WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
Allan Schwade presented a talk at Stanford’s p-interest entitled “Non-Grammatical Gender and the Lexicon”. Then Allan joined Grant at the International Congress of Acoustics 2013 and gave a poster on “What Palatalized Consonants Can Tell Us about Loanword Adaptation”.
On May 29th Oliver Northrup spoke at Stanford’s semantics discussion group SemPrag. His talk, titled “Conflicting bias in high negation polar questions,” was based on an earlier talk he gave here at the Unofficial Graduate student Get-together on Semantics and pragmatics (UGGS). The abstract for that talk is here.
Matt Tucker will defend his doctoral dissertation Building Verbs in Maltese at 3pm on Thursday June 6th in Room 210 of Humanities One. As always, all are welcome to the event.
Karl DeVries has successfully defended his first qualifying paper “A Segmental Semantics for Modified Numerals and their Interaction with ‘Already'” on Thursday, May 30. His QP committee consisted of Pranav Anand, Adrian Brasoveanu (Chair), and Donka Farkas. Congratulations, Karl!
Congratulations to Bern Samko, who was recently awarded a Doctoral Student Sabbatical Fellowship for Fall quarter 2013-14! This fellowship allows the recipient to focus exclusively on research in the named quarter.
Congratulations to the following majors, who were all recently elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society!
Alyssa Berkins
Cynthia Friedman
Jacob Gimbel
Lila Hunt
Ethan Kelley
Noah Kopito
Shawna Mattison
Matilda Morrison
Nataliya Munishkina
Maura O’Leary
Emma Peoples
Staci Prosser
Kamran Qazi
Amanda Ratto
Lindsay Ress
Emily Saltz
Natalie Schlosser
Anya Thepot
Julia Yeager
Many, many congratulations to Nicholas Primrose, whose senior thesis, “Japanese Numerals and Numeral Quantifiers”, has won the campus-wide Chancellor’s Award! Nicholas already received the Dean’s Undergraduate Award, a Humanities-wide recognition, for this work. Only 15 senior projects from all of UCSC go on to win the Chancellor’s. Congratulations also to Nicholas’s advisor, Jorge Hankamer. Nicholas, Jorge, and the other Chancellor’s awardees and their advisors will be honored at a lunch with Chancellor Blumenthall in June.