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(link is external)" at Yale University in July 2016. Under the supervision of Claire Bowern(link is external), "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(link is external), "Why Trump?(link is external)", 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(link is external), 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(link is external) (UC San Francisco), TBA (Phonetics and Phonology Forum(link is external), 1303 Dwinelle)
- 1–2:30: Benjamin K. Bergen(link is external) (UC San Diego), "Toward a Cognitive Science of Swearing" (CogNetwork(link is external), 1303 Dwinelle)
- 2–3: Ruprecht von Waldenfels(link is external) (Berkeley), "Are there conservative speakers? The apparent-time loss of dialectal features in a North Russian village" (Sociophonetic Research Exchange and Discussion(link is external), 52 Dwinelle)
- 3–5: Benjamin K. Bergen(link is external) (UC San Diego), "Grammar modulates sensorimotor processes: Consequences for an associative account of symbol grounding(link is external)" (Linguistics Colloquium, 370 Dwinelle)
- Tuesday, March 8
- 12:30–2: Amalia Skilton(link is external) (Berkeley), "Assertive questions in Máíhiki" (Fieldwork Forum(link is external), 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(link is external) (UC Santa Cruz), TBA (Syntax and Semantics Circle(link is external), 1303 Dwinelle)
- 3:30–5: Armin Schwegler(link is external) (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(link is external) (Cornell), TBA (Meaning Sciences Club(link is external), 234 Moses Hall)
- Really excellent talks at other universities
- Stanford, Friday, March 4: Katie Sardinha(link is external) (Berkeley), "Expressives in Kwak'wala" (Stanford SMircle(link is external), 1:30 pm)
Deadlines
- ICCG9(link is external): 9th International Construction Grammar Conference, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil, October 5-7
- Abstract deadline: March 31