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WHASC Newsletter February 8, 2005
("What's Happening at Santa Cruz")
WHASC is the weekly electronic newsletter of the UCSC Linguistics
Department. We welcome your news items, comments and feedback.
NOTE: WHASC comes out on Tuesdays. Please send your news items to lrc@ling.ucsc.edu by 12 noon on Tuesday.
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COLLOQUIUM THIS FRIDAY
"Parasitic Scope"
Chris Barker, UCSD (UCSC PhD Graduate, 1991)
Friday, February 11, 2005 5:00 p.m.
Cowell College Conference Room
ABSTRACT
Keenan (1992, L&P) proves there is no generalized quantifier that
adequately expresses the meaning of "the same waiter" in (1):

(1) The same waiter served everyone. [Heim]

I propose that this is because "same" is a quantificational adjective,
and naturally takes scope over a nominal, as in (2).

(2) two men with the same name

This suggests that a suitable scope domain for "same" doesn't exist in
(1) until after "everyone" has taken its scope---in other words, that
the scope of "same" is PARASITIC on the scope of "everyone". I
express an analysis that generalizes over examples like (1) and (2)
using familiar Heim-and-Kratzer-style Quantifier Raising.

Then things get weird. Carlson (1987, L&P) notices that "same" can
distribute over the parts of a complex event:

(3) John hit and killed the same man.

My fully general analysis that encompasses (1), (2) and (3) with a
single lexical entry for "same" makes explicit use of continuations
(Barker 2002, NALS). I conclude that continuations are a valuable and
perhaps indispensable tool for describing natural language.
barker@ucsd.edu
Full manuscript available at http://semanticsarchive.net.
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REVISED WINTER COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE
Please note that Daniel Kaufman's colloquia has been moved to March 11.
FEBRUARY
Fri 11 Chris Barker (UCSD): "Parasitic Scope"
Fri 18 [BLS]
Wed 23 Jorge Hankamer: "What you can learn from a computer about Turkish" (4:30, Silverman)
Fri 25 [Irene Heim speaking at Stanford]
MARCH
Fri 4 No colloquium
Sat 5 LASC conference, with Chris Potts as featured alumni speaker
Fri 11 Daniel Kaufman (Cornell University/UCSC):
"Explaining the affix place/shape generalization"
Fri 18 QUARTER ENDS
Thu 31 [linguist/philosopher Jason Stanley visiting SCLL group, see below]
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Santa Cruz Language and Linguistics Group
Thank you to Chris Hom in Philosophy for providing the following schedule of the SCLL.

3/30-3/31 Jason Stanley. The talk will be a chapter from his book on epistemology.
4/7 Michela Ippolito. Colloquium topic to be determined. Possible reading group presentation.
5/18-5/19 Scott Soames. The talk will be on two-dimensionalism. The reading group paper will be his SALT conference paper on semantic content and assertion.
As per our usual format for distinguished visitors, our reading group will meet at 5:15 PM on Wednesday and we will conduct the colloquia at 4 PM on the following Thursday. For more information on SCLL, e mail Chris Hom at chom@ucsc.edu
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Job Talk in Cognitive Psychology
Psychology Winter Colloquia
Cognitive candidate job talk
In Social Sciences 2 #121
Friday, February 11
8:30 am
Simone Schnall
University of Virginia
"Embodiment in affective space: Social influences on perception"
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Thank you to Chris Potts, editor of WHISC for the following three news items:
There will be approximately 9,000 workshops associated with the 2005 ESSLLI, in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 8-19. Keep watching the website:
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/
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Semantics Shape Social Security Debate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29418-2005Jan22.html?referrer=email
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Lingbuzz
Lingbuzz is a linguistics archive that includes a lot current syntactic (and semantic) work It is a good place for students who want their work more widely disseminated to put papers.
http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/@BwVtZHMtnZjsXcro/hvAgCvJt
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JOB OPPORTUNITY FOR A LINGUISTICS GRADUATE
There is currently a full-time position open on the Continual Refinement Team at Tellme Networks in Mountain View, CA. We're looking for a great person who wants to work full-time with other great people! BA, MA and PhD students/alumni old and new are welcome to send in their resumes. Please be sure to highlight any technical abilities you may have (Unix, Perl, etc.). Computer Sciences students/almuni with minor in Linguistics/Language Studies are also welcome.

Please email me with your questions about Tellme. 

Thanks!
Amanda Yaste
Continual Refinement
Tellme Networks, Inc.
E mail: ayaste@tellme.com

Position Description link:
http://tellme.com/job_title-con-ref-an.html

Company website link:
http://www.tellme.com

Position Description:
Service Production Engineering: Continual Refinement Analyst
Responsibilities:
Tellme is looking for a full-time continual refinement analyst. You'll be responsible for helping to finding ways to continually improve Tellme's premier voice applications by:
Analyzing call logs and data to look for trends in caller behavior.
Reviewing live call logs and call recordings to understand the caller experience.
Working with UI designers, speech engineers, and application engineers to find, track, and resolve application problems.
Performing other refinement tasks as needed.
Continual refinement is a key part of the value that Tellme offers to our clients. We're looking for energetic, creative, detail-oriented, passionate people who love a fast-moving environment.
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in relevant major (Linguistics, Computer Science, Symbolic Systems)
Strong analytical skills
Working knowledge of Excel and Unix
Familiarity with speech recognition systems a plus
Background in usability/human-computer interaction a plus
Please send resumes to: kathyk@tellme.com
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PART TIME/TEMPORARY JOB
Winter on-call trip leader/driver for English Language International Program
Multiple Positions Available
$12.38/hourly
Job # 05-01-06
http://jobs.ucsc.edu/jobpostings/