Madeleine Adkins was awarded a Brython Davis Graduate Fellowship for 2007-08.

Madeleine Adkins presented a paper entitled "Liminality and Linguistic Performance: Stage Irish in Theatrical Rehearsals" at the Conference on Culture, Language, and Social Practice at the University of Colorado in October 2007.

Madeleine Adkins conducted field research on the Breton language in Summer 2007. The focus is word order among older native speakers of the language who live in the Basse Bretagne (Breizh Izel/Lower Brittany) region of France. This research is part of an on-going study of the current situation of the Irish and Breton languages that she began last summer.

Madeleine Adkins served as Co-Chair of the 2007 LISO (Language, Interaction, and Social Organization) conference.

Madeleine Adkins presented a paper entitled "Staging Irish: The uses of an Irish English variety in and out of performance" at the Arizona Linguistics and Anthropology Symposium at the University of Arizona in May 2008.

Graduate students Madeleine Adkins, Brendan Barnwell, and Janie Lee, along with Professor Mary Bucholtz and postdoctoral scholar Elena Skapoulli, presented two papers entitled "'What Do You Call an Eigensheep?': Formulaic Jokes as Scientific Knowledge Display among Undergraduates" and "'That's a Physiscs Attitude': Ideologies of Disciplinarity in Science Students' Interactions" at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C. in November 2007.

Uldis Balodis's book review of Nancy H. Hornberger and Martin Pütz, eds., Language Loyalty, Language Planning, and Language Revitalization: Recent Writings and Reflections from Joshua A. Fishman (Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2006) appears in Journal of Sociolinguistics 11(4) 539-542 (2007).

Ellen Bartee earned her Ph.D. in Summer 2007, with a dissertation entitled "A Grammar of Dongwan Tibetan," a comprehensive reference grammar of a hitherto undescribed variety of Khams Tibetan. Dr. Bartee and her husband, Ken Hugoniot (UCSB M.A. 2003), will continue to actively work for the description and preservation of the minority languages of China under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics.

Jalon Begay has been awarded a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship provides financial support for three years of graduate study.

Andrea Berez was awarded a Graduate Opportunity Fellowship for 2007-08.

Andrea Berez was awarded two grants to conduct fieldwork in Alaska in Summer 2007: one from the Robert Oswalt Fund for Endangered Languages through the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley; and the other from the Jacobs Research Fund Grant of the Whatcomb Museum.

Andrea Berez and coauthor Gary Holton published "Finding the locus of best practice: Technology training in an Alaskan language community," In Linda Barwick and Nicholas Thieberger (eds.), Sustainable Data From Digital Fieldwork (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2006).

Andrea Berez presented "Finding the locus of best practice: technology training in an Alaskan language community" at the Sustainable Data From Digital Fieldwork conference in Sydney, Australia, in December, 2006.

Andrea Berez and coeditors Suzanne Gessner, Leslie Saxon and Siri Tuttle published Alaska Native Language Center Working Papers 6: Working Papers in Athabascan Linguistics (Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center, 2007).

Together with coeditor James Kari, Andrea Berez published Inland Dena'ina Keywords: Lime Village Dialect, by Helen Dick (Anchorage: Alaska Native Heritage Center, 2007).

Andrea Berez gave a talk entitled "Spatial differentiation as middle voice motivation in Dena'ina Athabaskan iterative verbs" at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Anaheim, CA, January, 2007.

Andrea Berez presented the workshop "Technology in an endangered language setting" to the University of Chicago Department of Anthropology, April 12, 2007.

Andrea Berez has been awarded a minigrant from the UC Pacific Rim Research Program for her proposal "Preparatory Fieldtrip to Alaska for a Dissertation on Ahtna Discourse." She will use the funds to support thhree weeks of fieldwork in Summer 2008.

Christy Bird presented the paper "The Prosody of Riddle Openings on the panel Prosody and Humor" organized by Salvatore Attardo at the 10th International Pragmatics Association Conference in Göteborg, Sweden in July 2007.

Christy Bird's book review of Alan Partington. The Linguistics of Laughter: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-Talk (Routledge Studies in Linguistics 2006) appears in Journal of Sociolinguistics 11(4) 564-567 (2007).

Nancy Caplow gave a talk entitled "Stress and Tone in Tibetan" at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Anaheim, CA. in January, 2007.

Jennifer Garland was awarded a Small Department Regents Fellowship for 2007-08.

Jennifer Garland presented a paper entitled "'Little Worlds': Imagined Domains of Use among Learners of a Minority Language" at the Conference on Language, Culture, and Social Practice at the University of Colorado in October 2007.

Jennifer Garland presented a paper entitled "'That's a Great Expression':The Interactional Construction of Authenticity in Linguistic Tourism at an Irish Language School" at the Fourteenth Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture at the University of California, Los Angeles in May 2008.

Lea Harper has received the 2008 Academic Senate Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, in recognition of her remarkable teaching talent and dedication to undergraduate education in linguistics.

