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NEWS

Vera Lee-Schoenfeld recently returned from a trip to the University of Durham, in the United Kingdom, where she presented a paper at this year's meeting of the Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW 18, http://www.dur.ac.uk/durham.linguist/). The paper Vera presented, "German Possessor Datives: Raised *And* Affected" was well-received and provoked a lot of discussion, making interesting connections especially with the work of Susi Wurmbrand (University of Connecticut), who was one of the invited speakers. Also among the invited speakers was UC Santa Cruz graduate Peter Svenonius, who spoke on "Stalking the Wild Parameter: Parametric variation and distance between languages". The talk was based on research conducted at the recently-inaugurated Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL) at Tromso (http://uit.no/castl/2612/). Peter, who graduated from UCSC in 1994, is now a Senior Researcher at CASTL.
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Summer Kern, a former Linguistics BA, will be entering Loyola's law program this fall. Summer received a full scholarship to attend Loyola--one of only six people chosen out of a class of 4,000 entering!
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UCSC will be well represented at LSA this year. A paper co-authored by Line Mikkelsen and Jorge Hankamer, "A puzzle about PPs in Danish definite DPs," was accepted for presentation, as was Line's abstract "Reexamining Higgins' taxonomy: a split in the identificational class." Adam Albright had a paper accepted as well, entitled "The emergence of the marked: Root-domain markedness constraints in Lakhota." Congratulations to all!
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Warm thanks to Tanya Honig for organizing the fall Welcome Reception, and to Donka Farkas for graciously opening her lovely home to us. It was a wonderful event and a great way to kick off the new year.
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COLLOQUIA

From our colloquia czar Geoff Pullum:
There is a rich selection schedule of interesting linguistics-related talks at UCSC this quarter, including presentations by visitors in the regular Linguistics Colloquium Series, other research talks in the Department of Linguistics, and talks in other departments that will be of interest to linguists. In fact starting October 10 there is an event EVERY Friday except during the Thanksgiving holiday. Details will follow closer to the time in each case, but a brief advance listing for your calendar follows. In all but one case (asterisked), the spatiotemporal coordinates are the same: Friday at 4pm in the Silverman Conference Room at Stevenson College.
Oct 10: John Kingston [U Mass] (plus: potluck at Junko and Armin's)
Title:  "Lenition: When (some) sonority differences don't matter"
Oct 17: Gunnar Hrafnbjargarson [U Aarhus]
Oct 24: Junko Ito and Armin Mester
Oct 31: Michela Ippolito
Nov 7: Fiona Cowie [Cal Tech] (Philosophy colloquium series)
Nov 14: Daniel Selden
*Wednesday, Nov 19: Geoff Pullum (Cognitive Psychology colloquium series)
Nov 21: Theodora Alexopoulou [Cambridge U]
Dec 5: Michael Wescoat
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FUNDING AVAILABLE

The Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies announce the 2004 competition for the International Dissertation Field research Fellowships.The program is designed to support distinguished graduate students in the humanities and social sciences, in all fields of research. Fifty fellowships of up to $20,000 will be awarded. The application deadline is November 10, 2003. For more information, visit: http://www.ssrc.org/programs/idrf
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The Association for Symbolic Logic announces their Travel Grant Program, which provides financial assistance to graduate students and recent Ph.D.s to attend the principal meetings of the Association. They especially welcome applications from women, minority students and recent Ph.D.s. Applications must be received by March 8, 2004 for the 2004 ASL Annual meeting, by April 1, 2004 for the European Summer meeting, and three months in advance for any other meetings. For more information, visit their website at: http://www.aslonline.org
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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

The Department of Linguistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, effective 1 July 2004. The position requires a completed Ph.D. in Linguistics with a primary specialization in syntactic theory and a secondary specialization in either language variation (synchronic or diachronic) and language contact or in language acquisition and/or language disorders. Expertise in an Aboriginal language of the North Atlantic region would be an asset.
Applications should include a current curriculum vitæ, a teaching dossier, the names of three persons who can supply a letter of reference, and any supporting documents, including evidence of teaching ability. All applications must be received by November 17, 2003, and should be directed to: Dr. Marguerite MacKenzie, Head, Department of Linguistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada A1B 3X9. FAX: (709) 737-4000 Email: linguist@mun.ca
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From Marges Linguistiques:
Thierry Bulot (University of Rouen and University of Rennes II, France) and Michel Santacroce (University of Provence, Cnrs, France) are pleased to announce that
the first 2 volumes of the series "Marges Linguistiques-L'Harmattan" are now available in print at booksellers Contributors to the volume include William Labov, University of Pennsylvania (U.S.A); Louis-Jean Calvet, de l'Université de Provence (France); Jacques Moeschler, University of Geneva (Switzerland); Yong-Ho Choi, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (South Korea); Lorenza Mondada, University of Basel (Switzerland) and others.
The books can be ordered on line from the Marges Linguistiques home page (http://www.marges-linguistiques.com) or the website of Editions L'Harmattan (http://www.editions-harmattan.fr) The order form (partly in English) can be downloaded at: http://marg.lng4.free.fr/documents/div0025/bon_commande_ml-lharmattan.pdf
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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Fifth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP 2004) will be held March 112-13, 2004.
TCP addresses itself to "Plato's problem" concerning language acquisition:
"How can we gain a rich linguistic system given our fragmentary and impoverished experience?"
Deadline for submission of abstracts is November 30, 2003. For more information, visit their website at: http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/
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NEW IN THE LRC LIBRARY

Dylan Herrick has very generously donated the following books to the LRC:

Principles and Parameters: An Introduction to Syntactic Theory, Peter W. Culicover, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, Noam Chomsky, MIT Press, 1965.
Barriers, Noam Chomsky, MIT Press, 1986 .
Language and Thought, Noam Chomsky, Moyer Bell, 1993.
The Minimalist Program, Noam Chomsky, MIT Press, 1997.
Aspect, Bernard Comrie, Cambridge University Press, 1976.
Discourse and Its Presuppositions, Charles Landesman, Yale University Press, 1972.
Logic, Language, and Meaning, Vol. 1 and 2, L.T.F. Gamut, University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Carl Pollard and Ivan A. Sag, University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Symbol, Status, and Personality, S. I. Hayakawa, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1963.
Semantics and the Philosophy of Language, Leonard Linsky, ed., University of Illinois Press, 1972.
The Concept of Structuralism: A Critical Analysis, Philip Pettit, University of California Press, 1977.
The Language of First-Order Logic, Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy, CSLI Publication, 1993.
Relativized Minimality, Luigi Rizzi, MIT Press, 1996.
The Syntax of "Subjects," Koichi Tateishi, CSLI Publications/Kurosio Publishers, 1994.
Cuneiform, C. B. F. Walker, University of California Press, 1987.
A Concise Introduction to Logic, 4th ed., Patrick J. Hurley, Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1991.
Study Guide to Accompany Hurley's Logic 4th ed, Robert W. Burch, Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1991.

These items can be found in the Recent Acquisition section of the LRC library.