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WHASC Newsletter December 2, 2004
("What's Happening at Santa Cruz")
WHASC is the weekly electronic newsletter of the UCSC Linguistics
Department. We welcome your news items, comments and feedback.

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DISSERTATION DEFENSE TOMORROW
Daniel Karvonen will defend his dissertation
Word Prosody in Finnish
Friday, December 3, 2004
5:00 p.m.
Cowell College Conference Room
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CHEERS AND MERRIMENT
Following Dan's dissertation defense on Friday, there will be an end-of-the-quarter celebration at the home of Junko Ito and Armin Mester at 120 Limestone Lane beginning at about 7 p.m. There will be some munchies, but please bring your own beverages. All are welcome!

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CONGRATULATIONS
James Isaacs and Kyle Rawlins' paper on "Conditional Questions" was
accepted for presentation at the Language Under Uncertainty workshop in
Kyoto, Japan. Information about the workshop, which promises to be very
interesting, can be found here:
http://www.hmn.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/langlogic/symposium-a/
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Additional congratulations to James Isaacs who has been awarded an Institute for Humanities Research Dissertation Fellowship for the Fall 2005 quarter. Bravo!
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Hearty congratulations to Nick Reynolds who has received a HUGRA award for a project that started out in Semantics 2, on aspect and entailments in a group of Spanish verbs.
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Judith Aissen was an invited speaker at the VIII encuentro internacional de lingüística en el noroeste, which met in Hermosillo, Sonora (Mexico) in mid-November. The title of her talk was "Predicación compleja y transitividad en el Tzotzil de Zinacantán". Other Santa Cruz people who presented papers were Rodrigo Gutierrez Bravo (PhD 2002) and Verónica Vázquez Soto (LRC associate, 2003-2004).
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NEWS FROM CORSICA
News from Khue Duong, M.A. 2004 (ah_khue@yahoo.com)
I've been in Ajaccio, Corsica for two months. The Mediterranean Sea is fabulous, but the water starts to get cold so I can't swim as often. I'm teaching at a high school and a Teachers College for 12 hours--non-demanding work and I have too much free time. My French is functional as I'm sharing an apartment with a French girl and a Catalonian girl. It's rather tiring at times trying to understand people's finer points and jokes in a language that I'm not really fluent. There are no formal classes to take, so I'm learning bits and pieces here and there.
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The 11th Egg
25 July - 5 August 2005
Eastern Generative Grammar (egg) summer school, sometimes known as the GLEE. In the summer of 2005, it will be moving to the historic town of Wroclaw (Poland) near the Czech border. The egg focuses on generative grammar, and has a nice group of teachers, who are either senior established figures in the field or young promising researchers at the forefront of today's research (they are all coming to teach for free (and for fun)).
For those who haven't heard about this school, it's
*aimed at all levels from absolute beginners to PhD students
*designed to have a roughly equal amount of Eastern and Western students
*run exclusively by volunteers
*lots of fun
*absolutely free of fees (and the dorm rates and costs of living are very low)
Information about the school and how to register can be found at:
http://egg.auf.net/
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Advanced Indonesian Abroad
June 7 - August 14, 2005
The host institution, Universitas Sam Ratulangi is located in Manado in scenic North Sulawesi.
To learn more about the program and to download the application forms, visit:
http://www.ohiou.edu/COTIM
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International Summer School for Semiotic and Structural Studies
Imatra, Finland
June 11-19, 2005
http://www.isisemiotics.fi
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Computational Linguistics Opening
San José State University
Assistant Professor-Tenure Track
Teach courses in natural language processing and speech technology
Ph.D. in linguistics required
Starting Date: August 22, 2005
http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/linguistics
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TEACH IN CHINA
Beijing Sport University
*Teach oral English skills
*Focuses specifically on Sports English--training students in the skills necessary for sports announcing/broadcasting, interviewing, reporting, interpreting, and translating
More information on this opportunity is posted outside the Linguistics Department office.
http://www.bsu.edu.en
E mail: BSUrecruitment@in-the-gap.com
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Do you have a news item for WHASC? Please send it to lrc@ling.ucsc.edu by noon on Thursday, December 9.

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