Category: Announcements

CALL FOR HUGRAS

The Institute for Humanities Research has just released their call for proposals for the HUGRA award, an annual award in support of undergraduate research in the humanities. Up to 10 awardees will receive $500 each for their proposals and the top proposal will receive the Bertha N. Melkonian prize, an additional $500. Proposals (which include a 1-3 page proposal and faculty sponsor letter) are due to the IHR by November 30, 2016. For further details, please see the HUGRA website.

CALL FOR KORET SCHOLARSHIPS

With funding from the Koret Foundation, the Division of Student Success and the Division of Undergraduate Education have announced a new scholarship for undergraduate research at UC Santa Cruz: the Koret Undergraduate Research Scholarships. Up to 50 scholarships of $1,500 plus up to $500 for materials/expenses will be awarded to students from any discipline. Students require a mentor (graduate student or faculty member). The deadline to apply is November 30, 2016. Details are available here.

DIZIKES FACULTY TEACHING AWARED IN THE HUMANITIES: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

The Humanities Division is seeking nominations for the Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award, which honors the teaching efforts of faculty in the division and bears the name of John Dizikes, Professor Emeritus of American Studies, “whose powerful ability to inspire and engage students has been acclaimed by generations of alumni.” Current students and recent alumni may nominate faculty for the award by submitting a nomination form and narrative to the faculty member’s host department by Monday, February 6, 2017. For more information, please see the Dizikes Award website.

HOW OUR READINGS ARE GROUPING THIS WEEK

MRG: Reading Svenonius & Bye (2012) Nonconcatenative morphology as epiphenomenon

Phlunch: Reading Ezer Rasin and Roni Katzer “On Evaluation Metrics in Optimality Theory,” to appear in Linguistic Inquiry

S̅-Circle: Reading Martina Martinović’s (to appear) Wolof Wh-Movement at the Syntax-Morphology Interface.

S/Lab: Extensions to Miller (2016) Limited Reactivation of Syntactic Structure in Noun Phrase Ellipsis

SPLAP: Reading Condoravdi & Lauer’s (2016) Anakastic conditionals are just conditionals.

THE RIGHT HONORABLE SANDRA CHUNG

Sandy received the 2016-2017 Faculty Research Award at this year’s Founders Celebration Dinner, a festive ceremony this past Saturday that was attended by over 200 students, faculty, alumni, university representatives, and state and local elected officials. In her remarks after accepting the honor, she acknowledged her father and the Chamorro people. A short video was shown describing her influential research on the syntax and processing of Chamorro. As part of the award, Sandy will give the Faculty Research Lecture on February 7th.

Luckily for some attendees, a shrewdness of semanticists on hand for CUSP was available for consultation on the extension of the term “festive cocktail attire“.

HOW OUR READINGS ARE GROUPING THIS WEEK

LaLoCo: Adrian Brasoveanu will be giving a practice talk on “The scope of comparative quantifier phrases in object position”.

Phlunch: Reading McPherson (2016) “Cumulativity and ganging in the tonology of Awa suffixes“

S̅-Circle: Reading Ko (2007) “Asymmetries in Scrambling and Cyclic Linearization”

SPLAP: Reading Ogihara (2000) “Counterfactuals, Temporal Adverbs, and Association with Focus“

WLMA: Nick Kalivoda will be presenting on pied-piping with inversion in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec.

CUSP 9 @ UCSC

This Friday and Saturday, October 21-22, the 9th installment of California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics (CUSP) will happen here, in Humanities 2 (not Humanities 1!), Rm. 259. The program is available here, and features our own Hitomi Hirayama, Margaret Kroll, and Deniz Rudin (squared, no less), as well as visiting postdoc Lavi Wolf. Come one, come all, as semanticists descend on our campus and refill our depleted reservoirs, much as the rain did this past weekend.

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