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METASEMANTICS WORKSHOP AT BERKELEY

March 11, 2014

This past weekend, 40 some philosophers of language (including SCLP visitors past Sam Cumming, John Macfarlane, and workshop organizer Seth Yalcin) descended on UCB’s Moses Hall for a spirited discussion on some of the foundational issues in the semantics of natural language at the Metasemantics workshop. Issues discussed included the division between semantics and pragmatics, the relationship between natural language content and the content of cognitive states, and the roles of convention and rule-following in natural language productivity. Our very own Amy Rose Deal delivered a talk on the degree to which various languages are expressively equivalent, given their differing semantic resources. In addition to Amy Rose, scattered among the philosophers were a number of card-carrying linguists: Pranav Anand, Ryan Bochnak, Peter Jenks, and alumna Line Mikkelsen.

LASC 2014

March 3, 2014

This year’s graduate research symposium, LASC 2014 will take place in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge on Saturday March 15th 2014. This year’s distinguished alumna speaker will be Ruth Kramer, Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Ruth’s title is A new approach to the morphosyntax of gender and her abstract can be found here. Ruth graduated with the PhD in 2009 and has been at Georgetown since the Fall of that year.

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UCSC AT SALT

March 3, 2014

This year’s SALT (Semantics and Linguistic Theory 24) will take place at NYU and the prelimary program is now available here. Among those taking part will be Adrian Brasoveanu and Matthijs Westera who will present a poster based on joint work started while Matthijs was an LRC visitor last year. Giving talks are alumni Chris Kennedy (Chicago) and Scott AnderBois (Brown). Also presenting a poster will be former LRC visitor Luis Vicente.

CAREER WORKSHOP BY ALUMNA FELICITY ADLER

February 24, 2014

On Thursday February 27th at 4:00pm Felicity Adler (who graduated from UCSC in 2010 with a BA in Linguistics) will present a Career Workshop for undergraduates in Linguistics and Language Studies. The talk will take place in the Linguistics Common Room, 249 Stevenson. Felicity was a Learning and Development Coordinator at Google in Mountain View, and is now the Coordinator of engEdu, a series of lectures by eminent engineers and scientists on various technical topics. She will talk about her career path, answer questions, and give her perspective on how one makes the transition from an undergraduate specialization in linguistics to a career in the high tech world.

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CORNELL UNDERGRADUATE LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM

February 24, 2014

The UnderLings, the undergraduate linguistics association of Cornell University, requests abstract submissions for the 8th annual Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium, which will take place at Cornell between April 25th and April 27th 2014. Abstracts (for twenty minute talks) should be submitted by March 10th 2014. All the relevant details are available here. Please direct any questions to this email address.

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SHAKESPEARE IN ASL

February 10, 2014

Also of interest to linguists will be an event hosted by the Institute for Humanities Research at UCSC. Shakespeare in ASL (February 26th at 6:30pm in Theater Arts E100) features a performance of a selection of Shakespeare’s sonnets translated into ASL, as well as a discussion of the art of translation and the concept of style in signing. Performing and participating will be Monique Holt and Tim Chamberlain

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MONTREAL WORKSHOP ON PROSODY AND CONSTITUENT STRUCTURE

January 20, 2014

Exploring the Interfaces (ETI) 3 will take place at McGill University from May 8-10, 2014. This workshop will be the last of three workshops organized by the McGill Syntactic Interfaces Research Group (McSIRG) as part of a multi-year grant to study linguistic interfaces. Following ETI 1 (Word structure) and ETI 2 (Implicatures, alternatives and the semantics/pragmatics interface), the topic of ETI 3 will be Prosody and Constituent Structure. Among the invited speakers at the event will be Judith Aissen and Jim McCloskey, as well as undergrad alum Joey Sabbagh.

In addition to the invited presentations, the organizers are soliciting abstracts for a limited number of additional talks (30 minutes, plus 10 minutes discussion) on topics related to the workshop themes, which include a particular focus on issues of prosodic and phonological structure in verb-initial languages. The abstract submission deadline is February 28th 2014. Abstracts can be submitted here and more information is available here and here.

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