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WHASC Newsletter October 21, 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
Cathryn Donohue
Linguistics Research Center Associate
Case licensing in four place predicates in Basque
Friday, October 29, 2004
5:00 p.m.
Cowell College Conference Room
Basque, an ergative isolate, has three structural cases but case doubling is not allowed. Adding a fourth argument, e.g. through causativizing a ditransitive verb, thus poses an interesting problem for case licensing: exactly one argument must be rendered oblique. Previous studies addressing these data have correctly modeled the morphological marking of these arguments. However, they have either neglected to correctly predict the structural status of all four arguments (Joppen and Wunderlich, 1995), or have done so stipulatively (Joppen-Hellwig, 2001). I present an analysis of these data within Optimality Theoretic Lexical Decomposition Grammar (OT-LDG) (Kiparsky 2001, Wunderlich 2001) which correctly captures the morphological and structural properties of each of the arguments. I conclude by presenting the typology of causee case-marking in four-place predicates predicted by the model and show how these predictions are borne out.
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INFORMATIONAL MEETING REGARDING
UCSC LINGUISTICS MASTER'S PROGRAM
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2004
2:00 - 3:00 PM
STEVENSON 249 (LCR)
Come and learn about the Linguistics M.A. Program
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PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT FALL 2004 LECTURE SERIES
Jan Van der Veken, The Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium
"The Place of the Human Being in the Cosmos from the Point of View of Science and Religion"
4:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Elizabeth Camp, Harvard Society of Fellows
"Why Metaphors Matter: Communication, Thought and the Principle of Expressibility"
4:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 3, 2004
Paul Teller, University of California, Davis
"De-Idealizing Truth"
6:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Peter Hanks, University of Minnesota
"Animal Minds and Animal Behavior"
4:00 p.m., Thursday, November 18, 2004
(This lecture is part of the SCLL Distinguished Visitors Series)
ALL LECTURES ARE IN THE SILVERMAN CONFERENCE ROOM, STEVENSON COLLEGE
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CALL FOR PAPERS
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Spring Linguistics Colloquium 2005
Saturday, April 23, 2005
Keynote Speaker: Peter Ladefoged
Professor Emeritus, UCLA
Deadline for Abstracts: Friday, January 28, 2005
For more information, please visit: http://www.unc.edu/depts/ling/colloquium.html
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The 29th Penn Linguistics Colloquium - PLC 29
February 25-27, 2005
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Invited speaker - Mark Baker, Rutgers University, "Gerund constructions within a universal theory of categories"
Workshop: Syntactically annotated corpora: What, why, and how?
Anthony Kroch et al. Univ. of Pennsylvania
Deadline: Abstracts are due by November 8, 2004
Email: plc29@ling.upenn.edu
Visit: www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC
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The University of Kansas - Assistant Professor in Linguistics (two positions)
Second Language Acquisition
and
Cognitive Neuroscience
starting August 18, 2005
First priority will be given to applications received by December 1, 2004
For further information, please e-mail: linguistics@ku.edu
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Health Interpreting and Health Applied Linguistics Graduate Program
The University of North Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health, Fort Worth, TX
The HIHAL program is the only program in the U.S. to prepare students with an undergraduate degree in linguistics for positions as professional health interpreters, linguistic researchers and leaders in the field of health applied linguistics. Students receive a Master of Public Health (MPH) with a specialization in Spanish language interpreting and applied research.
http://www.hsc.unt.edu/education/sph/Tracks.cfm