Category: Events

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.