November 13, 2015
Awesomeness | Funding opportunities | Talks and events
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Awesomeness
Two Berkeley faculty members have been elected to high offices in the Linguistic Society of America:
- Larry M. Hyman has elected Vice President and President-Elect of the LSA. He will be President in 2017 and will give the LSA Presidential Address at the January 2017 Annual Meeting in Austin. The Calques offices will be closed for the occasion while the editors make a nostalgic trip to Texas.
- Sharon Inkelas has been elected as an at-large member of the LSA Executive Committee, for a three-year term beginning in January 2016.
Congratulations, Larry and Sharon!
Funding opportunities
On Thursday, November 19, UC Berkeley will have its annual Big Give, a 24-hour fundraising blitz. You can give to Linguistics at this easy link — on Nov. 19 or at any time! Gifts support undergraduate and graduate student research and common-good research and teaching infrastructure.
Talks and events
- Friday, November 13
- 3–5: John Haviland (UCSD), "Tzotzil Interpreting and the American (In)justice System: Orders of Engagement of an Emigrant Mayan Language" (Linguistic Anthropology Working Group, Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hall)
- 3–5: Jason Merchant (Chicago), "Roots, selection, and locality" (Syntax and Semantics Circle, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Monday, November 16
- 1–2:30: Miriam R. L. Petruck (Berkeley), "Integrating FrameNet and MetaNet" (CogNetwork, 1229 Dwinelle)
- 2–3: Xianghua Wu (Berkeley), TBA (Phonetics and Phonology Forum, 1303 Dwinelle)
- 3–5: Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard), "Factivity meets polarity" (Linguistics Colloquium, 370 Dwinelle)
- Tuesday, November 17
- 9:30–11: Zachary O'Hagan (Berkeley), "Taushiro and the Status of Language Isolates in Northwest Amazonia" (Fieldwork Forum, 1303 Dwinelle)
- 3:30–5: Tammy Stark (Berkeley), "Suffixal person marking in Caribbean Northern Arawak: reanalysis, grammaticalization, and neutralization" (Historical Linguistics Forum, a.k.a. *dhworom, 1229 Dwinelle)
- Thursday, November 19
- 4–5:30: Jessica Rett (UCLA), "Attitude Markers and Sincerity Conditions in an Update Semantics" (Meaning Sciences Club, 234 Moses Hall)
- Friday, November 20
- 3–5: Return of the Round Robin (Syntax and Semantics Circle, 1303 Dwinelle)
- 3–5: Claire Kramsch (Berkeley) and Anne Whiteside (City College of San Francisco), "What is symbolic competence and what should we do with it?" (Berkeley Language Center Lecture Series, B-4 Dwinelle)
- Events at other universities
- Stanford, Friday, Nov. 13: Barry Schein (USC), "Noughty Bits: The Subatomic Scope of Negation" (Stanford Linguistics Colloquium, 3:30 pm)
- Merced, Monday, Nov. 16: Rob Podesva (Stanford), "The Role of the Body in Structuring Sociophonetic Variation" (UC Merced CogSci Colloquium, 3 pm)
- Santa Cruz, Friday, Nov. 20: Elliot Moreton (North Carolina), TBA (UC Santa Cruz Linguistics Colloquium, 2 pm)