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WHASC Newsletter, September 23, 2004
("What's Happening at Santa Cruz")
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ACCOLADES
The Linguistics Department would like to congratulate all of our
Summer 2004 graduates!
LINGUISTICS
Matthew James Borkenhagen
Keryn Petronella Sovella
LANGUAGE STUDIES
Cristina Adriana Garcia
Megan Suzanne Oelke (graduated with Honors in the major)
Cher Schuitevoerder
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MEET THE NEW GRAD STUDENTS
We are delighted to welcome the following new graduate students to the department:
M.A. Program
Jonathan Casper graduated from UCSC in June, 2002 with a double major in linguistics and computer engineering.
Allison Largent has a BA in Linguistics from UCSC (June, 2003).
Noah Constant was a double major in Linguistics and Computer Science at UCSC graduating in June, 2004.
Tabitha Ellett is a graduate of the Language Studies major at UCSC (June, 2004) with a concentration in French.
Evynn Testa Avila graduated from UCSC in June, 2004 with a major in Classical Studies and a minor in Linguistics.
Ember Van Allen has a BA in Linguistics from UCSC (June, 2004).
Sue Anne "Gigi" Ying earned her B.A. in Art History with a minor in Linguistics from Stanford University in June, 2002.
Ph.D. Program
Vera Gribanov has a B.A. in Linguistics from Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass. She is interested in studying Russian and Bulgarian syntax.
Jesse Kirchner earned a B.A. in Linguistics at the University of Arizona, Tucson in June. His focus will be on phonology.
Justin Nuger graduated from McGill University in Montreal, Canada in June with a Linguistics degree. His principal interests are in syntax and Germanic and Austronesian languages.
Jeremy Weissmann is a June, '04 graduate of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Jeremy was a double major in math and linguistics. His goal is to study syntax and semantics.
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WELCOME, DAN
We welcome Dan Roth to the department as a Visiting Humanities Scholar for the 2004-05 school year. Dan was awarded the B.A. in Linguistics with Honors and a minor in Communication and Rhetoric from UCSC in June, 2004.
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MANY THANKS
Thank you to Donka Farkas for hosting the reception for new graduate students and to Tanya Honig for providing the delicious food!
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KUDOS
Congratulations to Vera Lee-Schoenfeld whose paper `German
Possessor Datives: Raised *and* Affected' has been accepted for
publication in the Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.
An earlier paper by Vera `Binding by Phase: (Non)-complementarity
in German' appeared in the Journal of Germanic Linguistics earlier
this year.
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Congratulations to Anne Sturgeon who successfully defended her
dissertation prospectus on June 25th. Members of her committee
are Judith Aissen, Donka Farkas, and Jim McCloskey.
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Geoff Pullum has completed an article called "Adverbs and Demons",
to be published in a forthcoming book, "Secrets of Angels and Demons:
An Unauthorized Guide to the Best-Selling Novel", which will be
coming out around Thanksgiving. This is the second time Geoff
has raked "The Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown over the coals for
offenses against the English language; you can see his first at
<http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000844.html>.
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THINKING AHEAD
LSA Summer Institute next summer (2005). It's to be sponsored by MIT and Harvard and three local faculty (Sandy, Jim, Judith) will be teaching there. All the information is here:
http://web.mit.edu/lsa2005
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Philosophy Department Colloquium
BRANDEN FITELSON
Department of Philosophy
University of California, Berkeley
"The Paradox of Confirmation"
4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Silverman Conference Room
Stevenson College
The abstract is posted outside the LRC.
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CONFERENCES
19th Annual Arabic Linguistics Symposium
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
April 1-3, 2005
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: December 15, 2004
Conference website: http://www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/als19
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High Desert Linguistics Socieety (HDLS) Conference
November 4-6, 2004
http://linggraduate.unm.edu/conference2004/
Proceedings from previous conferences (1998-2002) are available on a CD in the Recent Acquisitions section in the LRC Library.
