Linguistics events this week (Oct 18-25)

October 18, 2019

In and around the linguistics department in the next week:

  • Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Oct 18 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
    NELS practice talks, featuring: Emily Clem (UC San Diego), Nicholas Rolle (Princeton) & Virginia Dawson (UC Berkeley): Post-syntactic altruism; Emily Drummond & Zachary O'Hagan: Morphological person restrictions and the pressure to realize local persons; Tessa Scott: Pronominal licensing in Mam (Mayan)

  • Phorum - Monday Oct 21 - 1229 Dwinelle - 12-1pm
    Andrew Cheng (UC Berkeley): A cross-linguistic comparison of back vowels in English-Korean bilinguals
  • Linguistics Dept Colloquium - Monday Oct 21 - Dwinelle 370 - 3-4pm
    Seth Cable (UMass Amherst): Two Paths to Habituality: Imperfective Mode vs. Habitual Mode in Tlingit (and Simple Present in English)
  • Fieldwork Forum - Thursday Oct 24 - 1303 Dwinelle - 3:40-5pm
    Sandy Chung (UC Santa Cruz): Getting beyond dissonance in fieldwork