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undergraduate research for her senior thesis. Sara is a double major
in Linguistics and Psychology and her thesis is on denominal verbs in
English, exploring the properties of such verbs from the perspectives
of theoretical linguistics and of psychology. Sara will go on to the
doctoral program in cognitive science at Johns Hopkins University in
the coming year.
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Congratulations to Dylan Herrick who has been offered *two* jobs in Japan, one at Mie University and the other at Chiba University.
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Geoff Pullum was one of the four invited speakers at the annual
conference of the Society for Exact Philosophy at Simon Fraser
University in Vancouver, Canada (the others being William Calvin
from neuroscience, Arvind Gupta from computer science, and Diana
Raffman from Philosophy). The lecture that Geoff gave was entitled
"A new look at what natural languages really are."
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COLLOQUIUM
We welcome Maribel Romero from the Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania who will be visiting the department today through Saturday. Her talk tomorrow is entitled:
"On Concealed Questions and Specificational Subjects"
THURSDAY, May 22
4:00 p.m.
Silverman Conference Room
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Undergraduate Linguistics Conference
Thursday, June 5 3-6 p.m.
Baytree Conference Center Room D
All are invited to learn about distinguished undergraduate research of the current academic year.
Refreshments will be served.
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Annual Student Achievement Awards Ceremony
Many outstanding students will be recognized for their achievements in research projects or other creative activities, focusing on the winners of the Deans', Chancellor's and Steck Awards, acknowledging the Donald Strauss Scholarship and others. Sara Finley, a linguistics major, will be among the award recipients that day. This year's Student Achievement Awards will be:
Friday, June 6, 2003
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Stage Room, Colleges 9 & 10 dining hall
Please RSVP to Dianne Wright no later than Monday June 2. (Telephone 9-5386
or e-mail to dwright@ucsc.edu.) Please remember that parking is limited at
the site.