UCSC LINGUISTICS REPRESENTED AT NELS
The 43rd North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS) conference took place on October 19-21, 2012, at the City University of New York (CUNY). This is one of the most prestigious conferences in linguistics, and our department was well represented. Allan Schwade presented a poster titled “Modality matters: What online adaptations can tell us about loanwords”; Boris Harizanov and PhD alumna Vera Gribanova (Stanford) presented a poster titled “Inward sensitive contextual allomorphy and its conditioning factors”. Two other alums were also there: Matthew Barros (BA and MA alum; currently, 5th grad student at Rutgers): “Else-modification as a diagnostic for pseudosluicing”; and Aaron Steven White (BA alum; currently, 3rd year grad student at University of Maryland): “Discovering classes of attitude verbs using subcategorization frame distributions” (joint work with Rachel Dudley, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz). Finally, Karen Duek (1st year UCSC grad, formerly at CUNY) was present as one of the graduate student organizers of the conference, all of whom ensured the smooth running of the conference.