Several Chicago linguists are presenting at the 39th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Congratulations to all!

• Dorothea Hoffmann: Mapping words and mapping worlds: Frames of Reference in MalakMalak
• Martina Martinovic: The topic-comment structure in copular sentences: evidence from Wolof
• Chieu Nguyen: Quantification in the left periphery: the duality of universal quantification and contrastive focus in Vietnamese
• Seyda Özçalıskan & Susan Goldin- Meadow: How speaking shapes the native language of gesture in describing motion