ZYMAN IN SNIPPETS

Two squibs by graduate student Erik Zyman have been published in the latest issue of Snippets. The first argues that gestures and nonlinguistic objects can occur in DP positions, and when they do, the relevant DPs are subject to the Case Filter. The second argues that interjections can take complements and project InterjPs—i.e., that they select and project exactly like Ns, Vs, As, and Ps. A generalization that emerges from the two squibs is that phenomena that one might initially be tempted to dismiss as paralinguistic or even entirely nonlinguistic can turn out on closer scrutiny to interact directly with the core operations of syntax (Merge, selection, projection, Case assignment, etc.).

ZYMAN AND KALIVODA AT STANFORD

On Friday January 26, graduate students Nick Kalivoda and Erik Zyman gave a talk on “XP- and X⁰-movement in the Latin Verb: Evidence from Mirroring and Anti-Mirroring” at Stanford’s Syntax and Morphology Circle. They report that they received a warm welcome and a great many helpful questions and suggestions, for which collēgīs Stanfordiēnsibus grātiās agunt.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: KADISH SCHOLARSHIP

Eligible undergraduate students are invited to apply for The David A. Kadish Humanities Scholarship Award. The application deadline is March 1. Additional details are provided below, and the application is available here (note that you should be logged into your ucsc.edu Google account to use this form).

David Kadish (History, ‘73) has been giving back to UC Santa Cruz for many years. Due to his close personal relationship with John Dizikes, he helped establish as a lead donor both the John Dizikes Endowment in Music in 2000 and the Dizikes Teaching Award in 2012, and has also helped solicit others for gifts to the Dizikes Teaching Award. David also gave generously to the Endowment for First Year Honors Program in Cowell.

Through this gift David intends to offer financial support to a deserving student with a strong interest in the study of humanities.

An award amount of $1,000 and will be awarded at the outset of Spring quarter.

Eligible applicants are UC Santa Cruz undergraduate students with financial need who displays a strong interest in the study of the humanities. Additionally, you must be a registered student in good standing during the Spring 2018 quarter and declared in one of the following majors: Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism, Classical Studies Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Feminist Studies, German Studies, History, Italian Studies, Jewish Studies, Language Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy, or Spanish Studies.

HOW OUR READINGS ARE GROUPING THIS WEEK

SPLAP!Monday, 12:20 – 1:20 pm, LCR There will be a discussion of a paper titled “Presupposition projection in online processing” (Schwarz and Tiemann 2017)

LaLoCoTuesday, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Stevenson 217 Continued discussion of word2vec and related word-meaning models. The focus will be specifically on two papers: “Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality” and “GloVe: Global Vectors for Word Representation

LIPThursday, 11:00 – 12:00 pm, LCR Grant McGuire will present data from a Turkish prosody project

s/labThursday, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, LCR Matt Wagers will be presenting

PhlunchFriday, 1:30 – 2:30 pm, LCR Netta Ben-Meir will lead a discussion of a paper titled “Phonetic neutralization in Palestinian Arabic vowel shortening, with implications for lexical organization” (Hall 2017)

IONOVA VISITS THE DEPARTMENT

We welcome a new research visitor to the department this quarter. Anastasiia (Ana) Ionova is a doctoral student in Linguistics at Leiden University in the Netherlands, where she works with Anikó Lipták and Lisa Cheng on the project Ellipsis Licensing Beyond Syntax. Ana will be a visiting graduate student at the LRC for the Winter Quarter and she hopes to continue work on her project examining second position clitics in Serbo-Croatian and their interaction with ellipsis.

REMINDER: CALL FOR DIZIKES AWARD NOMINATIONS

As we mentioned in the January 15 volume of WHASC, the February 5th deadline for the Dizikes Award nominations is fast approaching. The call is repeated below:

Since 2002, the Dizikes Award has been given each year to a faculty member in the Humanities Division for their commitment and effectiveness in transformative teaching and effective mentoring of both undergraduate and graduate students. In addition to receiving the award, recipients have the honor of selecting an undergraduate student to receive a scholarship in their name. Past recipients include Pranav Anand in 2016, Donka Farkas in 2013, Jorge Hankamer in 2011, and Jaye Padgett in 2006. Current students and recent alumni are now invited to nominate faculty for the 2018 award. According to the call, “Nominations should address the faculty member’s ability to arouse curiosity in students, to encourage high standards, and to stimulate students to original and rigorous work though guidance and mentoring. Other criteria include creating an inclusive learning environment that is open and encouraging to all students, relating the subject to other fields of knowledge and making the learning relevant to experience outside the academy.” Nominations must include a single-page form, available here, along with a one-page narrative. Nominations should be submitted to the the Linguistics Undergraduate Coordinator Matthew MacLeod by Monday February 5th, 2018. If you are considering a nomination, you are encouraged to consult with Matthew for guidance.

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