WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
Proposals for this year’s Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) are due to Nicole Rios in the Humanities Dean’s office on Monday, November 5, 2007 at 5:00 p.m. This is also the deadline for the faculty letters of support that must accompany the proposals. More information is available here.
Last week’s WHASC misstated the deadline for SALT 18, to be held March 21-23, 2008, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The correct deadline is December 15, 2007. Thanks to alum Chris Potts (UCSC Ph.D., 2003), whose announcement of SALT to WHASC caused our error to be uncovered. SALT 18’s invited speakers are Lyn Frazier, Lisa Matthewson, Hotze Rullmann, and Philippe Schlenker. For the call for papers, go here.
The next Syntax Circle will be from 12:00 to 1:15 p.m. on October 23 in the Silverman Conference Room. Dave Teeple will be presenting his research on “The Placement of Arabic Pronominal Clitics.”
Jim McCloskey travelled from rainy California to balmy upstate New York to give a colloquium on Thursday, October 18, at Cornell University’s Department of Linguistics. Jim’s talk was on Movement, Agreement, and Beyond, and since it had had a trial run in the Syntax Circle on October 9, it went off without serious incident.
Ever visited Phonoloblog, a website dedicated to “all things phonology”? To get a feel for it, check out alum Eric Bakovic‘s (UCSC B.A., 1993) webchat interview of Junko Ito, on the subject of the squibs section to be inaugurated in the journal Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. For the interview, go here.
After two years in a postdoc at McGill, alum Joey Sabbagh (UCSC B.A., 2000, MIT Ph.D., 2005) is now teaching at UC Berkeley. He reports:
Things are good here. Teaching is taking up all of my time, but I’m enjoying it for the most part. The department is wonderful. I get to see Line (and Oscar and Patrick) a lot, and I’m getting to know some of the other faculty pretty well too. I’m thoroughly enjoying Berkeley, even though I’m not getting out much (due to my teaching schedule), but its such a pleasure to be living (back) here! Classes are going well overall. Intro is a bit of a challenge: Some days students are awake and seemingly engaged, other days they are silent. Now that we’ve moved on from Phonology to Morphology (and we’re about to start Syntax), the (active) students are starting to ask more interesting questions, which is making it more fun for me. The grad course is challenging too. Because half of the students have some background in syntax, but the other half do not, the difficulty there is trying to bring some sense of equilibrium to the class. I’m hoping that I’ll soon feel at ease enough with teaching to start making time for other stuff (research and personal). My LSA abstract was accepted, so I have some work to do for that as well.
The deadline for submission of abstracts to the 31st GLOW Colloquium, to be held March 26-28, 2008, at the University of Newcastle, UK, is November 1. The invited speakers are Luigi Rizzi and Arto Anttila. Apart from the main session, there will be workshops on: categorical phonology and gradient facts; evidentiality; DP types and feature syntax; language contact; and principles of linearization.
Meanwhile, the deadline for submission of abstracts to SALT 18, to be held March 21-23, 2008, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is December 1. The invited speakers are Lyn Frazier, Lisa Matthewson, Hotze Rullmann, and Philippe Schlenker.