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WHASC Newsletter March 4, 2004
("What's Happening at Santa Cruz")
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WHASC is the weekly electronic newsletter of the UCSC Linguistics Department. We welcome your news items, comments and feedback.
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Hearty congratulations to Andy Wedel who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation
"Self-organization and categorical behavior in phonology"
on Wednesday, March 3.
Andy's committee is Jaye Padgett, chair, Armin Mester and Adam Albright.
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Warm congratulations to Anya and Einar Lunden on the birth of a healthy baby boy, Espen, on Saturday, February 28 at 1:00 a.m. Espen weighed in at 7 lbs. 14 oz. and is 20 inches long.
Espen now has a web site with pictures: http://espen.lundentoons.com
Also, with Espen's birth Anya is changing her last name to Lunden to match
everyone else in the family.
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Congratulations to our TA Anya from Phonology 2!
http://people.ucsc.edu/~ito/to-anya-from-phonology2.htm
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Line Mikkelsen gave a colloquium talk at UMass on February 23:
Specificational clauses at the interfaces
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We warmly welcome to the department Ingo Plag as a Research Associate. He is currently on sabbatical leave from his position as Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Siegen, Germany. Dr Plag, his wife Claudia Gelb, and his three children, Jonas, Hannah and Leo Benjamin, will be here until July 31.
While at UCSC, Dr. Plag will be researching the emergence of syllable structure in creole languages, and also the role of syntactic category information in word-formation. He will also give a colloquium talk on Friday, April 2 at 4:00 p.m. in the Silverman Conference Room.
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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:
Daniel Altshuler, UCLA
Vera Gribanov, Brandeis University
Alessandro Jaker, University of Minnesota
Jesse Kirchner, University of Arizona
Laia Mayol, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
Rebecca McKeown, Harvard University
Jennifer Michaels, UCLA
Justin Nuger, McGill University
Robert Truswell, Oxford University
Jeremy Weissmann, Northwestern University
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LASC 2004 ("Linguistics at Santa Cruz")
Saturday - March 6
12:50 - 5:30 p.m. followed by a meal at the home of Jorge Hankamer, 321 High Street
Members of Jorge's Research Seminar will each make a presentation. Our invited speaker is Rachel Walker (UCSC PhD graduate 1998) who is currently Assistant Professor of Linguistics at USC.
The program may be viewed at: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/index.html
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Colloquium Friday March 12, 2004
4 p.m. Silverman Conference Room
Lisa Travis
McGill University
"VP-, D-movement languages"
To view the abstract, please visit: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/colloquia/index.html
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Psychology Department
Colloquium Series
Social Sciences 2, 121
3:30-5:00 pm
Wednesday, March 10
Cognitive Program presents:
ROBERT WELCH
NASA Ames Perceptual and Behavior Adaptation Group
"Facilitating Adaptation to Virtual Environments and
Tele-operator Devices by means of 'Kinesthetic Cueing'"