Linguistics events this week (April 26-May 3, 2019)

April 26, 2019

In and around the linguistics department in the next week:

  • 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)
  • Phorum - Monday April 29  - 1303 Dwinelle - 12-1pm 
    Daniel Silverman (SJSU): Evolution of the speech code: Higher order symbolism and the grammatical Big Bang
  • Honors Colloquium - Monday April 29 - 370 Dwinelle - 3-5pm  
  • Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday May 1 - 1303 Dwinelle - 11am-12:30pm 
    Bernat Bardagil-Mas (Berkeley): 
    The language of the Manoki
  • GAIL/FForum - Thursday May 2 - 5:30pm
    Eugene Buckley (UPenn): Change and contact in Pomoan stress patterns 
  • SLUgS - Thursday May 2 - 1229 Dwinelle - 5-6pm 
    End-of-semester potluck! Attendees are encouraged to bring linguistics-themed foods.
  • Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday May 3 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30 
    Virginia Dawson (UC Berkeley): 
    Paths to exceptional wide scope: Choice functions in Tiwa