SLUG Pubs

Ordering Dissertations from SLUG Pubs

In the spring of 1997, the graduate students of the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz organized a new venture for the linguistics graduate program, SLUG Pubs. SLUG Pubs acts as publisher and vendor for graduate dissertations in linguistics and recycles proceeds directly back into the program to ensure that SLUG Pubs will continue to be available for future linguistics graduate students.

Recent Publications

The following dissertations are the most recent SLUG Pubs publications. Click on the title of a dissertation to view its abstract.

• Lee-Schoenfeld, Vera (2005), Beyond Coherence: The Syntax of Opacity in German
• Mikkelsen, Line (2004), Specifying Who: On the Structure, Meaning, and Use of Specificational Copular Clauses

Publications List

The following is a list of all dissertations published by SLUG Pubs, from 1997 to the present, in alphabetical order by author.

• Gutiérrez-Bravo, Rodrigo (2002), Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure: A Study of Word Order and the Left Periphery in Mexican Spanish
• Herrick, Dylan (2003), An Acoustic Analysis of Phonological Vowel Reduction in Six Varieties of Catalan
• Katayama, Motoko (1998), Optimality Theory and Japanese Loanword Phonology
• Kennedy, Christopher (1997), Projecting the Adjective: The Syntax and Semantics of Gradability and Comparison
• Kurisu, Kazutaka (2001), The Phonology of Morpheme Realization
• Lee-Schoenfeld, Vera (2005), Beyond Coherence: The Syntax of Opacity in German
• Merchant, Jason (1999), The Syntax of Silence: Sluicing, Islands, and Identity in Ellipsis
• Mikkelsen, Line (2004), Specifying Who: On the Structure, Meaning and Use of Specificational Copular Clauses
• Sanders, Nathan (2003), Opacity and Sound Change in the Polish Lexicon
• Ussishkin, Adam Panter (2000), The Emergence of Fixed Prosody
• Walker, Rachel (1998), Nasalization, Neutral Segments, and Opacity Effects

Prices and Ordering

Dissertations are sold at the following rates:

• Priority shipping (~1 week delivery, US only): $13
• Global Priority shipping (~1 week delivery, international): $18
• International Surface Mail (1-2 months delivery, international): $15

To order a dissertation, send a check or money order for the proper amount in US dollars, made payable to "University of California Regents", to the following address:

SLUG Pubs
Department of Linguistics
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
USA

Be sure to enclose the following information:

• Your full name
• An address to send the dissertation to
• An email address which can be used to reach you promptly if there is a problem with your order
• The author and name of the desired dissertation
• The number of copies of each dissertation

If you have any questions, send us email at lrc@ling.ucsc.edu.

Publishing a Dissertation

If you are a graduate student in the linguistics department at UCSC, and wish to have your dissertation published by SLUG Pubs, you must be prepared to provide the following:

• A camera-ready (laser-printed) version of your dissertation. It should be printed two pages per page ("two-up"). The format specified by UCSC is fine. If you want to deviate from it, be sure you have adequate margins and a legible font.
• A plain-text abstract emailed to lrc@ling.ucsc.edu. (if you must use non-ASCII characters or special formatting like italics in the abstract, explain the situation clearly at the beginning of your email). This abstract can be the same as the one in your dissertation.
• An estimate of how many copies you personally expect to need (for selling, gifts, personal library, etc.), as well as an estimate of how many copies you expect to be sold via SLUG Pubs initially (this aids us in knowing how many copies of a dissertation to make for the first batch).
• Your personal webpage address and/or email address, if you want either or both provided in your on-line abstract.

Acknowledgements

Nathan Sanders and Rachel Walker spearheaded the initial launch of SLUG Pubs, with input from the graduate students in the linguistics department in the 1996-1997 academic year, in particular Jason Merchant and Chris Kennedy. And of course, thanks to the UCSC Graduate Student Association for providing the startup funds, without which, SLUG Pubs wouldn't exist.

This site was last modified July 20, 2006.