PANCHEVA COLLOQUIUM ON FRIDAY
This Friday, May 21, from 1:20 to 3pm, Roumyana Pancheva (USC) will give the last departmental colloquium of the year! Stay tuned for Zoom information.
PHLUNCH
This week (Wednesday, 05/19, at 10 am, Zoom link), Phlunch will host practice for the Manchester Phonology Meeting: a talk on Santiago Laxopa Zapotec tone by Maya Wax Cavallaro, Myke Brinkerhoff, and Jack Duff, as well as a poster presentation on Ojibwe by Max Kaplan.
A tentative schedule can be found here.
MRG
This week (Wednesday, 05/19, at 11 am, Zoom link), MRG will discuss Santiago Laxopa Zapotec verbs.
Their website can be found here.
R/LAB
This week (Thursday, 05/20, 9:45-11:00 am, Zoom link), Maziar Toosarvandani will continue discussion on animacy.
Here is their website.
WLMA
This week (Friday, 05/21, 9 am, Zoom link), Mark Sicoli (U of Virginia) will give a presentation titled, “Engaging dialogic syntax for grammatical analysis of a Zapotec language corpus.” The relevant chapter in Sicoli (2020) Saying and Doing in Zapotec can be found here (English version & Spanish version).
S/LAB
This week (Monday, 05/17, at 11 am, Zoom link), S/Lab had practice talks for CAMP 2021.
GUO, IPPOLITO, MEADOWS, NEVO, TARANGO WIN CHANCELLOR’S RESEARCH AWARD
Congratulations to our undergraduates Simon Guo, Ashley Ippolito, Sage Meadows, Noa Nevo, and Ollie Tarango, for winning the Chancellor’s Research Award for their group project “The Effect of Reduced Relative Clauses on Agreement Production.” Their abstract can be found here.