GOUNAS AT SCULC
On May 18, undergraduate linguistics major Melanie Gounas presented her honors thesis work “The syntactic representations of constituent negation” at the tenth annual Southern California Undergraduate Linguistics Conference at UCLA.
Category: Student News
GRADUATE STUDENTS WIN LSA INSTITUTE FELLOWSHIPS
Two UCSC graduate students, Richard Bibbs and Ben Eischens, were awarded fellowships to attend the LSA 2019 Linguistic Institute at UC Davis this summer. You can find a full list of fellows here. Congratulations, Richard and Ben!
BEAUCHAMP AT SAL3
Last weekend, the third Symposium on Amazonian Languages (SAL) took place at the University of California, Berkeley. In a talk titled, “Aspects of a revised phonological description of Kajkwakhrattxi (Jê),” Jérémie Beauchamp presented a descriptive account of some phonological patterns found in Kajkwakhrattxi and discussed phonological differences between Kajkwakhrattxi and closely related languages, as revealed through documentation work with older speakers of the language.
HIRAYAMA DEFENDS DISSERTATION
Hitomi Hirayama successfully defended her dissertation on February 27. The presentation investigated the interrogative use of the discourse particles wa and no(da) in Japanese, and it comprised a subset of her dissertation, entitled “Asking and Answering Questions: Discourse Strategies in Japanese.” Her committee consisted of Donka Farkas (co-chair), Adrian Brasoveanu (co-chair), and Ivy Sichel. The defense was followed by a lively celebration hosted by Donka, where members of the linguistic community came together to cheer on Hitomi’s achievements. Congratulations, Hitomi!
CORNELL UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM ANNOUNCED
The thirteenth annual Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium has been scheduled for April 26-28, 2019. A call for abstracts from students pursing a B.A. or B.S. degree is open, with a submission deadline of March 6. For more information on the Colloquium and instructions on abstract submission, click here.
HIRAYAMA DISSERTATION DEFENSE
Hitomi Hirayama is scheduled to defend her dissertation, “Asking and Answering Questions: Discourse Strategies in Japanese” on Wednesday, February 27th at 12:00 PM in Humanities 1, Room 202.
VINCENT DEFENDS SECOND QUALIFYING PAPER
On December 6, Jake Vincent successfully defended his second qualifying paper. His committee was Matt Wagers (chair), Ivy Sichel, and Grant McGuire. The paper, entitled “Relative clause subextraction in English,” uses experimental methodologies to show that there appear to be some systematic exceptions to the idea that relative clauses are always strong islands in English. It shows that in both existential and predicate nominal environments, relative clauses are significantly more transparent to extraction than in transitive object environments. Congratulations, Jake!