WHASC Newsletter February 15, 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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Stevenson College, UCSC, Presents:
First Annual Stevenson Faculty Lecture
Professor Jorge Hankamer
Department of Linguistics UCSC
"What Can Computers Tell Us About Turkish?"
February 23, 2005
Stevenson College
Fireside Lounge
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Reception follows at the Stevenson Provost House
Co-sponsored by:
Department of Linguistics & Institute for Humanities Research
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Berkeley Linguistics Society
Sandy Chung is an invited speaker to BLS on Sunday, February 20 at 4:15 p.m. Her talk is entitled "Sluicing and the lexicon: The point of no return." Anne Sturgeon is presenting "The discourse function of Czech left dislocation" at 3 p.m. on Sunday. Other invited speakers for the weekend are: Eve Clark (Stanford), Russell Schuh (UCLA), Nick Evans (Melbourne/Cologne), Denis Creissels (U. Lumiere Lyon 2), Paul Newman (Indiana) and Paul Kiparsky (Stanford).
The complete program can be viewed at: http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/
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Vera Lee-Schoenfeld and Jorge Hankamer presented a colloquium Friday
February 11 at Berkeley titled "What Moves in German VP Fronting?".
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Jaye Padgett gave a talk last Thursday, February 10 at the Stanford Phonology Workshop called "Challenges of Modeling Perceptual Distance Effects in Phonology."
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Congratulations to Jorge Hankamer and Line Mikkelsen, whose paper
`When Movement Must be Blocked: A Reply to Embick and Noyer,' has
appeared in the current issue of LINGUISTIC INQUIRY (Volume 36, Number
1, pp 85--125).
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Psychology Winter Colloquia
In Social Sciences 2 #121
Cognitive candidate job talk
Wednesday, February 16th (8:30 am)
STEPHEN MITROFF
Yale University
"The Nature of Persisting Object Representations"
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Center for Teaching Excellence
2004-05 Excellence in Teaching Awards
Call for Nominations
Deadline: Monday, March 7, 2005
If you are a UCSC student who would like to nominate a professor, and/or find out about the winner selection process and award ceremony, please visit http://ic.ucsc.edu/CTE/awards.html.
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Undergrads: Hold this Date!
Ling./Lang. Career Workshop for Undergrads
WHEN: Friday, April 8, 2005 from 1-3:30pm
WHERE: Cowell Conference Room
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SPRING CLASSES
For the most up-to-date version of the spring 2005 schedule of
linguistics classes (both grad and undergrad), please visit:
http://ling.ucsc.edu/courses/index.html
Click on the " Spring 2005" link.
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NEW COLLECTION IN THE LRC LIBRARY
Thank you to Steve Finney (UCSC B.A. in Linguistics, 1991) for donating his wonderful collection of linguistics books to the LRC library. These will be shelved for the time being on the bottom shelf under "New Acquisitions."
Bach, Emmon & Harms, Robert T., eds., Universals in Linguistic Theory (1968)
Bloom, Lois, Language Development: Form and function in Emerging Grammars (1970)
Bellugi, Ursula & Brown, Roger, eds.,The Acquisition of Language (1964)
Caplan, David, Neurolinguistics and linguistic aphasiology (1987)
Chomsky, Carol, The Acquisition of Syntax in children from 5 to 10 (1969)
Chomsky, Noam, Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use (1986)
Chomsky, Noam, Reflections on Language (1975)
Chomsky, Noam , Language and Responsibility (1977)
Chomsky, Noam, Bare Phrase Structure (MIT Occasional Paper, 1994)
Ferguson, Charles A., Language Structure and Language Use (1971)
Fodor, Jerry A., Psychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy of Mind (1987)
Gazdar, Gerald & Mellish, Chris, Natural Language Processing in PROLOG (1989)
Grodzinsky, Yosef, Theoretical Perspectives on Language Deficits (1990)
Grosjean, Francois, Life with Two Languages: An Introduction to Bilingualism (1982)
Hale, Kenneth & Keyser, Samuel Jay, eds., The View from Building 20: Essays in Linguistics in Honor of Sylvain Bromberger (1993)
Greenberg, Joseph H., ed. Universals of Language (1963)
Hyams, Nina M., Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters (1986)
Jackendoff, Ray, Semantics and Cognition (1983)
Jackendoff, Ray S., Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar (1972)
Kenny, Anthony, Wittgenstein (1973)
Lakoff, George & Johnson, Mark, Metaphors We Live By (1980)
Lasnik, Howard & Uriagereka, Juan, A Course in GB Syntax: Lectures on Binding and Empty Categories (1988)
Lasnik, Howard, Lectures on Minimalist Syntax (1993)
Levin, Beth & Pinker, Steven, eds., Lexical & Conceptual Semantics (1991)
Menyuk, Paula, Sentences Children Use (1969)
Matthews, Robert J. & Demopoulos, William, eds., Learnability and Linguistic Theory (1989)
Mills, Anne E., The Acquisition of German (1986)
Pinker, Steven, Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (1989)
Pinker, Steven, Language Learnability and Language Development (1984)
Pereira, Fernando C.N. & Shieber, Stuart M., Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis (1987)
Slobin, Dan I., ed., the Ontogenesis of Grammar (1971)
Tavakolian, Susan L. , ed., Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory (1981)
Taylor Sarno, Martha, ed., Acquired Aphasia (2nd edition, 1991)
Wanner, Eric & Gleitman Lila r., eds., Language acquisition: the state of the art (1982)
Wexler, Kenneth & Culicover, Peter W., Formal Principles of Language Acquisition 1983)
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Upcoming Out-of-State Events
Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL)
February 24-27, 2005
Austin, Texas
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/conferences/lsrl
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The 29th Penn Linguistics Colloquium
PLC 29
February 25-27, 2005
University of Pennsylvania
Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Keynote: Mark Baker, Rutgers University
"Gerund constructions within a universal theory of categories"
Visit: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC
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The 16th International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning will be hosted at Indiana University Bloomington on April 14-16.
For additional information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~pll2005/
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SALSA 13 will be held April 15-17, 2005 at the University of Texas at Austin. Registration, lodging, and transportation details can be found at our website:
http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/salsa
The preliminary program for SALSA 13 should be available online by the end of February. The 2005 keynote speakers are:
Asif Agha, Anthropology & South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Dale April Koike, Spanish/Portuguese, The University of Texas at Austin
Hugh Mehan, Sociology, University of California, San Diego
John R. Rickford, Linguistics, Stanford University
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