Calques 4.21

February 24, 2017

Calques 4.21 (February 24, 2017)

Please send information and news of departmental interest to Andrew Garrett.

The editors are able to report that the most downloaded Berkeley Linguistics Society article in January 2017 was Lauri Karttunen's "Conversational implicature in Montague grammar" (BLS 1, 1975), with literally dozens of requests. The escholarship server did not break, but it may have come close.

Jenneke van der Wal and Larry M. Hyman, The Conjoint/Disjoint Alternation in Bantu, Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs, vol. 301 (de Gruyter, December 2016)

"This volume brings together descriptions and analyses of the conjoint/disjoint alternation, a typologically significant phenomenon found in many Bantu languages. The chapters provide in-depth documentation, comparative studies and theoretical analyses of the alternation from a range of Bantu languages, showing its crosslinguistic variation in constituent structure, morphology, prosody and information structure."

Friday, February 24
- 3–4:30: Nico Baier, "Unifying Anti-Agreement and Wh-Agreement " (Syntax & Semantics Circle, 1303 Dwinelle)
Monday, February 27
- 12–1: Jacob Phillips (Chicago), "Phonological and prosodic conditioning of sibilant retraction in American English" (Phonetics and Phonology Forum, 1303 Dwinelle)
Wednesday, March 1
- 2–3:30: Hannah Sande (Berkeley), TBA (Fieldwork Forum, 1229 Dwinelle)
- 3:30–5: Mark Dingemanse (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen), "Pragmatic typology: the comparative study of systems of language use" (Lx 290E, 1303 Dwinelle)
- 5–6: SLUgS meeting (Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students, 1229 Dwinelle)
Thursday, March 2
- 12:30–2: Discussion of trait data set organization (*dhworom, 1229 Dwinelle)
Friday, March 3
- 3–4:30: Kenneth Baclawski Jr., TBA (Syntax & Semantics Circle, 1303 Dwinelle)