Category: Events

Angelika Kratzer has asked us to help get the word out about two Summer Institutes (in 2015 and 2016) co-organized by Angelika and Manfred Krifka. These are SIAS Summer Institutes, co-sponsored by the National Humanities Center in the US and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in Germany. Both will bring together scholars working in (a) Theoretical Linguistics, especially Semantics and its interfaces with Pragmatics, Syntax, and Phonology, (b) Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, and (c) Linguistic and Anthropological Fieldwork. Their goal is to foster the development of scholarly networks and collaborative projects among young scholars from the United States and Europe. They are open to scholars who have received a Ph.D. within the past five years and Ph.D. candidates who are now studying or teaching at a European or American institution of higher education. Each institute is built around two summer workshops, one held in the United States and another in Europe. The first will take place in Berlin in July 2015, the second at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina in July 2016. The application deadline for the 2015 institute is January 6th 2015 and application materials and further information are available here. Information is also available here.

The program for the 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (in Portland, Oregon, January 8-11, 2015) was recently announced. Among those presenting at the meeting are faculty members Sandy Chung and Matt Wagers (Filler-gap order and online licensing of grammatical relations: evidence from Chamorro, with Manuel F. Borja), along with graduate students Nate Arnett (Interference effects in subject-verb attachment: Case, position, and clause-finiteness), Anna Greenwood(Substance bias in stress pattern learning), and Bern Samko (The emphatic implicature of English verb-phrase preposing.

Also presenting at the meeting are many alumni of the graduate program, including Matt Tucker (NYU), Chris Potts (Stanford University), Rachel Walker (University of Southern California), Andy Wedel (University of Arizona), and Adam Ussishkin(University of Arizona). Among undergraduate alumni presenting are Lauren Winans (UCLA), Aaron White (University of Maryland), Joseph King (New York University), and Eric Bakovic (University of California, San Diego). Former visiting graduate student Filippa Lindahl (University of Göteborg) is also on the program.

On the afternoon of Wednesday June 4th in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge, the department celebrates one of the high points of the year, with LURC 2014 (Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference 2014), which will take place in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. This year’s conference features talks by Scarlett Clothier-Goldschmidt, Sean Isamu Johnson, Chelsea Miller, and Eileen O’Neill. The distinguished Alumnus address which ends the conference will be given by Lauren Winans. Lauren graduated with the BA in Linguistics in 2010 and is now in the fourth year of her doctorate at UCLA. The program for LURC 2014 is available here.

Our colleagues at Berkeley have asked us to help spread the word about a Workshop on Sound Change to be held on the Berkeley campus on May 28th—31st. All the information you need about the event can be found on the spartan yet informative web-page here. Among the presenters at the workshop will be Grant McGuire and alumnus Andy Wedel of the University of Arizona (Grant and Andy both give presentations on Thursday May 29th). The complete program can be viewed here.