial Verbs at the Syntax/Phonology Interface"
- 33rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, March 27-29)
- Florian Lionnet, "Phonological teamwork as cumulative markedness"
- Hannah Sande, "An interface model of phonologically determined agreement"
Welcome back all!
Newly published
This just in:
- M. Ryan Bochnak, "The Degree Semantics Parameter and cross-linguistic variation", Semantics and Pragmatics 8 (2015)
Talks
- CogNetwork (M 1–2:30, B-4 Dwinelle)
- April 6: Kristina Štrkalj Despot (Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics), "Conceptual structure of Mind in Croatian: a diachronic and a synchronic approach"
- Fieldwork Forum (Fforum, Th 2–3:30, 1303 Dwinelle)
- April 9: Florian Lionnet (UC Berkeley), TBA
- Historical linguistics forum (*dhworom, F 11–12, 1303 Dwinelle)
- April 3: Alice Gaby (Monash), "Ngula and temporal/adversative polysemy in Australian languages."
- Phonetics and Phonology Forum (Phorum, M 12–1, 1303 Dwinelle)
- April 6: Susan Lin (UC Berkeley), "The articulation of (some) Kaytetye consonants"
- Sociophonetic Reading Exchange and Discussion (SPREAD, F 1-2, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Syntax & Semantics Circle (F 3:30–5, 1303 Dwinelle)
- April 3: Kenny Baclawski (UC Berkeley), "Topic and Focus Fronting in Cham"
- April 10: Vera Gribanova (Stanford), "Topic and Focus Fronting in Cham"