A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
Our friends at Penn Linguistics have asked us to publicize the Call for Papers for the 39th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference to be held in Philadelphia on March 20-22, 2015. Papers on any topic in linguistics are welcome; abstracts are due by November 14, 2014. Detailed information about the submission process is available here.
The Linguistics department is offering a workshop on applying to graduate school with Linguistics PhD student Jason Ostrove as presenter.
Please note this workshop is not for Speech Pathology programs, but for students thinking about applying to graduate programs similar to the one here at UCSC.
Tamara (Tami) Schuyler earned a BA in Biology and an MA in Linguistics at UCSC. Her MA thesis (completed in 2001 and published in SASC (Syntax at Santa Cruz) Volume 3) is a widely cited study of the conditions which govern the possibility ofWh-Movement out of VP Ellipsis sites in English. Since completing the MA, Tami has worked as a linguist in the legal industry, most recently as a Senior Consultant with H5 Inc. However, she has also been developing a career as a writer of fiction and has recently achieved considerable success. In recent months, Tami has published three new stories. One grew out of her participation in LitQuake (a literary festival in San Francisco) and was published in Crack the Spine earlier this summer. A second story came out a month ago in a journal that has both online and print editions (The Milo Review). A third story (which Tami describes as her favorite of 2014) was published online earlier this month in the current issue of The Mulberrry Fork Review.
Another distinguished alumna, Line Mikkelsen of UC Berkeley will be returning to the department on Friday October 17th to give a presentation in S-Circle (Syntax and Semantics Circle). Line’s talk, entitled “What goes postverbal in a verb-final language? On the interplay of prosody, information structure, and word order in Karuk” will take place in the Linguistics Common Room at 4:00pm. Other events planned for S-Circle this quarter are listed here.
The program for the 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (in Portland, Oregon, January 8-11, 2015) was recently announced. Among those presenting at the meeting are faculty members Sandy Chung and Matt Wagers (Filler-gap order and online licensing of grammatical relations: evidence from Chamorro, with Manuel F. Borja), along with graduate students Nate Arnett (Interference effects in subject-verb attachment: Case, position, and clause-finiteness), Anna Greenwood(Substance bias in stress pattern learning), and Bern Samko (The emphatic implicature of English verb-phrase preposing.
Also presenting at the meeting are many alumni of the graduate program, including Matt Tucker (NYU), Chris Potts (Stanford University), Rachel Walker (University of Southern California), Andy Wedel (University of Arizona), and Adam Ussishkin(University of Arizona). Among undergraduate alumni presenting are Lauren Winans (UCLA), Aaron White (University of Maryland), Joseph King (New York University), and Eric Bakovic (University of California, San Diego). Former visiting graduate student Filippa Lindahl (University of Göteborg) is also on the program.
Our colleagues at Berkeley Linguistics have asked us to help spread the word about a position in semantics and pragmatics that they hope to fill in the coming year. The position will be filled either at the assistant professor or associate professor level and the department hopes to see applications from people at all levels (current graduate students, postdocs, assistant professors, or individuals already tenured). The person appointed will need to have a strong research record in semantics or pragmatics and will need to be able to teach formal model-theoretic semantics at all levels. The department would be happy to hire someone who would make connections with other research currently under way at Berkeley (for example in syntax, morphology, corpus linguistics, experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, typology, language change, or documentation). The formal announcement and other particulars are available here and here.
We have also been notified of a Linguist position at the University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire. The English Department seeks to hire a tenure-track faculty member in Linguistics at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin in August 2015. The date to apply for this position is quickly approaching. Submissions will be accepted until this Friday, October 24th. You can find more information about this position here.