HONORS TO SUMMER GRADS
Congratulations to Sabrina Madden and Linda Yang, who received their B.A. degrees in Summer 2021 with departmental honors in Linguistics.
Category: Student News
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
AMP’D UP SLUGS
The Annual Meeting on Phonology happened just last weekend (Oct 1-3, 2021; hosted by Toronto), and it was positively infested with banana slugs.
Jaye, Ryan, Grant, and Máire Ní Chiosáin of University College Dublin presented their poster “Russian Palatalization is [back, high], not [ATR]”.
Ben Eischens presented a poster titled “Phonology is Phonetically Grounded but not Phonetically Detailed”, and Yaqing Cao presented “Revisiting Tone Sandhi Domain in Xiamen Chinese”.
In addition, alums Anya Hogoboom (UCSC Ph.D. 2006, William & Mary College), Eric Bakovic (UCSC B.A., 1993, UC San Diego) and Nathan Sanders (UCSC Ph.D., 2003, U of Toronto) participated in the AMP Teaching Workshop.
DEPARTMENTAL HONORS FOR SPRING GRADUATES
Congratulations to Sage Meadows (B.A. in Linguistics), Miranda Ying (B.A. in Linguistics), Katharina Pierini (B.A. in Language Studies), and Sydney Roberts (B.A. in Language Studies) for graduating in Spring 2021 and receiving departmental honors!
KROLL RECEIVES CHANCELLOR’S DISSERTATION-YEAR FELLOWSHIP
This spring, Linguistics PhD candidate Margaret Kroll received the Chancellor’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship for the 2019-20 academic year. The university writes, of the fellowships:
These state-funded, merit-based fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis to doctoral graduates who have overcome significant social or educational obstacles to achieve a college education, and whose backgrounds equip them to contribute to intellectual diversity among the graduate student population.
Congratulations, Margaret!
KROLL AND ROBERTS RECEIVE SUMMER FELLOWSHIPS
This summer, Linguistics PhD candidates Margaret Kroll and Tom Roberts received fellowships from the UCSC Humanities Institute, Kroll as a Summer Research Fellow, and Roberts as a Summer Dissertation Fellow. You can read more about these research fellowships on the Institute’s website. Congratulations, Margaret and Tom!
VON DOLLEN AWARDED DEPARTMENTAL HONORS
This summer, Linguistics major Henry Von Dollen received his BA with departmental honors in Linguistics. Congratulations, Henry!