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NEWS
Jim McCloskey is going to Ireland to give a talk to the new Irish Humanities Institute at University College, Dublin, on Monday, November 10th. Junko Ito is going to Ithaca, New York to give a colloquium talk at Cornell University on Thursday, November 13th.
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UCSC was a strong presence at this year's meeting of the North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS), held November 7-9 at Stony Brook University. Lynsey Wolter presented a talk entitled "Demonstratives, Definiteness and Determined Reference" and Shigeto Kawahara (a former exchange student at UCSC) presented a talk entitled "Echo Epenthesis and Reduplication." The poster sessions featured James Isaacs and Chris Potts' joint work on hidden imperatives, as well as presentations by Jason Riggle (UCSC M.A. 1999) on nonlocal reduplication and by Lotus Goldberg (UCSC M.A. 1998) on VP ellipsis.
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Recent Visiting Scholar Gunnar Hrafn emailed to say that he is back home again. He wanted to thank everyone in the department, and said, " I had a very good time in Santa Cruz and I am so grateful that I was given the opportunity to come for a visit. I have to say that I could not have come to a better place." We were happy to have you here, Gunnar, and we wish you well!
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There will be an informational meeting regarding the UCSC Linguistics Masters Program on Tuesday, November 25 from 12:00-1:00 pm in Stevenson 249 (LCR). This is an opportunity for interested students to get answers to all of their questions about the Masters program here at UCSC.
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COLLOQUIA
The Linguistics Department Colloquium Series presents Daniel Selden, Associate Professor of Literature, UCSC, speaking on "Crossroads and Chaos: Unsolved Problems in Old Ethiopic (Ge'ez) Morphology and Syntax," this Friday, November 14, at 4 pm. PLEASE NOTE that this colloquium will be held in Cowell Room 131.
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The Psychology Department Colloquium Series Cognitive Program presents Sharon Daniel, UC Santa Cruz Film & Digital Media Department, speaking on "Achieving and Aesthetics of Dignity in the field of the Database." This colloquium will be held today, Wednesday, November 12, 3:30-5:00 pm in Social Sciences 2, Rm. 121.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its 30th Annual Meeting, to be held February 13-16, 2004. The conference will consist of a General Session, a Parasession, and a Special Session. Abstracts must be received in the BLS Office by 5:00 pm, December 3, 2003. They can be sent by mail to BLS 30 Abstracts Committee, 1203 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2650, or by email to bls@socrates.berkeley.edu. For submission guideline and other information, visit their website at http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu.
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NEW IN THE LRC LIBRARY
The following item has just arrived in the LRC Library:
Current Issues in English Linguistics. Masatomo Ukaji, Masayuki Ike-Uchi and Yoshiki Nishimura, eds., Tokyo: Kaitakusha (English Linguistic Society of Japan), 2003.
This item can be found in the Recent Acquisitions section of the library.