WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
Last week’s article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel about Matt Wagers’ and Sandy Chung’s NSF project to study language comprehension in the Mariana Islands also appeared in the San Jose Mercury News, the Oakland Tribune, and the Long Beach Press-Telegram. Congratulations, Matt and Sandy!
The Proceedings of WCCFL 30, held last April 2012 at UCSC, have now been published by Cascadilla Press. Congratulations to editors Ryan Bennett (now Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Yale) and Nate Arnett, as well as to all the authors! For details, visit this web page.
Linguistics Research Center visitor Francis Corblin (Universite Paris – Sorbonne) will give an S-Circle talk on Monday, March 11 at 4 pm in the Linguistics Common Room (Stevenson 249). The full S-Circle schedule for this quarter is available here.
Sara Cantor will be speaking this Wednesday, March 6, 3-4:30 at UC Berkeley’s Syntax and Semantics Circle. Sara will be giving a version of her LASC talk (see above!) on sluicing and relative clauses. Go here for more details.
Judith Aissen spent several days in Austin, TX last month. In addition to meeting with students and giving a colloquium on “partial agreement” in Tzotzil, she visited with friends, listened to some good music, and ate far too much BBQ. Judith presented a version of the same talk to S-Circle last week.
Congratulations to Katia Kravtchenko for a successful defense of her first qualifying paper, “Effects of contextual predictability on optional subject omission in Russian”. (Committee: Pranav Anand (chair), Adrian Brasoveanu, and Jaye Padgett.) Katia just presented parts of this paper at the LSA, and she’ll do the same at CUNY at the end of the month.