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BLing’s Week 7 General Meeting!

[ February 18, 2009; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ]

Our Speaker: Dr. Anoop Mahajan
The Topic: Subject Case Marking

Anoop Mahajan is a professor of syntax and the chair or our department. His research interests include Gapping, Partial Wh-Movement, Oblique subject phenomena, and Remnant movement and Elimination of Head movement. he…

A quick photoshop usage during class…

If Linguistics was literal…

FILM SCREENING: The Linguists

[ February 6, 2009; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ]

 

The Linguist Poster 

Scientists estimate that of 7,000 languages in the world, half will be gone by the end of this century. On average, one language disappears every two weeks.

THE LINGUISTS joins David Harrison and Gregory Anderson, scientists racing to document languages on…

2nd General Meeting of Winter Quarter!

[ January 21, 2009; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ]

Our Speaker: Dr. Daniel Buring
The Topic: Graduate school admissions

Daniel Buring’s research focuses on Semantics and its interaction with syntax and intonation. he is also the Director of Graduate Studies in the UCLA linguistics department, and in that capacity will be…