Linguistics events this week (Oct 7-14, 2022)

October 7, 2022

In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:

  • Fieldwork Forum - Wednesday Oct 12 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom (password: fforum) - 3:10-4pm
    James Kari (Alaska Fairbanks): "Features of the Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary (to appear in 2023) and Geolinguistic Evidence of Dene/Ahtna Presence at High Water Levels of Glacial Lake Atna."
  • Language Revitalization Working Group - Wednesday Oct 12 - Dwinelle 370 - 4-5pm
    DE Welcome Back and Info night: Snacks and sharing about the Designated Emphasis in Indigenous Language Revitalization; welcoming back DE students, hearing about projects, and encouraging new students to apply.
  • Phorum - Friday Oct 7 - Dwinelle 1229 - 3-4:30pm
    Allegra Robertson (UC Berkeley): "Rough around the edges: Representing root-edge laryngeal features in Yánesha’."
  • Phorum - Friday Oct 14 - Dwinelle 1229 - 3-4:30pm
    Annual Meeting on Phonology practice talks (Katie Russell, Gašper Beguš, Maksymilian Dąbkowski)
  • Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Oct 7 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
    Mia Gong (UC Santa Cruz): "A/A' operations at the clausal periphery: Agree, movement, and the interpretation of chains" (work in progress).
  • Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Oct 14 - Dwinelle 1303 and Zoom - 3-4:30pm
    Caitie Coons (UT Austin): "Toward inclusive linguistic typology: What understudied signed languages contribute."