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WHASC Newsletter March 11, 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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LASC 2004
Well done, LASC presenters! The conference was very well-attended, the presentations were excellent, and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. Thank you to Rachel Walker for her spirited talk. A big thank you goes to Jorge Hankamer and Vickie Gonzalez-Pagani for hosting a wonderful party in their home. The view of the full moon from their balcony made a perfect ending to an enjoyable day.
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WELCOME
We welcome Lisa Travis from McGill University in Montreal who is visiting the department for one week. She will be speaking on
"VP-, D-movement languages"
Friday, March 12, 2004
4:00 p.m.
Silverman Conference room
Stevenson College
Click to view the abstract.
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We also welcome Klaus von Heusinger from the University of Stuttgart as a visitor for one week. Klaus spent a year at UCSC in 1997 as a research associate. We thank him for giving a talk in the LCR on Wednesday.
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SPRING QUARTER COLLOQUIUM SERIES
APRIL 2 Ingo Plag German morphologist
9 Peter Ladefoged UCLA phonetician (POTLUCK AFTERWARDS)
16 David Beaver Stanford semanticist
23 * * * * * * * * WCCFL this weekend at UC Davis
30 Christian Rathmann ASL specialist from Texas
MAY 7 Donna Gerdts Canadian syntactician
14 * * * * * * * * SWOT workshop May 14-15
21 Matt Gordon UCSB phonologist/phonetician
28 Bill Ladusaw, UCSC
JUNE 4 * * * * * * * * Last day of instruction
The undergraduate conference will take place on June 2 from 3-6 p.m., location to be announced.
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Sandy Chung is giving a colloquium talk at UMass on Friday March 12:
Restriction and Modification in Chamorro
(based on joint work with William A. Ladusaw)
Click to read the abstract.
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The February 27 issue of Science Magazine is a special issue devoted to the evolution of language. Click here to access it on-line.
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NASSLLI STUDENT SESSION
The 3rd North American Summer School in Logic, Language & Information
CALL FOR PAPERS
June 21-25, 2004 at UCLA
Abstract deadline: April 12, 2004 (3 page extended abstracts, in PDF)
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MILAN MEETING 2004
MM04 CALL FOR PAPERS
THE 2004 MILAN MEETING (a formal semantics conference)
JUNE 10 -- 12, 2004
Università degli Studi di Milano
Conference theme: Covert Variables at Logical Form
Invited speakers
Angelika Kratzer
François Recanati
Mats Rooth
Jason Stanley
Deadline for submission of abstracts: April 17, 2004.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by April 30, 2004.
The workshop site: Palazzo Feltrinelli, on Lake Garda, about 100 km east of Milan.
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42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Organized as one of the events in the Universal Forum of Cultures
Barcelona, July 21-26, 2004
For further information and registration, click here.
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SINN UND BEDEUTUNG IX
9th Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Semantik
November 1-3, 2004
University of Nijmegen
Call Deadline: 30 June 2004
sub9@phil.kun.nl
INVITED SPEAKERS
David Beaver (Stanford University)
Philippe Schlenker (University of California at Los Angeles/Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris)
Daniel Vanderveken (Universite de Quebec a Trois Rivieres)
Michiel van Lambalgen (University of Amsterdam)
For more information, click here.
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Part-time summer job opportunity
Summer Program Host for English Language International
For a detailed description of this position, see Job #04-02-25 at http://jobs.ucsc.edu
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New in the LRC Library
Oxford University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics, Vol 8, 2003.
University of Venice Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 13, 2003.
Language Research, Vol. 39 No. 4, Dec. 2003 (Seoul National University)
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