("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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COLLOQUIUM TODAY
The Santa Cruz Language & Linguistics Reading Group
Distinguished Visitors Series
presents
JEFFREY KING
UC Davis
'Semantics for Monists'
Thursday, April 8
4:00 p.m.
Stevenson Silverman Conference Room
Professor King has made innovative contributions in the philosophy of language and philosophical logic. His specific areas of publication include anaphora, structured propositions, complex demonstratives, and the semantics/pragmatics distinction.
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COLLOQUIUM FRIDAY
The Department is pleased to welcome:
PETER LADEFOGED, Professor of Phonetics, Emeritus from UCLA
who will present
Classifying the sounds of languages
4 p.m. Friday, April 9, 2004
COWELL CLASSROOM 131
(followed by a potluck at the home of Bill Ladusaw and Ken Christopher, 720 Graham Hill Road)
The abstract is posted at: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/index.html
To read more about Prof. Ladefoged, please visit: http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/ladefoge/
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CANCELLATION
The colloquium scheduled for May 7 with Donna Gerdts has been cancelled.
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CONGRATULATIONS!
Congratulations to Evynn Testa-Avila, who will receive the 03-04
Sol and Esther Draznin Scholarship in Greek at this year's
Carl Deppe Memorial Lecture (Thurs, April 15, 4 pm, in the
Cowell Conference Room)!
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Congratulations to Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson of Åarhus University, Denmark on the publication of his Ph.D. dissertation, "Oblique Subjects and Stylistic Fronting in the History of Scandinavian and English, The Role of IP-Spec. " Gunnar was a LRC visitor in Fall, 2003. He has graciously donated a copy of his dissertation to the LRC Library, and it can be found in recent acquisitions. In his Acknowledgements section, he writes:
During my stay in Santa Cruz (September - October 2003), I had the opportunity to discuss large parts of my thesis with many people. First and foremost, my deepest gratitude goes to Judith Aissen for the marathon meetings we had. Her strict (albeit very appreciated) criticism came at a crucial time in the writing of my thesis. Line Mikkelsen also deserves special thanks for the discussions we had in Santa Cruz and Århus, and for the unforgettable hike in Pfeiffer Big Sur and at Point Lobos. She and Patrick made me feel welcome in Santa Cruz and I am so grateful to them... for the tours to Trader Joe's for getting Icelandic water and German chocolate, and not least for a great birthday party on the beach. I would also like to thank Donka Farkas and Jim McCloskey for valuable discussions. Thanks to my fellow Cave dwellers for the nights out on town and for allowing me to "take over" one of the computers.
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OFFICE HOURS ON THE WEB
The Linguistics faculty office hours for spring quarter are now posted on the Linguistics web site:
http://ling.ucsc.edu/undergraduate/index.html
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The Institute for Humanities Research presents
Dorothy Brown
Practical Strategies for Writing a Dissertation
Saturday, April 24/ 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Cowell Conference Room (lunch provided)
To register for the workshop, email scasher@ucsc.edu by April 9.
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IHR Funding Opportunities
for Humanities Faculty and Graduate Students
*Graduate Student Research and Travel Grants
*NEW! IHR Graduate Student Summer Study Fellowships
*IHR Research Unit Applications
*IHR Small Grants for Faculty
All applications for Summer 2004 and academic year 2004-2005 funding are due on May 7, 2004.
Please contact Program Manager Stephanie Casher (scasher@ucsc.edu) for further information.
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LINGUISTICS IN ST. PETERSBURG
Registration has begun for the 2004 New York Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies, which will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 5-30, 2004.
Christopher Potts (UCSC PhD graduate 2003) will teach two courses: an introduction to pragmatics (first two weeks) and a course on discourse processing (second two weeks).
For more information, see: http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Clubs/nels/jbailyn/NYI.html
The application deadline is Monday, May 3, 2004.
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LFG 2004
Winter School in Lexical Functional Grammar and Computational Linguistics
Christchurch, New Zealand
July 4-8 2004
For information and registration: http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg2004/school***************************************
NEW IN THE LRC LIBRARY
Thank you to Jim McCloskey for donating
"Local Economy" by Chris Collins (Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 29) The MIT Press, 1997.
Thank you to Sandy Chung for donating 8 volumes of the International Journal of American Linguistics' "Native American Texts Series" (1976-1977) published by the University of Chicago Press. 
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Kusi Kausay Kachun Kay Pachapi
(Quechua)
May Peace Prevail on Earth
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