Category: Faculty News

Adrian Brasoveanu just visited Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, this past week to talk about their current research project on relative clauses, the different ways relative clauses can target quantifiers and the various logical frameworks (dynamic plural logic included) within which such phenomena can be accounted for. Adrian also gave a talk on “Scales of Negativity”, reporting joint work with Donka Farkas and recent department visitors Floris Roelofsen and Karen De Clercq. According to Adrian, a lot of fun was had by everyone.

Sandy Chung has been elected Chair-Elect of the Section on Linguistics and Language Science (Section Z) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She will serve as Chair-Elect from Feburary 2013 to February 2014, and as Chair from February 2014 to February 2015. More about the Section on Linguistics and Language Science can be found here.

Amy Rose Deal is one of three faculty throughout Humanities to receive a fellowship for next year from the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research. The fellowship provides funding to support research, and fellows give a public talk on campus during their fellowship year. (Look for one from Grant McGuire this year.) Congratulations, Amy Rose!

Jorge Hankamer gave two invited talks at Boǧaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. According to Jorge, one of the talks was about suspended affixation and the other was about pseudo-sluicing. These talks were for faculty and graduate students in the Linguistics program at Boǧaziçi University, an English-language university on the Bosphorus. Jorge has also been invited to teach a course on Distributed Morphology next summer at Boǧaziçi.

During winter break Donka Farkas traveled to snow-covered Bucharest to participate in a conference on the syntax and semantics of specificity, organized by Alexandra Cornilescu. She gave a paper co-authored with her fellow invited speaker, Adrian Brasoveanu. (This was a special honor, given that both Adrian and Donka started their careers in linguistics as students of Alexandra’s in Bucharest.) UCSC was further represented at this conference by two former LRC visitors, Klaus von Heusinger (University of Cologne), and Larisa Avram (University of Bucharest). Donka was particularly pleased to see a whole new crop of bright young linguists doing first rate work at the University of Bucharest.

In a rare honor, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has just elected Sandy Chung a fellow. In the words of AAAS, “Fellows are recognized for meritorious efforts to advance science or its applications”. Of the 701 fellows elected this year, only one, Sandy, was a linguist. There are only 35 AAAS fellows total in the AAAS “linguistics and language science” categories. There are roughly 8,000 AAAS fellows in all categories.

Sandy was honored “for distinguished contributions to teaching and research in linguistics, advancing syntax through insights from under-studied languages, notably Chamorro, and engaging minority communities in linguistic research.”

For more on Sandy’s recognition, see this UCSC news story. Congratulations, Sandy!