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Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077

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Alumni Conference
June 23, 2008

On Friday September 12th and Saturday September 13th 2008, the department will host its first ever Graduate Alumni Conference, designed to celebrate the achievements of the graduate program and the achievements of its alumnae and alumni. The conference is sponsored by the Linguistics Research Center and w... [More]

Undergraduate Research Conference
May 31, 2008

LURC (the Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference) is the department's annual celebration of undergraduate research. It takes the form of a conference at which undergraduates present their ongoing research projects to an audience of faculty, graduate students, visitors, and undergraduate students. Tradition has it that a distingu... [More]

Grant McGuire Accepts Position at UCSC
May 25, 2008

We are very happy to announce that Grant McGuire has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor with the department for 2008-09. Grant is a phonetician who trained at OSU with Keith Johnson and Mary Beckman, and who now holds a postdoctoral research position at UC Berkeley. His r... [More]

Brasoveanu and Wagers to come to UCSC
April 30, 2008

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

TREND 2008
April 30, 2008

The Department hosted 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 was an all-day affair which took place in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. The... [More]

LASC 2008
March 4, 2008

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]

Honor for Judith Aissen
January 8, 2008

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]

Moving Back
August 18, 2007

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.

Wittgenstein Conference
June 21, 2007

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]

Beth Ann Hockey appointed as Adjunct Professor of Linguistics
May 11, 2007

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]