Event Things

EndNote Presentation & Tutorial (Shields Library Instruction Lab, Room 165, from 2007-10-19 09:00 AM to 2007-10-19 10:30 AM)

A special session of the Linguistics Pro-Seminar series devoted to a demonstration, especially for linguists, of EndNote

Linguistics Fall Welcome Party (44934 N. El Macero Dr., El Macero (758-1470), from 2007-11-02 06:30 PM to 2007-11-02 09:00 PM)

Annual Fall potluck for the Graduate Group and Linguistics Department faculty and graduate students

Colloquium: Douglas Biber (53A Olson Hall, from 2008-02-01 03:10 PM to 2008-02-01 04:30 PM)

Douglas Biber is Regents’ Professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University. The title of his talk is "Merging Corpus Linguistic and Discourse Analytic Research Goals: Discourse Units in Biology Research Articles."

Using Electronic Corpora to Profile Levels of Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition: the Cambridge English Profile Project (CMB Annex Conference Room, 202 Cousteau Place, suite 250, from 2008-03-27 02:00 PM to 2008-03-27 05:00 PM)

A joint presentation by John A. Hawkins (UC Davis & Cambridge University), Nick Saville (Cambridge Assessment), Paula Buttery (Cambridge University) and Mike McCarthy (Penn State University & Cambridge University Press). The initial presentation will be followed by a workshop given by Paula Buttery.

Colloquium: Mary J. Schleppegrell (53A Olson Hall, from 2008-02-14 03:00 PM to 2008-02-14 04:30 PM)

Professor Schleppegrell (University of Michigan) will give a talk entitled "Perspectives on academic language and their implications for classroom practice and research."

Workshop: Mary J. Schleppegrell (53A Olson Hall, from 2008-02-15 09:00 AM to 2008-02-15 12:00 PM)

The language of “content”: the relevance of grammar

Open House (Department of Linguistics, from 2008-03-03 09:00 AM to 2008-03-03 08:00 PM)

Recently admitted graduate students are welcomed to the campus to meet faculty, advisors, and graduate students in Linguistics and to become acquainted with the campus and the community.

Colloquium: Kristina de Korsak (53A Olson Hall, from 2008-03-12 03:10 PM to 2008-03-12 04:30 PM)

Fuzzy Borders: Children's exploration of their languages and identities

SLAI Colloquium: Patricia Duff (53A Olson Hall, from 2008-03-13 03:30 PM to 2008-03-13 05:00 PM)

Patricia Duff (University of British Columbia): "Issues in Second/Additional Language Socialization." Second Language Acquisition Institute Lecture Series.

Middle East/South Asia Studies Colloquium: Michael Shapiro (Memorial Union, East Conference Room, from 2008-03-13 12:00 PM to 2008-03-13 01:30 PM)

"Reading Hindi poetry: Some basic principles"

Language Day: Center for Mind and Brain (UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain, 267 Cousteau Place, from 2008-04-25 10:30 AM to 2008-04-25 08:00 PM)

The UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain in conjunction with Departments of Psychology and Linguistics presents: Language Day, 25 April 2008, featuring: William Marslen-Wilson (MRC CBU Cambridge) and Lorraine Tyler (University of Cambridge)

Colloquium: Otto Santa Ana (Associate Professor, Chicana/o Studies, UCLA) (Olson 53A, from 2008-05-09 03:10 PM to 2008-05-09 04:30 PM)

Critical Social Semiotics & Cognitive Narration: Analyzing today's television news stories about Latinos

Colloquium: Ekkehard König (912 Sproul Hall, from 2008-04-10 03:00 PM to 2008-04-10 04:30 PM)

Ekkehard König of the Free University of Berlin will give a talk entitled "Towards a new Typology of Reflexivity: The role of Intensifiers."

Colloquium: Chaofen Sun (53A Olson Hall, from 2008-04-10 11:00 AM to 2008-04-10 12:15 PM)

Chinese Scripts: Simplification and Politics

SLAI Colloquium: Ann Kelleher (53A Olson Hall, from 2008-04-17 03:30 PM to 2008-04-17 05:00 PM)

The Second Language Acquisition Institute presents: Ann Kelleher, Doctoral candidate in Linguistics and 2007-08 SLAI Mini-grant recipient; "Heritage" Language in the Here and Now: Perspectives from Cantonese-background Learners of Mandarin.

SGL Award Ceremony (912 Sproul Hall, from 2008-04-30 03:00 PM to 2008-04-30 04:00 PM)

Cynthia Goldberg will present the 2008 Steven G. Lapointe Award to doctoral candidates in Linguistics, Tammy Gales and Michael Grosvald. Refreshments will be served.

Colloquium: Paul McPherron (53A Olson Hall, from 2008-06-10 03:10 PM to 2008-06-10 04:30 PM)

Internationalizing teaching, localizing English: The "in-betweens" of global and local language practices at a Chinese university

End of the Year Celebration (Home of Cecilia Colombi and Bob Powell, 501 Alvarado, Davis, from 2008-06-17 06:30 PM to 2008-06-17 09:30 PM)

For the Graduate Group in Linguistics, the Linguistics Department, and Spanish, French, and German linguistics graduate students

Cognitive Grammar and Language Teaching Workshop (53A Olson Hall, from 2008-06-28 03:00 PM to 2008-06-28 04:00 PM)

Keynote presentation by Michel Achard (Rice University)

Linguistics Teaching Assistant Workshop (104 Sproul, from 2008-09-23 09:00 AM to 2008-09-23 11:30 AM)

This is a meeting in which TAs for Linguistics 1 (2008-09) meet their instructors and discuss with them and veteran TAs what the course can be expected to be like, what their duties are, what expectations instructors have for them, and so forth. All new TAs are required to attend.

Graduate Student Orientation (912 Sproul Hall , from 2008-09-23 12:00 PM to 2008-09-23 02:00 PM)

Orientation for new and continuing Linguistics graduate students

Colloquium: Aram Yengoyan (TBA, from 2009-02-18 03:30 PM to 2009-02-18 05:00 PM)

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Colloquium: Bonny Norton (53A Olson Hall, from 2008-10-22 03:10 PM to 2008-10-22 04:30 PM)

On Identity and Investment in Language Learning

Beginning-of-the-Year Linguistics Party (1723 Mariposa Circle, Davis, from 2008-10-03 05:30 PM to 2008-10-03 08:30 PM)

Robert Blake, the new Chair of the Graduate Group in Linguistics, is hosting a dinner event at his house.

Faculty Meeting (104 Sproul, from 2008-10-03 10:00 AM to 2008-10-03 10:50 AM)

 

Colloquium: Aneta Pavlenko (TBA, from 2009-04-15 03:30 PM to 2009-04-15 10:10 PM)

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Colloquium: John Ohala (TBA, from 2009-01-21 03:30 PM to 2009-01-21 05:00 PM)

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