A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
S-Circle resumes its work on Friday next, February 20th at 2pm in the Linguistics Common Room. Melissa Fusco from the Philosophy Department at UC Berkeley will visit to present a talk on Deontic Disjunction. The abstract is available here.
The undergraduate linguistics association at Cornell has asked us to help spread the word about their annual colloquium:
The UnderLings, the Cornell University Undergraduate Linguistics Association, requests abstract submissions for the 9th annual Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium. The Colloquium will take place April 18-19, 2015.
Student submissions at all levels are encouraged in a variety of sub-fields of linguistics, including but not limited to phonetics, phonology, syntax, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition. Applicants pursuing a B.A., B.S., or equivalent degree are invited to submit a one-page abstract for a talk of no more than twenty minutes in length or for a poster presentation at our poster session.
Abstracts should be submitted to culc2015@gmail.com by March 11. Please indicate whether you would like to be considered for a talk or for the poster session or both. There is a probability that the conference proceedings will be published afterward, most likely in an online, widely-accessible format. Information about the Colloquium may be found here.
The Department’s formal call for applications for graduate research initiative grants underwritten by the Tanya Honig Fund has now been issued. Applications for 2015-16 are due by March 10. For further details, contact the staff Graduate Advisor (Ashley Hardisty).
On Wednesday February 25th, Jaye Padgett will give the Stevenson College Distinguished Faculty Lecture. Jaye’s talk, What Irish Gaelic Tells us About All Linguistic Sound Systems, will take place in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge at 4:00pm. There will be a reception immediately following Jaye’s talk in the Stevenson Provost House. All the crucial details are available here.
The Linguistics Department hereby issues a call for applications for graduate research initiative grants, to be underwritten by the Tanya Honig Graduate Development Fund. Graduate student initiated research collectives have been a crucial component of the Department’s intellectual life since the inception of the graduate program. At their heart, such initiatives are reading groups, loci for researchers with allied interests to engage in sustained conversation, both with the literature and with one another. Initiatives such as the Morphology Reading Group and Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax and Prosody have gone one step further, enriching the department with a host of workshops and visiting speakers and often obtaining external funding. It is in the spirit of such ventures beyond the typical confines of a reading group that this Call is issued. The department anticipates awarding one grant for the 2015-2016 academic year. Linguistics graduate students should consult the official CALL for further details. That will appear in next week’s WHASC.
This Friday, February 13th, Phlunch will be hosting a talk by San Jose State University‘s Dan Silverman. His talk is titled On the Evolution of Heterophony: Semantic Pressures on Phonetic Forms. Phlunch meets this quarter Fridays at 12:00 in the LCR.
Also happening this Friday (13 February) will be an S-Circle presentation by Nick Kalivoda. This talk is scheduled for 2:00pm and will feature Nick’s current work, The Derivation of Anti-Agreement and Agreement Weakening: Evidence from Zapotec. Information about future S-Circle meetings can be found here.