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("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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KUDOS
Christine Gunlogson's UCSC dissertation, True to Form, defended in 2001,
has been accepted for publication in the Blackwell (formerly Garland)
Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series. Congratulations to Christine!
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Informational Meeting regarding UCSC LINGUISTICS MASTER'S PROGRAM
Friday, November 8, 2002
12:30 - 1:30 PM
STEVENSON 249 (LCR)
Come and learn about some important new initiatives!
Light refreshments will be served.
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THE PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT
COLLOQUIA SERIES
UC SANTA CRUZ
CASEY O'CALLAGHAN
Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy, UCSC"The Event View of Sounds"
Thursday, Nov. 14
4:00-6:00 pm
Stevenson Silverman Conference Room
Casey O'Callaghan earned his Ph.D.(2002)from Princeton. He will be teaching Philosophy of Language (Phil 123/223) during the Winter quarter.
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LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM
RAJESH BHATT
Department of Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin
Title: "Long Distance Agreement in Hindi-Urdu"
Friday, November 15, 2002
3:30 p.m.
Stevenson Silverman Conference Room
Rajesh Bhatt's interests are the Interface of Syntax and Semantics, Tree Adjoining Grammars, Computational Linguistics, Indo-Aryan Languages and Cognitive Science. http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~bhatt/
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WORKSHOP
Gerhard Jaeger will be visiting the department in early December and will give a talk on Wednesday, December 4 at 3:30 p.m. in the Graduate Commons Building (The Cave). [time to be confirmed]
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The 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
Indiana University, Bloomington
April 24-27, 2003
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: December 6, 2002
Keynote Speakers: Luigi Burzio, José Ignacio Hualde, Shana Poplack, Juan Uriagereka
website: http://www.indiana.edu/~lsrl33
e-mail: lsrl33@indiana.edu
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The UCSC Philosophy Department presents:
SIMON KELLER
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Boston University
on
"Patriotism"
Thursday, November 7
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Silverman Conference Room
Stevenson College
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Psychology Department
Colloquium Series
Social Sciences 2, 121
3:30 - 5:00pm
Cognitive Program: Friday, November 8
UC Santa Cruz, Psychology graduate student
BRIAN LATHROP
"Spatial behavior in computer-generated environments"
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Thank you to Andy Wedel, Junko Ito and Armin Mester for hosting our Fall potlucks. They were a great success, especially Armin's pork and sauerkraut.
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NEW IN THE LRC LIBRARY:
EONEOHAG, Journal of the Linguistic Society of Korea, No. 32, July, 2002
Special Volume: Functional-Typological Studies in Korean Morpho-Syntax
EONEOHAG, Journal of the Linguistic Society of Korea, No. 33, August, 2002
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