The Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab will be meeting on Friday, 4/7, from 1-2pm in room 117.
Jessica will be presenting Baier (2017) “Antilocality and Antiagreement”, which can be found here. All are welcome!
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Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab Meeting – 3/31
The Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab will be meeting on Friday, 3/31, from 1-2pm in room 117.
Clint is giving a talk titled “Two possibilities for Bobangi agreement and their implications”.
Abstract: Clint is planning to present on nominal concord and subject-verb agreement in Bobangi, which is the Bantu language the Field Methods class is currently studying. There is some ambiguity in whether or not certain types of agreement are grammatical, and he will be presenting about the analyses of each possibility (i.e. what happens if they are grammatical, what happens if they aren’t).
Recommended readings are the following:
1. When agreement is for number and gender but not person (Baker 2011) – sections 1 and 2
2. A theory of nominal concord (Norris 2014 – PhD dissertation) – Introduction (and subsections 3.4-3.5 for anyone who is feeling ambitious)
Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab Meeting – 3/24
The Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab will be meeting on Friday, 3/24, from 1-2pm in room 117.
We will be returning to our discussion of Levin (2015). Lisa Travis will be presenting additional data from Indonesian that are relevant to Levin’s (2015) argument.
All are welcome!
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Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab Meeting, 3/10
The Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab will be meeting on Friday, 3/10, from 1-2pm in room 117.
Jessica will be presenting Baier (2017) “Antilocality and Antiagreement”, which can be found here. All are welcome!
Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab Meeting, 2/10 – Levin (2015)
The Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab will be meeting on Friday, 2/10, from 1-2pm in room 117 of the Linguistics Building.
Lisa Travis will be presenting Chapter 3 (Caseless Adjacency) of Levin’s (2015) MIT thesis Licensing without Case (pages 46-87).
All are welcome!
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Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab – 2/3
The Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab will be meeting on Friday, 2/3, fro 1-2pm in room 117.
Martha Schwarz will be presenting different ways of accounting for person-based and semantically-based splits in the context of Nepali’s optional ergativity.
All are welcome!
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Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab Meeting, 1/27
The Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab will be meeting on Friday, 1/27, from 1-2pm in room 117.
This week, three students will present their posters in preparation for the undergraduate poster session at the 43rd annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.
Presenters:
Justin Royer – Numeral and Noun Classifiers in Chuj
Sarah Mihuc – The Effects of Focus on Word Order in Kabyle Berber
Lydia Felice – An Analysis of the State Alternation in Kabyle Berber
All are welcome!
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Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab Meeting 12/5
The Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab will be having our last meeting of the Fall 2016 semester on Monday, 12/5, from 12-1pm in room 002.
Sarah will be presenting about anti-agreement in Kabyle. Recommended reading is Ouhalla (1993) “Subject-Extraction, Negation, and the Anti-Agreement Effect”. The most important sections to focus on are sections 1-3.
Stay tuned for the announcement of our Winter 2017 meeting time and location!
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Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab Meeting, 11/28
The Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab will be meeting on Monday, 11/28, from 12-1pm in room 002.
Henrison Hsieh will be presenting about semantic fieldwork and Tagalog.
Recommended reading is Matthewson (2004). The most important parts to focus on are Sections 3 and 4.
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Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab Meeting 11/21
The Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab will be meeting on Monday, 11/21, from 12-1pm in room 002.
Jessica Coon will be presenting her FAMLi4 talk, titled “Building roots in Chuj and Ch’ol”.
Abstract:
In this talk I examine verb-stem forming morphology in two Mayan languages: Chuj and Ch’ol. I show how the inventory of v/Voice heads has an effect on the available types of verbs in each language. Specifically, I investigate the division of labor between the root and functional heads, arguing that roots are not entirely acategorical, but must come minimally with information about whether they assign a thematic role to an internal argument.
Recommended reading is Coon (2016), “Unergatives, antipassives, and roots in Chuj”.
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