Field Research Lab

Linguistic Fieldwork Working Group

The Linguistic Fieldwork Working Group aims to provide an informal forum to discuss:

Data and working hypotheses of linguistic analyses in the beginning stages
Emerging field research methodologies in language description and documentation
Ethical issues arising from linguistic and cultural fieldwork
Software, equipment and annotation tools for fieldwork-based projects
Possibilities of partnership with language revitalization initiatives
Language field research projects in related disciplines taking place at UCSD

Upcoming meetings

Meeting time and place for SPRING 2025: Mondays 1-2pm, AP&M 4452

March 31: Planning meeting
April 7: Follow up discussion on the term 'fieldwork' and lab values
April 14: No meeting [RSVP to Emily if you are interested in lunch with Amy Rose Deal at 12pm]
April 21: No meeting [Laura McPherson (Darmouth College) virtual colloquium at 2pm]
April 28: Blake Lehman (Mississippi State University) - "Tone spread, reduced vowels, and the tone-bearing unit in Hän"
May 5: Mark Simmons on tools for morphological parsing
May 12: Kyle Jerro (SDSU) - “Three Innovated Tense Prefixes in Kihunde, an Bantu language from D.R.Congo”
May 19: Maha Aldawi - "Clausal negation strategies in Tagom"
May 26: No meeting [Memorial Day holiday]
June 2: Stan Rodríguez (Iipay Kumeyaay, KCC)

Past meetings

Winter 2025

January 13: Planning meeting
January 20: Lab hike! (see email for more details) [MLK holiday]
January 27: No meeting
February 3: No meeting [department-wide event]
February 10: No meeting [department-wide event]
February 17: No meeting [Presidents' Day holiday]
February 24: Discussion of mentoring
March 3: Prospective Graduate Student Open House
March 10: Introduction to FLEx database creation

Fall 2024

October 14: Discussion of the term 'fieldwork'
October 21: Kwaras workshop session (Note: we will meet at 11:00am instead of our usual time)
October 28: Continued discussion of the term 'fieldwork'
November 4: Matt Carter - "Lexical affixes: brief typology and relevance for Ket and other 'polysynthetic' languages"
November 11: [No session - Veterans Day Holiday]
November 18: FLEx tutorial [Postponed]
November 25: Maha Aldawi on Tagom
December 2: Discussion of potential renaming of the lab

Spring 2024

April 8: Planning meeting
April 15: Anthony Struthers-Young - Apparent double downstep in Northern Toussian (ACAL practice talk)
April 22: Nina Hagen Kaldhol and Sharon Rose - Case marking and word order in Moro and Tira (ACAL practice talk)
April 29: Audio recording equipment training
May 6: Nadine Grimm (Rochester) - Tonal and segmental morphology in Bantu verb inflection (zoom talk)
May 13: Video recording equipment training
May 20: No meeting

Winter 2024

January 8: Planning meeting
January 22: Olivia Griffin on Balinese
February 5: Rachel Miles on Bloom books
March 4: Anthony Struthers-Young + Claudia Duarte Borquez + JJ Lim

Fall 2023

October 3: Planning meeting
October 9: Mark Simmons - overview of new Zugubul tool for automatic transcription
October 16: Michelle Yuan - "An apparent restriction on 3rd person vocalic clitics in San Juan Piñas Mixtec"
October 30: Natalie Weber (Yale University) - "Blackfoot Words: a database of Blackfoot lexical forms" (on Zoom)
November 27: Sharon Rose - "Grammatical tone and person marking in Rere"
December 4: Etna Teresita Pascacio Montijo (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California) - "The process of documenting medicinal plant knowledge in Cucapá"/ "Proceso de documentación de plantas con usos medicinales en cucapá"

Spring 2023

April 3: Nico Tedeschi - "Frames of reference in San Juan Piñas Mixtec: a methodology for remote elicitation"
April 24: Gabriela Caballero, Claudia Duarte Bórquez, and Claudia Juárez Chávez - "Tonal upstep and downstep in San Juan Piñas Mixtec (Tò’ōn Ndá’ví)"
May 1: Jacob Kodner (Harvard University) - "Language documentation and fieldwork in the nonprofit sector"
May 8: Carlos Gil Burgoin (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California) - "Morphological complexity in stem formation of Nortehrn Tepehuan verbs"
May 15: Florian Matter (UOregon) - "A first glimpse at a workflow for writing digital grammars"
May 22: Madeline Snigaroff (UChicago) - "Revitalization and fieldwork that complements communities: A case study with Aleut"
June 5: Sharon Rose

