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WHASC Newsletter January 15, 2004

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COLLOQUIUM REMINDER
The Department presents Michael Wescoat ( B.A. UCSC , 1982)
speaking on
"Lexical Sharing: Evidence from Korean Copular Constructions"
Friday, January 16, 2004 - 4:00 p.m.  
Please note that this talk will take place in the Cowell College Conference Room
To view the abstract, please visit: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/colloquia/index.html
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ACCOLADES
Hearty congratulations to Anya Hogoboom who passed her Qualifying Exam on December 11, 2003!
The title of her paper was: Reduplicant placement, anchoring and locality
Anya's committee members were:
Jaye Padgett (chair)
Armin Mester
Adam Albright
Maureen Callanan (outside member--psychology)
Major thanks are due to Junko Ito for stepping in at the very last moment when
Armin was sick.
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Enthusiastic congratulations to Lynsey Wolter who passed her Qualifying Exam on December 9, 2003! The title of her paper was: Demonstratives, Definite Descriptions and Definiteness
Lynsey's committee members were:
Jim McCloskey (chair)
Donka Farkas
Michela Ippolito
Richard Otte (outside member-philosophy)
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Veronica Vazquez, a Research Associate of the Linguistics Research Center who is on sabbatical this year from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, presented a paper entitled "Property Concepts in Cora (Uto-Aztecan)" at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) which was held concurrently with LSA in Boston, January 8-11.
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Former and present students and faculty of the UCSC Linguistics Program were everywhere at the LSA meeting in Boston last week. Congratulations to all those who made presentations! Congratulations to Geoff Pullum who was awarded the prestigious Leonard Bloomfield Book Award. Even though the outside temperature was frigid, spirits were warm at the traditional UCSC party (held in the suite of Eric Bakovich), which went on until 4 a.m.!
Thanks to Junko for sharing these pictures:
http://people.ucsc.edu/~ito/LSA2004.htm
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We wish a warm welcome back to Emily Manetta, Anne Sturgeon, and Florence Woo who were doing fieldwork during fall quarter.
Emily was travelling in Central Asia, primarily in the mountainous areas of Tajikistan near the Afghan border .She did some fieldwork with speakers of the relatively isolated Iranian language Roshani. She also visited the Tajik-speaking cities of Samarkand and Bukhara (which are in fact located in Uzbekistan). We are glad that Emily has safely returned!
Anne studied at the Institute for Formal & Applied Linguistics in the Math & Physics Department at Charles University in Prague. Her fieldwork was very successful. She worked with Czech linguists Eva Majicova and Petr Sgall. She had the chance to go to a Czech linguistics conference (all in Czech!) which was very interesting--50 talks on Czech! She also gave a paper in Leipzig, Germany at the Formal Description of Slavic Languages conference in November. Anne says Prague is beautiful in the fall.
Florence was  a visiting student at the University of British Columbia and part of their Nuuchahnulth language fieldwork team. In addition to doing her own field research, she was also involved in their Nuuchahnulth dialect survey project, a pilot project aimed at documenting systematically the phonological and morpho-syntactic differences among the 14 (or so) dialects of Nuuchanulth. It meant a lot of travelling to remote towns and villages, but it was a most worthwhile experience. However, Florence says she is glad to be back in Santa Cruz!
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Chris Barker (UCSD, PhD-UCSC, 1991) is an invited speaker for the SALT 14 (Semantics and Linguistic Theory) conference to be held at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois from May 14-16, 2004. It's not too late to submit an abstract. The deadline is January 30.
http://www.ling.northwestern.edu/~salt14/
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Job Opening
Ryan Bush emailed to say that BeVocal in Mountain View, where he works, is advertising a User Interface Designer position.
For more information, go to:
http://www.bevocal.com/corporateweb/about_careers.htm
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Happy three-day weekend as we celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.!