CUSP REPORT

The UCSC delegation to CUSP Seven at UCLA survived the trip to the southland and returned to Santa Cruz in more or less good order. They sent in the following report during the trek backwards:

The seventh annual meeting of CUSP (California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics) was held at UCLA this past weekend. Among the presenters were Bern Samko (Verum Focus in alternative semantics), Erik Zyman (Lake Pátzcuaro P’urhepecha and the Semantic Typology of Degree Constructions), visiting graduate student Kristen Greer (The partitive structure of quantification), and alumna and CUSP organizer Lauren Winans (Evidential restrictions of `must’ and `will’). Participants enjoyed lively discussions of semantic and pragmatic phenomena in no fewer than nine languages, as well as the balmy LA weather. Despite that balmy weather, it was determined at the meeting that CUSP Eight would be held next year at Stanford.