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 Semitic
Ling 47 ("Communication Disorders") special event - Friday Feb 15 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4pm Viewing and discussion of the documentary When I Stutter
FieldworkForum - 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 setting
Congrats to Martha Schwarz, whose first-authored paper Realization and representation of Nepali laryngeal contrasts: Voiced aspirates and laryngeal realism (with Morgan Sonderegger and Heather Goad) has just been published by Journal of Phonetics! You can read it here.
In and around the linguistics department in the next week:
BLS Workshop: Countability Distinctions - Friday Feb 8 & Saturday Feb 9 Join us for talks including keynotes by Suzi Lima (Toronto) and David Barner (UCSD)! The complete program is available here.
SLUgS - Thursday Feb 14 - Dwinelle 1229 - 5-6pm Viewing of Atlantis
Linguistics & Near Eastern Studies special lecture - Friday Feb 15 - 254 Barrows Hall - 2pm Lutz Edzard (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg): The morphosyntax of compounding in Semitic
The 2018-2019 colloquium series continues this coming Monday, February 11, with a talk by our own Larry Hyman. Same time as always, same place as always: 3:10-5 p.m., 370 Dwinelle Hall. The talk is entitled "The Fall and Rise of Vowel Length in Bantu", and the abstract is as follows:
Although Proto-Bantu had a vowel length contrast on roots which survives in many daughter languages today, many other Bantu languages have modified the inherited system. In this talk I distinguish between four types of Bantu languages: (1) Those which maintain the free occurrence of the vowel length contrast inherited from the proto language; (2) Those which maintain the contrast, but have added restrictions which shorten long vowels in pre-(ante-)penultimate word position and/or on head nouns and verbs that are not final in their XP; (3) Those which have lost the contrast with or without creating new long vowels (e.g. from the loss of an intervocalic consonant flanked by identical vowels); (4) Those which have lost the contrast but have added phrase-level penultimate lengthening. I will propose that the positional restrictions fed into the ultimate loss of the contrast in types (3) and (4), with a concomitant shift from root prominence (at the word level) to penultimate prominence (at the intonational and phrase level). In the course of covering the above typology and historical developments in Bantu, I will show that there are some rather interesting Bantu vowel length systems that may or may not be duplicated elsewhere in the world.
The Berkeley Phonetics and Phonology Forum ("Phorum") is a weekly talk and discussion series featuring presentations on all aspects of phonology and phonetics.
We meet Mondays 12-1pm in 1303 Dwinelle.
Phorum is organized by Myriam Lapierre and Eric Wilbanks. Our emails are respectively "myriam.lapierre" and "wilbanks_eric" @berkeley.edu.
Zach O'Hagan has two new papers to appear in the proceedings of WSCLA, both based on his fieldwork on Caquinte and both in collaboration with 2018 PhD alumni:
Baier, Nico and Zachary O'Hagan. to appear. Morphological Reflexes of Subject Extraction in Caquinte. Proceedings of WSCLA 23. [pdf]
Rolle, Nicholas and Zachary O'Hagan. to appear. Different Kinds of Second-position Clitics in Caquinte. Proceedings of WSCLA 23. [pdf]