Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Omer Preminger is at the Berkeley Syntax & Semantics Circle, talking about "What the PCC tells us about ‘abstract’ agreement, head movement, and locality".
Rodrigo Ranero has won a Firebird Fellowship for the Documentation of Oral Literature and Traditional Ecological Knowledge, along with Yolanda Estrada, professor in the School of History at Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala.
Omer Preminger gives a plenary address at the Berkeley Linguistics Society's 43rd Annual Meeting.
Gesoel Mendes and Rodrigo Ranero present "Adjunct Extraction: A View from Mayan" at the Berkeley Linguistics Society, within a parasession devoted to "Languages of the Americas".
2014 alum Sol Lago has a 3-year grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) in support of her research on how Spanish and English native speakers process gender and number agreement in German.
Philip Resnik was recently elected to the North American Association for Computational Linguistics Executive Board.
Poke into Cortex for "The role of the IFG and pSTS in syntactic prediction," from postdoc William Matchin, Baggett Christopher Hammerly, and their mentor Ellen Lau.
President Obama awards 2010 alum Chris Dyer the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.
2010 alum Chris Dyer recognized as among the most prolific authors in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
Gesoel Mendes and Rodrigo Ranero are at The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas in Austin, Texas, presenting "Adjunct Extraction in Kaqchikel and Tz'utujiil."