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Linguistics events this week (Dec. 13-Dec. 20)

December 12, 2024
In and around the Linguistics Department in the next week:

Plus an event during break:

  • LSA practice talks – Thurdsay, January 2 - 11am-1pm and Friday, January 3 - 11am-1pm - Dwinelle 1303 and on Zoom

Linguistics events this week (December 6-13)

December 5, 2024
In and around the Linguistics Department in the next week:
  • SSCircle – Friday, December 6 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pmRebecca Jarvis (UC Berkeley): TBA
  • SLaB – Friday, December 6 - Spanish & Portuguese Library (Dwinelle 5125) - 3-4pm
    Research updates and plans

Michael receives Fulbright-Hayes Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship

December 5, 2024

Lev Michael will be on research leave during Spring and Fall 2025 to carry out research supported by a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship. Lev is planning to work with speakers of four Arawakan languages, Asháninka, Ashéninka, Nomatsigenga, and Yanesha', on a variety of topics aimed at clarifying the historical and language contact relationships among Peruvian Arawakan languages and their non-Arawakan neighbors. Congrats, Lev!

Linguistics events this week (November 29-December 6)

November 29, 2024
In and around the Linguistics Department in the next week:
  • Linguistics Department Colloquium – Monday, December 2 - Dwinelle 370 and on Zoom (lx-colloq) - 3-5pm
    Gabriella Licata (UC Riverside), Brian Asey Gonsoulin, Mesro Coles, Rob Tyler, and Habib Watkins (Mount Tamalpais College): "The Sociolinguistic Labor of Incarcerated People"
  • Canadian Studies Program – Tuesday, December 3 - 223 Philosophy Hall and Zoom (RSVP here) - 12:30-2 p.m.
    Summer Sands-Macbeth (Queen’s University, Ontario): Efforts at Indigenous Language Revitalization at Bkejwanong
  • SSCircle – Friday, December 6 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
    Rebecca Jarvis (UC Berkeley): TBA
  • BLC Fellow Forum – Friday, December 6 - Dwinelle B-4 & Zoom - 3-5pm

    Jennifer Kaplan (UC Berkeley): "Gender in/and French: Teaching Inclusive French in the First-Year Language Classroom and Beyond"


Berkeley linguists publish in WCCFL 39 proceedings

November 26, 2024

The proceedings of WCCFL 39 were just published (the conference was originally held in Spring 2021), including papers by four current and recent Berkeley PhD students:

  • Maksymilian Dąbkowski on "Laryngeal Feet in A'ingae: Implications for Metrical Theory"
  • Rebecca Jarvis on "Presuppositionality and Syntactic Nominalization in Finite Clausal Complements"
  • Tyler Lemon on "Low Nominative Agreement in Uab Meto"
  • Wesley dos Santos (PhD 2024) on "A-bar Head Movement: The Case Study of Kawahíva"

Congrats, all!