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GRANT McGUIRE TO GIVE IHR FACULTY FELLOW TALK THIS FRIDAY

admin — Wed, 15 May 2013 03:40:21 +0000

As a Faculty Fellow this year of UCSC’s Institute for Humanities Research, our own Grant McGuire will give a talk this Friday, May 17th, at 4:00 pm, in Humanities 1, Room 210 (Not the Fireside, please note). The title of his talk is “Separating voice prototypicality and stereotypicality”, and you can find the abstract here.

CrISP SPONSORS TWO TALKS BY AD NEELEMAN THIS NEXT WEEK

admin — Wed, 15 May 2013 03:39:45 +0000

There will be two talks this week by Ad Neeleman (University College London), both organized by the Cross-Linguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology (CrISP) research group. On Wednesday, May 15th (10:30-12 am, Stevenson 249), he will give an informal workshop presentation titled “e” (see abstract below). On Thursday, May 16th (4-5:30, Humanities 1 Room 210), he will give a colloquium titled “Person: Inventory and Realization”. You can find the abstract for this talk here.

Abstract for May 15 workshop talk: The copy theory of movement (Chomsky 1995), in conjunction with the fact that traces are phonologically empty, forces a filler-driven parsing strategy for movement. We argue that this parsing strategy in turn explains certain asymmetries between leftward and rightward movement, on the assumption that empty branches must be located at the leading edge of the parse. In particular, non-string-vacuous rightward movement of obligatory material causes parsing difficulties, because it requires that an empty branch is pushed away from the leading edge before it can be filled by a copy of the moved constituent. We consider two rightward movements: heavy-NP shift and rightward movement of N (or N+A) in the extended nominal protection.

LINGUISTICS GRADS SHINE AT GRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

admin — Wed, 15 May 2013 03:39:05 +0000

The 9th annual Graduate Research Symposium took place last Friday, in its new venue within McHenry Library. Four Linguistics graduate students – Tommy Denby, Peter Fabian, Mark Norris, and Matt Ong – gave posters, and Allan Schwade gave a talk. All of them did a fantastic job. Special congratulations to Allan, who won the Alumni Association Award within Humanities (one of the two awards for Humanities participants) for his presentation, “The Role of Gender in Word Recognition”, and to Mark, who won the Graduate Dean’s Award (one of two awards for all of the participants!) for his poster “Case Concord At The Syntax-Phonology Interface”!

THREE STUDENTS – NOT ONE – RECEIVE DEAN’S UNDERGRADUATE AWARD!

admin — Wed, 15 May 2013 03:38:33 +0000

Last week we announced that one of our students won the Humanities-wide Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award. Correction! Three of our students received the award. They are Matilda Morrison, Emma Peoples, and Nicholas Primrose. It is also worth mentioning that this is Matilda’s second Dean’s Award for a research project. (!) All three will be honored at the “Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities 2013″ Spring Awards Event on Thursday, May 30th, 3-5 pm in Humanities 1, rooms 202 and 210. The department is proud of all three of you, and we apologize for the editorial slip.

SCARLETT CLOTHIER-GOLDSCHMIDT AWARDED LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE FELLOWSHIP

admin — Wed, 15 May 2013 03:37:59 +0000

Many Congratulations to Scarlett Clothier-Goldschmidt, a junior Linguistics major in the BA/MA program, who was awarded a fellowship to attend this summer’s Linguistic Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. These fellowships are very competitive, and to receive one is an honor. Scarlett plans to take such courses as Computational Psycholinguistics, and Sentences and the Social: Representing Syntactic Variation.

STUDENTS ENTERING GRADUATE PROGRAMS

admin — Wed, 15 May 2013 03:37:23 +0000

The department is always excited to hear about its students entering graduate programs! Here are some that we know about so far for next Fall.

Caroline Andrews (B.A. 2012) will enter the Ph.D. program in Linguistics at UMass Amherst. Elliott Callahan (B.A. 2006) will enter the M.D. program at UCSF’s School of Medicine. Evan Kaiser (B.A. 2012) will enter the TESOL program at SFSU. Michelle Laszlo-Rath (B.A. 2011) will enter the Speech Language Pathology program at the University of Memphis. Brittni Newman (B.A. 2010) will enter the post-bac program in Communication Sciences and Disorders at Chapman University. Mallory Turnball (B.A. 2011) will enter the Speech-Language Pathology program at San Jose State University.

Congratulations to all of you! We know there are more of you out there too – if you have news, please tell whasc!

GRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM!

admin — Fri, 10 May 2013 03:10:40 +0000

The 9th annual Graduate Research Symposium takes place Friday, May 10th, 2013, from 1:30 to 3:30 in the Information Commons South area of McHenry Library. Linguistics will be represented by Tommy Denby, Peter Fabian, Mark Norris, and Matt Ong, who are giving posters, and Allan Schwade, who is giving a short talk at 3:10 in Presentation Room 1. Judges include Sandy Chung and Irena Polic. To see the program, click here. To learn more about the Graduate Research Symposium, click here.

SEMANTICS AND LINGUISTIC THEORY CONFERENCE A SUCCESS

admin — Fri, 10 May 2013 03:10:14 +0000

The department is recovering from last week’s extremely successful Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference. Many people commented on the consistently high quality of the talks, and the conference was carried off without a hitch. There is a reason world-class conferences are organized rarely, and many people deserve thanks and praise for hard work. Our graduate students, faculty, and many undergraduate students gave a good deal of their time. So did many faculty, especially Sandy Chung, Amy Rose Deal, Jim McCloskey, and Matt Wagers, and most especially our faculty SALT organizers Pranav Anand, Adrian Brasoveanu, and Donka Farkas. SALT could not have happened without our outstanding staff as well: many, many thanks to Maggie Bardacke, Susan Welch, and especially Ashley Hardisty for coordinating the staff efforts and Maria Zimmer, who has specialized in SALT for many weeks now.

DONKA FARKAS RECEIVES DIZIKES TEACHING AWARD

admin — Fri, 10 May 2013 03:09:10 +0000

Many congratulations to Donka Farkas, who has won the Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award in Humanities this year! This is the sole teaching award covering the entire Humanities Division, offered to only one faculty member in a year. (A linguist has won two of the last three years!) The award will be presented to Donka at the “Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities 2013″ Spring Awards Event on Thursday, May 30th, 3-5 pm in Humanities 1, rooms 202 and 210. (Presentation of the Dizikes Award will be at 3:15.)

NICHOLAS PRIMROSE RECEIVES DEAN’S UNDERGRADUATE AWARD

admin — Fri, 10 May 2013 03:08:24 +0000

The department is proud to announce that one of its students, Nicholas Primrose, has won the Humanities-wide Dean’s Undergraduate Award for his research project titled “Japanese Numerals and Numeral Quantifiers”. Nicholas will be honored at the “Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities 2013″ Spring Awards Event on Thursday, May 30th, 3-5 pm in Humanities 1, rooms 202 and 210. Well done, Nicholas!