Syntax and Semantics

SALT 28 proceedings published

January 23, 2019

The Proceedings of SALT 28 are now available through the LSA's open access online platform. This year's edition contains three papers by faculty and/or alumni:

Nicholas Fleisher (PhD '08), Than-clauses as embedded questions Scott AnderBois and Pauline Jacobson (PhD '77), Answering implicit questions: the case of namely Amy Rose Deal, Compositional paths to de re

Baclawski in Europe

December 6, 2018

Kenny Baclawski will be traveling to Muenster, Germany, this week for the Information Structure in Spoken Language Corpora (ISSLAC3) Workshop, where he will speak on Topic, Focus, and Wh-Phrases in Cham and Moken. Then he will travel on to the University of Geneva to give an additional talk there.

Linguistics events this week (Dec 7-14, 2018)

December 7, 2018

In and around the linguistics department in the next week:

Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Dec 7 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
Noga Zaslavsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Karee Garvin (UC Berkeley), Charles Kemp (University of Melbourne), Naftali Tishby (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), & Terry Regier (UC Berkeley): Color-naming evolution and efficiency: The case of Nafaanra Phorum - Monday Dec 10 - Dwinelle 1303 - 12-1pm
LSA Practice Talks by Amalia Skilton & David Peeters (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics): Speaker and addressee in spatial deixis: new experimental evidence; Andrew Cheng: Style-shifting, Bilingualism, and the Koreatown Accent Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Dec 14 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-5pm
Jorge Hankamer (UC Santa Cruz) & Line Mikkelsen (UC Berkeley): CP complements to D

Linguistics events this week (Nov 30-Dec 7, 2018)

November 29, 2018

In and around the linguistics department in the next week:

Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Nov 30 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-5pm
Zach O'Hagan: Two sorts of contrastive topic in Caquinte SLUgS Linguistics Symposium - Saturday Dec 1 - Dwinelle 370 - 8:30am-5pm Linguistics Holiday Potluck - Monday Dec 3 - Dwinelle 1229 - 12 noon Linguistics Department colloquium - Monday Dec 3 - Dwinelle 370 - 3-5pm
Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University Nijmegen): Between phonetics and phonology: Of the beast and the untamed savage Fieldwork Forum - Thursday Dec 6 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5:30PM
Quirina Geary (UC Davis): TBA Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Dec 7 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-5pm
Noga Zaslavsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Karee Garvin (UC Berkeley), Charles Kemp (University of Melbourne), Naftali Tishby (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), & Terry Regier (UC Berkeley): Color-naming evolution and efficiency: The case of Nafaanra

QP fest 2018!

November 22, 2018

QP Fest will be held on Monday, November 26, in Dwinelle 370, from 3-5pm. (Note the rescheduled date!)

The schedule is as follows:

Introduction (3:10-3:15) Tessa Scott: "Conjoint/disjoint in Ndengeleko: A head movement alternation" (3:15-3:35) Karee Garvin: "Positional effects on timing and coordination of segments within the syllable" (3:35-3:55) Yevgeniy Melguy: "Talker ethnicity and listener expectation in the perception of foreign-accented speech" (3:55-4:15) Mini-break (4:15-4:20) Noah Hermalin: "Ambiguity and efficiency trade-offs in Sumerian cuneiform" (4:20-4:40) Myriam Lapierre: "A phonological analysis of Panãra" (4:40-5:00)

Linguistics events this week (Nov 23-30, 2018)

November 23, 2018

In and around the linguistics department in the next week:

Phorum - Monday Nov 26 - Dwinelle 1303 - 12-1pm
Simon Todd (Stanford): Word frequency effects in sound change: A listener-based exemplar model QP Fest - Monday Nov 26 - Dwinelle 370 - 3-5pm Fieldwork Forum - Thursday Nov 29 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5:30PM
Julia Nee: TBA Syntax and Semantics Circle Friday Nov 30 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-5pm
Zach O'Hagan: Two sorts of contrastive topic in Caquinte

A study of referential opacity

Barbara Abbott
1976

Advisor: George Lakoff

Deal publishes on indexiphors

November 21, 2018

The Leader of the Pack: A Festschrift in Honor of Peggy Speas has been published this week, including a paper by Amy Rose Deal entitled Indexiphors: Notes on embedded indexicals, shifty agreement, and logophoricity.

Hyman travels, publishes on Benue-Congo

November 13, 2018
In the days ahead Larry Hyman will be traveling first to the University of British Columbia, where he will present "In search of prosodic domains in Lusoga" and attend workshops on Kinata and Medumba, and then to Ghent University for the International Conference on Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar, at which he will present "Causative and Passive H tone: Spurious or proto?" Continuing the African languages theme, Larry also has three new papers in the newly published book East Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs. The book is open access and can be downloaded in its entirety here. Larry's three chapters are entitled: “Bantoid verb extensions”. In John Watters (ed.), Eastern Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs, 175-199. Berlin: Language Science Press. “Third person pronouns in Grassfields Bantu”. In John Watters (ed.), Eastern Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns and verbs, 201-223. Berlin: Language Science Press. “More reflections on the nasal classes in Bantu”. In John Watters (ed.), Eastern Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns and verbs, 225-238. Berlin: Language Science Press.

Linguistics events this week (Nov 9-16, 2018)

November 9, 2018

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 factivity Fieldwork 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 environments Group 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 texts SLUgS - 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