Winter 2023

January 9: updates, schedule and reconnecting for the new quarter!
January 23: discussion about AIMM
January 30: Jessica Coon (McGill University) - "Linguistic elicitation for advanced learners: A community–university partnership" (Collaborative work with Jasmine Jimerson, Karohniióstha Shea Sky, Mary McDonald, Tahohtharátye Joe Brant, Ryan DeCaire, Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Meghan Clayards, Dzéiwsh James Crippen)
February 6: Rachel Miles - "The emergence of argument ordering: insights from emerging sign languages and late first language exposure" (joint meeting with the Mayberry Lab, will take place in APM 4301)
February 13: Mark Simmons
February 27: Carlos Gil Burgoin (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California) [postponed]
March 6: Nina Hagen Kaldhol - "TAM and deixis marking in Tira" (note special time at 3pm)
March 13: Anthony Struthers-Young - "Northern Toussian TAMP grammatical tone"

Fall 2022

September 27: Introductions, updates, and schedule
October 31: Cathryn Donohue (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) - “Case variation in Nubri” (Zoom only, no in person meeting)
November 21: Matt Carter - "Interpredictability in Ket Derivational Paradigms" (Zoom only, no in person meeting)
November 28: Carlos Gil Burgoin (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California) [postponed]

Spring 2022

March 30: Planning meeting - Zoom only
April 6: Wilson de Lima Silva (University of Arizona) - "Language documentation practices based on language vitalization efforts"
April 27: Jaime Pérez González (UCSC) - "Progressive to Imperfective Shift in Mocho’ (Mayan)"
May 4: Rodrigo Ranero (UCLA) - "On the Virtues of Individual-Speaker Fieldwork: Lessons from Agreement in Tz’utujil"
May 18: Patricia Schneider-Zioga (CSU Fullerton) - "The linker, agreement & licensing in Kinande (Bantu)"
May 25: Mark Simmons - "Autosegmental model of vowel enclitics in San Juan Piñas Mixtec"
June 1: Matt Zaslansky - "Multiple exponence in Karakalpak"

Winter 2022

January 12: Ray Huaute - "The intonational structure of Torrez-Martinez Desert Cahuilla"
February 1: Scott AnderBois (Brown University) - "Preverbs in Yucatec Maya" (Joint work with Grant Armstrong (University of Wisconsin) and Edber Dzidz Yam (University of New Mexico)) - Joint meeting with Syntax and Semantics Babble, Tuesday 11:00-12:30
February 9: Virtual Open House overview of the Field Research Lab
February 16: Claudia Duarte-Bórquez - "The representation of tone in San Juan Piñas Mixtec: The role of underspecification" - special time on Wednesday at 2:30pm

Fall 2021

September 30: Introductions, updates, and schedule
October 15: Anita Chang (CSU, East Bay) - Book talk and workshop on Third Digital Documentary: A Theory and Practice of Digital Arts Activism, Critical Design and Ethics - Joint meeting with Linguistic Anthropology Lab, Friday 1:00-2:40
October 21: Discussion of "(Don’t) try this at home! The effects of recording devices and software on phonetic analysis" - Joint meeting with PhonCo
November 4: Discussion of IRB protocols
December 2: Adrienne Tsikewa (UC Santa Barbara) - "Collaborative language research and decolonizing methodologies"
December 9: Enrique Palancar (CNRS) - "Verb conjugations in Matlatzinca: Inflection classes and periphrasis" - Virtual meeting at 11:30am

Spring 2021

April 2: José Armando Fernández Guerrero - "Strategies of clausal complementation in Rere"
April 20: Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia) - "How experimental should we be?" - Joint meeting with SemanticsBabble, Tuesday 11:00am-12:30pm
May 3: CANCELED (rescheduled date TBA) Discussion of "(Don’t) try this at home! The effects of recording devices and software on phonetic analysis" - Joint meeting with PhonCo, Monday 12:00-1:00pm
May 7: Himidan Hassen, Nina Kaldhol, Peter Jenks (UC Berkeley), and Sharon Rose - "Content questions in Tira"
May 21: Hiroto Uchihara & Juana Mendoza (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) - "Minimality, Maximality and the Perfect Prosodic Word in Alcozauca Mixtec"
May 24: Michael Obiri-Yeboah - "Interactions between ATR vowel harmony and nasality" - Joint meeting with PhonCo, Monday 12:00-1:00pm
June 4: Michelle Yuan - "Verb-initial word order in San Juan Piñas Mixtec: Some considerations"

