WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
Donka Farkas and Floris Roelofsen will co-teach a course this summer at the European Summer School for Language, Logic and Information in Düsseldorf, Germany. The course, entitled “Questions, Assertions and Hybrids in an Inquisitive Discourse Model”, is based on their joint recent work.
This summer Jaye Padgett will also teach a course, at the annual New York – St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition, and Culture, in St. Petersburg, Russia. His course is titled “Explaining Phonology”.
As a Faculty Fellow this year of UCSC’s Institute for Humanities Research, our own Grant McGuire will give a talk this Friday, May 17th, at 4:00 pm, in Humanities 1, Room 210 (Not the Fireside, please note). The title of his talk is “Separating voice prototypicality and stereotypicality”, and you can find the abstract here.
Many congratulations to Donka Farkas, who has won the Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award in Humanities this year! This is the sole teaching award covering the entire Humanities Division, offered to only one faculty member in a year. (A linguist has won two of the last three years!) The award will be presented to Donka at the “Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities 2013” Spring Awards Event on Thursday, May 30th, 3-5 pm in Humanities 1, rooms 202 and 210. (Presentation of the Dizikes Award will be at 3:15.)
Sandy Chung spent a few days in New Haven, Connecticut. She visited the renovated Yale Art Gallery (which she tells us is truly fantastic), gave a colloquium at Yale, avoided snow (despite weather forecasts to the contrary), and spent some most enjoyable time with Ryan Bennett (Ph.D. alum, 2012, now Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Yale). Then, on April 5-7, she traveled to Lawrence, Kansas, where she gave the Frances Ingemann lecture at the University of Kansas, and again avoided snow.
The 35th California Celtic Colloquium took place on the weekend of March 15th to March 17th at UC Berkeley. The conference is hosted in alternate years by UCLA and by Berkeley and brings together each year researchers from all over the world interested in Celtic languages and literatures. Jim McCloskey was one of this year’s invited speakers. His talk was on How to Make an Inflected Verb: Verum Focus in Irish.
The annual Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) will be held at UC Berkeley April 5th-7th. The program can be accessed here. WSCLA covers all areas of linguistics, involving professional linguists and language activists as well. Judith Aissen is one of this year’s invited speakers.