Mary Bucholtz has received a 2007 Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award from the UCSB Academic Senate.

Mary Bucholtz was an instructor at the Linguistic Society of America Institute held at Stanford University in July 2007. She team-taught "Language and Identity" with Kira Hall (University of Colorado).

Mary Bucholtz co-organized the workshop "Ethnographic Methods in Sociocultural Linguistics" with Kira Hall (University of Colorado) at the Linguistic Society of America Institute at Stanford University in July 2007.

Mary Bucholtz organized "Language and the Body in the Material World," the Second Santa Barbara Symposium of Language, Interaction, and Social Organization, in May 2007.

Mary Bucholtz presented a plenary talk entitled "Styling Blackness: Gender and Racial Ideologies in the White Use of African American Vernacular English in Film" at the Conference on Culture, Language, and Social Practice at the University of Colorado in October 2007.

Bernard Comrie was co-organizer of the conference "Language Contact and the Dynamics of Language: Theory and Implications," held in Leipzig in May 2007.

Bernard Comrie was co-organizer of the conference "Nouns Cross-Linguistically" held in Campobasso, Italy in June 2007.

Bernard Comrie was co-organizer of the meeting of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics in Lepzip in September 2007.

Carol Genetti began a new research project on nominalization in five Tibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayas, some results of which were presented at Nouns Cross-Linguistically, a symposium in Campobasso, Italy in June 2007. A second presentation on this project was given at the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, in August 2007.

Carol Genetti presented a talk on word-changing derivations in Dolakha Newar at the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, in August 2007.

Carol Genetti also continued her work on Nones, beginning analysis of the phonetics and phonology. She returned to the field in June 2007 and recorded wordlists from eight speakers of the language for acoustic analysis.

Matthew Gordon was promoted to rank of professor in July 2007.

Stefan Th. Gries was promoted to rank of associate professor with tenure in July 2007.

Stefan Th. Gries was an instructor at the Linguistic Society of America Institute held at Stanford University in July 2007. He taught "Quantitative Corpus Linguistics: A Practical Introduction with R."

Stefan Th. Gries gave an invited plenary lecture at the 40th Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea at the University of Joensuu in Finland in August 2007. His talk was entitled "Frequency Effects in Cognitive-Functional Linguistics: Some Problems and Some Strategies."

Stefan Gries is co-PI, together with UCSB graduate Minerva Oropeza-Escobar (Ph.D., 2006) of the UC MEXUS-CONACYT Collaborative Research Grant "Electronic Corpus of Mexican Folktales," which they received in July 2007.

Jeff Hanson is the 2007 recipient of UCSB's Distinguished Teaching Award for non-ladder faculty.

Marianne Mithun has received the 2006-2007 Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award.

Marianne Mithun was an instructor at the Linguistic Society of America Institute held at Stanford University in July 2007. She taught "Field Methods in Linguistics."

Marianne Mithun was named a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America for her distinguished contributions to the discipline. She will be inducted in a ceremony at the LSA's annual meeting in Chicago in January 2008.

Two papers by Stefanie Wulff were presented at the International Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference in Krakow, Poland, in July 2007: "What Constitutes Idiomaticity?: Converging Evidence from Corpus and Experimental Data" and "Marrying Cognitive-Liguistic Theory and Corpus-Based Methods: On the Compositionality of English V-NP Idioms."

Stefanie Wulff presented two papers at the fourth Corpus Linguistics conference in Birmingham, UK, in July 2007: "Measuring Compositionality in Corpus Data" and "Combining Corpus and Experimental Data to Capture Idiomaticity."