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MRG read De Clerq & Wyngaerd: Suppletion in Czech Comparatives for the meeting this week (3 pm, Monday, 12/7). For the meeting next week on Dec. 14 (Monday), they will read Davis 2019: Case-Driven Plural Suppletion in Buryat at 3 pm at this Zoom link.

More information about MRG can be found on their official website. Supplementary information can be found here.

S/Lab will have a special CUNY workshop on Tuesday, Dec. 8th, at 10 am in this Zoom link. A full schedule of S/Lab can be found here. To see what they’ve done in the past, visit this website.

This week in WLMA, Tessa Scott (UC at Berkeley) will give a talk titled “Variation in Mam syntax”. The presentation will take place this Tuesday (12/8) at 12:00 pm in this Zoom room.

The SUMSC meeting will take place on Wednesday, 12/9, at 1 pm in their usual Zoom room (979 2662 4935, pw: monads). They will continue discussing Chris Barker’s (2020) paper on “Rethinking scope islands,” available here.

For the Phlunch meeting this week (1 pm, Thursday, 12/9), Ben Eischens will present Reinisch et al. (2011), “Speaking rate affects the perception of duration as a suprasegmental lexical-stress cue. They will meet in their usual Zoom room(230 326 093, pw: 655218). A full schedule of Phlunch can be found here.

Matthew Wagers has been awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was recognized “for innovative research extending the methodology of experimental psycholinguistics to investigations of understudied minority languages.” Congratulations, Matt!

Details can be found here.

The Humanities Institute interviewed Kelsey Sasaki about her research and experience as a THI Public Fellow. They discussed the ways in which Sasaki’s own work and research have interfaced with her role in supporting the sharing and celebration of the indigenous languages of Oaxaca with the greater Santa Cruz community.

More details about this interview can be found here.