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WHASC Newsletter May 20, 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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Whole-hearted congratulations to Line Mikkelsen who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation with poise and clarity on Monday, May 17, 2004.
Specifying who: On the structure, meaning, and use of specificational clauses
Serving on Line's committee were: Judith Aissen, Donka Farkas, Bill Ladusaw, and Jim McCloskey, chair.
Line has accepted a tenure-track position in the Linguistics Department at UC Berkeley beginning July 1st. She will be teaching a variety of syntax classes to both undergraduate and graduate students. Bravo!
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A big thank you to all the students who helped out with SWOT-- especially those who made trips to the airport and hosted visiting students-- and in particular the "SWOT team" of Aaron Kaplan, David Teeple, and Ember Van Allen who did a great job of organizing everything to make it go so smoothly. The conference was well-attended, with interesting talks and very enjoyable informal conversation, not to forget to mention the great food and beautiful weather for our out-of-state visitors!
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Tomorrow the department welcomes Matt Gordon, UC Santa Barbara Dept. of Linguistics
speaking on
Cyclic and non-cyclic epenthesis and prosodic domains in Kabardian
Friday, May 21, 2004
4:00 p.m.
Silverman Conference Room, Stevenson College
To see the abstract, go to: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/colloquia/index.html
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Veronica Vasquez Soto, who has been a visiting scholar here this year from UNAM (Mexico City), will present some of her recent work on the syntax and agreement of Cora. Cora is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Central Mexico. All are invited.
WHEN: Wednesday, May 26th, at 1pm
WHERE: LCR
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Bill Ladusaw will present a colloquium on some of his current research a week from tomorrow, Friday, May 28th, at 4:00 p.m. in Cowell 131.
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Psychology Department
Colloquium Series
Social Sciences 2, 121
3:30-5:00 pm *
Wednesday, May 26
Cognitive Program presents:
FIRST -YEAR TALKS
Psychology Department Graduate Students, UC Santa Cruz