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Syntax Seminar w Hilda Koopman: A case study of Huave morphology-as-syntax

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My research focuses (in part) on the question to what extent morphological generalizations can be accounted for in terms of purely syntactic operations and conditions. In this talk I will present a case study and reanalysis of the morpheme orders in Huave (San Francisco del Mar), a language isolate spoken in Oaxaca. Its variable morpheme...

AIS – Demonstrative Fest

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Zoom link will be sent out via listserv Every quarter we have a Fest (or sometimes two) dedicated to a particular linguistic topic. Anyone who wants to present something (anything at all!) about demonstratives (in any language) is welcome - please write munro@ucla.edu to volunteer. When I have four volunteers(who each will get about 15...

Syntax Seminar – Dschang fest from LSA

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Zhuo Chen and Blake Lehman: An Argument analysis of cognate objects in Dschang (Yemba)) Colin Brown and Harold Torrence: Predicate Focus doubling in Dschang: implications for Clausal Syntax.

Journal Club

Pick a paper and prepare a one-page handout, which you should be able to deliver in less than seven minutes.  Please also consult (and augment) this Google Doc so we don’t cover the same paper more than once: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6ZJ1T9QD1Mx8Ih3ZU2Tz2t4UHC5jPcF8-2DmwLy3kw/edit# Zoom Info: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98445210292?pwd=T0F3N0VQSFUycHZ1MzBlTzNSWW5XZz09 Meeting ID: 984 4521 0292 Passcode: 099188 Please contact Bruce Hayes at bhayes@humnet.ucla.edu...

Phonetics Seminar

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Discussion of some papers by Molly Babel in preparation for her Jan. 29 colloquium