March 4, 2016
Awesomeness | Newly published | Talks and events | Deadlines
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Awesomeness
Berkeley linguistics major Joshua Martin has been accepted at the second annual "grammar boot camp" at Yale University in July 2016. Under the supervision of Claire Bowern, "participants will work collaboratively to produce a sketch grammar of an Australian Aboriginal language, using an extensive database of field notes and recordings." Congratulations, Joshua!
Newly published
George Lakoff, "Why Trump?", Huffington Post (et alibi)
Talks and events
- Friday, March 4
- 3–5: Discussion of Julie Legate Voice and v: Lessons from Acehnese (2014), chapter 4, "A Cline of Passives" (Syntax and Semantics Circle, 1303 Dwinelle)
- 3–5: Daniel Silva (Berkeley), " 'When I saw the rockets announcing the caveirão, man, I died': violence, survival and hope as indexes of community building in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro" (Linguistic Anthropology Working Group, Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hall)
- Monday, March 7
- 12–1: Neal Fox (UC San Francisco), TBA (Phonetics and Phonology Forum, 1303 Dwinelle)
- 1–2:30: Benjamin K. Bergen (UC San Diego), "Toward a Cognitive Science of Swearing" (CogNetwork, 1303 Dwinelle)
- 2–3: Ruprecht von Waldenfels (Berkeley), "Are there conservative speakers? The apparent-time loss of dialectal features in a North Russian village" (Sociophonetic Research Exchange and Discussion, 52 Dwinelle)
- 3–5: Benjamin K. Bergen (UC San Diego), "Grammar modulates sensorimotor processes: Consequences for an associative account of symbol grounding" (Linguistics Colloquium, 370 Dwinelle)
- Tuesday, March 8
- 12:30–2: Amalia Skilton (Berkeley), "Assertive questions in Máíhiki" (Fieldwork Forum, 1229 Dwinelle)
- Wednesday, March 9
- 5–6: Society of Linguistics UndergraduateS, Conlanging Workshop (Society of Linguistics UndergraduateS, 3401 Dwinelle)
- Friday, March 11
- 3–5: Steven Foley (UC Santa Cruz), TBA (Syntax and Semantics Circle, 1303 Dwinelle)
- 3:30–5: Armin Schwegler (UC Irvine), "Linguistics and Population Genetics (DNA): Reconstructing the origins of America's Black Populations" (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 1229 Dwinelle)
- 5 pm: William Starr (Cornell), TBA (Meaning Sciences Club, 234 Moses Hall)
- Really excellent talks at other universities
- Stanford, Friday, March 4: Katie Sardinha (Berkeley), "Expressives in Kwak'wala" (Stanford SMircle, 1:30 pm)
Deadlines
- ICCG9: 9th International Construction Grammar Conference, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil, October 5-7
- Abstract deadline: March 31