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The 78th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America is taking place at the Sheraton Boston Hotel and Towers, Boston, MA, 8-11 January 2004.
UCSC is well represented this year by the following speakers:
Jorge Hankamer (UC-Santa Cruz) & Line Mikkelsen (UC-Santa Cruz) A puzzle about PPs in Danish definite DPs;
Eric Bakovic (UC-San Diego/ B.A. UCSC 1993 ) & Colin Wilson (UCLA) Laryngeal markedness & the typology of repair
Adam Albright (UC-Santa Cruz) The emergence of the marked: Root-domain markedness constraints in Lakhota
Andrew Wedel (U AZ) Agent-based modeling of patterns in lexical contrast
Line Mikkelsen (UC-Santa Cruz) Reexamining Higgins's Taxonomy: A split in the identificational class
Anastasia Giannakidou (U Chicago/former visitor to UCSC) How far can we go with Strawson downward entailment?
Emily Manetta (UC-Santa Cruz) Similar function, similar syntax: Agreement & cliticization in Brokskat
Jason Merchant (U Chicago/ PhD UCSC 1999 ) A deletion solution to the sloppy-ellipsis puzzle
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Congratulations to Khue Duong, who has successfully defended his Master's paper, "A syntactic account of Vietnamese nominal phrases". His committee was Judith Aissen and Jim McCloskey.
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Congratulations to Ruth Kramer, whose paper, "Virtual Relative Clauses in Middle Egyptian", has been accepted for presentation at the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL), which will be held in San Diego March 12-15.
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Congratulations to Rodrigo Gutierrez-Bravo, whose 2002 dissertation, Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure: A Study of Word Order and the Left Periphery in Mexican Spanish, has been accepted for publication in the Routledge Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Series.
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Congratulations to John Colby for the three-year renewal of
his Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award,
a fellowship from the National Institutes of Health to support
his ongoing doctoral work (in the Department of Computer Science)
under the sponsorship of Geoff Pullum in this department.
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For those interested in reading about an interesting
career option followed by one woman who started in a
psycholinguistics graduate program, go to
http://www.languagelog.org and scroll down to the article
"Psycholinguistics career options" by Mark Liberman.
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Colloquia Schedule Winter Quarter
Fridays at 4 p.m. Locations to be announced.

JAN
16 Michael Wescoat
23 * * * * * * * *
30 Richard Meier Arranged jointly with Psychology
FEB 6 Dick Oehrle
13 * * * * * * * * BLS meeting is this weekend
20 Matthew Gordon
27 Cathryn Donohue
MAR 6 (Saturday) LASC
12 Instruction ends
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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS -- SALSA 2004
The SYMPOSIUM ABOUT LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY--AUSTIN is pleased to
announce its 12th annual meeting to be held APRIL 16-18, 2004, at the
University of Texas at Austin. We encourage the submission of abstracts on
research that addresses the relationship of language to culture and society.
2004 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Susan Ervin-Tripp, University of California, Berkeley
Emanuel Schegloff, University of California, Los Angeles
Jurgen Streeck, University of Texas, Austin
Stanton Wortham, University of Pennsylvania
Visit the SALSA web page for submission guidelines and conference details:
http://www.utexas.edu/students/salsa/index.shtml
Deadline for receipt of abstracts is JANUARY 15, 2004.