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WHASC Newsletter October 14, 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 TOMORROW, FOLLOWED BY POTLUCK
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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LSA CONGRATULATIONS ADDENDUM
Lynsey Wolter is also presenting at LSA: "Nonuniqueness implications in demonstrative descriptions." Lynsey is currently visiting U Mass Amherst during fall quarter.
The title of James Isaacs' LSA talk is: "The afactuality of suppositions."
Santa Cruz will be well represented!
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PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM
Time: Wednesday, Nov 3, 4PM - Silverman Conference Room
Title: "Why Metaphors Matter: Communication, Thought and the Principle of Expressibility"
Speaker: Elizabeth Camp, Harvard Society of Fellows
For more information, you can access her web site at:
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~ecamp/
Please mark your calendars for what should be a lively and stimulating discussion!
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GRE PRACTICE TESTS
Free MCAT, LSAT, GMAT and GRE practice tests will be given here at Stevenson College on Saturday October 16, 2004. Advance registration is required. To register call 1-800-KAP-TEST or go on-line at http://kaptest.com/testdrive
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THINKING ABOUT GRAD SCHOOL?
Graduate & Professional School Fair
Monday, October 25th 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
College 8 West Field House
Over 100 graduate schools will be on hand to discuss their programs. To see which schools are coming, go to: http://www2.ucsc.edu/careers/events/grad_fair04.html
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UPCOMING LINGUISTIC EVENTS
The deadline for submitting abstracts to the 10th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, which takes place triannually and will be held in Berlin, July 25-29, 2005, is November 15 (soon!). http://www.ctw-congress.de/iascl/
The deadline for GLOW 2005 to be held in Geneva, March 31 - April 2, 2005, is one month earlier than in previous years, namely November 1 (very soon!). http://www.unige.ch/lettres/linge/syntaxe/shlonsky/glow05/
The call for papers for the 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 24) is now available. The deadline is November 30, 2004, 5:00 pm PST. The conference will take place at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia.  http://www.sfu.ca/%7Ewccfl24/
SULA 3 CALL FOR PAPERS
The Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 3
University at Buffalo - SUNY
April 15-17, 2005
The Department of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, is pleased to announce the third conference on the formal Semantics of Under-represented languages in the Americas. The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers working on languages or dialects which do not have an established tradition of work in formal semantics. We also invite submissions from those working on child languages (acquisition of semantics). We especially encourage abstract submissions from those whose work involves primary fieldwork or experimentation as well as analysis. We strongly encourage the participation of graduate students.
The conference will be organized into panel discussions, and there will be a special session on Tense and Aspect. The paper length will be 30 minutes, plus 15 minutes for discussion.
Invited speakers confirmed so far
* Martina Faller (University of Manchester, UK) Quechua
* Veerle van Geenhoven (Radboud University, Netherlands) West Greenlandic
* J. Michael Terry (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) African American Vernacular English
* Andrea Wilhelm (University of Alberta, Canada) ChipewyanPanel commentators confirmed so far
* Jürgen Bohnemeyer (University at Buffalo)
* Greg Carlson (University of Rochester)
* Christine Gunlogson (University of Rochester)
* Jean-Pierre Koenig (University at Buffalo)
* Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
* Eun-Hee Lee (University at Buffalo)
* Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia, Canada)Abstracts
Electronic submission is strongly preferred. Send two-page abstract as attached Word or (preferably) PDF file (subject: "SULA 3 submission") to  The UMass Department of Linguistics: http://www.umass.edu/linguist/
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