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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 TOMORROW
Professor David I. Beaver
Stanford University
Before and After in a Nutshell
Friday, April 16, 2004 - 4:00 p.m.
Please note that the talk will take place in COWELL 131 (same as last week).
The abstract is posted at: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/index.html
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Congratulations to Emily Manetta who, on Friday April 9th, passed her
Qualifying Exam and advanced to candidacy. Emily based her exam on a
paper analyzing agreement and cliticization patterns in Kashmiri and
Brokskat. The committee consisted of Judith Aissen, Sandy Chung, and
Jim McCloskey, with Nirvikar Singh of the department of Economics as
external member.
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Now that it's official: coming this fall, Adam Albright will be joining the MIT linguistics department. This is quite exciting, though he will, of course be sorry to leave UCSC, and we will miss him very much!
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Study Turkish in Istanbul!
June 14 - July 30, 2004
Learn a language spoken by 200 million people in Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe at one of the best universities in Turkey.
Explore one of the greatest cities in the world and a wonderful culture.
Enjoy cultural trips to various sites in Istanbul.
Tuition, Accommodation and Three Meals/Day for $1,500.
Register online: http://www.turkishinistanbul.com
Local Contact: (650) 861-0230
education@baycc.org
Organized by The Center for Turkish Studies at The University of Wisconsin-Madison & Fatih University
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M. Victoria Gonzalez Pagani will be a guest speaker at the Grammar & Language Teaching workshop at UC San Diego from June 19-21, 2004. Information available online at: http://uccllt.ucdavis.edu/Events/index.cfm
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DIGS VIII
Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference
"Syntactic Variation and Change"
Yale University
June 24-27, 2004
Website: http://bloch.ling.yale.edu:16080/~digs8/
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Psychology Department
Colloquium Series
Social Sciences 2, 121
3:30-5:00 pm
Wednesday, April 21
Cognitive Program presents:
KAREN MITCHELL
Department of Psychology, Yale University
"Age-Related Source Memory Deficits:
Insights from behavioral fMRI studies"
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to call
Virginia Lee at 459-4194.
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NEW IN THE LRC LIBRARY
Thank you very much to Judith Aissen for donating 21 volumes of LINGUISTICS, an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences, published by Mouton de Gruyter covering the years 1999 through 2003.
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"I am not afraid of storms for I have learned how to sail my ship."
--Louisa May Alcott