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JOB OPENINGS
University of Southern California
Assistant Professor in psycholinguistics/neurolinguistics (tenure track) or as an Associate Professor with tenure
Application deadline is December 1, 2005
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University of Maryland, Department of Linguistics
+Open rank position in Language Acquisition
+Open rank position in Phonology
Positions begin August, 2005
Application deadline is December 1, 2004
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University of Alaska Anchorage
American Russian Center
Russian Far East Program Manager
Application due: October 7, 2004
A bachelor's degree in Russian language or equivalent experience living in Russia is required.
http://www.alaska.edu/hr/
Job opening flyers are posted outside the department office, Stevenson 241.
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NEW IN THE LRC LIBRARY
Christina Ferguson from San Francisco (UCSC B.A. in Linguistics, 1993) has made a generous donation of books to the Library. They will be shelved in the "Recent Acquisitions" section (bottom shelf) for a while before being placed in the regular book section which is organized alphabetically by the author's last name. Thank you, Christina!
Lakoff, George & Johnson, Mark, Metaphors We Live By, The University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Den Besten, Hans, Studies in West Germanic Syntax, Rodopi, 1989.
Soames, Scott & Perlmutter, David M. Syntactic, Argumentation and the Structure of English, University of California Press, 1979.
Clark, Virginia P., Eschholz, Paul A. & Rosa, Alfred F. (editors) Language: Introductory Readings (fourth edition), St. Martin's Press, 1985.
Traugott, Elizabeth Closs & Pratt, Mary Louise, LINGUISTICS for Students of Literature, Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich, 1980.
Lasnik, Howard & Saito, Mamoru, Move A: Conditions on Its Application and Output, MIT Press, 1993.
Lasnik, Howard & Uriagereka, Juan, A Course in GB Syntax: Lectures on Binding and Empty Categories, MIT Press, 1990.
Kayne, Richard S., The Antisymmetry of Syntax, MIT Press, 1994.
Giles, Howard & Coupland, Nikolas, Language: Contexts and Consequences, Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., 1991.
Kaye, Jonathan, PHONOLOGY: a cognitive view, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1989.
Parsons, Terence, Events in the Semantics of English: A Study in Subatomic Semantics, MIT Press, 1994.
Koster, Jan, Domains and Dynasties: The Radical Autonomy of Syntax, Foris Publications, 1987.
Pinker, Steven, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, William Morrow & Co. 1994.
van Riemsdijk, Henk & Williams, Edwin, Introduction to the Theory of Grammar, MIT Press, 1986.
Bynon, Theodora, Historical Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Comrie, Bernard, Language Universals and Linguistic Typology, Basil Blackwell, 1981.
Newmeyer, Frederick J., The Politics of Linguistics, University of Chicago Press, 1986.
Roberts, William H. & Turgeon, Gregoire, About Language: A Reader for Writers (second edition), Houghton Mifflin Co., 1989.
Corballis, Michael C., The Lopsided Ape: Evolution of the Generative Mind, Oxford University Press, 1991.
Neale, Stephen, Descriptions, MIT Press, 1990.
Haegeman, Liliane, Introduction to Government & Binding Theory, Blackwell, 1991.
Freidin, Robert, Foundations of Generative Syntax, MIT Press, 1992.
Chomsky, Noam, Barriers, MIT Press, 1986.
Williams, Edwin, Thematic Structure in Syntax, MIT Press, 1994.
Cinque, Guglielmo, Types of A-Dependencies, MIT Press, 1990.
Rizzi, Luigi, Relativized Minimality, MIT Press, 1990.
Perlmutter, David M. (editor), Studies in Relational Grammar 1, University of Chicago Press, 1983.
Mchombo, Sam A. (editor), Theoretical Aspects of Bantu Grammar 1, CSLI Publications, 1993.
May, Robert, Logical Form: Its Structure and Derivation, MIT Press, 1985.
Clark, Herbert H. & Clark, Eve V., Psychology and Language: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.
Akmajian, Adrian & Heny, Frank, An Introduction to the Principles of Transformational Syntax, MIT Press, 1975.
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