We are very pleased to announce that Adrian Brasoveanu and Matt Wagers have both accepted faculty positions at UCSC. [More]

The Department will host TREND 2008 on Saturday May 10. TREND is an annual workshop at which graduate students and faculty in linguistics at Berkeley, Stanford, and Santa Cruz can present their current research in an informal and collaborative setting. The workshop will begin at 9:30 in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge.

On Friday March 7th and Saturday March 8th, the Department hosted one of the most important events of the year: the annual graduate student conference known as LASC (Linguistics at Santa Cruz). This yearly event provides 2nd and 3rd year graduate students with an opportunity to present their current research before an audience of faculty, peers, vi... [More]

At the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, held in Chicago in January 2008, Judith Aissen was named a Fellow of the Society. Similarly honored at the same meeting was Professor emeritus Geoff Pullum. Election as a Fellow recognizes a record of distinguished contributions to the discipline, and is a very rare honor indeed... [More]

The department moved back to its once and future home in Stevenson College during the last two weeks of August 2007. Some adjustments and fine-tuning remain to be completed, but faculty, staff and graduate students are now for the most part (re)settled on the re-furbished second floor of Stevenson.

The Department of Linguistics is proud to have been one of the co-sponsors of the conference Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind held at UCSC between June 21 and June 28. Organized by Jon Ellis and Daniel Guevara of UCSC's Philosophy Department, the conference brought together Wittgens... [More]

We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Beth Ann Hockey has been offered and has accepted a position as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at UCSC. Beth Ann was awarded the PhD from the University of Pennsylvania (where her advisor was Mark Liberman) in 1998. She is one of the principal developers of the Regulus Proje... [More]

A workshop Dialogues in Language and Poetry, took place at the Cowell Conference Room on Saturday April 21. The workshop brought together linguists and literary scholars working on formal aspects of verse to discuss issues of common interest from a variety of perspectives. It featured presentations on rhyme, on meter, on the relation... [More]

LASC (Linguistics at Santa Cruz) 2007 was held on Saturday, March 3 2007 in the new Humanities Building at UCSC. The alumnus lecturer was Jason Merchant (University of Chicago). The graduate student speakers were Vera Gribanova, Paul Jensen, Abby Kaplan, Jesse Saba Kirchner, Jessa... [More]

On February 13th 2007, Geoff Pullum of the Linguistics Department delivered the 40th Annual Faculty Research Lecture in the Music Recital Hall on the UCSC campus. Each year, the Academic Senate of UC Santa Cruz chooses one of its number for this special distinction. It is a great honor for the department that one of our colleagues has been selec... [More]