September 2, 2016
Awesomeness | Talks and events
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Awesomeness
As usual, Berkeley rules at the North East Linguistic Society. Five abstracts from five Berkeley linguists were accepted for NELS 47(link is external), at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, October 14-16:
- Emily Clem(link is external), "Two types of binding: Evidence from Tswefap pronominals"
- Virginia Dawson, "Optimal clitic placement in Tiwa"
- Amy Rose Deal(link is external), "Covert hyperraising to object"
- Hannah Sande(link is external), "Process morphology in a realizational theory"
- Hannah Sande(link is external) and Peter Jenks(link is external), "Case and Caselessness in Moro"
Congratulations to all! After your presentations, your respective audiences will surely be able to say, with Lydgate, "Thy problem fully is exponed(link is external)" (Siege of Thebes 736).
Talks and events
- Friday, September 2
- 11–12:30: Gary Lupyan(link is external) (Wisconsin), "Beyond the mapping metaphor: the role of words in human cognition" (Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences(link is external) seminar, 5101 Tolman)
- 3–4:30: Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevara(link is external) (UC Santa Cruz), "Tagalog voice/agreement morphology and its role in processing filler-gap dependencies" (Syntax & Semantics Circle(link is external), 1303 Dwinelle)
- Tuesday, September 6
- 1–2: SPREAD (Sociophonetic Research Exchange and Discussion(link is external), 57 Dwinelle)
- Wednesday, September 7
- 5–6: Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students (SLUgS, 1229 Dwinelle)
- Thursday, September 8
- 8:30–4: Speech Engineering and Computational Neuroscience of Speech (SECNS '16, Byers Auditorium, Genentech Hall, UC San Francisco Mission Bay)
- 12:30–2: GoOD InTEnSIOnS (Semantics reading group, 1303 Dwinelle)
- 12:30–2: Historical linguistics forum, reading discussion on sound change: Hombert et al. 1979 (*dhworom(link is external), 3401 Dwinelle)
- Friday, September 9
- 3–4:30: Round Robin discussion (Syntax & Semantics Circle(link is external), 1303 Dwinelle)