Winter 2021

January 15: Gabriela Caballero, Claudia Juárez Chávez, and Michelle Yuan - "Tonal and morphosyntactic properties of pronominal clitics in San Juan Piñas Mixtec"
January 22: Eric Campbell (UC Santa Barbara) - "Advances in the study of (grammatical) tone in diasporic Tu’un Savi varieties"
January 29: Virtual Open House overview of the Field Research Lab
March 5: Anthony Struthers-Young - "Multiple exponence in Northern Toussian"
March 12: Nina Kaldhol - "Polyfunctionality across time and space in Rere"

Fall 2020

October 2: introductions, summer reports, and updates
October 16: discussion of working with community collaborators remotely
October 30: Nina Kaldhol and Sharon Rose in collaboration with Himidan Hassen - "Tira verbal argument marking: The role of tone"
November 13: Zachary O'Hagan (California Language Archive, UC Berkeley) - discussion of archives and archiving best practices
December 4: Gabriela Caballero, Claudia Juárez Chávez, and Michelle Yuan - "Tonal and morphosyntactic properties of the San Juan Piñas Mixtec verb complex"
December 11: Gabriela Caballero, Claudia Juárez Chávez, and Michelle Yuan - "Tonal and morphosyntactic properties of the San Juan Piñas Mixtec verb complex" (continued)

Spring 2020

May 11: Felipe López (UC San Diego Literature) - "Using social media to teach and maintain Valley Zapotec"
May 18: Ryan Bennett (UC Santa Cruz) - "Vowel deletion as phonologically-controlled gestural overlap in Uspanteko"

Winter 2020

January 13: new SSILA abstract guideline discussion
January 17: Fiona McLaughlin (U. of Florida) - special session on Friday at 2pm
January 27: Yuan Chai - "Neutralization of Xiapu Min tones in disyllabic tone sandhi forms"
February 3: Michelle Yuan on recent fieldwork on Labrador Inuttut
February 10: Mike Diercks (Pomona) and Justine Sikuku (Moi University) - "Object marking and information structure in Lubukusu"
February 24: Ben Eischens (UC Santa Cruz) - "Glottalization and root shortening in San Martín Peras Mixtec"
March 9: Ray Huaute on recent fieldwork on Cahuilla

Fall 2019

October 7: summer fieldwork reports
October 14: John Haviland (UC San Diego Anthropology)
October 21: Ray Huaute (UC San Diego Linguistics) - report on Endangered Language Documentation Programme training
October 28: Alex Rodriguez (UC San Diego Linguistics) - "Wh-questions in Rere"
November 4: Coppe van Urk (Queen Mary University) - "Different ways of introducing objects: Transitivity in Fijian"
November 11: no meeting
November 18: Carlos Gil Burgoin (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California) - "Interpreting prosodic patterns at the word level in Northern Tepehuan"
November 25: Michael Ahland (CSU Long Beach) - "Pahka'anil Text Project"
December 2: Ray Huaute & Gabriela Caballero (UC San Diego Linguistics) - "Reduplication and syncope in Cahuilla distributive verbs"

Spring 2019

April 8: Wesley Leonard (Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, UC Riverside) - Discussion of "Reflections on (de)colonialism in language documentation". Paper available here.
April 15: Philip Mutaka (University of Yaounde) - Exploring new research perspectives on African cultures through language documentation
May 6: Claudia Duarte-Bórquez & Justin McIntosh - practice talk for WAIL (An Introduction to San Juan Piñas Mixtec)

Winter 2019

March 4: Raymond Incamu Huaute - practice invited talk for SAIL "Towards a Native-Informed Approach to Linguistics: Insights from a Native Linguist & Language Reclamationist"

Fall 2018

Oct 12: Néstor Hernández-Green (CIESAS) Studies of grammatical tone in Otomi languages (2pm - special time)
Nov. 5: Wendy López (CIESAS)

Spring 2018

June 4: Michael Obiri-Yeboah on nasal vowels in Gua
May 14: practice MFM talk by Adam McCollum: "Locality, Transparency, and Uyghur backness harmony"
May 7: practice LabPhon and Tonal Aspects of Language presentations
April 9: discussion of 'Morphological H-tones in Macuiltianguis Zapotec' (Zimmermann to appear)

Winter 2018

March 12: Eric Campbell (UCSB) on grammatical tone in Oto-Manguean languages
March 5: Lynn Hou (UCSD) on fieldwork in San Juan Quiahije Chatino Sign Language (SJQCSL)
February 26: Rory Turnbull (U Hawai'i) on the word prosody of San Jerónimo Acazulco Otomí
February 12: Justin McIntosh (UCSD) on grammatical tone in Teotepec Eastern Chatino
January 22: Austin German (UCSD): "Eye gaze as a pointing device in Zinacantec Family Homesign"

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