Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference 2003
Baytree Conference Center
Room D
Thursday, June 5, 2003
3-5:45 p.m. (followed by reception)
3:00-3:25 Laura Buhl, Linguistics
'A semantic analysis of get-constructions'
3:25-3:50 Alia Sperling, Linguistics and History
'Headed or not-so-free relatives'
3:50-4:15 Holman Tse, Linguistics and Anthropology
'Constructing the Chinese language: linguistic ideology, culture, and nation-state politics'
4:15-4:30 Break
4:30-5:05 Japanese language research group:
Ryan Tanaka, Language Studies
Eric Terao, Language Studies and Global Economics
Ember Van Allen, Linguistics
Fujiko Yamamoto, Language Studies
'Morpho-phonological contractions in contemporary Japanese'
5:05-5:45 Invited speaker:
Joey Sabbagh, MIT
(BA in Linguistics, UCSC, 2000)

'Ordering and linearizing rightward movement'
5:45-6:30 Reception on the patio next to the conference room
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Congratulations to Andy Wedel, who successfully defended his dissertation prospectus a few weeks ago!
Jaye, Armin, and Adam comprised the committee.
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Vera Lee-Schoenfeld got a last-minute invitation to the Workshop on Cross-linguistic Auxiliary Selection at UC Davis which took place this past Saturday (May 31st). Her talk, entitled "Agentivity vs. auxiliary choice: Evidence from pronominal binding in German AcI-constructions" was very well received, and it led to a lively discussion over lunch with invited speakers Carol Rosen, Cornell University, Annie Zaenen, Stanford U./PARC and Geraldine Legendre, Johns Hopkins U. They all send their regards to their friends and former colleagues and teachers in our department.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Going Romance 2003
November 20-22, 2003
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Papers on all areas of Romance linguistics are welcome.
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: September 1, 2003
For more details, take a look at: http://www.let.kun.nl/frans/going

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The 55th Northwest Philosophy Conference will be held on October 3 and 4,
2003, at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon. The theme of the conference is
necessity, and it will include plenary papers by Kit Fine, Scott Soames,
and David Chalmers.
The call for papers, and other information, can be found at
http://academic.reed.edu/nwpc2003/
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New in the LRC Library:
Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics Volulme 20 (2003)
special Issue on Contrast in Phonology
Editor for this volume: Daniel Currie Hall
Series editors: Chiara Frigeni & Manami Hirayama
This publication can be found in the "Recent Acquisitions" section of the library.
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