Teela Huff and Nicholas Carrick, Creating Xavante Pedagogical Materials In Summer of 2019, Teela Huff and Nicholas Carrick are traveling with Myriam Lapierre to work with a Xavante community that expressed interest in the benefits of linguistic research. While in Eastern Mato Grosso, the three hope to record stories with community consent for the purpose of creating recreational and lexical pedagogical materials. In collaboration with this Xavante community, the long-term goal of this project is to help preserve and maintain Xavante language and culture through linguistic means. Karina Fong-Hirschfelder, The Influence of French Polysemous Words on English in French-English Bilingual Children Karina will be using the funds from the Sawyer Scholarship to create a study/stimular and start data collection for an experiment with Mahesh Srinivasan. This experiment will be one of many in a study on French polysemous words and their influence on English speakers, both bilingual and monolingual. Karina will be elaborating on this work during the upcoming academic year as part of her Honors Thesis.
Last weekend was a busy one for Berkeley linguists, with department members at conferences in Dwinelle Hall dedicated to Celtic and Amazonian languages as well as attending conferences in other locations!
Numerous Berkeley attendees at the Symposium on Amazonian Languages (SAL III)
March 15-17 will see not one but two conferences of interest for, and organized by, department members:
Third biennial Symposium on Amazonian Languages (SAL3) March 16-17; 1229 Dwinelle Hall Program here! The 41st California Celtic Conference March 15-17, 2019; 370 Dwinelle Hall Program here!
This year's International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) kicks off next week in Mānoa, Hawaiʻi, and features numerous presentations by Berkeley faculty, staff, students, and alumni:
Julia Nee: Communication Based Instruction and Evaluation of Language Revitalization Anna Berge (PhD '97) and Edwin Ko: Interactive Maps, Place, and Context...
In and around the linguistics department in the next week:
Linguistics & Near Eastern Studies special lecture - Friday Feb 15 - 254 Barrows Hall - 2pm Lutz Edzard (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg): The morphosyntax of compounding in SemiticSyntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Feb 15 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm Peter Jenks (Berkeley): Anaphoric definites as anchored definites Ling 47 ("Communication Disorders") special event - Friday Feb 15 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4pm Viewing and discussion of the documentary When I StutterFieldworkForum - Wednesday Feb 20 - Dwinelle 1303 - 11-12:30PM Practice talks for ICLDC: Julia Nee (Berkeley): Communication Based Instruction and Evaluation of Language Revitalization; Anna Berge (Alaska Native Language Center) and Edwin Ko (Berkeley): Interactive Maps, Place, and Context Philosophy Dept Work in Progress Talk - Wednesday Feb 20 - Moses 301 - noon-1 Amy Rose Deal (Berkeley): Factivity and uncentered attitudes Climate care tea/coffee hour - Friday Feb 22 - 3401 Dwinelle - 2-3pm Discussion of goal settingSyntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Feb 22 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-5pm Jorge Hankamer (Santa Cruz) & Line Mikkelsen (Berkeley): CP complements to D
In and around the linguistics department in the next week:
Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Nov 9 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm Tom Roberts (UC Santa Cruz): I can't believe what's not butter: Deriving distributed factivityFieldwork Forum - Tuesday Nov 13 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5:30PM [note special time and place!] Haley De Korne (University of Oslo): Language reclamation as a socio-political practice: Strategies of engagement in multilingual environmentsGroup in American Indian Languages (GAIL) - Thursday Nov 15 - 6pm [note: talk begins at 6] Kate Hedges and Leanne Hinton (UC Berkeley): Konkow Maidu language and textsSLUgS - Thursday Nov 15 - Dwinelle 1229 - 5-6pm SLUgS will be hosting a language exchange night for members to share information about languages they speak and learn about other languages. Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Nov 16 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-5pm Jorge Hankamer (UC Santa Cruz) & Line Mikkelsen (UC Berkeley): CP complements to D
In and around the linguistics department in the next week:
Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Oct 19 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm Susan Steele: The architecture of inflectionSyntax and Semantics Circle - Monday Oct 22 - Dwinelle 1229 - 11-12:30pm [note special time and place!] Ashwini Deo (Ohio State): The emergence of split-oblique case systems: A view from the Bhili dialect continuum (Indo-Aryan)Phorum - Monday Oct 22 - Dwinelle 1303 - 12-1pm Eleanor Glewwe (UCLA): Complexity bias and substantive bias in phonotactic learningLinguistics Department Colloquium- Monday Oct 22 - Dwinelle 370 - 3:10-5 pm Ashwini Deo (Ohio State): Marathi tense marking: A window into the lexical encoding of tense meaningsFieldwork Forum - Thursday Oct 25 - 554 Barrows Hall - 4-5:30PM [note special location!] Line Mikkelsen, Beth Piatote, Sean Brown, and Lou Montelongo (UC Berkeley): The Many Lives of Indigenous LanguagesSLUgS - Thursday Oct 25 - Dwinelle 1229 - 5-6pm Living catalogue: brief overview of linguistics electives for Spring 2019
This chapter describes efforts to revitalize Iquito, a highly endangered Zaparoan language of Peruvian Amazonia, and in doing so illustrates key issues that often affect language vitality, research, and revitalization work in the Amazon region more generally. We describe the principal historical and social factors that led to the highly endangered status of the language and the perceived need for revitalization work; and we discuss our involvement with the Iquito people and language, with the aim of presenting our experiences—successes as well as failures—as resources for effective...
