NEWS

On Thursday November 20, EMILY MANETTA will travel to London to give a talk at the Institute for Ismaili Studies. The talk will focus on the circumstances and findings of her fieldwork on Roshani, and its primary audience will be the institute's Central Asian Studies unit.

Emily also found out later than most that her paper "Similar Function, Similar Syntax: Agreement and Cliticization in Brokskat" has been accepted for presentation at this year's LSA meeting in Boston. The paper provides a syntactic analysis of the complex interplay among ergative agreement, case licensing, and cliticization patterns in the little-studied Indic language Brokskat.

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Two books just out from MIT Press by UCSC Linguistic Faculty:

Junko Itô and Armin Mester: Japanese Morphophonemics: Markedness and Word Structure (Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 41)

The sound pattern of Japanese, with its characteristic pitch accent system and rich segmental alternations, has played an important role in modern phonology, from structuralist phonemics to current constraint-based theories. In Japanese Morphophonemics, Junko Ito and Armin Mester provide the first book-length treatment of central issues in Japanese phonology from the perspective of Optimality Theory. For more information, visit: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=4C393AE8-D967-49ED-AC8A ED6EDE716D40&ttype=2&tid=9992

Sandra Chung and William A. Ladusaw, Restriction and Saturation (Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 42)

With this study of Maori and Chamorro, Sandra Chung and William Ladusaw make a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the formal semantic analysis of non-Indo-European languages. Their ultimate focus is on how the study of these Austronesian languages can illuminate the alternatives for semantic interpretation and their interaction with syntactic structure. Revisiting the analysis of indefiniteness in terms of restricted free variables, they claim that some varieties of indefinites are better analyzed by taking restriction and saturation to be fundamental semantic operations. For more information, visit: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=4C393AE8-D967-49ED-AC8A-ED6EDE716D40&ttype=2&tid=9990

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A NEW Ph.D. PROGRAM IN LINGUISTICS AT UC DAVIS

The Department of Linguistics and the Graduate Group in Linguistics are pleased to announce that UC President Dynes has recently approved a new doctoral program in linguistics at Davis, with a thematic focus on Second Language Acquisition and Development (SLAD), responding to a growing need for linguistically trained researchers to investigate issues surrounding bilingualism and multilingualism. This program is the only one of its kind within the UC System and draws on the unique strengths of core and affiliated linguistics faculty at UC Davis engaged in research on language structure and use, language learning and pedagogy, and the development of literacies in bi- and multilingual contexts.

The department plans to admit a small number of students into the program beginning in fall 2004. Applications must be submitted by January 15, 2004. For more information, please visit the Graduate Studies website at http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/programs/linguist.htm; the departmental website at http://linguistics.ucdavis.edu/; and/or contact one of the following people:
Elaine Brown (Staff Graduate Coordinator): embrown@ucdavis.edu
Mary Schleppegrell (Chair, Graduate Group): mjschleppegrell@ucdavis.edu
Lenora Timm (Chair, Admissions Committee): latimm@ucdavis.edu

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COLLOQUIA

The Linguistics Department Colloquium Series presents Theodora Alexopoulou, Cambridge University, this Friday, November 21, at 4 pm. Her talk is entitled "On Intrusive Resumption." An abstract for this talk, as well as a list of upcoming colloquia, can be found at http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/index.html. This colloquium will be held in the Silverman Conference Room, Stevenson College. There will be a potluck at Jorge Hankamer's following the colloquium.

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The Psychology Department Colloquium Series Cognitive Program presents our own Geoffrey Pullum speaking on "Developing an empirical argument for linguistic nativism: Some constructive suggestions." This colloquium will be held today, Wednesday, November 19, 3:30-5:00 pm in Social Sciences 2, Rm. 121.

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JOB OPPORTUNITY

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Departments of Linguistics and of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese invite applications for a joint tenure-track full time position (Assistant Professor) in Spanish Syntax and Syntactic Theory, to start August 16, 2004. Professional-level fluency in both English and Spanish is required. Applicants should send a CV, up to 3 representative publications, statements of research and teaching interest, teaching evaluations if available, and three letters of recommendation to: Dr. José I. Hualde, Syntax Search Committee, Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Port./Dept. of Linguistics, c/o Kathy Schilson, University of Illinois, 4080 FLB, 707 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801. Application materials must be received by December 1, 2003. For more information, call (217) 333-3390.

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The University of Pennsylvania announces a call for abstracts for the 28th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, to be held February 27-29, 2004. Papers on any topic in linguistics and associated fields are welcome. Abstracts are due by Monday, December 8, 2003. An online abstract submission form and more information can be found at http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC.

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SALSA (the Symposium About Language and Society-Austin) is pleased to announce its 12th Annual Meeting to be held April 16-18, 2004 at the University of Texas, Austin. They encourage the submission of abstracts on research that addresses the relationship of language to culture and society. Abstracts should be emailed to utsalsa@uts.cc.utexas.edu; deadline is January 15, 2004. For more information, visit http://www.utexas.edu/students/salsa

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Marges Linguistiques, a semi-annual online journal of linguistics, has several calls for contributions currently in process:
Issue No. 7 (May 2004): Speech, language and the unconscious - Linguistics and Psychoanalysis
Issue No. 8 (November 2004): Discourse analysis : state of the art and perspectives
Issue No. 9 (May 2005): Regional dialects
Special Issue (2003-2004): Combatting fascisms today - Contributions from linguists
Special Issue (2003-2005): The origins of language faculty and of languages
Contributions may be submitted in French, English, Spanish or Italian. For more information, or to view the latest issue of Marques-Linguistiques, visit http://www.marges-linguistiques.com. Proposals and/or contributions can be sent to contributions.ML@wanadoo.fr
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NEW IN THE LRC LIBRARY

The following item has just arrived in the LRC Library:
Language Research. Vol. 39 No. 3 (September 2003).
This item can be found in the Recent Acquisitions section of the library.