Mary Bucholtz (PI) received a Faculty Outreach Grant of $23,913 for 2009-10 from the
Office of Academic Preparation, University of California, Santa Barbara, for the project
"School Kids Investigating Language in Life and Society (SKILLS)."

Mary Bucholtz gave an invited plenary lecture, " 'It's Different for Guys': Gender
Ideologies in European American Youth Narratives of Race," at the Spring Colloquium
conference, Department of Linguistics, San Diego State University, in April 2009.

Mary Bucholtz co-organized the conference "Vox California: Cultural Meanings of
Linguistic Diversity" at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on April 3-4, 2009.

Mary Bucholtz gave an invited plenary lecture, " 'I Don't Think It's a Race Thing':
Discursive Colorblindness in White Teenagers' Race Talk," at the Symposium on Race and
Ethnicity in Language, Interaction, and Culture, University of California, Los Angeles,
in Feb. 2009.

Mary Bucholtz gave an invited plenary lecture, "White Men, Black Talk: Mediated
Masculinities and Racialized Language in Hollywood Films," at the Mass-Mediated
Personhood Symposium, Stanford University, in Nov. 2008.

Mary Bucholtz presented four invited lectures at SociolinguisticsFest, Department of
Linguistics, Indiana University, in June 2008.

Bernard Comrie organized the conrerence II International Symposium: Language and Culture Documentation in Latin America: Language contact and documentation (with Lucía Golluscio) Argentinian National Science Foundation in conjunction with Volkswagen Foundation, Buenos Aires, 2008.

Bernard Comrie gave an invited plenary lecture "Confessions of a Mentalist," at the German Society for Cognitive Linguistics, Leipzig, 2008.

Bernard Comrie gave an invited plenary lecture, "El Gran Chaco, un área lingüística particular: Desafíos teóricos y propuestas [The Gran Chaco, a Special Linguistic Area: Theoretical Challenges and Proposals]" (with Lucía Golluscio, Hebe González, Alejandra Vidal), at the Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la América Latina, Montevideo, 2008.

Bernard Comrie gave an invited plenary lecture, "Exploiting the World Atlas of Language Structures: New Directions in Areal Typology," at the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Forlì (Italy), 2008, and at the Japan Society for Language Sciences, Shizuoka, 2008.

Bernard Comrie gave an invited plenary lecture, "The Geography of Cross-Linguistic Variation," at the official opening of the Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences, University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 2008.

Stefan Th. Gries taught two invited masterclasses, "R for Corpus Linguistics and
"Statistics for Linguistics Using R," at the conference and masterclass in Corpus Methods
in Linguistics and Language Pedagogy (CMLLP) 2008 at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, on March 28-29 , 2008.

Stefan Th. Gries taught an invited masterclass, "All the Software a Corpus Linguist Could
Ever Want ... R," and gave an invited plenary lecture, "The Role of Statistics in Corpus
Linguistics: Some Problems of the Present and Prospects of the Future," at the
International Seminar "New Trends in Corpus Linguistics for Language Teaching and
Translation Studies", University of Granada, on September 22-23 2008.

Stefan Th. Gries gave an invited plenary lecture, "Quantification and Converging Evidence
in Cognitive Linguistics: What I'd Like to See More of, and What I'd Like to See Less
of," at the Third International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics
Association, University of Leipzig, on September 26, 2008.

Stefan Th. Gries gave an invited plenary lecture, "Corpora and Grammar," at the Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 2008 corpus workshop, University of Uppsala, on December 4, 2008.

Stefan Th. Gries gave an invited plenary lecture, "Statistical Approaches in Corpus
Linguistics: Applications from Syntax and Lexis/Semantics and Their Validation," at the
Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Taiwan, National Taiwan University, on
December 13, 2008. He also taught an invited workshop, "Quantitative Corpus Linguistics," at the National Taiwan University on December 14, 2008.

Charles N. Li delivered the keynote speech at the Annual Meeting of the Michigan
Linguistic Society in October, 2008. The topic of his presentation was "The
Evolutionary Origin of Language Revisited."