WCCFL 41 at UC Santa Cruz: May 5-7, 2023

The 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), pronounced [wɪkfəl], will take place in and around Stevenson College on May 5-7. One of the premier international conferences on formal linguistics in North America, WCCFL has been held annually since 1982. The first WCCFL was at Stanford University, and UC Santa Cruz has hosted the conference four times before, in 1984, 1993, 2002, and 2012. 

Over the years, WCCFL has featured much groundbreaking research in the formal study of human language, and this year’s conference will be no exception. Conference attendees will hear from three invited speakers — Luke Adamson (Rutgers University), Dorothy Ahn (Rutgers University), and Eva Zimmermann (University of Leipzig), and other linguists from around the world will present 42 talks and 39 posters, on a wide range of topics in theoretical phonology, syntax, and semantics. These will include two special sessions: one on deixis and anaphora (How does human language make reference to the physical and linguistic context?) and one on phi-features (What semantic domains are represented featurally in human language, and how are these features represented in the syntax and morphology?)

The program for WCCFL 41 has just been posted, and conference information — including registration fees — can be found on the conference website.