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WHASC Newsletter March 18, 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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KUDOS!
Congratulations to Sam Zoranovich, who successfully defended his
MA thesis, `The Phonotactics of Doctor Seuss's Nonsense Words',
on Tuesday, March 16. Sam's MA committee members were Sandy
Chung and Adam Albright.
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On Monday 03/15/04, the committee--Armin, Jaye, Junko--and the
candidate--Pete Alrenga--forgot to beware the Ides of March and engaged in a
spirited discussion of Pete's phonology qualifying paper, entitled
"Quantity-sensitive stress assignment and coda nasal moraicity in
Tübatulabal: A Comparative Markedness Approach." And yes, the candidate
passed with flying colors. Well done, Pete!
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Congratulations to the Winter 2004 Graduates!
Idit Agam-Linguistics, B.A.**
**Honors
David Marshall-Linguistics, B.A.
Lillie Troy-Linguistics, B.A.
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John Barnett-Language Studies, B.A.
Hilary Greenleaf-Language Studies, B.A.
Lisa Metz-Language Studies, B.A.
Fujiko Yamamoto-Language Studies, B.A.**
**Honors
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Adam Albright will be giving a colloquium talk at Georgetown University on Friday (3/19), entitled "Modeling variation and uncertainty in irregular morphophonology"
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COLLOQUIUM
Ingo Plag, Visiting Research Associate of the LRC from the University of Siegen, Germany will give a talk:
Who cares about syntactic category information?
A new look at the morphology-syntax distinction and the role of semantics
in word-formation
Friday, April 2, 2004
4:00 p.m. Silverman Conference Room at Stevenson College
To view the abstract, please visit: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/index.html
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS
Please add a colloquium with Bill Ladusaw to your calendars for May 28.
A compact future planning calendar for Spring colloquia:
April 2 Ingo Plag
April 9 Peter Ladefoged
April 16 David Beaver
April 23 none (WCCFL weekend)
April 30 Christian Rathmann
May 7 Donna Gerdts
May 14 none (SWOT workshop weekend)
May 21 Matt Gordon
May 28 Bill Ladusaw
June 4 none (last day of instruction)
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DEADLINE APPROACHING
April 5 is the deadline for students to nominate an instructor for the John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities. For more information, please contact Norma Ray at 459-4477 or via e-mail at nray@ucsc.edu.
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NEW IN THE LRC LIBRARY
Thank you very much to Jaye Padgett for donating the following books to the LRC Library:
The Philosophy of Language, edited by A.P. Martinich, 1985, Oxford University Press
Essays on Actions & Events, Donald Davidson, 1980 Oxford University Press
An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, Malcolm Coulthard, 1977 Longman
Introduction to Montague Semantics, David R. Dowty, Robert E. Wall, and Stanley Peters, 1982, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Word Meaning and Montague Grammar, David R. Dowty, 1979, Synthese Language Library, D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Structuralism and Semiotics, Terence Hawkes, 1977, University of California Press
Logic As Grammar, Norbert Hornstein, 1984, MIT Press
Clitics and Parametrization (Case Studies in the Interaction of Head Movement Phenomena), Marco Haverkort, 1993, Eurotyp- Program in Language Typology, European Science Foundation
Explanation in Linguistics (The logical problem of language acquisition), edited by Norbert Hornstein and David Lightfoot, 1981, Longman Linguistics Library
Principles of Diachronic Syntax, David W. Lightfoot, 1979, Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 23, Cambridge University Press
Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics, Emmon Bach,1989, State University of New York Press
The Language Lottery (Toward a Biology of Grammars), David Lightfoot, 1982, MIT Press
Studies in Relational Grammar 1, edited by David M. Perlmutter, 1983, University of Chicago Press
Studies in Relational Grammar 2, edited by David M. Perlmutter and Carol G. Rosen, 1984, University of Chicago Press
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"If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life,--if, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing."
Helen Keller, Essay on Optimism (1904)
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Have a safe and restful spring break, everybody!
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