In a recent annoucement, the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) confirmed the election of Sandy Chung as Vice President and President-Elect of the organization. Sandy was elected to the position following a ballot of all members of the society and she will take up the position in early January 2010. She will then become President of the LSA for... [More]

The department's annual celebration of undergraduate research (LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference) took place on Friday June 5th in Room 210 of Humanities One. The conference featured 5 papers on the phonology, semantics and syntax of languages as diverse as Pashto, Basque, Calo Spanish, and American English. This year's distingu... [More]

We are pleased to announce that Grant McGuire will join the department as a permanent member of the faculty in 2009. McGuire is an experimental phonetician trained at the Ohio State University and at Berkeley. His current work centers on the question of how learners of a human language can take the... [More]

The 16th meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 16) took place at UCSC on May 1-3, 2009, hosted by the Linguistics Research Center and the Department. Go here for the conference program and other information.

On 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 annual event provides second and third year students in the program with the opportunity to present their current research before an audience of students, faculty , fri... [More]

On Friday September 12th and Saturday September 13th 2008, the department hosted its first ever Graduate Alumni Conference, designed to celebrate the achievements of the graduate program and the achievements of its alumnae and alumni. Sponsored by the ... [More]

On Wednesday October 22nd 2008, the department joined with Stevenson College in sponsoring a lecture by John Rickford. Rickford is an alumnus of Stevenson College and also an alumnus o... [More]

The Department invites applications for an on-going pool of qualified temporary lecturers. (Job Description)