• Congratulations!

  • Tanya Nikitina just received a national Mellon fellowship to support her dissertation research next year. This is an extremely prestigious award (only 65 selected nationally)... Congratulations, Tanya!

• Look Who's Talking

  • WCCFL is next weekend (27-29 April) in Berkeley. Be sure to hear the following talks by Stanford folks:
    
    
    • Phonological constraints on constituent ordering
      Arto Anttila
    • A diachronic account of English deverbal nominals
      Stephen Wechsler
    • Object-sharing as symmetric sharing: Evidence from serial verb constructions and predicate clefting
      Ken Hiraiwa and Adams Bodomo
    • Long-distance dependencies in Tagalog: The case for raising
      Veronica Gerassimova and Peter Sells
  • Also be sure to check out the Formal Approaches to Variation in Syntax conference, upcoming in York (UK), May 10-12:
    
    
    • Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Uriel Cohen Priva, Scott Grimm, Sander Lestrade, Gorkem Ozbek, Tyler Schnoebelen, Susannah Kirby, Misha Becker, Vivienne Fong and Joan Bresnan. A statistical Model of Grammatical Choices in Children's Productions of Dative Sentences.
    • Joan Bresnan. Probabilistic Knowledge of Syntax -- evidence from the English dative.

Zut! Alors! Mortebleu!

Bruno explains key aspects of his dissertation to Marie (tout en francais, sans doute!)...

• Sesquips From This Week's Sesquihumorist

  1. He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
  2. Every calendar's days are numbered.
  3. A lot of money is tainted. 'Taint yours and 'taint mine.
  4. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
  5. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
  6. A plateau is a high form of flattery.
  7. The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
  8. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
  9. When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.
  10. Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.
  11. When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd dye.
  12. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
  13. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
  14. Acupuncture is a jab well done.
  15. Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.
• Here's a link to a video of the Simpsons' take on the life of a graduate student.

• FRIDAY, 20 APRIL

  • Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle

    14:30 in 1229 Dwinelle Hall (UC Berkeley)
    
    Yao Yao will present a talk on her research.

  • UC Santa Cruz Linguistics Colloquium

    16:00 in 210 Humanities One (UC Santa Cruz)
    
    Rachel Walker (USC)
    Phonetics and Phonology of Coronal Harmony: The Case of Kinyarwanda
    

  • Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop

    15:30 in MJH 126
    
    Ivano Caponigro (UCSD)
    We know, therefore I ask.
    
    

  • Weekly Social

    17:00 in the department lounge. Gourmet delights from the Social Committee.
    

  • UC Berkeley Linguistics Colloquium

    17:10 in 182 Dwinelle Hall (UC Berkeley)
    
    Masako Hiraga (Rikkyo University, Tokyo) and Haj Ross (University of North Texas)
    Two haiku or one? -- a close linguistic analysis of two poems by Basho
    
  
  
• SATURDAY, 21 APRIL
  
  • Poetics Fest 2: Dialogues in Language and Poetry

    9:30--5:10 in the Cowell Conference Room (UC Santa Cruz)
    
    The program is available HERE.
• MONDAY, 23 APRIL
  

  • Berkeley Phonetics and Phonology Forum

    12:00 in 46 Dwinelle Hall (UC Berkeley)
    
    Marc Ettlinger: An exemplar-based approach to opacity
    

  • Field Data Group at Berkeley

    15:00 in Dwinelle Hall 1308 (UC Berkeley)
    
    Christian Dicanio (UC Berkeley)
    Itunyoso Trique Enclitic Morphophonology
    

  • Stanford Phonology Workshop

    14:00 in MJH 126
    
    Alessandro Jaker
    Keren Rice's paper 'Language Contact, Phonemic Inventories, and the Athapaskan Language Family'
  
  
• TUESDAY, 24 APRIL
  

  • CSLI Tea

    15:00 in the Cordura Hall Greenhouse
    


• WEDNESDAY, 25 APRIL

  • Developmental Brown Bag Lunch

    12:00 in Jordan Hall (Bldg. 420), room 102
    
    Adrianna Weisleder (Psychology)
    FYP: Factors affecting how Spanish-speaking children learn and interpret adjectives in real-time speech comprehension


• THURSDAY, 26 APRIL

  • UC Santa Cruz Linguistics Colloquium

    16:00 in the Cowell Conference Room (UC Santa Cruz)
    
    Manfred Krifka (Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung (ZAS), Berlin)
    More on the difference between `more than two' and `at least three'

  • Stanford Psychology of Language Tea (SPLAT)

    17:15 in MJH 126
    
    Graham Katz
    TBA
    
  
  
• FRIDAY, 27 APRIL

  • WCCFL 26

    All day in 370 Dwinelle Hall (UC Berkeley)
  
  
• Saturday, 28 APRIL

  • WCCFL 26

    All day in 370 Dwinelle Hall (UC Berkeley)
  
  
• Saturday, 29 APRIL

  • WCCFL 26

    All day in 370 Dwinelle Hall (UC Berkeley)
  
  

• END OF THE YEAR PARTY now confirmed for Saturday, June 9. Live Music by Dead Tongues!
• For local linguistic events, always consult the Department's event page, available RIGHT HERE
  
  
• Got broader interests? The New Sesquipedalian recommends reading or even subscribing to the CSLI Calendar, available HERE.
  
  
• What's happening at UC Santa Cruz? Find out HERE.
  
  
• What's going on at UC Berkeley? Check it out HERE.