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The annual Linguistics at Santa Cruz Conference (LASC 2003) is this SATURDAY, March 8 (NOT Sunday as announced in last week's WHASC) in the Silverman Conference Room at Stevenson College from 1:50 - 5:45 p.m. There will be five presentations by Linguistics Graduate Students. The invited speaker is Adam Ussishkin (U of Arizona). Prospective graduate students will be attending. Refreshments will be served. The event will be followed by a post-conference party at 130 Sherman Street from 7-10 p.m. hosted by Donka Farkas. To view the complete program, please visit: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/LASC2003.html
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VISITORS
Over the next few weeks, a number of prospective graduate students
will be visiting the department as they make their decisions about
where to go for graduate training in linguistics. Three groups will be
coming through.
WEDNESDAY MARCH 5th
FLORIAN SCHWARZ <florentinoz@gmx.net> studies philosophy and
linguistics at Humboldt Universitaet, and at the Freie Universitaet,
Berlin, working especially with Manfred Krifka.
DOUG BALL <db001i@mail.rochester.edu> has done his undergraduate
work at the University of Rochester, working with Greg Carlson, Jeff
Runner and Joyce McDonagh. He's interested in the morphology-syntax
interface and is doing a senior thesis on Wichita.
FRIDAY MARCH 7TH--SUNDAY MARCH 9TH (the weekend of LASC)
JISUP HONG: <jisup@post.harvard.edu> did a BA in Computer Science at
Harvard and then went to work for Pixar Animation Studios. He got into
linguistics by taking extension courses at UC Berkeley.
DAVID TEEPLE <mujahid@mail.ku.edu> has a BA and MA in linguistics from
the University of Kansas. His principal interests are in phonology and
non-concatenative morphology, and he written a thesis on vowel
shortening in Cairene and Palestinian Arabic.
RUTH KRAMER <Ruth_T_Kramer@brown.edu> is in the linguistics program at
Brown where she has worked closely with Polly Jacobson. Her interests
are mostly in the syntax-semantics interface, and her particular
passion is ancient Egyptian. She is writing a senior thesis on
relative clauses in that language.
KYLE RAWLINS <rawlins@cs.umass.edu> has studied linguistics and
computer science at UMass Amherst, where his principal advisors have
been Angelika Kratzer and Barbara Partee. He has worked on Negative
Polarity Items, also on Algonquian (negation in Western Abanaki).
EARLY APRIL
TARA MCALLISTER <mcallis@fas.harvard.edu> will get a BA and an MA in
linguistics from Harvard, where she worked especially with Jim Huang.
She has also taken advantage of the Red Line to take courses at
MIT. She is interested in general in the syntax-semantics interface,
and more specifically in resultatives, verb-particle constructions and
secondary predication.
CHRIS KIM <cristina@mit.edu> is completing a BA in Brain and Cognitive
Sciences at MIT, in the course of which she took a series of courses
in the Linguistics Department. She also worked in Ted Wilson's lab on
aspects of speech processing. Her interests at present are primarily
in syntax, especially in Romance languages and in Korean.
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Thank you to Ashley Hardisty for organizing the 2nd Annual Career Workshop. It was well-attended and very interesting and informative.
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Explaining Linguistic Universals:
Historical Convergence and Universal Grammar
University of California, Berkeley
March 7-8, 2003
Friday, March 7, 2003, 3335 Dwinelle Hall
3:30 Andrew Garrett, UC Berkeley
The evolution of paradigm leveling: Analogy vs. uniformity
4:30 Adam Albright, UC Santa Cruz
Deriving general tendencies and language particulars in analogical change
5:30 Break
5:45 Juliette Blevins, UC Berkeley
Consonant epenthesis: Natural and unnatural historySaturday, March 8, 2003, 370 Dwinelle Hall
Morning session
9:00 Coffee
9:30 Joan Bybee, University of New Mexico
Diachronic explanations for substantive and formal universals
10:30 Break
10:45 Martin Haspelmath, MPI, Leipzig
Creating economical morphosyntactic patterns in language change
11:45 Alice Harris, SUNY at Stony Brook
On the explanation of typologically unusual structuresAfternoon session
2:00 Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University
Universals constrain change; change produces pseudo-universals
3:00 Break
3:15 Anthony Kroch, University of Pennsylvania Imperfect learning and language change
4:15 John Whitman, Cornell University
Syntax and grammaticalization
5:15 Break
5:45-6:30 Commentary and general discussion
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Psychology Department
Colloquium Series
Social Sciences 2, 121
3:30-5:00 pm
Cognitive Program: Friday, March 7
Michael Webster, University of Nevada (Reno)
"Visual Adaptation and the Phenomenology of Perception"
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PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM SERIES IN APRIL
April 11: Jon Ellis, UCSC (Visiting Asst. Prof. currently and next year):
"Can an Externalist about Thought Be an Internalist about Experience?"
April 16: Ronald de Sousa, U. of Toronto:
"Is Art an Adaptation? Prospects for an Evolutionary Perspective on Art"
April 17: Stewart Cohen, Arizona State Univ.:
"Knowledge, Speaker, and Subject"
April 25, Kenneth Taylor, Stanford
"Toward a Naturalistic Theory of Rational Intentionality."
All talks will be at 4:00 p.m. in the Stevenson Silverman Conference Room with the exception of April 16 which will be in the Namaste Lounge at College Nine.
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UNDERGRADUATE AWARD OPPORTUNITIES
Dean's Awards:Fifty undergraduate students, ten from each of the five academic divisions, will receive the Dean's Award (certificate and $100).
Chancellor's Awards:The best three students from each of the divisions will also receive the Chancellor's Award (certificate and an additional $100).
Steck Award:The most outstanding senior thesis/project (completed) from a graduating senior will be recognized by the Steck Award. The student will receive $1,000 and a certificate. In addition, his or her research project will be bound and copies given to the student, the research supervisor, McHenry Library, and the Steck family, whose generous contributions have made this award possible.
If interested, you should submit your project directly to the Linguistics Department Office (241 Stevenson). All submittals are due to the department office by Friday, April 18th, 2003. Our department will then forward the nominations for review to the Dean's Office.
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Call for Papers
Workshop on Cross-linguistic Variation in Auxiliary Selection
May 31 - June 1, 2003 at UC Davis
Invited Speakers
Geraldine Legendre (Johns Hopkins U.)
Annie Zaenen (Stanford U./PARC)
Thomas Shannon (UC Berkeley)
Call Deadline: April 14, 2003
http://linguistics.ucdavis.edu/workshop.html
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NEW in the LRC LIBRARY
"Lexical and Postlexical Phonology in Optimality Theory: Evidence from Japanese" by Junko Ito and Armin Mester has been published in Resolving Conflicts in Grammars: Optimality Theory in Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology (2002) Linguistische Berichte Sonderheft 11 published by Helmut Buske Verlag, Hamburg, Germany. A copy of this collection of articles on Optimality Theory is in the 'recent acquisitions' section of the LRC library. Thank you to Armin Mester for this donation.
University of Venice Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 12, 2002 has just arrived and is also in the 'recent acquisitions' section.
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