August 28, 2020
In and around the linguistics department in the next week:
- Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Sep 2 - Zoom - 3-4pm
Welcome (back) meeting: Join us via Zoom to catch up on summer developments. All are welcome! - Language Revitalization Working Group - Wednesday Sep 2 - Zoom - 4:10-5pm
The Language Revitalization Working Group (along with the Center for Race and Gender and the Center for Latin American Studies) will be hosting Henry Sales on Wednesday, September 2 from 4:10-5:00 PST. (Se presenta esta charla en inglés con interpretación al español.) Henry Sales is a native Mam speaker from San Juan Atitán, Guatemala, who works in Oakland as an activist, teacher, interpreter, volunteer, and advocate for mistreated and underrepresented Mayan populations. He will speak about his work teaching Mam classes at Laney College and Oakland High, and the many ways in which he works to preserve and celebrate Mayan language, traditions, and community in the Bay Area. For a Zoom link to join the meeting, please email jnee@berkeley.edu.
[flyer in English] [flyer in Spanish] - Language Variation and Change Working Group - Tuesday Sep 1 - Zoom (email Annie Helms) - 3-4pm
The group will be selecting papers to read during the Fall semester. - Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Wednesday Sep 2 - Zoom - 3-4pm
Welcome meeting and discussion of Rosa & Flores 2017. Please email Isaac Bleaman for the Zoom link and/or to be added to the SLaB email list. - *dhworom - Friday Sep 4 - Zoom - 12-1pm
Edwin Ko will be organizing *dhworom, a historical linguistics reading group, which will be meeting biweekly Fridays 12-1pm this coming semester via Zoom. The focus of the group this fall will be on historical (morpho)syntax with special attention to the following topics: (a) change in morphosyntactic alignment, (b) grammaticalization, and (c) contact-induced (morpho)syntactic changes. The first meeting will be on Friday, September 4, 12-1pm. If you are interested in attending any or all of the meetings, please send Edwin an email at eddersko@berkeley.edu and he will add you to the mailing list.