WHASC Newsletter January 11, 2005
("What's Happening at Santa Cruz")
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WELCOME
We extend a warm welcome to Veerle Van Geenhoven, Visiting Assistant Professor in Semantics, to the department. Veerle is teaching Semantics B for first-year graduate students during winter quarter, and she will be teaching LING 116, Semantics II and LING 239, a Semantics Seminar, during spring quarter.

We also warmly welcome Daniel Kaufman who is a Visiting Researcher with the Linguistics Research Center for winter quarter. Daniel is a Ph.D. graduate student in Linguistics at Cornell University.
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COLLOQUIUM
Veerle Van Geenhoven, UCSC
"The aspectual source of distributivity and nonmaximality, part 1"
Friday, January 21, 2005
5:00 p.m.
Cowell Conference Room
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Future Colloquia
Friday, February 4: Keith Johnson (UC Berkeley)
Friday, February 11, 2005: Daniel Kaufman (Cornell/UCSC) "Explaining the affix place/shape generalization"
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KUDOS
Congratulations to Anne Sturgeon who was accepted to BLS (Berkeley Linguistics
Society) in February, 2005. Her talk is titled: The discourse function of Czech left dislocation.
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Congratulations to 2003 PhD alumnus Chris Potts, whose book
The Logic of Conventional Implicature has just been published
by Oxford University Press.
http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-927383-9
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LSA REPORT
This year's LSA meeting in Oakland, CA was (almost) all about UCSC.
Papers were presented by six of our current grad students (Pete Alrenga,
James Isaacs, Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, Emily Manetta, Anne Sturgeon, and
Lynsey Wolter), a number of alumni (among them Jason Riggle, Jeff Runner,
Joey Sabbagh, and Andy Wedel), and two of our faculty (Jorge Hankamer and
Jim McCloskey). Several faculty members also chaired sessions. When we
weren't running from session to session, listening to each other's
extremely well-prepared and well-received talks, we were either helping
out the LSA organizers with registration, the book exhibit, and the job
placement room (thanks to our first and second-year students!) or
representing the UCSC Semantics Search Committee, interviewing prospective
visiting assistant professors. In addition, some of us were sitting at
the other end of the table as interviewees for post-doc and assistant
professor positions.

And then, Saturday night, there was the Santa Cruz party. As always,
Jorge volunteered his hotel room, and as always, the party was so
well-attended (by anyone who was either invited or somehow affiliated with
UCSC) that we got a call from the front desk. Instead of ending the party
early and kicking us out, however, hotel management was happy to offer us
the entire hotel lobby (including their piano player). (Next time, we
should ask for the lobby right away!) All in all, it was another
extremely busy, but also very successful and rewarding LSA-experience.
(Thank you to Vera Lee-Schoenfeld for providing this recap!)
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In parallel with the LSA, there was a conference in
Brussels on indefinite NPs and weak quantifiers.
Donka Farkas gave one of the invited talks, "The Unmarked Determiner".
There is a conference website at: http://www.kvab.be/idf.htm.
Our alumna, Louise McNally, was one of the speakers.
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Geoff Pullum presented a talk called "Power, ideology, and
linguistic theory" at a special session arranged by the
Division on Language Theory at the Modern Language Association
annual meeting at the Philadelphia Convention Center at the
end of December.
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Sandy Chung's paper `Restructuring and Verb-Initial Order in
Chamorro,' has appeared in the latest issue of the journal
SYNTAX (Volume 7, No. 3), just published.
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ASL
Association for Symbolic Logic 2005 Annual Meeting
Stanford University
March 19-22
Meeting page: http://ASL2005.stanford.edu
ASL web site: http://www.aslonline.org
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CALL FOR PAPERS: S A L S A 2 0 0 5
Just a reminder: Submissions for SALSA 13 are due soon!
The Symposium About Language and Society-Austin is pleased to announce its 13th Annual Meeting to be held April 15-17, 2005 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.
Submission Deadline: January 14, 2005.
Visit the SALSA web page for submission guidelines and conference details and to submit your abstract:
http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/salsa/
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NEW IN THE LRC LIBRARY
Kobe Papers in Linguistics No. 4, December, 2004.
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HOLIDAY COMING UP
On Monday, January 17 the campus will be closed to celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Have you moved? Please give us your new address so we can print a new roster.
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Do you have a news item for WHASC? Please send it to lrc@ling.ucsc.edu by noon on Tuesday.
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