WHASC Newsletter June 24, 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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The Linguistics Department would like to congratulate all of our
Spring 2004 graduates! Please note that students graduating with
'Honors' are denoted with an "*".Those graduating with 'Highest
Honors' are denoted with "**".
Language Studies-minors
Lourdes Gomez
Mary Wallace
Linguistics-minors
Morgan Jones
Evynne Testa-Avila
Language Studies-majors (* = Honors; ** = Highest Honors)
Thea Burch
Janine Campos
Leah Champi
Alexander Cohen
Celeste Coleman
Mareshia Donald
Cheryl Downs*
Tabitha Ellett
Adeelee Feldman
Alexa Goldstrom**
Susana Gomez
Angela Kenny
Caitlin Levin
Alexandra Levine
Bianca Lyons
Martina McGuire
Lucila Perez
Denna Rios
Elizabeth Roberts*
Dorothea Rohlfs*
William Sherman
Cheryl Taylor*
Eric Terao**
Katrina Vegvary
Ginelle Wullschleger
Linguistics majors (* = Honors)
Jennifer Bates
Noah Constant*
Lindsey Kerr*
Gil Mizrahi
Jennifer Moore*
Jessamy Norton-Ford
Nathan Okelberry
Amanda Rishel
Daniel Roth*
Christina Smith
Ember Van Allen*
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Congratulations to Lynsey Wolter who successfully defended her
dissertation perspectus on Friday, June 4th:
"A Compositional Semantics of Demonstrative Noun Phrases"
Lynsey's committee is Donka Farkas, Bill Ladusaw and Jim McCloskey.
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Congratulations to Ascander Dost, for successfully defending his
phonology QP, "Sonority Distance Constraints in Syllable Evaluation"!
The committee consisted of Junko Ito, Jaye Padgett (chair), and Ingo
Plag.
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Vera Lee-Schoenfeld returned from a trip to this year's Comparative
Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW-19), which was held at CUNY in New York
City, June 3-5. Vera's alternate talk entitled `Binding, Possessor
Raising, and the Typology of Clause Size' was added to the conference
program and was well-attended and well-received. Among the conference
participants were Susi Wurmbrand & Jonathan Bobaljik (UConn),
Jan-Wouter Zwart (Groningen), and Josef Bayer & Ellen Brandner
(Konstanz). The invited speakers were Hans Bennis (P.J. Meertens
Institute, Amsterdam) and Alison Henry (University of Ulster at
Jordanstown). Evenings were spent eating out and bar-hopping. This
gave the younger generation of linguists a chance to bond. Among the
(post-)graduate student participants were Theresa Biberauer
(Cambridge), Siobhan Cottell (Ulster), Dorian Roehrs (Indiana), and
Thomas Leu & Lisa Levinson (NYU).
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Congratulations to our undergrads who have been accepted into
graduate programs:
Holman Tse is going to the joint Anthropology and Linguistics Ph.D.
program at Chicago.
Elena Innes is going to UMass.
Eric Terao is going to the University of Wisconsin.
Dan Roth and Fujiko Yamamoto are going to San Francisco State University.
The undergrads coming into our MA program are: Noah Constant, Tabitha
Ellett, Evynne Testa-Avila, Jonathan Casper, Allison Largent, and
Ember Van Allen.
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Thanks to all who helped organize and present at the successful
UCSC/UCLA Modality workshop, held at Cowell College on Saturday, June
5. The presenters from UCSC were Kyle Rawlins, James Isaacs, Michela
Ippolito and Donka Farkas. Everybody thought it was a great event.
UCLA is planning to host a sequel next year.
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Professor William Ladusaw has been appointed to serve as Interim
Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education. His appointment will fill the position
vacated by Dr. Lynda Goff, who has served as VPDUE with distinction
since 1998. Dr. Ladusaw will assume his new post effective July 1.
Margaret L. Delaney, Interim Campus Provost and Executive Vice
Chancellor states:
"Dr. Ladusaw brings to the office of Campus Provost and EVC an
exceptional scholarly record and extensive administrative experience.
