LSA 2014

Record freezing temperatures did not stop a sizable contingent of UCSC linguists from attending the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Minneapolis. A highlight of the meeting was the Awards Ceremony, at which Adrian Brasoveanu received the Early Career Award for 2014. Presenting or co-presenting papers were grad students Mark Norris, Boris Harizanov, Bern Samko, Clara Sherley-Appel, and Judith Fiedler; Anie Thompson and Mark Norris presented a poster, which was hard to get close to, because it seemed to have a permanent throng of attendees. Numberous alumni of the doctoral program also presented papers, including Matt Tucker (NYU), Andy Wedel (Arizona), Jason Merchant (Chicago), Ruth Kramer (Georgetown), Aaron Kaplan (Utah), Lynsey Wolter (Wisconsin-Eau-Clair), Pete Alrenga (Boston University), Chris Kennedy (Chicago), and Adam Ussishkin (Arizona). Also there were Nate Arnett, chair Sandy Chung, Matt Wagers and Jorge Hankamer, who hosted the traditionally lively Santa Cruz party, which was attended by numerous current and former Santa Cruz linguists.