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Ysabel Mandac-Linguistics, B.A.
Angela Aiello-Language Studies, B.A. **
** HONORS
Jenny Nadaner-Language Studies, B.A.
Skyelar Perske-Language Studies, B.A.
Yanitza Reyna-Language Studies, B.A.
Erika Chun-Language Studies, minor
Caitlin Coss-Shay-Language Studies, minor
Vickie Mueller-Olvera-Language Studies, minor
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Hearty congratulations to Lynsey Wolter who successfully defended her Qualifying Paper in Phonology on Friday:
Syncope in K'ichee'
The committee was Armin, chair, Junko and Jaye.
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Jorge Hankamer will be presenting a paper at the First Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics,
at MIT, March 16-18. Its title is "An Ad-Phrasal Affix in Turkish".
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Dr. Lillis O Laoire of the University of Limerick and Loyola Marymount University, L.A. will be visiting the department on Friday, March 21 as a guest of Sandy Chung and Jim McCloskey.
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Shigeru Miyagawa of MIT will speak on "Argument Structure and Double Objects" on Friday, April 18 at 3:30 p.m. in the Silverman Conference Room. The abstract may be viewed at: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/index.html
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Direct Compositionality: A Workshop
(Funded by the National Science Foundation)
June 19-21, 2003
Brown University
Providence RI
Deadline is April 1.
The aim of the workshop is to examine the feasibility of the hypothesis of direct compositionality. This is the hypothesis that the syntax and semantics of natural language work in tandem (and without use of mediating levels of
representation like LF.)
Invited Speakers include, among others: Chris Barker, UC San Diego (UCSC PhD 1991); Rajesh Bhatt, University of Texas Austin; Maria Bittner, Rutgers University; Daniel Büring, UCLA; Christopher Potts, UCSC; and Maribel Romero, University of Pennsylvania.
For more information, contact pauline_jacobson@brown.edu
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XVII International Congress of Linguists (CIL 17)
24-29 July 2003
Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.cil17.org
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SUMMER INSTITUTES
Classics Summer Institute
Mid-June to early August 2003
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
http://www.classics.uga.edu/summer_institute/
15th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information
18-29 August at the University of Vienna
Deadline for early registration: 15 June 2003.
http://www.logic.at/esslli03/
LSA Linguistic Institute
Language, Mind & Culture
30 June - 8 August 2003
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu
2nd North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI-2003)
17-21 June 2003 at Indiana University
http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/
Summer Institute in Cognitive Sciences
30 June - 11 July 2003
University of Quebec at Montreal
Theme: Categorization
http://www.unites.uquam.ca/sccog/liens/program.html
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The 2004 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America will be held January 8-11 at the Sheraton Hotel in Boston, MA. The deadline for Organized Session proposals is April 15, 2003.
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An announcement from the Psychology Department:
Psychologists and Psychiatrists from Santa Cruz County invite you to the first
"Relevant Issues Seminar and Reception"
in the new University Center (Alumni Association Conference Room).
The talk will be followed by light refreshments and a social gathering in the rotunda.
Dr. Thomas Pettigrew
"Peoples under Threat: Americans, Arabs and Israelis"
Thursday, March 20, 2003 (7 - 9 pm)
UCSC psychology professor (emeritus), Dr. Pettigrew is an internationally known scholar in the area of social psychology. For more information about the event (or directions), call Diane Bridgeman at (831) 476-3691.
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New in the LRC Library:
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Kobe Shoin (TALKS) 2003. No. 6. This journal contains a paper by Philip Spaelti (PhD UCSC, 1997) entitled: "Dispersion Theory and Reduplicative Fixed Segmentism" (131-137). Philip teaches at the Kobe Shoin Institute for Linguistic Sciences in Japan.
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CALENDAR
Spring Break: March 21 - March 30 (Relax, enjoy time off, but hope and strive for peace in our troubled world.)
Administrative Holiday: Monday, March 24
Course Reports due: Tuesday, March 25
Spring Quarter begins: Monday, March 31
Narrative Evaluations due: Friday, April 11