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WHASC Newsletter March 1, 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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LASC 2005 - "Linguistics at Santa Cruz" Annual Conference
Saturday March 5, 2005, 1-5 p.m.
Silverman Room, Stevenson College, UC Santa Cruz
1:00 Ruth Kramer Root and pattern morphology in Coptic
1:30 Randall Orr Phonetic vowel reduction in Danish
2:00 COFFEE BREAK
2:15 Kyle Rawlins Uniquenes and non-uniqueness in possessive definites
2:45 David Teeple Foot unarity: prosodic morphology in Orani Arabic
3:15 COFFEE BREAK
3:30 Chris Potts     Lexicalized intonational meaning
UMass, Amherst
Ph.D. UC Santa Cruz, 2003
(keynote speaker)
Poster presentation :
Adam Savel Free variation in Yiddish hypocoristics
Abstracts will be posted on the LASC webpage: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/LASC-05program.html
After the conference, there will be a party / potluck (approx. 6-9 p.m.) at the home of:
Junko Ito / Armin Mester
120 Limestone Lane
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(831) 425-5617
Basic food and some drinks will be provided, additional dishes and drinks are welcome.
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WELCOME
Please warmly welcome the following prospective graduate students who will be visiting the department on Friday and Saturday this week as they make their decisions about where to go for graduate training in linguistics:
Amy Rose Deal (Brandeis); interest in syntax
Aynat Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University); interest in semantics/syntax
Russell Lee-Goldman (Berkeley); interest in phonology and semantics
Anna Cueni (Stanford); interest in syntax
Olga Dmitrieva (Kansas University; Tomsk University); interest in phonology
Victoria Philp (Scripps College); interest in phonology and semantics
Abby Shoun (Chapel Hill); interest in phonology
Nola Stephens (Indiana University); interest in syntax
Paul Willis from the University of Arizona, whose interest is in phonology, visited the department last week.
The MA students admitted to our program for next year who may also be attending LASC are:
Tristan Davenport
Paul Jensen
Jessamy Norton-Ford
Nick Reynolds
Dan Roth
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COLLOQUIUM MARCH 11
Daniel Kaufman from Cornell University, who is currently a Visiting Humanities Scholar with the Linguistics Research Center, will present a colloquium, Friday, March 11 beginning at 5:00 p.m. in the Cowell College Conference Room.
"Explaining the affix place/shape generalization"
All are welcome.
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KUDOS
Congratulations to Justin Nuger for getting a Javitz Fellowship. Well done, Justin!
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Congratulations to Geoff Pullum who has been awarded the prestigious fellowship
from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard for the 2005-2006
academic year!!!
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Sandy Chung will give a colloquium at MIT on Friday, March 4, on
"Sluicing, Form-Identity Effects, and the Lexicon".
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DGfS Report
UCSC was well-represented at the DGfS Annual Meeting in Cologne, February
23-25. In addition to the talks by Chris Potts (Ph.D. 2003) and Lynsey
Wolter reported here last week, Line Mikkelsen (Ph.D. 2004) gave an
invited talk entitled "Specificational clauses and clefts" in the
workshop on copula clauses and Chris Potts and Tom Roeper gave a talk
entitled "The narrowing acquisition path: From declarative to expressive
small clauses" in the workshop on the (in-)determinacy of meaning. All
four talks were well received.
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BLS REPORT
BLS 31 (the 31st meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society) took
place at UC Berkeley on the weekend of February 18th--20th.
Sandy Chung was one of the keynote speakers (the final speaker of the
conference). Sandy's paper was on sluicing (`Sluicing and the lexicon:
The point of no return'), and provided an extended argument that
purely semantic or pragmatic accounts of the recoverability condition
on sluicing are insufficient.
Also among the presenters at the conference was Anne Sturgeon, whose
paper (`The discourse function of Czech left dislocation') presented
some of her thesis work on connections between syntactic and pragmatic
properties of two left dislocation constructions in Czech.
The Saturday afternoon phonology session included a paper by Rachel
Walker (now at USC), who graduated from UCSC in 1998. With her
co-author Fidele Mpiranya (CNRS, Paris), Rachel presented the results
of an instrumental study on certain kinds of coronal harmony
(`On triggers and opacity in coronal harmony').
Prominent among the conference organizers was Line Mikkelsen, who is
now a faculty member at Berkeley after graduating from UCSC last year.
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JOB OPENING
UC Davis Department of Linguistics is accepting applications for a full-time lecturer: a non-tenure track position in structural/theoretical linguistics. fall, Winter, and spring Quarters (September 26, 2005 - June 15, 2006) 2-3 courses per quarter (total of 7-9 courses). Ph.D. or ABD in linguistics is required.
Review of applications will begin on April 15, 2005. The position will remain open until filled.
Please address inquiries to : Prof. Lenora Timm (latimm@ucdavis.edu)
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Psychology Winter Colloquium
In Social Sciences 2 #121 
Wednesday, March 2nd 3:30-5 pm
Cognitive Program presents:
DAN KRAWCZYK
UC Berkeley: Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, postdoc fellow
"Motivated Cognition: fMRI Investigations of Reward and Executive Function"
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CALL FOR PAPERS
On behalf of the graduate students of the Department of Romance Languages
and Literatures at the University of Michigan, we are pleased to announce the
fourteenth annual Charles F. Fraker Conference, entitled "In and Out: Plotting
Culture", to be held in Ann Arbor on November 18th and 19th, 2005.
We would like to invite graduate students from your program to participate and
The deadline for submission of abstracts is March 25, 2005.
Email contact: fraker2005@umich.edu
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TRAVEL TO CHINA
Legends of China, a cultural and educational foundation based in Beijing, China has invited the University of California to participate in a program called "The Silk Road to the Future" which provides UC students (faculty, staff, alumni also) an opportunity join organized tours of China in the summer at highly subsidized rates. UCSC's Vice Chancellors for Student Affairs have taken the lead in organizing these events, where student participants are sent as "ambassadors of peace". UCSC sent its first contingent of 44 participants last year. Esperanza Nee is the campus coordinator for the summer 2005 trip in July.
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> For more information, see the Legends of China website: http://www.legendsofchina.com
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> the UCSC website: http://www2.ucsc.edu/legendsofchina
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> Registration Deadline is April 1, 2005 (download from UCSC website)
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> Attend ONE of three informational sessions: 
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> February 24, Namaste Lounge 6:30pm,
> March 3, Baytree Conference Room D 6:30pm
> OR
> March 10, Baytree Conference Room D at noon
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