SOUND CHANGE WORKSHOP AT BERKELEY

Our colleagues at Berkeley have asked us to help spread the word about a Workshop on Sound Change to be held on the Berkeley campus on May 28th—31st. All the information you need about the event can be found on the spartan yet informative web-page here. Among the presenters at the workshop will be Grant McGuire and alumnus Andy Wedel of the University of Arizona (Grant and Andy both give presentations on Thursday May 29th). The complete program can be viewed here.

CHUNG TO GIVE LICKER LECTURE AT UCSC

Sandy Chung is one of the current holders of the Gary D. Licker Chair at Cowell College in UCSC. As holder of the chair, Sandy will present the Gary D. Licker Memorial Lecture on Tuesday May 13th in the Cowell Senior Common Room (please note that this a change from the venue originally announced here). The lecture is at 6pm and Sandy’s topic is Language Endangerment and Cultural Politics in the Mariana Islands.

ETI 3 in MONTREAL

ETI (Exploring the Interfaces) 3,which took place at McGill University in Montreal between May 8th and May 10th, became something of a Santa Cruz reunion. This was the last in a sequence of three workshops organized by the McGill Syntactic Interfaces Research Group, all of which were devoted to the interfaces between syntax and other aspects of linguistic ability. The theme of ETI 3 was Prosody and Constituent Structure, with a special focus on verb-initial languages. Among the invited speakers were Judith Aissen, Jim McCloskey, and Joey Sabbagh (BA 2005). Emily Manetta of the University of Vermont presented at the conference, and Ryan Bennett of Yale and Robert Henderson of Wayne State University were also in the thick of things. There’s a picture here. Ryan was himself fresh from the experience of organizing the Workshop on the Sound Systems of Mexico and Central America at Yale in the first week of April. The program for ETI 3 is here and all of the abstracts are available here.

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