Fieldwork and Language Documentation

Survey updates

November 16, 2020

Here's the latest from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages:

We've catalogued new paper materials related to Q'anjob'al (Mayan; Guatemala, Mexico; item 2016-01.048 and above) that derive from the department's 1986-1987 field methods course, with speaker Rafael Pascual and instructor Leanne Hinton. The course was followed by an undergraduate course on K'iche' (Linguistics 175) in fall 1987, and a combined undergraduate-graduate seminar (Linguistics 198/298) on Mayan languages in spring 1988, both taught by Prof. Hinton.

O'Hagan defends dissertation

November 20, 2020

Congratulations to Zach O'Hagan, who will defend his dissertation, "Focus in Caquinte," on Tuesday, November 24, 9am-12pm. Please click here for the full schedule and abstract. Everyone is warmly invited: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/93235048189. (A celebration will take place at 5pm: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/95596376015.)

Rouvier receives Most Impactful Paper Award at ICLDC

November 5, 2020

Congrats to Ruth Rouvier, whose paper "Emotion and Motivation in Language Reclamation" has been accepted for presentation at the 7th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC) and selected for a Most Impactful Paper Award, which comes with a cash prize. The conference will be held virtually March 4-7, 2021.

Survey updates

October 15, 2020

Here's the latest from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages:

Myriam Lapierre has archived four new collections on languages of Brazil: Panära (Jê); Kajkwakhrattxi (aka Tapayuna, Jê), with Jérémie Beauchamp; Kawaiwete (aka Kayabi, Tupí-Guaraní); and Xavante (Jê), with Nick Carrick (BA 2019) and current undergraduate student Teela Huff. Other materials related to Panära are archived with the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) at SOAS (here). David Shaul (PhD 1982) is the author of a new Survey Report, with his monograph Baja California Languages: Description and Linguistic Prehistory, part one of his upcoming series Southern California Pacific Linguistics.

Bardagil publishes in Linguistic Variation

October 15, 2020

Congrats to researcher Bernat Bardagil, whose article Number morphology in Panará has just appeared in Linguistic Variation 20:2!

Berkeley @ NELS 51

October 8, 2020

The program for the 51th annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (to be hosted virtually by the Université de Quebec à Montreal) has just been released, promising the following presentations by current department members and recent alumni:

Amy Rose Deal: 3-on-3 restrictions and PCC typology Peter Jenks: Names as complex indices: On apparent Condition C violations in Thai Laura Kalin and Nicholas Rolle (PhD '18): Deconstructing subcategorization: Conditions on insertion vs. position Edwin Ko: Feeding agreement: Anti-locality in Crow applicatives of unaccusatives

Congrats all!

Survey updates

September 13, 2020

Updates from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages:

We released a new collection of materials on Imbabura Quichua (Quechuan; Ecuador), from the 2009-2010 graduate field methods course. The consultants were Mariana Chuquín and Augusto Oyagata, the instructor was Lev Michael, and students were alums Will Chang, Jessica Cleary-Kemp, Clara Cohen, Stephanie Farmer, Melinda Fricke, Laura Kassner, Roger Kroeger, Iksoo Kwon, Joshua Marker, Tom Recht, John Sylak-Glassman & Elisabeth Wehling.

Survey updates

September 6, 2020

Updates from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages:

Larry Hyman and Thera Marie Crane (PhD 2011), now at the University of Helsinki, archived a new collection of sound recordings and field notes on Nzadi (Bantu, Democratic Republic of the Congo), from the fall 2008 undergraduate field methods course and a study group the following term. Simon Nsielanga Tukumu, a Jesuit priest then working toward an MA at the Graduate Theological Union, was the consultant, and the students in the class were Christina Agoff, Ian Coffman, Chad Hegelmeyer, John Keesling, José María Lahoz, Dillon Mee, Getty Ritter, Massoud Toofan, Salgu Wissmath, and Lue Yee Tsang. They also published a grammar in 2011! The project was featured in SFGate at the time.

Existential quantification in Tiwa: disjunction and indefinites

Virginia Dawson
2020

Survey updates

August 31, 2020

Updates from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages:

Alums Justin Spence (PhD 2013) and Ramón Escamilla (PhD 2012) together with Verdena Parker, who members of this department have collaborated with since 2005, have archived a...