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WHASC Newsletter October 7, 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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COLLOQUIUM OCTOBER 15
Rules and Exceptions in the English Auxiliary System
Ivan A. Sag (Stanford University)
Friday, October 15, 2004
5:00 P.M. Bay Tree Conference Room D (third floor of Bay Tree Bookstore Building)
Potluck following the colloquium hosted by Junko Ito and Armin Mester at 120 Limestone Lane.
ABSTRACT
Since the 1950s, the complex properties of the English auxiliary system (EAS)
have provided strong support for transformational analysis (but Lasnik (2000:
181--190) discusses incompatibility with Minimalism). More recently, others
(Grimshaw 1997, Vikner 2001, Bresnan 2000) have seen the EAS as providing
evidence for `optimization' and OT. By contrast, monotonic `constraint-based'
(MCB) frameworks have failed to provide fully satisfying accounts of the
EAS. Despite achieving success in analyzing the lexical idiosyncrasy that
pervades the general patterns of inversion, negation, and contraction, all
available MCB accounts (including Gazdar et al. 1982, Pollard and Sag 1994,
and Warner 2000) fail to account for the restricted distribution of unstressed
do, e.g. *John did leave., which cannot be explained pragmatically. This
paper offers a simple MCB analysis of the EAS that provides a syntactic
account for the distribution of do, as well as the relevant lexical
idiosyncrasies. The analysis involves no movement operations, ranking, or
ordering and is broadly consistent with LFG, HPSG, TAG, Categorial Grammar or
Construction Grammar.
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS - FALL COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE
Fri Oct 15 Ivan Sag
Baytree Conference Room D, 5 pm
Fri Oct 22 No colloquium --- but linguists may be interested to note that
the Western Humanities Association conference at the UCSC Inn
on Ocean Street has Geoff Nunberg speaking on "The shadow cast
by language upon thought" at 4 pm; Geoff Pullum introduces him.
Fri Oct 29 Cathryn Donohue
Cowell College Conference Room, 5 pm
Thu Nov 4 Haruo Kubozono
Cowell College Conference Room, 4 pm
Fri Nov 12 Jorge Hankamer & Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
Cowell College Conference Room, 5 pm
Fri Nov 19 no colloquium [because of Academic Senate meeting at 2:30 pm]
Fri Nov 26 no colloquium [because of Thanksgiving holiday]
Fri Dec 3 Dan Karvonen PhD defense
Cowell College Conference Room, 5 pm
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KUDOS
Congratulations to Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, who has has successfully defended her dissertation prospectus. The tentative title of the dissertation is, "Beyond Coherence". Vera's committee members are Jim McCloskey and Judith Aissen (co-chairs), and Jorge Hankamer.
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Congratulations to everyone who had a paper accepted for presentation at the 2005 annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (the LSA)! The meeting will be in San Francisco January 6-9, 2005.
Pete Alrenga: "Specificity condition effects in English attributive comparative DPs"
James Isaacs
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld: "Introducing Possessor Datives: High or Low?"
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld & Jorge Hankamer: "What Moves in German VP Topicalization?"
Emily Manetta: "The Minimalist A-bar system: Wh-movement in Kahsmiri"
Line Mikkelsen & Jorge Hankamer: "Apparent optionality in Swedish definiteness agreement"
Anne Sturgeon: "Contrastive Left Dislocation in Czech: Evidence for Movement"
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Emily Manetta is giving a paper "The Left Periphery in Kashmiri" at SALA 24 (South Asian Languages Analysis) to be held at the State University of New York, Stony Brook 19-21 November 2004.
http://naples.cc.stonybrook.edu/CAS/india.nsf/pages/sala
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It's a girl! (from Jason Merchant and Anastasia)
Yes, it's a girl! Lydia Elizabeth Giannakidou Merchant was born on
Sunday at 3:43am, weighing in at 6 lbs 3 oz. Mom and baby are doing
just fine, coming home from the maternity clinic today... pics on my
webpage as soon as we buy a digital camera, I promise...

Na mas zisei!
--Jason
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WELCOME
A warm welcome to Peter Reed from the University of Sussex, Great Britain. Peter is an EAP undergraduate exchange student visiting UCSC for the 2004-05 academic year. His major is Linguistics.
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HUGRA
Announcing a call for proposals for the 2004-2005 Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA)
to support and encourage undergraduate research in the humanities
Up to 10 awards of $500 each. A 1-3 page description of the proposed research project must be accompanied by a completed application form and a letter of support from a faculty sponsor.
Application forms are available at Stevenson 241 or may be downloaded from: http://humwww.ucsc.edu
All application materials must be submitted to the Dean of Humanities, 15 Cowell College Commons, by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, November 1, 2004.
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2004-05 Excellence in Teaching Awards
Students, nominate your most outstanding teachers!
Download nomination materials at http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/CTE
Deadline to submit nominations materials for 2004-05 awards is: 5:00 p.m., Monday, March 7, 2005.
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Fellowship Opportunities for Humanities Graduate Students
The Institute for Humanities Research will offer up to six Dissertation Fellowships for the 2005-2006 academic year.
The deadline for applications is: November 1, 2004
For further information, visit the web site: http://humanities.ucsc.edu/ihr
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CONFERENCE
The 29th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
November 5-7, 2004
Boston, Massachusetts
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD
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JET PROGRAM
Representatives from the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco will be
visiting campus on the following date to provide more
information about the JAPAN EXCHANGE & TEACHING (JET) PROGRAM:
UC Santa Cruz Information Meeting
Tuesday, October 12, 2004; 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Bay Tree Bldg., 3rd Floor, Conference Room D
Every year, through its consulates and embassies around the world,
the Japanese government offers university graduates the chance to
spend a year or more living and working in Japan through the Japan
Exchange & Teaching (JET) Program. This year, as the program enters
its 19th year, over 6,100 participants from 41 countries are
gaining a rare "inside" look at Japan, its culture and its people,
while team-teaching in Japanese public schools as Assistant
Language Teachers (ALTs) or assisting local governments as
Coordinators for International Relations (CIRs).
All majors and educational specialties are welcome to apply for the
JET Program, and no prior Japanese language ability is required for
the ALT position. Applicants must hold or expect to obtain a
Bachelor's degree by July 1, 2005, and must hold US citizenship by
December 1, 2004. Please note that this year's application deadline will be
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2004.
Successful applicants will depart for Japan in July 2005, and
round-trip airfare from designated points in the US will be
provided. The length of the contract is for at least one year and
the annual remuneration will be ¥3,600,000 Japanese yen per year.
Further information and a downloadable application
packet for the JET Program are also available from the Consulate's
JET website at http://www.cgjsf.org/jet, by phone at (415)
356-2462, or by e-mail to jet@cgjsf.org.
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