Category: Student News

UCSC at the LSA

The preliminary program of the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, to be held January 5-8, 2012, in Portland, Oregon, has now been posted. WHASC’s first reading of it reveals an unusually hefty UCSC presence. Among those delivering papers are grad students Ryan Bennett, Nick Deschenes, and Matt Tucker, and faculty members Amy Rose Deal, Wendell Kimper, and Geoffrey Pullum (emeritus). Bill Ladusaw will be the discussant on a panel about the undergraduate major in Linguistics. Grad student Robert Henderson will present a joint poster with alum Scott AnderBois (Ph.D. 2011, now University of Connecticut). Many other alums will be presenting papers, including Ph.D. alums Pete Alrenga (Boston University), Vera Gribanova (Stanford), Chris Kennedy (Chicago), Ruth Kramer (Georgetown), Vera Lee-Schoenfeld (University of Georgia), Anya Lunden (University of Georgia), Jason Merchant (Chicago), and Rachel Walker (USC), as well as B.A. alums Joseph Sabbagh (University of Texas, Arlington) and Mark Sicoli (University of Alaska, Fairbanks). On Friday evening, Jorge Hankamer will be inducted as a member of the 2012 class of LSA Fellows. On Saturday evening, the Presidential address will be delivered by Sandy Chung, Manuel F. Borja, and Matt Wagers.

Anie Thompson Presents at Stanford

This Wednesday (October 26) at 5 pm, Anie Thompson will present recent work on reference to adverbials in English at the Stanford Syntax and Morphology Circle. The title of the talk is “Argumental Reference to Adverbial Restrictors.” More information, including an abstract, can be found here.

Tommy Denby in The New Yorker

Graduate student Tommy Denby has written with passion, insight, and tenderness about an important relationship in his life in a piece published in the September edition of The New Yorker (online version). Thanks to diehard Mets fan Judith Fiedler for the link.

Boris Harizanov Presents at Stanford

This Wednesday (October 12) at 5 pm Boris Harizanov will present his recent work on clitic doubling at the Stanford Syntax and Morphology Circle. The title of his talk is “Clitic Doubling as Movement: An analysis of object clitics in Bulgarian”, and more information (including an abstract) can be found here.

Ryan Bennet in Japan

Ryan Bennett has returned from a two-week research trip to Japan. While in Tokyo, Ryan ran more than 40 subjects in a dissertation-related artificial grammar experiment. The experiments were conducted at International Christian University (where our department’s own Junko Ito is stationed as director of the UC’s EAP Japan program), and at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). Ryan also presented his experimental research at the September meeting of the Tokyo Circle of Phonologists, and gave another talk at ICU on pronoun postposing in Irish (joint work with Jim McCloskey and Emily Elfner of UMass Amherst).

Other highlights of the trip included a Seibu Lions baseball game, a surprisingly fierce typhoon, and many good meals with Japanese friends and colleagues.

Baseball

Typhoon

Mark Norris Qualifies

Congratulations to Mark Norris, who passed his Qualifying Exam, based on his paper titled “The Emergence of Locality in Concord”, on Thursday June 9. The Examining committee consisted of Jorge Hankamer (dissertation advisor), Jim McCloskey, Sandra Chung, and Eric Potsdam of the University of Florida (and Ph.D. alumnus) as external member.

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