WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
There will be a career talk for students interested in speech pathology Tuesday, May 28th, at 4pm, in 249 Stevenson. Angela Aiello, UCSC alum (BA 2003, MA 2010), and soon to be a graduate of the Communicative Disorders and Sciences program at San Jose State University, will give an informational talk about the program and her experiences. Please come to hear about her presentation, and get your questions answered!
As a Faculty Fellow this year of UCSC’s Institute for Humanities Research, our own Grant McGuire will give a talk this Friday, May 17th, at 4:00 pm, in Humanities 1, Room 210 (Not the Fireside, please note). The title of his talk is “Separating voice prototypicality and stereotypicality”, and you can find the abstract here.
There will be two talks this week by Ad Neeleman (University College London), both organized by the Cross-Linguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology (CrISP) research group. On Wednesday, May 15th (10:30-12 am, Stevenson 249), he will give an informal workshop presentation titled “e” (see abstract below). On Thursday, May 16th (4-5:30, Humanities 1 Room 210), he will give a colloquium titled “Person: Inventory and Realization”. You can find the abstract for this talk here.
Abstract for May 15 workshop talk: The copy theory of movement (Chomsky 1995), in conjunction with the fact that traces are phonologically empty, forces a filler-driven parsing strategy for movement. We argue that this parsing strategy in turn explains certain asymmetries between leftward and rightward movement, on the assumption that empty branches must be located at the leading edge of the parse. In particular, non-string-vacuous rightward movement of obligatory material causes parsing difficulties, because it requires that an empty branch is pushed away from the leading edge before it can be filled by a copy of the moved constituent. We consider two rightward movements: heavy-NP shift and rightward movement of N (or N+A) in the extended nominal protection.
The 9th annual Graduate Research Symposium takes place Friday, May 10th, 2013, from 1:30 to 3:30 in the Information Commons South area of McHenry Library. Linguistics will be represented by Tommy Denby, Peter Fabian, Mark Norris, and Matt Ong, who are giving posters, and Allan Schwade, who is giving a short talk at 3:10 in Presentation Room 1. Judges include Sandy Chung and Irena Polic. To see the program, click here. To learn more about the Graduate Research Symposium, click here.
S-Circle at UC Santa Cruz is hosting an informal WORKSHOP ON PARENTHETICALS this Friday, April 26th from 2:00 to 6:00 pm. The workshop will take place in the Linguistics Common Room (Stevenson 249) and will feature three talks:
‘Notes on ki-clauses (in Turkish)’
Güliz Günes and James Griffiths (U. Groningen)
‘Crossing the Appositive/At-Issue Meaning Boundary’
Adrian Brasoveanu (UCSC) with Scott AnderBois (U. Rochester) and Robert Henderson (McGill)
‘Types of Semantic Content’
Donka Farkas (UCSC)
A detailed program with abstracts is available here.
There will be a colloquium by Karlos Arregi (University of Chicago) this Friday, April 12th, at 4:00 pm, in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. The title of his talk is “Markedness and Rule Generalization in Basque Clitic Morphology”, and you can find the abstract here.
Every quarter Stevenson College chooses a Stevenson Faculty Fellow to give a general audience talk. The next talk will be by our own Adrian Brasoveanu, speaking about “Scales of Negativity. The talk will be Wednesday, April 10, at 4:30 in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. To read the abstract, click here. Hope to see you there!