HIRAYAMA DEFENDS DISSERTATION

Hitomi Hirayama successfully defended her dissertation on February 27. The presentation investigated the interrogative use of the discourse particles wa and no(da) in Japanese, and it comprised a subset of her dissertation, entitled “Asking and Answering Questions: Discourse Strategies in Japanese.” Her committee consisted of Donka Farkas (co-chair), Adrian Brasoveanu (co-chair), and Ivy Sichel. The defense was followed by a lively celebration hosted by Donka, where members of the linguistic community came together to cheer on Hitomi’s achievements. Congratulations, Hitomi!

NIDO GETS A NEST EGG

On February 27, Nido de Lenguas participated in UCSC’s Giving Day, with the goal of raising $4,000 to expand community-oriented language-learning events. Thanks to the generous support of donors and the hard work of students and faculty alike, the organization surpassed its goal and raised $4,755 from 72 supporters. A special thanks goes out to undergraduate linguist Paula Ledesma, who manned a table on campus to spread the word about Nido.

CORNELL UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM ANNOUNCED

The thirteenth annual Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium has been scheduled for April 26-28, 2019. A call for abstracts from students pursing a B.A. or B.S. degree is open, with a submission deadline of March 6. For more information on the Colloquium and instructions on abstract submission, click here.

NIDO GEARS UP FOR GIVING DAY

UCSC’s Nido de Lenguas is preparing for Giving Day, a UCSC-wide fundraising event to support student and faculty initiatives, which takes place all day this Wednesday, February 27th. Nido de Lenguas is a collaboration between linguists at UCSC and Senderos to raise awareness and appreciation of Oaxacan languages, many of which are widely spoken in the Monterey Bay area. On Wednesday, the organization hopes to raise enough money to expand their annual Summer Camp, a free event for members of the community to learn and celebrate Oaxacan languages. To learn more, and to donate on Wednesday, click here.

SALT 29 AT UCLA

The 29th Semantics and Linguistic Theory conference (SALT 29) will take place this year between May 17th and May 19th at UCLA. The preliminary program can be viewed here and online registration is open here.

The conference will open with a talk by recent alumnus Deniz Rudin (Embedded Rising Declaratives). Grad student Tom Roberts is first up on Sunday morning (I can’t believe it’s not lexical: Deriving distributed factivity). The poster session is also dominated by Santa Crucians, with joint presentations by Margaret Kroll and Amanda Rysling (The Search for Truth: Appositives Weigh In), by Michela Ippolito and Donka Farkas (Epistemic stance without epistemic modals: the case of the presumptive future)
and by Deniz Rudin and Andrea Beltrama (Default agreement with subjective assertions). Morwenna Hoeks is presenting a poster on joint work with Floris Roelofsen (Disjoining Questions), and alumnus Scott AnderBois is also presenting a poster (At-issueness in direct quotation: the case of Mayan quotatives).

HOW OUR READINGS ARE GROUPING THIS WEEK

LaLoCo: Tuesday, 12:00-1:00 PM, Room 217: the group will discuss chapter ten of Lee and Wagenmakers (2014), “Bayesian cognitive modeling: a practical course.”

LIP: Thursday, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM, LCR: Grant McGuire will lead discussion of Hay et. al’s (2018) “Hearing r-sandhi: The role of past experience.”

MRG: Thursday, 11:40 AM-12:40 PM, LCR: Jorge Hankamer and Line Mikkelsen (UC Berkeley) will present work in progress on CP complements to D in Danish.

Phlunch: Friday, 9:00-10:00 AM, LCR: Richard Bibbs and Andrew Angeles will give practice presentations of their LASC posters.

s/lab: Friday, 3:00 – 4:00 PM, STEV 102: Miguel Toner, Sikander Haider, and Jed Pizarro-Guevara will discuss a project entitled, “Retrieval in English locative inversion.”

SPLAP,  S-Circle, and WLMA will not be meeting this week.

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