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Nick Kalivoda (UCSC Ph.D. 2018) has been offered a postdoc position at Lund University, Sweden!  He will be working with Sara Myrberg and Shin Ishihara. Congratulations, Nick!

This summer saw the publication of “Irreducible parallelism in phonology: Evidence for look ahead from Mohawk, Maragoli, Sino-Japanese, and Lithuanian” in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory by alum Jeff Adler ( MA ’17) and Jesse Zymet (UCB).  Congratulations, Jeff!

Vishal Arvindam gave a talk “in Berlin” at the XPrag workshop on the Processing of Negation and Polarity this past Thursday, October 1. The talk was entitled “Two-year-olds process negation online: Evidence from eye-tracking” and was presented with co-authors Maxime Telling and Dr. Ailís Cournane at NYU. The link to the workshop (along with abstracts) can be found here. Congratulations, Vishal!

Maya Wax Cavallaro presented a poster, titled “[SG]and final consonant allophony in Tz’utujil (Mayan)” at AMP 2020(Annual Meeting on Phonology) at UCSC. More information about AMP  can be found at AMP2020 at Santa Cruz. We missed Maya in that initial round-up, for which we apologize. Congratulations, Maya!

MRG (Morphology Reading Group) will have their first meeting on Mondays, at 3 pm at this Zoom link.

Their theme for this quarter is the locality of allomorphy and suppletion. The reading list can be found here. The topic for this week is The Scandinavian Definiteness Story. More information about this reading group can be found here.

Please contact the coordinator Dan Brodkin if you are interested and want to be on the mailing list.

WLMA ( Workshop on the Languages of Mesoamerica) will take place this Tuesday (10/6) from 12:00-1:00 pm at Maya’s Zoom room (Meeting ID: 791 731 8021, Password: laclave).  The link to the schedule is here.

WLMA is a regularly-meeting group of faculty and graduate students with interests in linguistic fieldwork (bonus points if you like Mesoamerican languages!). At these meetings, participants regularly present their own ongoing research projects, discuss papers, and listen to invited speakers.

Email Ben Eischens or Maya Wax Cavallaro if you are interested in participating.

The first scheduling meeting of Phlunch was held at 1 pm, Thursday, Oct 1. This is also the time/date they intended to meet regularly for this quarter. You can find the full schedule on this link.

Maxwell Kaplan will present on Oct.8, Thursday. Anyone is welcome to join in at this zoom link.