WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
There will be a colloquium by Gabriela Caballero (UC San Diego) this Friday, March 16th, at 4:00 pm, in Humanities 1, room 210. The title of the talk is “Stress and tone in Choguita Raramuri (Tarahumara) word prosody”, and you can find the abstract here.
The department’s annual Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) conference will take place this Saturday, March 10th, 8:15-4:30, in Humanities One, room 202. The program for the conference is available here. Our guest alum speaker this year is Chris Barker of New York University. As in previous years, LASC overlaps with our Prospective Graduate Student Open House. Please welcome any and all visiting prospectives!
There will be a colloquium by Matt Gordon (UC Santa Barbara) this Friday, March 2nd, at 4:00 pm, in Humanities 1, room 210. The title of the talk is “Lexical and post-lexical accentology, morphology, and weight in Muskogean: Case studies from Koasati and Chickasaw”, and you can find the abstract here.
There will be a colloquium by Mary Paster (Pomona College) this Friday, February 24th, at 4:00 pm, in Humanities 1, room 202. This is one of a continuing series of Distinguished Visitors talks organized by the Cross-linguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology research group. The title of the talk is “Phonologically Conditioned Morphology”, and you can find the abstract here.
Most quarters the Linguistics Department hosts a career workshop, an event where students can learn about a career path first-hand from alums who have made the transition to the “real world”. This Thursday’s career workshop features Jenny Simon, an instructor in English as a Second Language at El Camino College in Los Angeles. Jenny received a B.A. in Language Studies and a Master’s Degree (1997) in Linguistics from UCSC. The workshop will be this Thursday, February 16th, 4:30-5:30 in the Linguistics Common Room (Stevenson 249). The workshop is an informal discussion during which Jenny will talk about her on path to becoming an ESL instructor and give advice to (and take questions from) those who are interested in this career. Everyone is welcome!
On April 13-15, UC Santa Cruz will host the 30th annual West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. WCCFL is the premiere annual conference on generative linguistics appearing in western North America. The WCCFL home page and program are now available. Among the speakers at this year’s WCCFL are UCSC’s visiting professor Wendell Kimper; visiting student Violeta Martínez-Paricio; and Ph.D. alums Pete Alrenga (Boston University), Chris Kennedy (University of Chicago), Ruth Kramer (Georgetown University), Jason Merchant (University of Chicago), and Chris Potts (plenary speaker, Stanford University). There will also be posters presented by Ph.D. alums Scott AnderBois (University of Connecticut), Anya Lunden (University of Georgia), current Ph.D. student Nick Deschenes, and undergrad/MA alum Noah Constant. The organization of WCCFL is a department-wide effort led by the WCCFL Organizing Committee of Maggie Bardacke, Jim McCloskey, and Matt Tucker.