Category: Faculty News

Summer publications

The Department’s faculty and students saw a number of their publications appear in print over the summer, including:

Vincent, Sichel, and Wagers in Languages

An update from Jake Vincent:

Ivy, Matt, and I had an article published in Languages recently (May 11). It’s based on the experimental work on English relative clauses (RCs) that started with my second QP and culminated in my dissertation. It presents experimental evidence that non-presuppositional environments affect a relative clause’s resistance to extraction even in English. In particular, (a) RCs inside of DPs serving as non-verbal predicates of a clause and RCs inside the nominal pivot of a there-existential give rise to a substantially reduced island effect (compared to extraction from a transitive object), and (b) RCs inside of transitive objects may give rise to a reduced island effect when the transitive verb is used in an existential way. The paper also describes what we believe to be a methodological innovation somewhat akin to priming by which the effects of discourse context on sentence acceptability can be measured without modifying the nature of the judgment task.

Congrats, Jake, Matt, and Ivy!

Hedding and Toosarvandani at NELS

Andrew Hedding and Maziar Toosarvandani presented at NELS 52 this weekend, which was held (virtually) at Rutgers.

 

Andrew gave a talk titled Possible and Impossible Movements within the Mixtec DP, about pied-piping with inversion and subextraction in San Martín Peras Mixtec and what these phenomena can tell us about the way that foci move syntactically.

Maziar gave a talk titled Locating Animacy in the Grammar, on the relationship between person features and animacy through the lens of Sierra Zapotec.

Van HANDEL IN PHONOLOGY AND OTHER NEW PUBLICATIONS

Nick Van Handel’s paper, “Matching overtly headed syntactic phrases in Italian,” has just appeared in the journal Phonology. Congratulations, Nick!

It joins several articles that have appeared since the June issue of WHASC, including Hankamer & Mikkelsen (mentioned above) on “CP Complements to D” and Chung & Wagers on “On the universality of intrusive resumption.”

  • Jorge Hankamer, Line Mikkelsen; CP Complements to D. Linguistic Inquiry 2021; 52 (3): 473–518. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00387
  • Chung, S., Wagers, M.W. On the universality of intrusive resumption: Evidence from Chamorro and Palauan. Nat Lang Linguist Theory 39, 759–801 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-020-09493-9
  • Van Handel, N. (2021). Matching overtly headed syntactic phrases in Italian. Phonology, 38(2), 317-356. doi:10.1017/S095267572100018X

SLUGS AT ICPHS

A number of UCSC faculty, students, and affiliates attended the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Melbourne, Australia. These included Linguistics faculty members Amanda Rysling, Ryan Bennett, and Grant McGuire; Applied Linguistics faculty member Mark Amengual; post-doc Jenny Bellik; graduate students Maho Morimoto and Andrew Hedding; former PhD student Robert Henderson (PhD, 2012); and former LRC affiliate Haruo Kubozono.

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