Bobangi Field Methods class photo
Bobangi Field Methods end-of-class photo
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April 12, 2017 · 12:59 pmLydia Felice at ACAL
BA Honours student Lydia Felice presented a poster on Kabyle at the 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 48), which took place March 31-April 2 at Indiana University Bloomington. Her poster, based on her Honours thesis work, was titled “On the State Distinction and Case in Kabyle Berber”.
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Ergativity/Fieldwork Lab Meeting, 4/7
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!
Coon and Carolan Chuj article in Glossa
This issue of the journal Glossa includes an article on Chuj by Jessica Coon and Lizzie Carolan (BA ’14 and former Chuj Lab manager): ‘Nominalization and the structure of the progressives in Chuj Mayan’. The full article is available on the Glossa page.
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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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Martha Schwarz at FASAL
Martha Schwarz presented a poster on “Case Assignment in Nepali” at the Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages conference at MIT, March 4-5th. This poster grew out of her summer fieldwork in India, funded by a MITACs travel grant.
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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!
Mayan languages presentation at “Midis Autochtones” at UQAM
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February 23, 2017 · 2:17 amFieldwork lab at BLS 43
Fieldwork Lab members are returned last week from the 43rd annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Lydia Felice and Sarah Mihuc presented posters based on their in-progress McGill honours theses on Kabyle (Berber). Justin Royer, incoming McGill PhD student and Chuj Lab member, presented a poster based on his recent Concordia BA thesis on Chuj classifiers.
- Lydia Felice: The Case for KP: An Analysis of the Free State and Construct State in Kabyle Berber
- Sarah Mihuc: Effects of Focus on Word Order in Kabyle Berber
- Justin Royer: Nominal and numeral classifiers in Chuj (Mayan)
Sarah, Justin, and Lydia at Berkeley
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