August 29, 2014
Christine gave birth to a beautiful baby girl yesterday morning.
Classes | Congratulations | Deadlines | Talks
Please send contributions (information and news of departmental interest) to Andrew Garrett.
Classes
Upper-division electives that are not yet full (for undergraduates and graduate students):
- 121. Logical Semantics (Mikkelsen, TuTh 12:30-2)
- 122. Language Typology and Linguistic Universals (Hyman & Jenks, TuTh 12:30-2)
- 123. Pragmatics (Sweetser, MWF 9-10)
- 131. Indo-European Comparative Linguistics (Weiss, MWF 11-12)
- 170. Matsigenka (Michael, TuTh 9:30-11)
Graduate electives:
- 205. Advanced Cognitive Linguistics (Sweetser, M 12-2 and W 12-1)
- 208. Psycholinguistics (Gahl & Johnson, MW 1:30-3)
- 211B. Topics in Phonological Theory (Kavitskaya, TuTh 2-3:30)
- 290B. Tense and Temporal Reference (Bochnak, W 3-6)
- 290F. The Language Ecology of Ancient Italy (Weiss, TuTh 12:30-2)
- 290L. The Interplay of Phonology and Morphology (Inkelas, TuTh 11-12:30)
Congratulations
Zachary O'Hagan has been awarded a Hellman Graduate Award, which supports "Berkeley doctoral students who exhibit the capacity for great distinction."
Deadlines
Conference abstracts
- ICLDC 4: International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (Honolulu, February 26–March 1, 2015):
- abstract deadline August 31
- up to six students who write excellent abstracts receive scholarships of up to $1500 each
- ICAL 13: International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (Taipei, July 18-23):
- abstract deadline September 15
- California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics 7 (UCLA, November 7-8):
- abstract deadline September 22
- "Traditionally, CUSP is not a competitive conference, meaning that all submitted abstracts have been accepted. We are optimistic that we can continue this tradition, but reserve the right to be selective if we receive more submissions than we can schedule."
Grants
- For faculty
- ACLS Fellowship: September 24
- NIH Research Project Grant: October 5
- NSF-NEH Documenting Endangered Languages: October 6
- For students
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship: October 22
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship: November 3
- NIH Individual Research Fellowship: December 8
Talks
CogNetwork (W 1–2:30): Sept. 10, Till Bergmann (UC Merced)
Fieldwork Forum (Fforum, W 11–12): Sept. 3, "Debriefing from the summer's fieldwork"
Syntax & Semantics Circle (F 3–4:30): Sept. 5, Peter Jenks, "NP and DP in Classifier Languages"