Linguistics events this week (April 19-26, 2019)

April 19, 2019

In and around the linguistics department in the next week:

  • Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday April 19 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm  
    Madeline Bossi (UC Berkeley) & Michael Diercks (Pomona College): V1 in Kipsigis: Head movement and discourse-based scrambling 
  • Phorum - Monday April 22  - 1303 Dwinelle - 12-1pm
    Yulia Oganian (UCSF): A temporal landmark for syllabic representations of continuous speech in human superior temporal gyrus
  • Linguistics Colloquium - Monday April 22 - 370 Dwinelle - 3-5pm  
    Lenore Grenoble (Chicago): Documenting contact and change in Siberian multilingual contexts
  • Special Anthropology lecture/workshop - Tuesday April 23 -  223 Moses Hall - 3-6pm
    Denise Arnold & Juan de Dios Yapita: De-ontologising Andean landscapes: some reflections for Qaqachaka Marka
  • Fieldwork Forum - Thursday April 25 - 3401 Dwinelle - 4-5:30PM  
    Adam Benkato (Berkeley): A new copula in an Arabic dialect & fieldwork as a heritage speaker 
  • Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday April 26 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm  
    Discussion of binding and variable-free semantics (Reading: Ch 15 of Jacobson 2014, Compositional Semantics)