Month: November 2019

s/lab: Tuesday, 3:00-4:00 PM, The Cave: Nick Van Handel will present ongoing work on the role of prosody in “syntactic” adaptation.

SPLAP: Thursday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: The group will discuss Arnold & Griffin (2006), “The effect of additional characters on choice of referring expression: Everyone counts.”

Phlunch: Friday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Dan Brodkin will present work on weak pronouns in Mandar.

S-Circle/WLMA: Friday, 1:20-2:50 PM, LCR: Jack Duff will present ongoing work on the interpretation of predicates of personal taste (PPTs) in conversation.

MRG: Friday, 2:50-3:50 PM, LCR: The group will discuss Chapter 1 of Bonet (1991), “Morphology after syntax: pronominal clitics in Romance.”

This Friday, Jorge Hankamer will give a colloquium talk titled, “CP complements to D.” The talk will take place on Friday, November 15th, from 1:20-3:00 PM in Humanities 1, Room 210. It will be followed by a short reception with light refreshments in the same room. We’re excited to hear from Jorge after the power outages prevented the event from proceeding as originally scheduled in October!

This Saturday, November 16, Nido de Lenguas, a partnership between UCSC Linguistics and Senderos, will host a day of fun-filled language learning and community building at the Watsonville Public Library from 1:00-3:30 PM. Participants will learn about San Martín Peras Mixtec, a language of Oaxaca that is also widely spoken in Santa Cruz County. The event is free and open to the public, and you can let the organizers know you’re coming here. A flyer for general distribution is also available, here.

s/lab: Tuesday, 3:00-4:00 PM, LCR: Kelsey Sasaki will present joint work with Amanda Rysling and Pranav Anand entitled “Wow, is that acceptable!! Acceptability judgment studies on English exclamatives.”

Phlunch: Friday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Some individual or plurality from the set including Mykel Brinkerhoff and Max Tarlov will present Dresher (2002), “Contrast and asymmetries in inventories.”

SPLAP, S-Circle/WLMA, and MRG will not meet this week.

s/lab: Tuesday, 3:00-4:00 PM, LCR: Richard Bibbs will be presenting ongoing work on the production and acceptability of preposition doubling.

SPLAP: Thursday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: The group will discuss Kehler & Rohde (2013), “A probabilistic reconciliation of coherence-driven and centering-driven theories of pronoun interpretation.”

Phlunch: Friday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Ben Eischens will be presenting ongoing work on glottalization and root-shortening in San Martín Peras Mixtec.

S-Circle/WLMA: Friday, 1:20-2:50 PM, LCR: Andrew Hedding and Ben Eischens will present joint work on resumptive pronouns in San Martín Peras Mixtec.

MRG: Friday, 2:50-3:50 PM, The Shed: The group will discuss Wolf (2013), “Candidate chains, unfaithful spell-out, and outwards-looking phonologically-conditioned allomorphy.”