UCSB Linguistics

Linguistics undergraduate and graduate students Teresa Cevallos, Veronica Cruz, Alexia Z. Fawcett, Bethany Guerrero, Katie Lydon, and Simon Peters presented Enriching language research among a diaspora community on California’s Central Coast: Lessons from centering student positionality in research process at the 20th Hispanic and Lusophone Conference, hosted by the UCSB Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Simon Peters received a Graduate Division Graduate Humanities Research Fellowship for 2021-22. Recent Ph.D. alum Brendon Yoder received an honorable mention in the UCSB 2021 Lancaster Dissertation Competition in the field of Humanities and Fine Arts. This is a very rare move on the part of the committee and highlights the broad humanistic significance of Dr. Yoder’s research in support of the Abawiri language community.

UCSB Linguistics grad student Nate Sims published an article in the Smithsonian’s online magazine Folklife about the workshop that he organized at the Smithsonian Institution last year: In Their Own Words: The Himalayan Languages of Sichuan Workshop, Folklife (May 7, 2021): https://folklife.si.edu//own-words-himalayan-languages-sic Nate also published an article entitled Tonogenesis in Northeastern Trans-Himalayan in Transactions of the Philological Society: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467- 968X.12204.

Linguistics Colloquium Thurs 13 May 2021, 3:30 pm. Unsundering Sahul: Can we find deep time connections across the Torres Strait? Nicholas Evans and Kyla Quinn... Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language The Australian National University See more

Guillem Belmar Viernes received a grant from the Jacobs Research Fund for documentation of Yucunani Sà'án Sàv (Mixtec). Jordan Douglas-Tavani was awarded a Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship for next 2021-22. Alexia Fawcett was awarded a Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant for 2021-22 for her project Creating a Comprehensive Record of Wao Language and Culture via Digital Repatriation.... Kyle Mahowald received a $175,000 National Science Foundation grant through the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative in Robust Intelligence) for his project Using Linguistic Variation to Understand Deep Neural Models of Language. Karen Tsai received an Excellence in Teaching Award from the Graduate Student Association. Alonso Vásquez Aguilar received a grant from the Jacobs Research Fund for his project Remote-based language documentation project for heritage materials of the Shiwilu language. Many thanks to Jordan Douglas-Tavani, Alonso Vásquez Aguilar, and James Yee for coorganizing this year’s WAIL conference! And congrats to the following presenters: Guillem Belmar Viernes, Let there be ñàà: The journey of a discourse marker Jordan Douglas-Tavani, A Lexical Class as Construction: On the Origins of Cariban Postpositions Alexia Fawcett, Wao Terero Multifunctional Classifiers Jesús Olguín Martínez Complex sentence constructions in Mesoamerican languages

Reminder: the 23rd Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) at UCSB will be held this coming weekend, Apr 30 - May 1! Follow this link for more info including the conference program: https://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/news/announcement/760 Use this link for registration (free): http://bit.ly/3pLCvdO