Banana Slugs at UC Berkeley

Andrew Kato and Sadie Lewis, both undergraduate students in the linguistics major, recently returned from UC Berkeley where they presented at the 7th Annual Berkeley Undergraduate Linguistics Symposium, on April 15. They filed the following report with the WHASC Editor:

“With an international group of presenters, topics ranged from American Sign Language phonology to Polynesian thematic suffixes. Sadie’s talk was on eventive ambiguities with noun-adjective pairings, and Andrew’s talk was on discourse-sensitive semantic gender in the DP domain via definite specific singular they. The keynote speaker, Professor Darya Kavitskaya, spoke in detail about her extensive fieldwork on the history of Crimean Tatar.”

Fascinating work, Andrew and Sadie!