He is widely recognized as an outstanding campus citizen with an
extensive record of service contributions at all levels of the
University. Dr. Ladusaw previously served as Chair of the Linguistics
Department and Provost of Cowell College, as well as serving on various
administrative and Academic Senate committees. He recently served as a
member of the Steering Committee for the new Academic Information
Systems (AIS). In 2002 he assumed the role of AIS Steward, Advising
and Degree Audit, helping to guide the implementation of this critical
new campus system."
Congratulations, Bill!
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Donka Farkas has been at the University of Geneva the week of June
14th teaching a mini-course on indefinites.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Western Conference on Linguistics
Short Title: WECOL 2004
Date: November 12-14, 2004
Location: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Contact Email: wecol@usc.edu
Meeting URL: http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/linguistics/WECOL
Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics
Call deadline: July 1, 2004
INVITED SPEAKERS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS:
Spanish and Other Romance Languages
- Violeta Demonte, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- Shana Poplack, University of Ottawa
Projectionist vs. Constructionist Approaches to Syntax
- Ray Jackendoff, Brandeis University
- Beth Levin, Stanford University
Contrast in Phonology and Morphology
- Jaye Padgett, UC Santa Cruz
- Donca Steriade, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ABSTRACTS
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes of discussion)
on any aspect of theoretical linguistics. Abstracts are also invited for a
poster session. Please specify all the sessions for which you would like
to be considered.
Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per
author. All abstracts should be in English, and submitted as
attachments, in PDF format, to the following email address:
wecol@usc.edu. The subject of the message should specify ''Abstract'',
and the body should include the following information: author's name(s),
affiliation and e-mail address title of abstract area of linguistics (syntax,
phonology, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, etc.) Abstracts
should be limited to one page (using 1'' margins on all sides and 11pt
font size) with an optional additional page containing examples and
references. Non-standard fonts and software should be avoided and all
fonts should be embedded in the PDF document. For information
regarding submitting abstracts by snail mail, please email the committee
at wecol@usc.edu. The papers presented at WECOL '04 will be eligible
for publication in the official proceedings of the conference.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 1, 2004
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: September 1, 2004
EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: November 1, 2004
For more information, please visit:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/linguistics/WECOL or contact the
organizers at: wecol@usc.edu
Phone: (213)700-6219; Fax: (213)740-9306
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NEW IN THE LRC LIBRARY
Thank you to Adam Albright for donating the following books and
journals to the LRC before taking off for MIT!! These books may be
found in the' Recent Acquisitions' section, toward the back of the
library on the lower left-hand shelf.
Chomsky, Noam, "The Minimalist Program", 1996, MIT Press
Denning, Keith & Leben, William," English Vocabulary Elements", 1995,
Oxford University Press
Shopen, Timothy," Languages and Their Status", Paperback edition
1987, University of Pennsylvania Press, published by arrangement with
the Center for Applied Linguistics
Haegeman, Liliane, "Introduction to Government & Binding Theory" 2nd
Edition, 1995, Blackwell Publishers
Clark, Virgina P., Eschholz, Paul A., Rosa, Alfred F. (editors),
Language (Introductory Readings) 4th Edition, 1985, St. Martin's
Press, Inc.
Kufner, Herbert L., "The Grammatical Structures of English and
German", 1962, The University of Chicago Press
Rizzi, Luigi," Relativized Minimality" ( Linguistic Inquiry Monograph
Sixteen) 1996, The MIT Press
Kayne, Richard S., "The Antisymmetry of Syntax" ( Linguistic Inquiry
Monograph Twenty-Five), 1995, The MIT Press
Computational Linguistics( Special Issue on Summarization), Vol 23,
No. 4, December 2002
Computational Linguistics, Vol 28, No. 3, September 2002
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"Global warming" is the wrong term, according to linguist George
Lakoff, in the July/August 2004 Sierra Club magazine (p. 54).
"Warm" seems nice.
Lakoff concludes: "Words matter. It is extremely important that
people use language in a powerful way."
A copy of the article is posted on the bulletin board in the LCR.
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Have a wonderful, relaxing summer break!!