February 12, 2016
Felicitations | Talks and events | Deadlines
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Felicitations
The editors speak for the Department of Linguistics as a whole in congratulating the BLS 42 organizers, distinctive in colored pants, and their dedicated helpers on a highly successful weekend of intellectual and personal stimulation.
Talks and events
- Friday, February 12
- 3–5: Rebekah Baglini (Stanford), "How to quote a sensation: The semantics of quotative ideophones in Wolof" (Syntax and Semantics Circle, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Monday, February 15
- no talks or events, in honor of Benjamin Ide Wheeler, first Chair of the Department of Linguistics
- Wednesday, February 17
- 5–6: Documentary, "The Adventure of English", episode 6, "Speaking Proper" (Society of Linguistics UndergraduateS, 3401 Dwinelle)
- 6–9: Christine Beier (Berkeley), "Ikíitu language revitalization and (re)valorization: from 2001 to 2016, and beyond" (Group in American Indian Languages, chez Andrew Garrett)
- Friday, February 19
- 3–5: Hannah Sande (Berkeley), "Particle verbs and focus in Guébie " (Syntax and Semantics Circle, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Colloquia at other universities
- Stanford, Friday, Feb. 19: Ming Xiang (Chicago), "Scope Taking, Locality and the Comprehension of wh-in-situ Questions" (Stanford Linguistics Colloquium, 3:30 pm)
Deadlines
- WAIL 2016: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, UC Santa Barbara, May 7-8
- Abstract deadline: February 14
- 24th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, England, May 26-28
- Abstract deadline: February 15
- NAPhC9: 9th North American Phonology Conference, Concordia University, Montréal, May 7-8
- Abstract deadline: March 1