BLS 2014

The 40th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society will take place on the Berkeley campus between Friday February 7th and Sunday February 9th, 2014. BLS has been held every year since 1975 and the preliminary program for this year’s fortieth instantiation is now available here. Apart from the regular sessions, the program includes a parasession on Language, Inequality, and Globalization (Friday February 7th), a parasession on Semantic Theory in Underdescribed Languages (Sunday afternoon February 9th), and a special session on Approaches to the Syntax-Phonology Interface (Saturday February 8th). Among the invited speakers for this session is alumna Vera Gribanova of Stanford. Also presenting at the conference will be alumna Vera Lee-Schoenfeld formerly of Swarthmore College and now at the University of Georgia.