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Today is the last day to sign up for the Spring Linguistics/Language Studies Comprehensive Examination. The sign up sheets are by Room 241 at Stevenson.
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Welcome back to Sandy Chung who recently spent several weeks in Saipan doing fieldwork on Chamorro syntax-semantics.
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COLLOQUIUM THIS FRIDAY
Shigeru Miyagawa from MIT will be visiting our department the next few days and will speak on "Argument Structure and Double Objects" on Friday at 3:30 p.m. in the Silverman Conference Room. The abstract is posted at: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/index.html. There is an interesting article about Professor Miyagawa on the bulletin board of the LCR.
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PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM SERIES
TODAY: April 16 - Ronald de Sousa, University of Toronto
4:30 p.m., Namaste Lounge, College Nine
"Is Art an Adaptation? Prospects for an Evolutionary Perspective on Art"
(co-sponsored by the Mind & Meaning Project of the IHR)
TOMORROW: April 17 - Stewart Cohen, Arizona State University
4:00 p.m., Stevenson Silverman Conference Room
"Knowledge, Speaker, and Subject"
Friday, April 25 - Kenneth Taylor, Stanford University
4:00 p.m. Stevenson Silverman Conference Room
"Toward a Naturalistic Theory of Rational Intentionality"
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THE JOHN DIZIKES TEACHING AWARD IN HUMANITIES
The Division of Humanities is accepting nominations for the second annual John Dizikes Distinguished Teaching Award. Nominations are due to the Linguistics Department by Wednesday, May 7.
The award will be for excellent teaching by a Humanities Division Unit 18 Lecturer, SOE or Senior SOE Lecturer, or a Ladder rank faculty member.
The award will be in the amount of $3,000 to be paid to the faculty member and, in addition, the faculty member will select an undergraduate student with sophomore or junior standing (with preference given to an undergraduate student majoring in a Humanities field), to receive a $3,000 scholarship. The scholarship will be named for the faculty member.
All faculty, staff and current students are welcome to submit nominations to their departments. Hard copies of the award information will be available in college offices and humanities department offices. All nominations must be signed.
For more information, contact Norma Ray, nray@cats, or visit: http://humwww.ucsc.edu/
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CALL FOR PAPERS - UNDERGRADUATES
North American Undergraduate Linguistics Conference
Friday, October 10, 2003 University of Michigan
Deadline for abstract submission: May 31, 2003
Conference participants are also welcome to stay over Saturday, October 11, to attend the annual Michigan Linguistics Society Conference at which the invited speaker will be Professor Ray Jackendoff of Brandeis University.
More details about the conference at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/ling/news/undconf.htm