http://ohlone.ucsc.edu/whasc A Weekly Digest of News and Events for the Department of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:38:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lisa Matthewson (Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of British Columbia) will give a colloquium at 4.00 p.m. on Friday, November 20, in 202 Humanities One. Her title is: "Are all evidentials epistemic modals, after all?" For the abstract, visit here. http://ohlone.ucsc.edu/whasc/?p=524 The Linguistics Department and its Linguistics Research Center will host the second meeting of California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics (CUSP 2) on Saturday, November 21, in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. For more information, including the program, visit here. Everyone who plans to attend and has not already contacted ... http://ohlone.ucsc.edu/whasc/?p=523 The S-Circle will meet from 11.00 a.m. until 12.00 noon on Monday of next week, November 23. Adrian Brasoveanu will talk about some of his recent work. Please note unusual day and time of this meeting! http://ohlone.ucsc.edu/whasc/?p=522 Sandy Chung has been elected Vice-President and President-Elect of the Linguistic Society of America. Her three-year term of office, which begins in January 2010, includes one year as Vice-President, one year as President, and one year as Past President. For a list of past LSA presidents going back to 1925, ... http://ohlone.ucsc.edu/whasc/?p=521 Every year the Humanities Division makes available a small number of Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) to support and encourage undergraduate research in the humanities. Up to 10 awards ($500 each) are made each year. Any project involving research in any of the humanities disciplines is eligible for consideration. Proposals ... http://ohlone.ucsc.edu/whasc/?p=520 The call for papers has been issued for the 46th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, which will be held April 8-10, 2010. The conference will include a general session and parassesions devoted to Reevaluating the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, Multilingualism, and Probabilistic Theories of Grammar. Alum Chris Barker (Ph.D. ... http://ohlone.ucsc.edu/whasc/?p=519 David Embick (Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania) will give a colloquium at 4.00 p.m. on Friday, November 13, in 202 Humanities One, on "Limits on stem alternation". The abstract can be viewed here. All are welcome! http://ohlone.ucsc.edu/whasc/?p=518 Peer Advisor Coordinator Angela Aiello will lead an undergrad workshop on applying to graduate schools from 2.00 to 4.00 p.m. on Thursday, November 12, in 320 Humanities One. Linguistics majors and Language Studies majors who are thinking of applying to graduate programs in Linguistics or related fields are encouraged ... http://ohlone.ucsc.edu/whasc/?p=517 Visiting Fulbright Irish Language Scholar and LRC Research Associate John Walsh travels to Ottawa this week on November 12-13 to take part in the inaugural meeting of the Alliance de recherche universités-communautés (ARUC), an international research network on language governance. The ARUC, based at the University of Ottawa, brings ... http://ohlone.ucsc.edu/whasc/?p=516 Teach for America is a national corps of recent college graduates and professionals who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in expanding educational opportunity. Corps members receive full salary and benefits and are from all majors and professional backgrounds. ... http://ohlone.ucsc.edu/whasc/?p=515