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11/19 - Department Colloquium. Mary Bucholtz (UC Santa Barbara) . "TBA". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. .
10/29 - Department Colloquium. Martin Hilpert (International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)) . "Studying grammaticalization with diachronically-ordered corpus data: it's more than counting words". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. 182 Dwinelle.
10/22 - Department Colloquium. Mary Beckman (Ohio State University) . "Language-universal and language-specific sources of variability in phonological acquisition". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. 182 Dwinelle.
10/15 - Department Colloquium. Johanna Nichols (UC Berkeley) . "Recessive and split syntactic ergativity in Ingush". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. 182 Dwinelle.
09/24 - Department Colloquium. Daniel Silverman (San Jose State University) . "Acoustic dispersion, and the functional relevance of speech variation". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. 182 Dwinelle.
09/17 - Department Colloquium. William A. Foley (University of Sydney) . "Event Structure and the Problem of Serial Verb Constructions". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. 182 Dwinelle.
05/19 - Conference. "Indigenous Languages and Linguistics in the 21st Century: A Celebration in Honor of Leanne Hinton". .
04/27-04/29 - Conference. "26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 26)". 370 Dwinelle.
04/20 - Department Colloquium. Masako Hiraga and Haj Ross (Rikkyo University, Tokyo and University of North Texas) . "Two haiku or one? -- a close linguistic analysis of two poems by Bashō". 5:10 PM-6:00 PM. 1229 Dwinelle.
04/16 - Department Colloquium. John Harris (University College London) . "The effect of prosodic complexity on phonological processing: evidence from language impairment". 4:10 PM. 182 Dwinelle.
03/19 - Department Colloquium. Neil Jacobs (Ohio State University) . "Talking your way to Whiteness: Jews, ethnicity, and language". 4:10 PM. 182 Dwinelle.
03/05 - Department Colloquium. Daniel L. Everett (Illinois State University) . "The nature and nurture of grammar". 4:10 PM. 182 Dwinelle.
03/01 - Department Colloquium. Susanne Gahl (UIUC and University of Chicago) . "Linguistic knowledge is probabilistic: Evidence from Pronunciation". 5:00 PM. 5101 Tolman. (Co-sponsored by Program in Cognitive Science)
02/26 - Department Colloquium. Seyda Ozcaliskan (University of Chicago) . "From first words to first metaphors: Gesture is at the cutting edge of language learning". 4:10 PM. 182 Dwinelle. (Co-sponsored by Program in Cognitive Science)
02/20 - Department Colloquium. Esther Pascual ((University of Amsterdam)) . "Fictive interaction: Face-to-face conversation as a frame for understanding ordinary and legal thought, language and discourse". 5:00 PM. TBA. (Co-sponsored by Program in Cognitive Science)
02/12 - Department Colloquium. Christopher Ball (University of Chicago) . "Inalienability and Discourse in Wauja (Xingu Arawak)". 4:10 PM. 182 Dwinelle. (Co-sponsored by Program in Cognitive Science)
02/09-02/11 - Conference. "33rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 33)". 370 Dwinelle.
12/11 "Linguistics Library Book Sale". 10:00 AM-3:00 PM. 1308 and 1311 Dwinelle.
11/27 - Department Colloquium. Scott Myers (University of Texas, Austin) . "Origins of vowel length neutralization patterns". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. 182 Dwinelle Hall.
11/20 - Department Colloquium. Nick Enfield (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) . "Speech-with-gesture 'constructions' as cognitive artifacts". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. 182 Dwinelle Hall.
11/19 - Conference. "TRilateral syntax and semantics weekEND (S-TREND)". 370 Dwinelle Hall.
11/18 - Conference. "TRilateral phonology weekEND (P-TREND)". 370 Dwinelle Hall.
11/04 "QP Fest". 370 Dwinelle Hall.
10/30 - Department Colloquium. Pranav Anand (UC Santa Cruz) . "What dreams are made of: on the encoding of attitudes de se". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. 182 Dwinelle Hall.
10/23 - Department Colloquium. Juliette Blevins (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) . "Lexical Character Displacement: An Evolutionary Approach to Inhibited Sound Change". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. 182 Dwinelle Hall.
10/16 - Department Colloquium. Mary Paster (Pomona College) . "Phonologically Conditioned Suppletive Allomorphy: Cross-Linguistic Results and Theoretical Consequences". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. 182 Dwinelle Hall.
09/25 - Department Colloquium. Maria-Rosa Lloret (Universitat de Barcelona) . "Prominence-driven epenthesis: evidence from Alguerese Catalan". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. 182 Dwinelle.
09/18 - Department Colloquium. Andrew Garrett (UC Berkeley) . "Paradigmatic heterogeneity". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. 182 Dwinelle Hall.
