NEW BOOK SERIES ON GRAMMAR AND DISCOURSE STRUCTURE

Our Berkeley colleague and alum Line Mikkelsen has also asked for our help in spreading the word about a new initiative, this one a new book series. Line is a member of the editorial board of the new series Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface (TGDI) which is to be published by Language Science Press. Language Science Press publishes open-access books in the field of linguistics and their publications are free for both authors and readers. The TGDI series will address issues in discourse structure, rhetorical relations, information structure (within and beyond the clause), anaphora resolution, textual cohesion, ellipsis, salience, and so on and will have an emphasis on the use of naturally-occuring data wherever possible. More information about the series and the people behind it is available here. The editors and publishers of the series are actively seeking book proposals and suggestions for suitable monographs or collections of papers.

INFORMATIONAL MEETING ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT’S AGREEMENTS WITH THE MONTEREY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

On Friday, November 21st from 2:30-3:30 , The Department will host some representatives of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, who will run an informational workshop about the Department’s program with the Institute. The meeting will take place in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. Undergraduate Coordinator Susan Welch has this to say about the meeting:

As you may know, the Linguistics Department recently signed a three year agreement with the Monterey Institute of International Studies that will enable students with BA’s in Linguistics or Language Studies to have certain coursework counted towards eligibility for the Institute’s Advanced Entry MATESOL or MATFL program. Please see this link for more information about the agreement. No rsvp needed, and light refreshments provided. We hope those of you who are interested in getting more information about this program will attend!

CALL FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROPOSALS (HUGRA)

HUGRA awards support undergraduate research projects in the humanities. Up to 10 awards in the amount of $500 each are given each year. There are no constraints on the expenditure of the stipend. The top proposal receives the Bertha N. Melkonian prize, an additional $500. Any project involving research within or including any of the humanities disciplines is eligible for consideration. Proposals must be for research to be performed during the 2014-2015 academic year.

Proposals will be judged on the basis of:

  1. intellectual substance
  2. promise of results
  3. preparation of applicant
  4. feasibility.

Applications consist of:

  • the HUGRA Application Form (which is available from the IHR website here).
  • a 1—-3 page research proposal, describing the research problem to be addressed, what will be done in the project, and what end product (e.g. research paper, senior thesis, project report) is expected. A timetable should be included.
  • A letter of support from a faculty sponsor addressing items 1. through 4. above. The applicant is responsible for ensuring that the letter of support is submitted by the deadline.
  • Note: All awardees will be expected to make research posters and present at the Humanities Spring Awards & Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations during Spring Quarter 2015.
  • Deadline: December 1, 2014. Please submit all applications electronically (preferably in .pdf format) to ihr@ucsc.edu.

ALUM REPORT: MARK NORRIS

Mark Norris finished the PhD last spring with a dissertation on nominal syntax and nominal concord. He now holds a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma. Still with the intent of checking in with last year’s graduate alums, we wrote to Mark to see how things were and he sent in this resport:

I am very comfortable at OU so far. My colleagues Marcia Haag and UCSC alumnus Dylan Herrick have been very helpful to me and also solicitous of my opinions, which has made me feel very welcome and very integrated. Between teaching phonetics and semantics, doing research, and advising a drove of linguistics undergraduates, I am keeping busy. The fall semester is wrapping up very soon, and then I’ll be gearing up for Typology and General Linguistics (our intro course) in the spring.

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