UCSC LINGUISTS AT THE 2016 LSA MEETING

Four UCSC graduate students will deliver papers at the Linguistic Society of America’s 2016 Annual Meeting, to be held January 7-10 in Washington, D.C. Lauren McGarry will give a paper on “East Slavic Paucal Constructions: A Cross-Slavic Assessment of Pesetsky 2013”. Jason Ostrove will give a paper on “Allomorphy and Locality in the Irish Verbal Complex”. Bern Samko will give a paper on “Verum Focus in Alternative Semantics”. Erik Zyman will give a paper on “Quantifier Float and the Driving Force for Movement: Evidence from Janitzio P’urhepecha”. The UCSC alums delivering papers include Eric Bakovic (B.A. 1993), Boris Harizanov (Ph.D. 2014), Aaron Kaplan (Ph.D. 2008), Eric Potsdam (Ph.D. 1996), and Jason Riggle (M.A. 1999), as well as former faculty colleagues Shoko Hamano and Lev Blumenfeld. Posters will be presented by alums Nicholas LaCara (M.A. 2010), Anya Lunden (Ph.D. 2006), Jeffrey Runner (B.A. 1989; now Professor and Chair of Linguistics, University of Rochester), and Matthew A. Tucker (Ph.D. 2013). For the full program, go here.