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WHASC Newsletter October 30, 2002
("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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REMINDER: COLLOQUIUM
ADAM ALBRIGHT
UCSC Linguistics Faculty Fellow
"The identification of bases in morphological paradigms"
Friday, November 1 - 3:30 p.m.
Silverman Conference Room - Stevenson College
Potluck dinner following the colloquium at 120 Limestone Lane hosted by Junko Ito and Armin Mester.
The abstract may be viewed at:
http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/colloquia/abstracts/albright.html
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Bill Ladusaw has been invited to speak at the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 2002) at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver on November 1-3, 2002. His talk is entitled: "Restriction and Saturation: Operations at the Syntax-Semantics Interface."
The WECOL website is: http://www.linguistics.ubc.ca/wecol2002/main.htm
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS - TOULOUSE July 7-11, 2003
International Phonology Conference on the theme "From representations to constraints"
Deadline for Abstracts: December 1, 2002
Organized by the phonology team of the Equipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique
(CNRS & Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail), in partnership with the GDR 1954 Phonologie du CNRS

Coordinator: Elsa Gomez-Imbert (email: phon2003@univ-tlse2.fr)
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Thank you to Jaye Padgett for donating the following books to the LRC Library:
Eric Haeberli. Features, Categories and the Syntax of A-Positions: Cross-Linguistic Variations in the Germanic Languages. 2002. Vol 54. Studies in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Themes in Arabic and Hebrew Syntax. Edited by Jamal Ouhalla and Ur Shlonsky. 2002. Vol 53. Studies in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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Psycholinguistics or Computational Linguistics tenure-line assistant professor position open at Northwestern University.
Deadline: December 1, 2002
http://www.cas.northwestern.edu/linguistics

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2002-2003 UCSC Excellence in Teaching Awards
Students, nominate your most outstanding teachers!
Download nomination materials at: http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/CTE
or request them in your department or college office.
Deadline: Tuesday, April 1, 2003

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The Center for Teaching Excellence is offering...
Instructional Improvement Grant Information Sessions
* Monday, December 2, 9:00-11:00 A.M. in room 325 McHenry
* Thursday, January 9, 3:00-5:00 P.M. in room 325 McHenry
Proposal deadline: Friday, January 31, 2003
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