UCSC AT WCCFL 2015

WCCFL 33 will take place at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia on March 27th-29th 2015. The preliminary program has now been published and there are several highlights of relevance to people in Santa Cruz. One of three keynote speakers at the conference is Matt Wagers. Matt’s keynote will open the conference at 9am on Friday March 27th. Also on the program are Amy Rose Deal arguing that TP is a Phase in a Relative Clause (Friday afternoon March 27th at 3pm) and Nick Kalivoda speaking on Constraint Interaction in Zapotec Loan Phonology (Friday morning March 27th at 11:20). Numerous UCSC alums and former visitors are also presenting papers: Matt Barros and Luis Vicente presenting together on A remnant condition on ellipsis, Louise McNally and Scott Grimm presenting on The+VPing as anaphoric event-type reference, Erin Ament and Anya Lunden presenting on The syllabic role of word-final consonants.