Awesomeness|BLS Deadlines|Festivities|Grammarama|Talks and Events
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Awesomeness
Congratulations to five Berkeley linguists who are giving papers at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, which meets with the LSA in January inAustin, Texas:
- Chris Beier, "General number exponence and concord in the Iquito noun phrase"
- Kelsey Neely, "Toward an account of tonogenesis in Nawa Panoan languages"
- Zach O'Hagan, "Intransitive Subject Extraction and 'Stativity' in Kampan Arawak"
- Rich Rhodes, "Bipartite verb structure and serial verbs"
- Tammy Stark, "Caribbean Northern Arawak subgrouping: lexical phylogenetics and comparative morphology"
Combined, the publishedLSAandSSILAprograms show the following numbers of presentations with authors from these institutions:
- 25: UT Austin (where the event is happening)
- 23: Berkeley
- 15: UCLA
- 13: Penn, Stanford
- 12: Chicago, MIT
- 10: UC San Diego
Go Bears!
BLS Deadlines
Theabstract deadlinefor BLS 43 (the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society) isTuesday, November 1!
Festivities
The second Inkling of 2016-17 will take place onMonday, October 31, from 3:30 to 5 pm in 1229 Dwinelle. All are welcome to our monthly social hour (and a half) with tea, coffee, and potluck treats – you'll find talk about work, life, ideas, and the pursuit of happiness, as well as an exciting Contest and an Awesome Prize.
- Potluck:If your last name begins with the letters H-N (e.g. Haas), you are encouraged to bring something tasty. The department will provide beverages (coffee, tea, juice).
- Contest & Prize:On the occasion of the 499th anniversary of Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses (Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis indulgentiarum), three 100% unique and totally bad-ass prizes will be given for the best thesis-related costume, impersonation of a thesis, or thesis-related art. The only way to win is to enter!
Grammarama: Make Grammar Great Again
This year's QP Fest is onMonday, November 7(3-5 pm, 370 Dwinelle):
- Alice Shen, "Costs and cues in code-switched lexical access"
- Andrew Cheng, "Heritage Korean and ethnic identity in California"
- Emily Clem, "Decomposing ergativity: Evidence for the featural complexity of ergative case"
- Erik Hans Maier, "Two-part universal quantification in a determinerless language: The case of Tswefap"
- Geoff Bacon, "Inducing phonological knowledge from distributional data"
- Meg Cychosz, "Sources of variation in an emerging Parisian French vernacular"
- Virginia Dawson, "A new kind of epistemic indefinite"
All are welcome for the talks and reception afterwards. Après nous le déluge!
Talks and Events
- Friday, October 28
- 12–1: Computational and Experimental Methods Round Robin (Computational and Experimental Methods Group, 1229 Dwinelle)
- 3–4:30:Emily Clem, "Decomposing ergativity: Evidence for the featural complexity of ergative case" (Syntax & Semantics Circle, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Monday, October 31
- 12–1:Sam Zukoff(MIT), "Arabic Nonconcatenative Morphology and the Syntax-Phonology Interface" (Phonetics and Phonology Forum, 1303 Dwinelle)
- 3:30–5: Inkling (seeFestivitiesabove)
- Tuesday, November 1
- 12:30–2:Vera Gribanova(Stanford), "Uzbek verbal and non-verbal predicate formation" (Fieldwork Forum, 1303 Dwinelle)
- 1–2: SPREAD (Sociophonetic Research Exchange and Discussion, 57 Dwinelle)
- Wednesday, November 2
- 5–6: For Día de los Muertos, SLUgS will be building an altar for some dead languages (Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students, 1229 Dwinelle)
- Thursday, November 3
- 12:30–2: GoOD InTEnSIOnS (Semantics reading group, 1303 Dwinelle)
- 12:30–2: Tyler Lau (Berkeley), "The role of frequency in noun class mergers and shift: A case study in Romance" (*dhworom, 1229 Dwinelle)
- 4:30:David Plunkett(Dartmouth), "Clinic: Metalinguistic Negotiation" (meaning sciences club, 234 Moses)
- Friday, November 4
- 3–4:30:Peter Jenks, TBA (Syntax & Semantics Circle, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Events at other universities
- Stanford, Friday, Oct. 28:Andrew Garrett, "Native California Linguistics in the 21st Century: Digital Repatriation and the Uses of Language Documentation" (Stanford Linguistics Colloquium, 3:30 pm)
- Davis, Tuesday, Nov. 1:Rajend Mesthrie(Capte Town), "Gender and substrate erasure amongst young, black, middle-class South African English speakers" (UC Davis Linguistics, 3:30 pm)