Weekly Digest, 11/4/22

Welcome to November, and don’t forget to set your clocks back this week and vote!

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Zubizarreta & Pancheva publish NSF-funded corpus of Guarani narratives

Maria Luisa Zubizarreta and Roumi Pancheva have published an annotated corpus of Guarani as part of an NSF-funded project (Zubuzarreta PI, Pancheva Co-PI). You can check out the corpus at guaranicorpus.usc.edu. The corpus is work in progress, with children’s narratives to come hopefully later this year. Maria Luisa & Roumi welcome comments.

Linguistics Halloween social

Here’s the group from the department Halloween party in DTLA last weekend! How many linguistics themed costumes can you spot?

Upcoming Events

Upcoming departmental colloquia

A reminder that the following colloquia will be taking place later this month:

• 11/14: Annette D’Onofrio (Northwestern)

• 11/21: Tim Hunter (UCLA)

Department Events

• (PhonLunch: No PhonLunch this week)

• Monday, 11/7, 2:10pm @ S-Side Story: Zhengdong Liu on “Swahili relative clauses / adverbial clauses”

• Tuesday, 11/8, 9:30am @ Psycholing Lab: Mete Oğuz on “Processing accusative vs genitive case-marked nouns: Implications for Case Containment Hypothesis”