WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
On October 26th (Monday), MRG discussed Choi & Harley 2019 ” Locality Domains and Morphological Rules”
For the meeting next week on November 2nd (Monday), they will read Bobaljik 2012: Universals in Comparative Morphology (Chapter 3) at 3 pm at this Zoom link. More information about this reading group can be found on their official website. Supplementary information about MRG can be found here.
Ivy Sichel and Amanda Rysling will start a new reading group about social and racial justice in linguistics Friday November 6 at 3:30pm-5:00pm. They will read and discuss, together with graduates and faculties, Hudley et al. (2020) “Toward racial justice in linguistics: Interdisciplinary insights into theorizing race in the discipline and diversifying the profession“. The format for discussion would be one or two grads leading a brief discussion of the paper, followed by people (grads and faculty) who wanted to give commentary, followed by open floor Q&A.
Please e-mail Ivy or Amanda if you volunteer to lead a part of the discussion or give commentary before the sign-up closes on Nov 3rd.
Aaron Broadwell (University of Florida) will be presenting his research in WLMA on Tuesday, October 20th from 12 pm in this Zoom room (791 731 8021, pw: laclave). Aaron’s talk will be on argument linking and verbs of wearing in two Oaxacan languages.
Aaron Broadwell is Elling Eide Professor at the University of Florida. His research focus is on the documentation of Native languages, particularly those of the Southeastern US and Oaxaca, Mexico.
A full schedule of MLMA can be found here.
Richard Bibbs will lead a discussion on Kawahara & Pangilinan (2015). “Spectral continuity, amplitude changes, and perception of length contrasts” at 1 pm Thursday, October 22nd in this Zoom room(230 326 093, pw: 655218). A full schedule of Phlunch can be found here.
For the first meeting on October 12th last week, MRG discussed Embick 2010: Localism vs. Globalism in Distributed Morphology (Chapter 2). Today, they discussed Choi & Harley 2019: Locality Domains and Morphological Rules for the second meeting.
For the meeting next week on October 26th(Monday), they will read Bobaljik 2012: Universals in Comparative Morphology (Chapter 3) at 3 pm at this Zoom link. More information about this reading group can be found on their official website. Supplementary information about MRG can be found here.
Lalitha Balachandran will present “Argument reversals in verb phrase ellipsis” on Friday, October 23rd from 1:30-3:00 pm in this Zoom room (982 3942 8413, pw: interface). A full schedule of S-Circle can be found on their official website.
Lalitha Balachandran & Vishal Arvindam will lead a discussion of Xiang et al. (2020), An informativity-based account of negation complexity. On Tuesday, October 20th at 10 am in this Zoom link. A full schedule of S/LAB can be found here. To see what they’ve done in the past, visit this website.