06/04-06/10 - Conference. "BREATH OF LIFE Workshop for California Indians without speakers". Linguistics Department, Dwinelle Hall, campus. (Co-sponsored by Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival)
05/07 - Symposium. Various speakers (See abstract) . "Endangered Languages, Endangered Sounds: Laboratory, Field, and Phonetic Universals
(In Honor of Ian Maddieson)". 9:00 AM-5:00 PM. 370 Dwinelle Hall. (Co-sponsored by The Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Divisions of Social Sciences, and Art & Humanities of the College of Letters and Science, and the Graduate Division)
04/24 - Department Colloquium. Geoffrey Nunberg (School of Information, UC Berkeley) . "The question of 'Common Language'". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. 182 Dwinelle.
04/17 - Department Colloquium. Charles Fillmore (UC Berkeley (Department of Linguistics and International Computer Science Institute)) . "From lexicon to text cohesion". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. 182 Dwinelle Hall.
04/03 - Department Colloquium. Bill Darden (University of Chicago) . "Archaeology and Language". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. 182 Dwinelle. (Co-sponsored by Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures)
03/20 - Department Colloquium. Anna Morpurgo Davies (Oxford/UC Berkeley) . "Phonology or Orthography? The Problem of Hieroglyphic Luwian Aphaeresis". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. 182 Dwinelle.
03/13 - Department Colloquium. Eve Sweetser (UC Berkeley) . "In Aymara, the future is in back of you: Crosslinguistic and crosscultural comparison of spatiotemporal metaphors". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. .
02/16 - Department Colloquium. Devyani Sharma (King's College, University of London) . "Bilingual varieties of English: Implications for theories of language variation". 5:00 PM-6:30 PM. 3335 Dwinelle.
02/13 - Department Colloquium. Alice Gaby (University of Melbourne) . "How the Thaayorre reflexive and reciprocal came to encode each other as well as themselves: A story of bidirectional semantic extension". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. 182 Dwinelle.
02/10-02/12 - BLS. "32nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society". 371 Dwinelle Hall.
02/06 - Department Colloquium. Robin Dodsworth (Center for Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland) . "Proposals for the use of social theory in variationist sociolinguistics". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. 182 Dwinelle.
01/30 - Department Colloquium. Claire Bowern (Rice University) . "Formal, Functional and Historical Approaches to Bardi Complex Predication". 4:00 PM-5:30 PM. 182 Dwinelle.
01/26 - Department Colloquium. Rusty Barrett (University of Chicago) . "Language Revitalization, "Visionary Linguistics", and Language Change in K'ichean". 5:00 PM-6:30 PM. 3335 Dwinelle.
11/20 - Conference. "IV Annual SLUgS Symposium". 10:00 AM-5:45 PM. .
11/19 - Workshop. "Structure, context, and community in language documentation: The new look of linguistic methodology". 3335 Dwinelle.
11/14 - Colloquium. Eystein Dahl (University of Oslo). "The Vedic Injunctive: Indo-European Inheritance or Structural Borrowing?". 4:00 PM. 182 Dwinelle Hall.
10/31 - Colloquium. Stephen Wechsler (University of Texas). "Wanting, Getting, and Enjoying It". 4:00 PM. 182 Dwinelle Hall.
10/24 - Colloquium. Carlos Gussenhoven (University of Nijmegen). "Beyond the Frequency Code: Explaining paralinguistic intonational meaning". 4:00 PM. 182 Dwinelle Hall.
10/20 - Group in American Indian Languages. Kathryn Klar. "Linguistic Evidence for a Prehistoric Polynesia-Southern California Contact Event". 6:00 PM. Leanne's house.
10/17 - Colloquium. Terrence Deacon (Anthropology, UC Berkeley). "Relaxation of selection as a factor in he evolution of language capacities: A bird model". 4:00 PM. 182 Dwinelle Hall.
10/08 - Workshop. "Workshop on Identity in Ellipsis". 9:00 AM-5:30 PM. 370 Dwinelle Hall.
09/26 - Syntax Circle. Larry Hyman. "Noun phrase structure in Aghem". 12:30 PM. 211 Dwinelle Hall.
09/22 - Group in American Indian Languages. "Summer fieldwork report by students and faculty". .
09/20 "BIFoCAL organizational meeting". 12:00 PM. 46 Dwinelle.
09/20 - Special Colloquium. Joseph Emonds. "From Primate Cognition to Human Syntax: The Evolution of Language in Two Easy Steps". 5:00 PM. 315 Wheeler.
09/19 - Colloquium. Johanna Barddal. "Oblique Subjects: A Common Germanic Inheritance". 4:00 PM. 182 Dwinelle Hall.

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