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College, a top-ranked liberal arts college in the Berkshires in
northwestern Massachuetts. He would be their sole theoretical linguist,
responsible for the exciting task of building a serious formal linguistics
program from scratch. Hearty congratulations, Nathan!
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Sandy Chung and Jim McCloskey are invited speakers at a Conference on
the Syntax of Verb-Initial Languages to be held at the University of
Arizona, Tucson between Friday February 21st and Sunday February 23rd.
Sandy's paper (on the first day of the conference) is on
`Restructuring in a Verb-Initial Language.' Jim's paper (on the last
day) is about `Irish and the EPP'.
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Research Forum this Friday (2/14) at 4 p.m. in the Cave.
SANDY CHUNG
"Restructuring in a V-initial Language"
(a preview of the upcoming Tucson talk)
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Lynne Cahill interviewed Geoff Pullum on his recent visit to Sussex for the Winter 2002/3 elsnews (The Newsletter of the European Network in Human Language Technologies.) The article, "From phonetic symbols to the Cambridge Grammar", is on page 8, and a copy is in the LRC Library.
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The eScholarship Repository offers scholars a central location for depositing any research or scholarly output deemed appropriate by their participating University of California research center, or department, including working papers and pre-publication scholarship. This is a service of the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library.
The eScholarship Repository site for the UCSC Linguistics Research Center is now up and running! Several papers from PASC 6, which is out of print, have already been "uploaded" to the site. You can view it at http://repositories.cdlib.org/lrc/. You can also read more about the repository and look at some of the other research units which have created sites.
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UPCOMING EVENTS TO MARK ON YOUR CALENDARS:
Friday, February 28: colloquium with Cleo Condoravdi
Monday, March 3: Linguistics Career Workshop
Sunday, March 9: LASC with Adam Ussishkin, guest speaker
SPRING QUARTER:
Friday, April 18: colloquium with Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT
Friday, May 2: colloquium with Colin Wilson, UCLA
Saturday, May 10: TREND 2003 Conference hosted by UCSC
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Following Cleo Condoravdi's colloquium on February 28, there will be a potluck dinner at the home of Judith Aissen and Jim Clifford.
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Reminder:
Student nominations being accepted for 2002-03 Excellence in Teaching Awards
*Deadline: 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, 2003
*Applications are available in Ashley Hardisty's office (Rm 241) or on line at http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/CTE
*Any full-time or part-time faculty member is eligible for an award, provided they have not received the award in the past 5 years.
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NASSLLI 2003
2nd North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information
Indiana University, June 17-21, 2003
http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/
Courses for graduate students or advanced undergraduates in computer science, linguistics, logic, philosophy, and related areas.
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2003 Annual Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic
June 1-4, University of Illinois at Chicago
Phokion Kolaitis, Computer Science Professor from UCSC is a plenary speaker.
Abstract deadline is February 17, 2003
http://www.aslonline.org
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New in the LRC Library:
CD-ROM edition of the Proceedings of the 21st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 21), edited by Line Mikkelsen and Christopher Potts.
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Yearbook 2002
Recent acquisitions to the Library will be shelved on the bottom shelf to the right of the dissertations.