Recent and forthcoming talks
Titles are removed as contents are published.
"Integrating archives and new documentation: The Berkeley Yurok Language Project"
International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, University of Hawai'i (March 2009)
"Archives, communities, and linguists: Negotiating access to language documentation" (with Lisa Conathan)
LSA Annual Meeting (January 2009)
"A Yurok menstruation purification formula: Editing a 1902 text from audio and transcripts"
40th Algonquian Conference, Univ. of Minnesota (October 2008)
"The origin of linguistic species"
12th Annual Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction, University of Michigan (April 2008); University of California, Santa Barbara (October 2008)
"Linguistic modeling"
Mellon Seminar on Genetics and History, UCLA (March 2008)
"The Berkeley language archives: Archives as community resources"
LSA Annual Meeting (January 2008)
"The evolution of Italic and Latin reduplicative vocalism: Uniformity and analogy"
Greek and Latin from an Indo-European Perspective 2, University of Oslo (July 2007); Dept. of Linguistics, Harvard University (November 2007)
"Thurneysen's Law"
26th East Coast Indo-European Conference, Yale University (June 2007); 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (February 2008, with a new title)
"An online multimedia dictionary of Hupa (Athabascan)" (with Anne Pycha, Lindsey Newbold, and Victor Golla)
SSILA Annual Meeting (January 2007)
"Yurok dialects and the diversification of Algic"
38th Algonquian Conference, Univ. of British Columbia (October 2006)
"Paradigmatic heterogeneity"
Dept. of Linguistics, Stanford Univ. (May 2006); Workshop on "Analogy in grammar: Form and acquisition", Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (September 2006)
"Yurok menstruation texts: Myth and ceremony"
Group in American Indian Languages, UC Berkeley (April 2006)
"The evolution of complex predicates"
Workshop on "Intertheoretical approaches to complex verb constructions", Rice University (March 2006)
"Morphosyntactic complexities and mirages, or, an Indo-Europeanist in California"
TLS 9: "Morphosyntax of underrepresented languages", University of Texas at Austin (November 2005)
"Latin weak verb root vowel leveling"
24th East Coast Indo-European Conference, UC Berkeley (June 2005)
"Computational linguistic phylogeny: Problems and prospects"
Workshop on "Mathematical modelling and analysis of language diversification", Harvard Univ. (March 2005)
"The invention of Greek"
Workshop on "Displaced dialects: From local language to panhellenic poetics", Univ. of Washington (April 2003); Dept. of Linguistics, Stanford Univ. (May 2003); Workshop on phylogenetic methods in linguistics, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge Univ. (July 2004)
"Phonetics in paradigm uniformity: The leveling of Latin vowel weakening"
LSA annual meeting (January 2003)
"Coast Yurok"
50th anniversary conference of the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, UC Berkeley (June 2002)
"Alkman's Muse"
Workshop on "The new look of ancient Greek", UC Berkeley (April 2002)
"The origin of the Latin frequentative"
20th East Coast Indo-European Conference, Cornell Univ. (June 2001)
"On Rumsen dialectology"
Hokan-Penutian Conference, UC Berkeley (June 2001)
