WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ

The 2019 annual meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) will take place between September 9th and September 12th next in the vibrant East End of London at Queen Mary’s University of London (QMUL). There are two plenary speakers— Sandy Chung will give the Henry Sweet lecture and alumnus Chris Potts of Stanford will give the Linguistics Association lecture. Sandy and Chris will each also offer a 5 hour master-class on the afternoon of September 9th, as part of this year’s LAGB Summer School. The call for papers for the meeting is here (abstract deadline Friday April 5th) and more information about the meeting in general can be found here.

Natalie Katz graduated, magna cum laude and with honors in the major, at the end of Winter Quarter 2018. She is one of the increasingly large number of undergraduate majors in Linguistics to pursue a career in law and she was admitted to the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California (USC) for the academic year 2018-19. Having survived her first semester in law school in style, Natalie sent in this report:

I was very happy to have a few weeks off after wrapping up my first semester at USC—things ended chaotically, but successfully. On my very last day of finals, in fact, I ran into Deniz Rudin for the first time. So far, I am enjoying this semester a lot and am increasingly leaning towards pursuing a career in criminal defense. LA is finally feeling like home, and while I miss much of the nature around Santa Cruz, it is great having much, much better access to different foods and live music.

Visiting professor Gorka Elordieta (University of the Basque Country) recently published two collaborative articles in International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology and Fontes Linguae Vasconum. The articles are written in Basque, and their titles translate to “On the accentuation of town names in Alava” (English abstract) and “On focal accent of unaccented words in subordinate clauses” (English abstract). Anyone interested in learning more about these topics should contact Gorka for more information. Congratulations, Gorka!

The biennial LSA Summer Institute will be taking place from June 24-July 19, 2019 at the University of California, Davis. The Institute’s theme, “Linguistics in the Digital Era,” promises exciting exploration of the ways in which the ubiquity of modern technological advances impacts both our experience of human language and our methods of investigating it. Alongside the special theme comes the usual smörgåsbord of course topics, ranging from introductions in various sub-fields to specialized workshops on specific questions. Registration information can be found here. Information about fellowship opportunities, the applications for which are due February 21, can be found here.

It can be difficult to keep track of the large number of grant application deadlines fast approaching. But breathe easy! You can learn more about upcoming grant deadlines below:

The Jacob’s Research Fund, a program that funds original research on the cultures and languages of native people groups in the Americas, has an application deadline of February 15. More information on the grant and how to apply can be found here.

The Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Competition for Recent PhDs is a program that places recent PhDs in staff positions with various partnering organizations. The two-year fellowship has an application deadline of March 13. More information about the program and the application can be found here.

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program funds doctoral candidates who engage in 6-12 months of full-time language or area research abroad. The application is due on March 25th. More information can be found here.

The Humanities Institute at UCSC has various funding opportunities for Humanities undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty members. Application deadlines range from early May to early April. A list of funding opportunities and deadlines can be found here.

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 will present work in progress on CP complements to D in Danish.

Phlunch: Friday, 9:00-10:00 AM, LCR: Andrew Hedding will give a practice talk for presentation at UCLA on work in progress in San Martín Peras Mixtec.

s/lab: Friday, 3:00 – 4:00 PM, STEV 102: Stephanie Rich will will lead discussion of chapters three and four of Yang’s (2016) “The price of linguistic productivity: how children learn to break the rules of language.”

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

Ryan Bennett‘s joint work with Emily Elfner (York University) entitled “The Syntax-Prosody Interface” was recently published online in the Annual Review of Linguistics. The article provides an overview of current and historical issues in the study of the syntax-prosody interface. You can find it along with an abstract here.