WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
A paper by Ryan Bennett, Grant McGuire, Máire Ní Chiosáin, and Jaye Padgett will be presented at the CUNY Conference on the Segment in Phonology in New York City this January. You can read the abstract here, and we are taking bets on who gets to visit New York.
The Linguistic Society of America announced that Jorge Hankamer has been elected a Fellow of the Society. Jorge will be inducted, with other members of the 2012 class, in a ceremony which will take place during the LSA’s annual Business Meeting on Friday, January 6 at 5:30 pm, during the society’s Winter Meeting in Portland, Oregon.
A small class of Fellows (no more than 5% of the society’s membership) is elected each year in recognition of distinguished contributions to the discipline.
With Jorge’s election, the number of faculty members in the department to have been so honored rises to six (including 2 emeriti/ae). In addition to Jorge, Judith Aissen, Sandy Chung, Bill Ladusaw, Jim McCloskey, and Geoff Pullum are all LSA Fellows.
The preliminary program of the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, to be held January 5-8, 2012, in Portland, Oregon, has now been posted. WHASC’s first reading of it reveals an unusually hefty UCSC presence. Among those delivering papers are grad students Ryan Bennett, Nick Deschenes, and Matt Tucker, and faculty members Amy Rose Deal, Wendell Kimper, and Geoffrey Pullum (emeritus). Bill Ladusaw will be the discussant on a panel about the undergraduate major in Linguistics. Grad student Robert Henderson will present a joint poster with alum Scott AnderBois (Ph.D. 2011, now University of Connecticut). Many other alums will be presenting papers, including Ph.D. alums Pete Alrenga (Boston University), Vera Gribanova (Stanford), Chris Kennedy (Chicago), Ruth Kramer (Georgetown), Vera Lee-Schoenfeld (University of Georgia), Anya Lunden (University of Georgia), Jason Merchant (Chicago), and Rachel Walker (USC), as well as B.A. alums Joseph Sabbagh (University of Texas, Arlington) and Mark Sicoli (University of Alaska, Fairbanks). On Friday evening, Jorge Hankamer will be inducted as a member of the 2012 class of LSA Fellows. On Saturday evening, the Presidential address will be delivered by Sandy Chung, Manuel F. Borja, and Matt Wagers.
The journal Linguistics and Philosophy has just published a paper by Adrian Brasoveanu and Donka Farkas, called “How indefinites choose their scope”. Find the paper here!
The current issue of Linguistic Inquiry (42.4, Fall 2011) sees the publication of Aaron Kaplan‘s paper Harmonic Improvement without Candidate Chains in Chamorro, a paper which grew out of Aaron’s dissertation Noniterativity is an Emergent Property of Grammar completed at UCSC in 2008. The abstract for the paper is available here.
When the New York Times posted an article on errors in number agreement (“Number Trouble”, October 11, 2011), Matt Wagers posted a comment. See his quote from Trollope!
Amy Rose Deal’s article, Modals without scales, has just been published in Language, the journal of the Linguistic Society of America. You can see the abstract at Amy Rose’s website. In case you hadn’t heard, Amy Rose will be joining our faculty in January!