Events

January 2009

"LSA Annual Meeting - San Francisco"

DATE:Thursday, January 8, 2009 to Sunday, January 11, 2009
PLACE:Hilton San Francisco, 333 OFarrell
FORMAT:Conference

"Ilya Yakubovich (Chicago): Luvians and Greeks: Linguistic Diversity in Pre-Classical Anatolia"

DATE:Wednesday, January 21, 2009
TIME:5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:1229 Dwinelle
FORMAT:Department Colloquium

February 2009

"Nick Enfield (MPI Nijmegen): Timing of responses to questions: a 10-language comparison"

DATE:Monday, February 2, 2009
TIME:4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:182 Dwinelle
FORMAT:Department Colloquium

"Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 35)"

DATE:Saturday, February 14, 2009 to Monday, February 16, 2009
PLACE:UC Berkeley
FORMAT:Conference

March 2009

"Spike Gildea (U of Oregon): From Participant Nominalization to Main Clause Verb: Three Distinct Outcomes in Three South American Languages"

DATE:Monday, March 2, 2009
TIME:4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:Dwinelle 182
FORMAT:Department Colloquium

"Judith Tonhauser (The Ohio State University): Realis reference by paradigmatic blocking"

DATE:Monday, March 16, 2009
TIME:4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:Dwinelle 182
FORMAT:Department Colloquium

"Colloquium talk by Bob Port (Indiana University): Rich linguistic memory shows language must be a social object, not psychological"

DATE:Monday, March 30, 2009
TIME:4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:Dwinelle Hall 182
FORMAT:Department Colloquium

April 2009

"Colloquium talk by Kristin Hanson (UC Berkeley):  What's Elision For? Aesthetic Implications of the Syllable Structure of Shakespeare's Sonnets"

DATE:Monday, April 6, 2009
TIME:4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:Dwinelle 182
FORMAT:Department Colloquium

"Ao fest"

DATE:Monday, April 20, 2009
TIME:3:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:Dwinelle 88
FORMAT:Department Colloquium

"Colloquium talk by Marianne Mithun (UC Santa Barbara): Converging methodologies: Making bigger sense out of the smaller stuff"

DATE:Monday, April 27, 2009
TIME:4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:Dwinelle 182
FORMAT:Department Colloquium

May 2009

"Undergraduate Honors Thesis Colloquium"

DATE:Monday, May 4, 2009
TIME:4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:182 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Department Colloquium

July 2009

"2009 Linguistic Institute "

DATE:Monday, July 6, 2009 to Thursday, August 13, 2009
PLACE:UC Berkeley
FORMAT:LSA Institute

"Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT) 8"

DATE:Thursday, July 23, 2009 to Sunday, July 26, 2009
PLACE:UC Berkeley
FORMAT:Conference

"Fillmore Fest 2009: Frames and Constructions: A Conference in Honor of Charles Fillmore on the occasion of his 80th birthday"

Charles Fillmore
Gilles Fauconnier
George Lakoff
Paul Kay
Laura Michaelis
Dan Slobin

DATE:Friday, July 31, 2009 to Sunday, August 2, 2009
PLACE:UC Berkeley
FORMAT:Conference
SPONSORS:Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley, ICSI

August 2009

"Lera Boroditsky (Stanford): How the languages we speak shape the ways we think"

DATE:Monday, August 31, 2009
TIME:4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:Dwinelle 182
FORMAT:Department Colloquium

September 2009

"Norma Mendoza-Denton"

DATE:Monday, September 21, 2009
TIME:4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:Dwinelle 182
FORMAT:Department Colloquium

"Roger Levy - CANCELED!"

DATE:Monday, September 28, 2009
TIME:4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:182 Dwinelle
FORMAT:Department Colloquium

October 2009

"Mairi McLaughlin (Berkeley): Virtual’ Contact and Syntactic Borrowing: The Effect of News Translation on the Syntax of French"

DATE:Monday, October 5, 2009
TIME:4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:Dwinelle 182
FORMAT:Department Colloquium

"John Walsh - joint Celtic/Linguistics colloquium talk"

DATE:Thursday, October 29, 2009
TIME:5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:TBA
FORMAT:Department Colloquium
SPONSORS:Linguistics Department, Celtic Studies Program

November 2009

"QP-fest"

DATE:Monday, November 2, 2009
TIME:1:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:Dwinelle 370
FORMAT:Department Colloquium

"Lev Michael (UC Berkeley): Nanti karintaa chants: Implications for typologies of poetic form and composition"

DATE:Monday, November 16, 2009
TIME:4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:182 Dwinelle
FORMAT:Department Colloquium