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WHASC Newsletter March 16, 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.
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LASC PHOTOS
http://people.ucsc.edu/~ito/LASC.htm
Thank you to Anne Sturgeon and Junko Ito for taking these pictures and to Junko for creating the web page.
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ACCOLADES
Congratulations to Michela Ippolito who has been offered a tenure-track job at Boston University.
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Veerle Van Geenhoven was a speaker at the 6th annual Stanford Semantics Fest on March 11. Veerle spoke on "A Cross-domain Plural Interpretation."
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ALUMNI NEWS
Jason Riggle (UCSC BA 1997, UCSC MA 1999) has accepted a tenure track position
with the linguistics department at the University of Chicago. Jason joins fellow UCSC alums Jason Merchant (UCSC PhD 1999) and Chris Kennedy (UCSC PhD 1997) on the University of Chicago faculty. Jason and his wife Suzanne (Lyon) (UCSC MA 2001) are also pleased to announce that they are expecting their first child in the beginning of September. Jason and Suzanne met in the fall of 1998 at Bill Ladusaw's house after being introduced to one another by Donka Farkas. Suzanne is currently the Office Manager for the Office of Alumni Affairs and Development at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
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Santa Cruz Language and Linguistics Group (SCLL)
April 7 Michela Ippolito (Boston University, Linguistics) Topic TBA
May 19 Scott Soames (USC, Philosophy) "Against Two-Dimensionalism"
May 26 Jason Stanley (Rutgers University, Philosophy) "Knowledge and Interest"
Note that this talk has been rescheduled from March to May.
For the most up-to-date information, please visit the SCLL website:
http://fortytwo.ucsc.edu/%7Echom/SCLL.html
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Arabic Linguistics Society
Nineteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
April 1-3, 2005
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/
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New in the LRC Library
Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics (TWPL 23.1) - Syntax and Semantics (2004)
Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics (TWPL 23.2) - Phonology, Language Variation, Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition (2004) [CD format]
Yearbook 2004, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS
The ten papers in this volume represent work in progress by linguists of their institute.
Language Research, Vol. 40, No.4 (December, 2004), Language Education Institute, Seoul National University
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