REPORT FROM THE LSA

This year’s annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America was held in Boston, MA. The weather was in the teens when the conference began, but in the balmy thirties by the end. (As good as Santa Cruz!)

Two of our graduate students gave talks. Katia Kravtchenko gave one called Effects of contextual predictability on optional subject omission in Russian, and Mark Norris’s was called Case matching in Estonian (pseudo) partitives. Posters were presented by Boris Harizanov, Bern Samko, Anie Thompson, and Matt Tucker.

Sandy Chung, former President of the LSA, presided over the Saturday evening awards ceremony. Former UCSC Linguistics major Eric Bakovic co-organized and presented at a symposium on “Open Access and the Future of Academic Publishing”, and PhD alumna Vera Lee-Schoenfeld did the same at a symposium called “Incorporating Linguistic Theory into a Language Curriculum”.

The conference was brimming with other UCSC alums, including Scott AnderBois (who gave a talk), Ryan Bennett, Vera Grivanov, Robert Henderson, Ruth Kramer, Anya Lunden, Kyle Rawlins, and Nathan Sanders. (Apologies to anyone not mentioned here!) This made for a fun traditional UCSC party on Saturday night.