MARK NORRIS PASSES PROSPECTUS DEFENSE
Many congratulations to Mark Norris, who passed his dissertation prospectus defense on April 2nd. Truly ABD. The committee was Sandy Chung, Jorge Hankamer (Chair), and Jim McCloskey.
Category: Student News
SARA CANTOR TO SPEAK AT UC BERKELEY
Sara Cantor will be speaking this Wednesday, March 6, 3-4:30 at UC Berkeley’s Syntax and Semantics Circle. Sara will be giving a version of her LASC talk (see above!) on sluicing and relative clauses. Go here for more details.
KATIA KRAVTCHENKO DEFENDS QUALIFYING PAPER
Congratulations to Katia Kravtchenko for a successful defense of her first qualifying paper, “Effects of contextual predictability on optional subject omission in Russian”. (Committee: Pranav Anand (chair), Adrian Brasoveanu, and Jaye Padgett.) Katia just presented parts of this paper at the LSA, and she’ll do the same at CUNY at the end of the month.
BERN SAMKO TALKS AT WCCFL
Bern Samko attended the annual West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) at Arizona State University this past weekend, where she gave a talk called “A feature-driven movement analysis of English participle preposing”. Learn about WCCFL and read abstracts here.
GRADUATE STUDENT SEMANTICS GET-TOGETHERS!
Last Saturday saw the first meeting of the new Unofficial Graduate student Get-togather on Semantics and pragmatics (UGGS). The theme of the premiere meeting was modified numerals: Karl DeVries on interaction between modified numerals and aspectual modifiers, and Matthijs Westra on the pragmatics of modified numerals, based on inquisitive semantics. This week UGGS will feature Anie Thompson, who will be workshopping a set of puzzles for the missing antecedent test in ellipsis, with special attention to the differences between singulars and plurals. She will also be offering a bonus discussion of some inverse scope puzzles if participants are interested. UGGS meets Saturdays 3-5pm in the Cave.
JOB OPPORTUNITY FOR MAJORS WITH LANGUAGE SKILLS
From Madeleine Moore, a Language Studies 2011 alumna:
I am now working for Glass, Lewis & Co., a Corporate Governance research firm based in San Francisco. I was hired thanks to my foreign language skills and excellent writing capabilities I gained studying Linguistics.
I’m currently recruiting for Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish speakers at my firm for temporary, full-time positions. Here is our LinkedIn job ad.
FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE FOR STUDENTS TO ATTEND THE LSA’S 2013 LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE
Applications will soon be available for student fellowships to attend the LSA’s 2013 Linguistic Institute, which will be held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from June 24 – July 19th. The LSA’s biennial Linguistic Institutes are the premier events of their kind in our field, bringing together hundreds of students and linguistics professionals for a weeks-long program of courses, workshops, mini-conference, lectures, social events, and special activities. Complete information about the 2013 Institute is available at http://lsa2013.lsa.umich.edu/.
The LSA and the Institute provide a number of fellowships for students to attend the Institute. Most fellowships cover tuition only, but a few “Named Fellowship” provide additional elements. More information about the application process is available at http://www.linguisticsociety.org/meetings-institutes/institutes/fellowships. Applications will be available beginning January 14, through login at the LSA website. The application deadline will be February 7. Please note, in particular, that the application requires two letters of recommendation to be submitted by February 14. You need only provide the names and e-mail addresses of your recommenders; the LSA will contact them separately to request the letters of recommendation. Note that applicants must be student members of the LSA. Nonmembers may join at http://www.linguisticsociety.org/join.
If you are interested in applying for a fellowship, the LSA suggests you review the information above now, so that you can 1) decide if you are interested in applying for one of the named fellowships; 2) familiarize yourself with what is required for the application, and; 3) notify your recommenders that they will be contacted separately by the LSA.
Questions about the Institute may be directed to lsa2013@umich.edu . Questions about the fellowship application may be directed to lsa@lsadc.org.