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Congratulations to Vera Lee-Schoenfeld whose paper "German Possessor Datives: Raised *And* Affected" has been
accepted to the Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW 18) in Durham, England, September 18-20, 2003. There is more information about the program on the web site http://www.dur.ac.uk/durham.linguist/
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Dylan Herrick will defend his dissertation:
An Acoustic Analysis of Phonological Vowel Reduction in Six Varieties of Catalan
Tuesday, July 15, 2003
1:00 p.m.
The Silverman Conference Room
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Geoff Pullum and Barbara Scholz were participants at the
annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology
at CalTech in Pasadena in mid-June, presenting a paper entitled
"Varieties of Nativism" in a symposium session (also featuring
Paul Pietroski of the University of Maryland and Jeff Elman
of UCSD) on the state of the debate over the "argument from
poverty of the stimulus".
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A big thank you to Junko Ito, Jim McCloskey, Armin Mester, Geoff Pullum and Jaye Padgett, who along with Connie Creel, participated in summer orientation programs for incoming freshmen and transfer students. We met some interesting and motivated students who want to study Language Studies and Linguistics.
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The 15th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is taking place August 18-29 in Vienna, Austria. Among those participating from Santa Cruz are Geoff Pullum, Barbara Scholz, Donka Farkas, and Robert Conde.
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The 2004 Annual Meeting of the LSA will take place at the Sheraton Boston Hotel and Towers, Boston, MA, January 8-11, 2004. The Society will be celebrating the 80th anniversary of its founding. Invited speakers are:
Morris Halle (MIT)
Laurence Horn (Yale U)
Lyn Frazier (U MA-Amherst)
Noam Chomsky (MIT)
Judith Kegl (U S ME)
Ray Jackendoff (Brandeis U)
The deadline for abstracts is September 2, 2003.
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