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WHASC Newsletter June 3, 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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Congratulations to Chelsea Strong, who passed her Masters paper defense of "Russian Stress Shift Within the Context of Realize Morpheme and Anti-Faithfulness" on Friday, May 28. The committee consisted of Junko Ito and Jaye Padgett (Chair).
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Congratulations to Lindsay Jones, who successfully defended her MA paper
"Movement and Negation in Stripping Constructions" on Wednesday, June 2.
The committee was Jorge Hankamer and Jim McCloskey.
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Congratulations to the presenters at the UCSC Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference held yesterday afternoon: Alexa Goldstrom, Dan Roth, Eric Terao and the Computational Linguistics Group of Michael Fernwood, Abe Heckenbach, Morgan Jones, and Jennifer Moore. The talks were varied and impressive! Also, thank you to Jason Riggle and his wife Suzanne for coming from Los Angeles to be part of the conference and inform us about Pima, an American Indian language which is spoken in central and southern Arizona. Great job!
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SEMANTICS CONFERENCE THIS SATURDAY - ALL ARE WELCOME
MODALITY AND ITS KIN
Saturday, June 5, 2004
Cowell Conference Room, UCSC
9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and Pastries
10:00 - 11:00 Tim Stowell (UCLA)
Apparent Scope Reversals Involving Tense and Modals
11:00 - 12:00 Kyle Rawlins (UCSC)
Examining Domain Adverbs Semantically
12:00 - 1:30 LUNCH
1:30 - 2:30 Cleo Condoravdi (Parc and Stanford)
Agnostic Counterfactuals
2: 30 - 3:30 James Isaacs (UCSC)
On the Semantics of Imperatives
3:30 - 3:45 COFFEE BREAK
3: 45 - 4:45 Donka Farkas and Michela Ippolito (UCSC)
Contextual Restrictions and Discourse Anaphora
4:45 - 5:45 Nathan Klinedinst (UCLA)
Alternative Concessives
5:45 - 6:45 Philippe Schlenker (UCLA)
Remarks on the Tense/Mood /Connection
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SUMMER SCHOOL
"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know."
--Groucho Marx
Find out why this is funny in LING 53: Semantics I (Gen Ed Code: IH)
Summer Session I
MTWTH 5:00-7:00 p.m.Introduction to Unix
Cmps/Ling 080G
Summer Session II: 7/26-8/ 27
MWF 2-3 p.m. (plus lab)
Gen Ed code: T2-Nat Sci
Taught by James Isaacs
Register now!
http://summer.ucsc.edu
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New in the LRC Library:
Three papers on German verb movement, Ralf Vogel (ed.), Linguistics in Potsdam 22, 2004
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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which
you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you
think you cannot do."
--Eleanor Roosevelt
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