There will be three presentations by Santa Cruz people at the Ninth
Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC9), to be held at the
University at Buffalo, April 25-27, 2003.
Anya Hogoboom will present a paper called "Occurrence of pro in Norwegian".
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld will present a paper on "Agentivity and pronominal
binding in German AcI-constructions", and
Jorge Hankamer and Line Mikkelsen will present a joint paper entitled
"Danish Names and the Duke of York".
If anyone is puzzled by that last title, please consult Geoff Pullum's
"The Duke of York gambit" published in The Journal of Linguistics volume
12 (1976).
More details about the conference can be found at
http://wings.buffalo.edu/org/gggaas/GLAC9/
(And yes, there will be a Santa Cruz party.)
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Happy 103rd Birthday, Adlai Stevenson! Cake will be served from 6-7 p.m. tonight in the Fireside Lounge.
Fun Facts about Adlai~
-Adlai Ewing Stevenson born: February 5, 1900 in Los Angeles, California
-Graduated from Princeton
-Married Ellen Borden in 1928, had three sons
-Elected Governor of Illinois in 1948; was elected by the widest margin ever
-Democratic Presidential Candidate 1952 & 1956
-Appointed Ambassador to the United Nations in 1960 by President Kennedy
-Died July 14, 1965 in London.
"It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them."
"A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular."

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We are very happy to welcome the external review team to the department on Thursday and Friday:
Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers University
Bruce Hayes, UCLA
Stanley Peters, Stanford University
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After an enormously long delay, Glot international has finally posted
Chris Potts's report on NELS 33. It is viewable in HTML at
http://www.glotinternational.com/conferences.asp

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ADVISING DAY EVENT
WHAT: Annual Linguistics and Language Studies
Undergraduate Advising Day Meeting
WHEN: Tuesday, February 11, 2003
1:00-2:00 p.m. -General Advising (both majors)-
primarily for undeclared students.
2:15-3:30 p.m. - Advising on Comprehensive Examinations
(exit requirements) for both majors.
WHERE: 249 Stevenson (the Linguistics Common Room)
WHY: Our plan is to go over any questions that non-declared students may have during the general advising portion (from 1-2pm). The department assistant from the Language Program will also be present to answer any placement exam, or language-class specific questions. Please bring your friends who might be interested in Linguistics or Language Studies as their major!!
Side note: We don't actually declare students at this meeting (no paperwork will be done). We just give all of the general information about our majors.
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Psychology Department
Colloquium Series
Social Sciences 2, 121
3:30-5:00 pm
Cognitive Program: Friday, February 7
Eric Schumacher, UC Berkeley
"Neural Implementation of Response Selection:
Implications for models of cognitive control"

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CALL FOR PAPERS
XXVI Symposium on Portuguese Traditions
UCLA, April 26-27, 2003
Deadline for submissions is March 15, 2003.
For more information, see: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/spanport/sympos2002home.htm
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The 27th Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC 27) will take place Friday February 21st through Sunday February 23rd. This is a student-run general linguistics conference.
The keynote speaker on Saturday is Edward Keenan from UCLA:
"A Compositional Characterization of the Definiteness Effect in Existential-There Sentences"
On Sunday there will be a panel discussion: Goffman's Legacy and Future Study of Language Interaction.
For more information, visit: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Second Seoul International Conference on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics: Discourse and Cognitive Perspectives on Human Language
June 7-8, 2003
Korea University, Seoul, Korea
The deadline for abstract submission is March 17, 2003
For more information about the Conference please visit: http://www.discog.com
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LIBRARY NEWS
Many thanks for the following books which have been donated to the LRC Library:
"Covert and Overt Pronominals in Irish" by Aidan Doyle (2002, Lublin Studies in Celtic Languages, Volume 1) donated by Jim McCloskey.
WCCFL 21 - Proceedings of the 21st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, edited by Line Mikkelsen and Christopher Potts (2002, Cascadilla Press) donated by Chris Potts.
NOTE: Dissertations are in alphabetical order along the bottom shelf of the library. However, UCSC dissertations occupy their own special spot at the far end of the bottom shelf.