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("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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ACCOLADES
Congratulations to Elena Innes, who successfully defended her MA thesis, "Faithfulness in Russian Paradigms"! The committee consisted of Jaye Padgett and Adam Albright.
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Congratulations to Aaron Kaplan who, on May 25, successfully passed his Phonology Qualifying Paper
entitled "Syllable structure as an explanatory constraint". The committee
consisted of Adam Albright, Junko Ito, and Armin Mester (chair).
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Congratulations to James Isaacs who passed his Qualifying Exam on Friday, May 21st. Geoff Pullum was the chair of the committee, Michela Ippolito and Donka Farkas were the internal members, and Prof. Martin Abadi (Computer Science) was the external member. The title was 'A Static Semantics of Imperatives'.
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Congratulations to Vera Lee-Schoenfeld who will be presented with an
Outstanding TA Award at a ceremony to be held on Friday May 28th at
University House.
Vera will not be present in person to accept her award, however,
since she will be playing at a hockey tournament in LA.
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Congratulations to the first and second year grad students for
their successful completion of this year's TATr-course. Last Thursday,
each of them had to give a 5-minute teaching presentation, and the
performances were impressive. Our undergraduate students can look forward
to (or are already benefiting from) another generation of confident,
skilled, and happy-to-help LING TAs. This year's TATr-participants were
Laura Buhl, Elena Innes, Lindsay Jones, Aaron Kaplan, Ruth Kramer, Stuart
La Rosa, Randall Orr, Kyle Rawlins, Adam Savel, Marc Sciglimpaglia, Alia
Sperling, and David Teeple. Their instructor was Vera Lee-Schoenfeld.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
COLLOQUIUM FRIDAY
Bill Ladusaw will speak on
"Biased Questions"
Friday, May 28, 2004 at 4:00 p.m. in Room 131 of Cowell College
The abstract may be viewed at: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/colloquia/index.html
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TALK
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld will do a dry run for her CGSW (Comparative
Germanic Syntax Workshop) presentation, on:
TUESDAY JUNE 1ST
2:30pm
LCR
`Binding, Possessor Raising, and the Typology of Clause Size'
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LINGUISTICS UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE
Wednesday, June 2, 2004
2:30 - 5:30 p.m. (followed by a reception)
Silverman Conference Room at Stevenson College
The program will be posted at: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/index.html
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STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT WEEK
Hundreds of UCSC students are being honored for their outstanding work in research and academic achievement during Student Achievement Week, June 1-4. The awards ceremony takes place on Friday June 4, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the University Center.
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MODALITY AND ITS KIN
Saturday, June 5, 2004
Cowell Conference Room
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Semanticists from UCLA, Stanford and UCSC will present their research.
The program will be posted on the web: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/index.html
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FALL ENROLLMENT UPDATE
Priority enrollment for Fall begins June 1st. To determine your appointment time, view the printable (pdf) Fall Schedule on the Registrar's web page: http://gazos.ucsc.edu/soc/index.cfm The printed schedules will be available sometime next week. You may also look for classes on the new searchable schedule.
Students will be enrolling using the new Academic Information System (AIS). During the transition period, as we move from our current Student Information System (SIS) to the new Academic Information System (AIS), there is going to be a two-step log in. You will first need to log in to the current Student Portal, "students.ucsc.edu", using your current SID and PIN. Then you will click " Enroll" on the top of the page to get procedures for getting your NEW student ID number. You may want to print the Procedure Page. Then click "Get ID" for your new student ID. Your ID and temporary password will be displayed. Write them down, or print this page. Then click "Proceed to Enrollment". On the AIS Login Page, enter your new AIS student ID and temporary password. Click "Sign In". Change your password and select a "forgot my password" question. Click "Home". Proceed to enrollment: click "SA Self Service>Learner Services>Academics>Enroll in a Class", and proceed with your transaction(s). Verify your schedule, sign out of AIS, log out of the Student Portal, and quit the browser.
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NOTE FROM ASHLEY
Dear Undergrads,
Feel like you'll never know what to do after graduation? Well, here's some encouragement! One of our Winter 2004 Language Studies graduates wrote to tell us this:
"Ashley,
Last time I was in the office I informed you that I was applying for a position as an English Teaching Assistant in an Austrian high school. I am writing you to inform you that I did in fact receive this position and that next year I will be spending the school year at a school in Krems an der Donau (just outside of Vienna) in Austria. I am looking forward to this experience with expectation of both challenges and joy as I am sure I will be learning many new things, not only about the language, but the culture as well. Hope all is going well for you as the end of the school year comes around.
John Barnett"
Congratulations to John!! The department always likes to hear about your future plans!
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SALT REPORT
The 14th annual Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT 14) took place May 14-16 at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Chris Kennedy (UCSC Phd Graduate) was one of the organizers. Michela Ippolito presented "The presuppositions of 'still' " on Friday. One of the invited speakers was Chris Barker, UCSD (PhD UCSC 1991). Anastasia Giannakidou (Chicago) and Chris Potts and Shigeto Kawahara (UMass Amherst) were also among the presenters.
UCLA will host SALT 15 in 2005 and plans are for SALT 16 to take place in Japan in 2006!
http://www.ling.northwestern.edu/~salt14/
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NELS CALL FOR PAPERS
The 35th meeting of the North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS) will take place on October 22-24, 2004 at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. The conference accepts papers from all areas of theoretical linguistics and will feature a Special Session on Sign Languages in addition to the usual conference sessions. Daniel Buring (UCLA) is one of the invited speakers.
Submssion deadline for abstracts is June 15, 2004.
For more information, please visit: http://www.linguistics.uconn.edu/nels35.html
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