WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
This week, Constantine Lignos visits the UCSC Sentence Processing lab from the University of Pennsylvania. His talk, entitled “Decomposing Decomposition,” will be at the usual time/place (4pm in the Semantics Lab) on Tuesday, March 8th. You can read the abstract here.
This past weekend, Matt Tucker visited the University of Arizona in Tucson where he delivered a paper entitled “Verb-stranding verb-phrase ellipsis in Egyptian Arabic: Investigating clausal architecture” at the 25th Annual Arabic Linguistics Symposium. He writes:
My trip to Arizona went very well! The ALS was larger this year than it has ever been in the history of the conference (thirty-three papers in all), and the discussion was both lively and entertaining. In addition to giving my paper and getting great feedback, I also got a chance to spend some time with Ph.D. alumni Adam Ussishkin and Andy Wedel, who both send everyone at UCSC their love. All in all, the trip was very productive, and I hope to return to both Arizona and the ALS in the future.
Wondering about career possibilities after Language Studies or Linguistics? We hope that you will join us for this informative event! The workshop happens this Monday, March 7th, from 3-4:15, in Stevenson 249 (Linguistics Common Room).
Tami Schuyler, a UCSC Linguistics MA alumna, will speak about her several experiences in fields using her Linguistics degree, and the lessons she learned about what to find out about a job before accepting an offer. She currently works for H5, a company that does information retrieval for the legal industry.
Chris Loll, a UCSC Linguistics alumnus, and Kirsten Wimp, a UCSC Language Studies alumna, will speak about the Communicative Disorders and Sciences MA program at San Jose State, where they are both studying.
Linguistics major Mary Moretti is taking Syntax 1 this quarter in Engineering 2, a building designed by her father, Anthony Moretti, who is a Principal and Senior Technical Architect at CO Architects. This photo, taken for her father, shows Mary (far right) and the instructors (Sandy Chung, Anie Thompson, and Boris Harizanov) in their classroom, which has curved deskspace and great blackboards.
