Category: Alumni News

Slugs at the LSA

Many past and present UCSC linguists will be presenting at the up-coming Annual Meeting of the LSA (6-9, January 2022). In chronological order:

Friday (January 7)

D-linking and the effects of contextual set restriction (poster session)

Yuki Seo^^ (University of Delaware) & Rebecca Tollan (University of Delaware)
^^UCSC exchange undergrad from Japan, 2016-17^^

The Development of Vowel Length as a Subphonemic Cue (in-person presentation)

Abigail Fergus (College of William and Mary), Kaitlyn Harrigan (College of William and Mary), & Anya Hogoboom** (College of William and Mary)
**PhD Alum**

Saturday (January 8)

The Irreducible Uncertainty of Ranking and Ordering (poster session)

Eric Bakovic^^ (University of California, San Diego) & Jason Riggle^% (University of Chicago)
^^UCSC BA^^ and %%MA%%

Pre-nominal mí in San Martín Peras Mixtec (poster session)

Lisa Hofmann~~ (University of California, Santa Cruz) & Jason Ostrove** (University of California, Santa Cruz)
~~Current PhD student~~ and **PhD Alum**

Competence meets performance: New perspectives on information structure (hybrid presentation)

Andrew Hedding~~ (University of California, Santa Cruz) & Morwenna Hoeks~~ (University of California, Santa Cruz)
~~Current PhD students~~

Congrats to Vera Gribanova (Ph.D. ’10) for winning the C. L. Baker Award!

More alum accolades at the LSA!

It was announced by the LSA on November 2nd that UCSC alumna Vera Gribanova is to be honored at the 2022 Winter Meeting as the second winner of the C. L. Baker Award. This award recognizes excellence in research in the area of syntactic theory on the part of a scholar who is at the mid-point of a distinguished career. Vera was recognized for her work on the interactions among word-formation, ellipsis, and head-movement, for the sophistication of her work on Russian, and for pioneering investigations of Uzbek (an under-studied language of the Turkic family).

Vera earned the PhD at Santa Cruz in 2010 and has been in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford since the Fall of that year. She was tenured at Stanford in 2018.

Congratulations to Kirby Conrod (B.A. ‘11)

Congratulations to Kirby Conrod, who is the inaugural recipient of the Arnold Zwicky award, with the following citation:

 

For their contributions to linguistic research and pedagogy on the changing use of pronouns; for fostering inclusivity and belongingness within and beyond the LSA for people whose pronouns have changed or are novel; and for their far-reaching public educational efforts about gender diversity, pronouns, and inclusive LGBTQ+ language practices.

 

Kirby received the BA in Linguistics and Literature from Santa Cruz in 2011 and the Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 2019. They are currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Swarthmore.

As the cockroach flies

Jake Vincent, who graduated with the Ph.D. in June 2021, writes with the following update and photo:
“Since graduating, I’ve moved to the San Fernando Valley (“The Valley”) and have been adjusting to all things SoCal: heat, being tailgated, and the occasional flying cockroach, to name a few. I miss the Santa Cruz redwoods, but I’m appreciating the natural beauty of the area down here, too (see photo). Work wise, I’m currently teaching Language & Mind remotely, which I’m enjoying since I never had the opportunity to TA for the class. While I patiently look for my next career move, I’m working on small projects here and there, including writing a text editor plugin for navigating markdown notebooks.”
Pictured below: the Garden of the Gods, in the Northwest corner of the valley.

MORIMOTO RECEIVES JSPS POSTDOC

Dr. Maho Morimoto (Ph.D. 2020) was recently awarded a 3 year post doctoral position by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to study the articulation and acoustic properties of geminate consonants in Japanese. Congratulations to Maho!

MIKKELSEN TO FULL

It was announced late in the summer that alumna Line Mikkelsen had been promoted to the rank of Professor in the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley. Line earned the Ph.D. at Santa Cruz in 2004 (her committee: Donka Farkas, Bill Ladusaw and Jim McCloskey) and began her career at Berkeley in the Fall semester following her graduation. She has worked on the linguistics of the Scandinavian languages and also on the indigenous languages of California and she is particularly well-known for her work on copula constructions. A paper with co-author Jorge Hankamer (`CP Complements to D) appeared in the most recent issue of Linguistic Inquiry (52.3 2021).

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