WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
Jorge Hankamer and Line Mikkelsen (UC Berkeley, UCSC PhD alumna) presented work on “CP complements to D” (an investigation into nominal structure) at Stanford’s SM-circle on October 19. They will present the same work at UC Berkeley’s S-Circle on November 19. You can access their handout here.
s/lab: Monday, 3:30-4:30 PM, LCR: Margaret Kroll will present recent work in a talk titled “The Search for Truth: Semantic or Pragmatic Judgments?”
SPLAP: Wednesday, 3:00-4:00 PM, LCR: the group will discuss Deal (2017): “Shifty asymmetries: universals and variation in shifty indexicality.”
MRG: Friday, 9:00-10:00 AM, LCR: the group will discuss Haugen and Siddiqi’s 2013 work entitled “Roots and the Derivation.”
Phlunch: Friday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Maho Morimoto will present a poster detailing her recent work on Japanese.
S-Circle: Friday, 1:20-2:50 PM, LCR: Pranav Anand and Maziar Toosarvandani will present recent work entitled “Now and then: perspectives on positional variance in temporal demonstratives.”
WLMA: Friday, 3:00-4:00 PM, LCR: Ben Eischens will discuss work in progress on the morphosyntax of negation in San Martín Peras Mixtec.
LIP will not be meeting this week.
From Oct. 5-7, UCSC phonologists gathered at our minimal pair neighbor UCSD for the 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Presentations given by current faculty and students included:
The event was co-organized by UCSC undergraduate alum Eric Baković.
UCSC PhD student Tom Roberts spent part of a productive summer overseas. he writes,
“In addition to working on various linguisticky projects here and there in Santa Cruz, I spent the month of August in Estonia chowing down on buckwheat and following up on prior experimental work on the discourse effects of biased questions in Estonian. At the beginning of September, Margaret and I presented joint work on the semantics and pragmatics of “of course” at Sinn und Bedeutung in Barcelona. We also drove with recent PhD grad and fellow SuB-attendee Kelsey Kraus to the tiny but beautiful principality of Andorra, where it turns out it is very unusual to order coffee with your lunch.”
Uriel Cohen Priva (Brown University, phonetics and phonology) is currently accepting applications for a Research Assistant position in the Cohen Priva lab. More information and eligibility requirements can be found here.
Our very own Donka Farkas was busy this summer traveling across the Atlantic to various linguistic events. Farkas writes:
At the beginning of June I attended the workshop on Meaning in non canonical questions at the University of Konstanz. It was an excellent event — great posters and talks, including from the other invited speakers, Malte Zimmermann, Benjamin Spector, and Venneta Dayal. A particular pleasure for me was to talk to my academic grandsons (through Chris Kennedy), Ryan Bochnak and Andrea Beltrama. The title of my talk, in the form of a canonical question, was “What is special in non-canonical questions?”
At the end of September I traveled to Bucharest, Romania, to give a talk at my alma mater, the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, on oare questions in Romanian. The best part of the visit, for me, was the opportunity to talk withmy first Linguistics teacher, Professor Alexandra Cornilescu (who also taught our own Adrian Brasoveanu), and with the current crop of young linguistics students there. I also had the chance to see a play — Bucharest has always had fantastic theater.