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CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to DONKA FARKAS, who has been awarded a 2004-05 Institute of Humanities Research Fellowship!
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On Friday afternoon, November 21st, LYNSEY WOLTER successfully completed her Qualifying Exam and advanced to candidacy. Lynsey's QE paper (closely related to her recent NELS presentation) developed a novel treatment of the semantics and pragmatics of demonstratives. The QE committee consisted of Donka Farkas, Michela Ippolito, Jim McCloskey, and Ric Otte of the Department of Philosophy.
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VERA LEE-SCHOENFELD has won a quarter-long dissertation fellowship from the Institute for Humanities Research. Seven fellowships were awarded in this year's competition to students in a wide range of disciplines within the Humanities. Vera hopes to take up her fellowship in the fall quarter of 2004.
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NEWS
SANDRA CHUNG's paper "The Syntax and Prosody of Weak Pronouns in Chamorro" has just appeared in the current issue of Linguistic Inquiry (Vol. 34, No.4, Fall 2003). The article investigates the placement of prosodically deficient pronouns in Chamorro and argues that their placement is determined not syntactically, but prosodically: they occur after the leftmost phonological phrase of their intonational phrase. The analysis is based on the idea that lexical insertion is late and can affect and be affected by prosodic phrase formation. To read the abstract or a PDF version of the article, visit http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/linguistic_inquiry/toc/lin34.4.html.
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ADAM ALBRIGHT has been invited to give a job talk for the phonology position at Harvard on December 9th, 2003. He will be flying to Boston on December 8th.
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LINE MIKKELSEN returned from a trip to Denmark, where both the weather and the system of public transportation are different from those of California. While in Denmark, Line gave an invited talk at a one-day workshop whose goal was to present the work of theoretical and formal linguists working in Denmark and/or on Danish to the rest of the Danish linguistics community. She also gave an invited talk in the Linguistics Department at the University of Aarhus. The Aarhus talk was an expanded version of the Copenhagen talk, and both were based on her ongoing thesis research.
On returning to California, Line learned that she had been invited for an interview and job-talk at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland. She will spend five days in Edinburgh, leaving on Monday December 8th.
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The next time your brain is idling and your browser is wondering where to point, take a look at http://www.languagelog.com/ and read a few snippets of the Language Log. It's a freewheeling group weblog about language, and its occasional contributors include linguists from Berkeley (John McWhorter), Michigan (Sally Thomason), Stanford (David Beaver, Geoff Nunberg, Arnold Zwicky), U Mass (Chris Potts), U Penn (Mark Liberman, Bill Poser), and our own Geoff Pullum (whose posts to Language Log are indexed at http://people.ucsc.edu/~pullum/langlogposts.html).
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WAIL 2004, the Seventh Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, will be held April 30 - May 2, 2004, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Keynote speakers will be Roberto Zavala, CIESAS Sureste, Chiapas, and Matthew Gordon, UC Santa Barbara. For more information, email wail@linguistics@ucsb.edu, or visit "events" at http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu.
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COLLOQUIA
Please note that the Linguistics colloquium scheduled for December 5, Michael Wescoat, has been cancelled. We will attempt to reschedule this talk for winter quarter.
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The Psychology Department Colloquium Series Cognitive Program will not be holding a colloquium this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The Sixth International Symposium on Pan-Asiatic linguistics will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam in November 2004. Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University Institute of Linguistics and the Vietnam National Center for Social Sciences and Humanities are pleased to announce a call for papers relating to pan-Asiatic linguistics and areal languages. An abstract of more than 300 words, as well as the registration form, must be received by February 15, 2004. For more information, see the announcement outside the LRC office or email vuvanthi@yahoo.com, vducnghieu@yahoo.com or nhc@linguis.edu.vn.
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