Annette Harrison presented a poster entitled "Directives in Lingala: The Impetus of Interrogatives" at the Fourteenth Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture at the University of California, Los Angeles in May 2008.

Tim Henry presented the paper "Negation Strategies in Khalkha Mongolian" at the 16th Annual Linguistics Symposium at California State University, Fullerton, in April 2007.

Mara Henderson has been awarded UCSB's 2007 Fiona Goodchild Award for Excellence as a Graduate Student Mentor of Undergraduate Research.

Dan Hintz presented a paper entitled "De aspecdto a modalidad en quechua: Las categorias gramaticales de 'común acuerdo' versus 'obligación'" (From Aspect to Modality in Quechua: The Grammatical Categories of "Mutual Consent" versus "obligation") at the fifth congreso de Investigaciones Lingüístico-Filológicas at Ricardo Palma University in Lima, Peru in August 2007.

Diane Hintz presented a paper entitled "Duplicatión de patrones discursivos: Empelo del perfecto en el castellano que está en contacto con el quechua" (Duplication of Discourse Patterns: Uses of the Perfect in Spanish in Contact with Quechua) at the fifth Congreso de Investigaciones Lingüístico-Filológicas at Ricardo Palma University in Lima, Peru in August 2007.

Carmen Jany has won the 2007 Lancaster Dissertation Award, sponsored by the Graduate Division, for a dissertation of outstanding quality. Her dissertation, entitled "Chimariko in Typological and Areal Perspective, provides the first in-depth description of this native Northern California language with attention to typology and issues of language contact. Carmen will become UCSB's nominee in the national competition for the Humanities and Fine Arts Distinguished Dissertation Award.

Carmen Jany's article "Complementation in Chimariko" appears in the International Journal of American Linguistics 73: 477-521, 2007. The paper originated in a class on syntax beyond the clause with Professor Sandra A. Thompson.

In January 2007 Carmen Jany gave a talk entitled "Argument Structure Alternations with No Oblique Category: The Case of Chimariko" at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas in Anaheim, CA.

In February 2007 Carmen Jany gave a talk entitled "Phonemic versus Phonetic Correlates of Vowel Length in Chuxnabán Mixe" at the annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society at UC Berkeley.

In April 2007 Kobin Kendrick gave a talk entitled "Homonormativity in Action: The Production of Normative Gay Identities through Accounts of Non-normative Conduct" at the Symposium About Language and Society—Austin (SALSA), at the University of Texas, Austin.

Kobin Kendrick has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Grant to conduct research for his dissertation on grammar and interaction in Mandarin Chinese for the 2007-2008 academic year in Taipei, Taiwan. In addition to the Fulbright, he also received a Critical Language Enhancement Award to study Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan prior to the beginning of his Fulbright project.

In March 2007, Jung-Eun (Janie) Lee presented a paper entitled "Marginalization and Misrepresentation: Asian Languages in Hollywood Films" at the Georgetown Linguistics Society in Washington, DC. This research is a part of her master's thesis.

In April 2007, Jung-Eun (Janie) Lee presented a paper entitled "Marginalized Spectatorship and (Mis)representation of Asian Languages in Hollywood Films" at SALSA XV (Symposium About Language and Society—Austin) in Austin, TX. This research is a part of her Master's thesis.

Janie Lee presented a talk entitled "Forever Foreigner and Nonnative Speaker: Performing Asian English in Hollywood Films" at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C., in December 2007. The talk was part of a panel on "Performed Language, Performing Language: Language Stylization and Performance" that Janie organized with Madeleine Adkins.

Janie Lee presented a paper entitled "MArginalized Spectatorship and (Mis)representations of Asian Languages in Hollywood Films" both at the Workshop on East Asian Linguistics at UCSB in February 2008 and at the anual meeting of the Association of Asian American Studies in Chicago in April 2008.

Janie Lee has received the Dean's Prize Teaching Fellowship for 2008-2009. The award is given to a student in the Humanities Division with an excellent teaching record and allows the recipient to develop and teach an innovative course in her area of specialization. Supported by this award, Janie will offer Linguistics 194: Asian American Languages and Cultures in the 2008-2009 academic year.

Janie Lee received a Humanities/Social Sciences Research Grant for 2008-2009.

Janie Lee received a 2008-09 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center to support one quarter of her dissertation research.

Petra Shenk's paper "'I'm Mexican, Remember?': Constructing Ethnic Identities via Authenticating Discourse" appears in the Journal of Sociolinguistics 11(2): 194-220, 2007.

Petra Shenk was awarded both the President's Dissertation Year Fellowship and the UCSB Affiliates Graduate Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation project "Historical Conflict in Present-Day Interaction: Decision Making and Identity in Pacific Northwest Salmon and Water Rights Discourse."

Valerie Sultan presented a paper entitled "Doing Deafness: Indexing One's Deaf Identity through the Categorization of Others" at the Conference on Culture, Language, and Social Practice at the University of Colorado in October 2007.