Category: Events

CAREER WORKSHOP BY ALUMNA FELICITY ADLER

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.

MONTREAL WORKSHOP ON PROSODY AND CONSTITUENT STRUCTURE

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.

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.

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