WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
Mark Aronoff, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University will also be visiting UCSC soon. Mark will give an informal presentation in MRG (Morphology Reading Group) on Friday, May 30th 2014 from 1 to 2:30 pm in the Cave. Further details will be announced shortly.
Sandy Chung is one of the current holders of the Gary D. Licker Chair at Cowell College in UCSC. As holder of the chair, Sandy will present the Gary D. Licker Memorial Lecture on Tuesday May 13th in the Cowell Senior Common Room (please note that this a change from the venue originally announced here). The lecture is at 6pm and Sandy’s topic is Language Endangerment and Cultural Politics in the Mariana Islands.
S-Circle resumes this week, when alum Pete Alrenga of Boston University returns to the department to give a talk on At Least, At Most, and Speaker Ignorance. Friday May 16th at 3:30 in the Linguistics Common Room. The abstract is available here.
Erik Zyman will be giving an informal talk on Tuesday, May 13, at 3:30 in the Linguistics Common Room. The title is On the Semantics of P’urhepecha Degree Constructions and this is a practice talk for Erik’s upcoming presentation at SULA 8 in Vancouver. Amy Rose Deal and Maziar Toosarvandani will also be presenting at the conference.
The final colloquium of the quarter and of the year will take place on Friday May 9th at 4pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. The speaker will be Jean E. Fox Tree of the Cognitive Psychology group in the Psychology Department at UCSC. Professor Fox Tree coordinates the work of the Spontaneous Communication Laboratory at UCSC and the title of her talk is Spontaneous Communication. The abstract is available here.
Besides the colloquium featured in our last issue and also featured here, the SCLP group is sponsoring two additional events in the coming week.
On Wednesday, April 30, at 11am, in Engineering Two, Room 599, Professor Jouko Väänänen, of the University of Helsinki, will give a talk on (in)dependence logic (of which he is the principal creator). An abstract is available here. Refreshments will be available in E2-559 at 10:45am. This event is co-sponsored by the UCSC Computer Science Department.
Later that same day, Professor Michela Ippolito, from the University of Toronto, will lead a discussion of recent work on conditionals. This event will take place in the Linguistics Common Room at 4:30pm. Michela will also hold office hours on Friday May 2nd from 11am to 12pm, and from 1:30pm to 3:30pm. A sign-up sheet will be posted shortly on the door of the Linguistics Visitor’s Office.
SCLP is the (Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy Group), an interdisciplinary research and reading group involving students and faculty from linguistics and philosophy, whose work focuses on issues in formal semantics, philosophy of language, and philosophical logic. Funding for the group’s activities comes from the Institute for Humanities Research at UCSC.
S-Circle resumes its regular work this week, with a talk by Nico Baier of the Berkeley Linguistics Department. Nico’s talk will be on successive-cyclic effects in Seereer, an Atlantic Congo language of Senegal and The Gambia. Nico’s presentation will be on Friday April 25th from 3:30pm until 5:00pm in the Linguistics Common Room in Stevenson College; his title is Long Distance Wh-movement in Seereer: Implications for Intermediate Movement and the abstract is available here.