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On October 14, from 2-4 pm, Armin Mester and Connie Creel will be holding a Drop-in Declaration session for those who wish to declare a major in either Linguistics or Language Studies. The session will be held in Stevenson 249. Students wishing to declare the major should bring 1) a Declaration of major form, signed by their college, and 2) on a separate piece of paper, a draft outlining, in a quarter-by-quarter schedule, the classes you intend to take. These 15-minute session are intended to assist students with completing the necessary paperwork; more detailed questions can be discussed in a separate meeting with an undergraduate advisor.
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COLLOQUIA

A reminder that the first Linguistics Colloquium of the year will be held this Friday, October 10, at 4 pm in the Silverman Room at Stevenson College. The speaker will be John Kingston, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The title of his talk is "Lenition: When (some) sonority differences don't matter."

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Psychology Department Colloquium Series Social Program Presents:
All-day KERR SYMPOSIUM: Leo Panetta & others, "Rethinking the Student Experience in the 21st Century Public Research University." Friday, October 10, 3:30-5:00 pm, in College 9/10 Dining Hall Multi-purpose room. For more information visit the Kerr Symposium site:  http://kerrsymposium.ucsc.edu/index.html

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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

The Department of Linguistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position to begin July 1, 2004. The area of specialization should be related to Yucatec Mayan, or closely related mesoamerican languages. Applicants should submit a letter of introduction, cv, four letters of recommendation and a research sample by December 1, 2003 to: Search Committee, Department of Linguistics, Campus Box 3155, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155.

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NEW IN THE LRC LIBRARY

Linguistics Sciences, Vol. 2 (March 2003) and Vol. 3 (May 2003), Jiangsu, China: Linguistics Sciences Publishing Association.

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The following two dissertations were left off of the list of titles that Dylan Herrick donated to the LRC:

Dols Salas, Nicolau A. "Teoria fonological i sil labificacio. El cas del catala de Mallorca," Mallorca, 2003.

Ogawa, Yoshiki. A Unified Theory of Verbal and Nominal Projections," Tohoku University, Japan, 1997.

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