ELLIPSIS AT SANTA CRUZ
The research group on ellipsis SCEC has now swung into high gear with the aid of an infusion of funding that arrived in early summer from the National Science Foundation via Project 1451819, the Implicit Content of Sluicing. The group’s initial annotation effort continues to focus on sluicing, and a group of graduate students, including Kelsey Kraus, Karen Duek, Margaret Kroll, and Deniz Rudin worked with Pranav Anand and Jim McCloskey during the summer, both on the intellectual issues raised by sluicing and on some of the hard operational problems encountered in the annotation effort. Meanwhile, a second group of undergraduate research assistants (Brooks Blair, Mansi Desai, Zach Lebowski, Lyndsey Olsen, Reuben Raff, Lydia Werthen, and Anissa Zaitsu) joined the project to train as the second-generation annotation team. Training took place during the summer, and the group began work in earnest at the beginning of Fall Quarter. M.A. student Chelsea Miller and B.A. alum Rachelle Boyson act as lead annotators and coordinators of the annotation effort. Co-PI Dan Hardt joined the group for an intense week of collaboration in early August. Later in the Fall, Ph.D. alum Jason Merchant, who wrote the book on sluicing, will be visiting for several days as a consultant and advisor on the project.