Category: Events

LSA 2014

Record freezing temperatures did not stop a sizable contingent of UCSC linguists from attending the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Minneapolis. A highlight of the meeting was the Awards Ceremony, at which Adrian Brasoveanu received the Early Career Award for 2014. Presenting or co-presenting papers were grad students Mark Norris, Boris Harizanov, Bern Samko, Clara Sherley-Appel, and Judith Fiedler; Anie Thompson and Mark Norris presented a poster, which was hard to get close to, because it seemed to have a permanent throng of attendees. Numberous alumni of the doctoral program also presented papers, including Matt Tucker (NYU), Andy Wedel (Arizona), Jason Merchant (Chicago), Ruth Kramer (Georgetown), Aaron Kaplan (Utah), Lynsey Wolter (Wisconsin-Eau-Clair), Pete Alrenga (Boston University), Chris Kennedy (Chicago), and Adam Ussishkin (Arizona). Also there were Nate Arnett, chair Sandy Chung, Matt Wagers and Jorge Hankamer, who hosted the traditionally lively Santa Cruz party, which was attended by numerous current and former Santa Cruz linguists.

BLS 2014

The 40th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society will take place on the Berkeley campus between Friday February 7th and Sunday February 9th, 2014. BLS has been held every year since 1975 and the preliminary program for this year’s fortieth instantiation is now available here. Apart from the regular sessions, the program includes a parasession on Language, Inequality, and Globalization (Friday February 7th), a parasession on Semantic Theory in Underdescribed Languages (Sunday afternoon February 9th), and a special session on Approaches to the Syntax-Phonology Interface (Saturday February 8th). Among the invited speakers for this session is alumna Vera Gribanova of Stanford. Also presenting at the conference will be alumna Vera Lee-Schoenfeld formerly of Swarthmore College and now at the University of Georgia.

ITO AND MESTER IN TROMSØ

Junko Ito and Armin Mester meanwhile travelled to CASTL at the University of Tromsø in Norway to take part in a series of events there. Junko was second opponent in the doctoral dissertation defense of Violeta Martínez-Paricio who was a Graduate Student Visitor in the Department under the auspices of the Linguistics Research Center in the academic year 2011-2012 and much of her dissertation research began at UCSC. The title of Violeta’s thesis is An exploration of minimal and maximal metrical feet and it explores the hypothesis that natural languages might exhibit recursion at the level of the foot. The Doctoral Defense (the disputatio) will be directed by alumnus Professor Peter Svenonius, who graduated from UCSC in 1994 and is now Director of CASTL and a Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Tromsø.

On the day following the dissertation defense, there will be a mini-worshop, at which Armin and Junko will serially present recent research on Perfect Shape vs. Exhaustive Parsing in Prosody.

All of these events take place during the Polar Twilight.

YOUNG LINGUISTS MEETING IN POZNAŃ POLAND 2014

We have been asked by our colleagues at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, in Poland to help get the word out about the Young Linguists Meeting to be held there in April 2014. The Young Linguists meetings are conferences organized by and for young linguists (undergraduate and graduate students, or PhD holders up to five years after the awarding of the degree). The submission deadline for all abstracts is 10th January 2014. More information is available here and here.

HARIZANOV DISSERTATION DEFENSE

Boris Harizanov will defend his doctoral dissertation on Friday, December 6th at 3:30pm in Humanities One, room 210. Boris’ title is “On the Mapping from Syntax to Morphophonology”. The dissertation advisor is Sandy Chung and the members of the committee are Jim McCloskey and Jorge Hankamer.

GLOW 37

Our colleagues in Brussels have asked us to spread the word about two related and important events. GLOW 37 will take place between April 2nd and April 5th 2014 in Brussels. The GLOW conference will be followed by GSS1 the GLOW Spring School 1 (April 7-11, 2014), with courses taught by Charles Yang, Antal Van den Bosch, Norvin Richards, Philip Hofmeister, Martina Wiltschko, Philippe Schlenker, Hagit Borer, and Pavel Caha. The registration deadline for GSS1 is January 15, 2014. For all practical information relating to both the GLOW colloquium and the Spring School, go here.

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