Linguistics events this week (Feb 11-18, 2022)

February 11, 2022

In and around the linguistics department in the next week:

  • Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Feb 16 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom (p/w fforum) - 3:10-4pm
    Lise Dobrin (UVA): Is the aim accuracy or insight? Transcribers as cultural and linguistic filters.
  • Phorum - Friday Feb 11 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 1-2pm
    Josefina Bittar (UC Santa Cruz): Borrowing of Mental Event Verbs from Spanish to Guaraní.
  • Phorum - Friday Feb 18 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 1-2pm
    Maksymilian Dąbkowski (UC Berkeley): A Q-Theoretic solution to A'ingae postlabial raising.
  • ProD* - Friday Feb 11 - Zoom - 2-3pm
    A conversation with Alice Shen (PhD 2020), an analytical linguist at Grammarly, about her career path, how she uses her PhD training in her work now, among other topics.
    *Professional development seminar for grad students, postdocs, and faculty. If you would like to opt in to the ProD mailing list, please let Susanne Gahl know.
  • Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Feb 11 - 1303 Dwinelle and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
    Andrew Garrett and Erik H. Maier (UC Berkeley): How to do things with birds: The pragmatics of lexical and syntactic choice in early Karuk narrative texts.
  • Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Feb 18 - 1303 Dwinelle and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
    Yurika Aonuki (UBC): Relative pronominal tense in Gitksan and Japanese.
  • Zoom Phonology - Friday Feb 18 - Zoom - 9am
    Larry M. Hyman (UC Berkeley) and Mwambi G. Mbûûi (Graduate Theological Union): Dahl's Law in two Bantu Languages. Part I: Tiania.
    For the Zoom link or to be added to the Zoom Phonology mailing list, contact Karee Garvin.