DUEK AT GOING ROMANCE
Over the break, Karen Duek attended Going Romance 9 at Radboud University in Nijmegen on December 10-12. She gave a talk on “External possession in Brazilian Portuguese: No movement to thematic positions.”
Category: Student News
REPORT FROM LSA
Linguists from UCSC were well represented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Washington, DC. There were several grad students who presented papers: Lauren McGarry, Jason Ostrove, Bern Samko, and Erik Zyman. Many alumni of the department were also in attendance, including Pete Alrenga (BU), Eric Bakovic (UCSD), Boris Harizanov (Stanford), Ruth Kramer (Georgetown), Nick LaCara (UMass Amherst), Eric Potsdam (Florida), and Matt Tucker (NYU), among others. (Apologies if you were not mentioned!)
UNDERGRADUATE HONORS
Congratulations to Zoe Kirsh for receiving the B.A. with honors in Linguistics and to Tenavi Nakamura-Simmerer for receiving the B.A. with honors in Language Studies in fall 2015!
TOOSARVANDANI’S NORTHERN PAIUTE PROJECT IN THE NEWS
A recent article in Earth Island Journal describes efforts to document and maintain Northern Paiute, a critically endangered Uto-Aztecan language. Prominently featured in the article is Maziar Toosarvandani’s project with Toza Gracie Dick, a native speaker of Northern Paiute, to document the dialect of Northern Paiute spoken in Bridgeport, California. Go here to learn more about the Northern Paiute Language Project and its current participants, who include Nate Clair.
CONGRATULATIONS TO DUEK AND KALIVODA
Congratulations to Karen Duek and Nick Kalivoda, who successfully filed their second qualifying papers earlier this quarter!
VIGIL FOR MATT MARGULIS ON DECEMBER 1
Kresge College is hosting a candlelight vigil for Matthew Margulis on Tuesday, December 1, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Kresge Piazzetta. In the case of rain, the group will convene in Kresge Seminar Room 159. This event is open to all members of the UC Santa Cruz community who wish to pay tribute.
IN MEMORIAM: MATT MARGULIS
The Department mourns the passing of Matt Margulis, who died unexpectedly on November 15. A double major in Linguistics and Philosophy, Matt was writing a senior thesis in theoretical and experimental semantics under the direction of Adrian Brasoveanu. Adrian writes, “His infectious enthusiasm, unending energy for learning and talking about new things in semantics and his insightful, goal-driven pursuit of linguistic research inspired many of us.” Matt had presented some of his research last Spring at the Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC); some photos of him at LURC can be found on the second half of this page. A campus memorial will be held, probably late in the afternoon of December 1. Matt will be deeply missed by all of us.