ELORDIETA AT STANFORD
On Friday, May 31, visiting professor Gorka Elordieta (University of the Basque Country) gave an invited talk at Stanford University’s P-interest workshop entitled, “On the phrasal dependency of unaccented words in Basque.”
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HOW OUR READINGS ARE GROUPING THIS WEEK
The final week of classes comes along with a lull in reading groups. Find out about the status of your favorite informal gathering of linguists here:
s/lab: Monday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Jack Duff will present joint work with Pranav Anand entitled, “Implicit experiencers in the visual world.”
MRG: Thursday, 1:00-2:00 PM, LCR: the group will discuss a paper that is to be determined. Be on the lookout for an email from the organizer!
SPLAP: Thursday, 2:00-3:00 PM, LCR: the group will discuss Deniz Özyildiz (2017), “Attitude reports with and without true belief.”
LURC THIS FRIDAY
This Friday, May 31, the Linguistics Department’s annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will take place from 1:00-4:15 PM in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. There will be an address from distinguished alum Marcin Morzycki (University of British Columbia). For more information, see the event’s program.
CALDERA RECEIVES CHANCELLOR’S AWARD
Undergraduate Linguistics major Brianda Caldera was recently awarded a 2018-2019 Chancellor’s award for her project, “Anglicisms: Use and Perceptions in the Tijuana-San Diego Border,” the same project which earned her a 2018-2019 Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award. Congratulations, Brianda!
PESSIN RECEIVES HUMDIV SCHOLARSHIP
Undergraduate Linguistics major Corey Pessin has been selected as a recipient of the David A. Kadish Humanities Scholarship, which recognizes an undergraduate student who displays a strong interest in the humanities. Congratulations, Corey!
HOW OUR READINGS ARE GROUPING THIS WEEK
s/lab: Wednesday, 5:00-6:00 PM, Location TBD: Stephanie Rich will be giving a practice talk entitled “The limits of forward thinking: Structural prediction with correlative and quantificational both” for the workshop Psycholinguistics in Iceland – Prediction & Parsing.
S-Circle: Thursday, 10:00-11:00 AM, LCR: Jack Duff will be presenting work in progress on subject agreement, focus, and Wh-movement in the Nakh-Dagestanian language Udi, spoken in Azerbaijan and Georgia.
LIP: Thursday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Max Kaplan will lead discussion of Chang (2019), “Language change and linguistic inquiry in a world of multicompetence: Sustained phonetic drift and its implications for behavioral linguistic research.”
MRG: Thursday, 1:00-2:00 PM, LCR: the group will discuss LaCara (2019), “C-command and Local Dislocation in the Danish DP: A reply to Hankamer and Mikkelsen.”
SPLAP: Thursday, 2:00-3:00 PM, LCR: the group will discuss Bittner (2005), “Future Discourse in a Tenseless Language.”
Phlunch: Friday, 10:30-11:30 AM, LCR: Anne-Michelle Tessier (University of British Columbia) will give a talk titled ‘(What is) the Phonology of Children’s Lexical Avoidance.’
WLMA is not meeting this week.
MCCLOSKEY IN BOSTON
Jim McCloskey traveled (semi-successfully) to Boston this weekend to be the commencement speaker at the graduation ceremonies of Boston University’s Linguistics Department. It was an auspicious time to be there since Linguistics at BU has just achieved full departmental status and has added a new PhD program to its degree offerings (the initial cohort of students just completed their first year in the program). It was a particular point of pleasure for Jim that alumna Emmy Digirolamo was among the MA graduates. Emmy completed the BA in Linguistics at UCSC in Spring 2018 and graduated from the one-year MA program on Saturday. Jim was also able to catch up with alumna Sabrina Tran, who graduated from UCSC in Spring 2017 and completed the MA in Linguistics at BU a year ago.