A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
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.
The program for Sluicing@50 has just been posted. Organized by alumnus Jason Merchant, Sluicing@50 is a workshop whose purpose is to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the presentation at CLS in 1969 of Guess Who, the paper by Haj Ross which launched the still flourishing investigation of one of the world’s most widely attested ellipsis processes. The workshop will examine sluicing in the context of all the questions it raises for the general theory of ellipsis and for linguistic theory. Plenary lectures will be given by Ross himself and by Howard Lasnik. Among the invited speakers are Jim McCloskey, alumna Vera Gribanova and alumnus Matt Barros. Merchant will also give a paper and LRC visitor Dan Hardt will co-present with recent alumnus Deniz Rudin.
After being awarded a Faculty Fellowship from The Humanities Institute at UCSC, Amanda Rysling’s work was featured in the Institute’s latest news feature. The post highlights Amanda’s work in speech intonation and language processing. More information about the fellowship and the work it will support can be found here. Congratulations, Amanda!
The Humanities Institute at UCSC is sponsoring a year-long series of public events which highlight issues of freedom, privacy, and surveillance in the digital age. The first event of 2019 was held on the evening of January 29 at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center. Titled Question that Matter: Data and Democracy, the event was a discussion between Pranav Anand (Linguistics) and Lise Getoor (Computer Science & Engineering), who is Director of UCSC’s D3 Research Center. Their conversation was moderated by THI Director Nathaniel Deutsch (History & Jewish Studies). Tickets had sold out and the venue was packed. Anand and Getoor’s conversation focused on data-gathering technologies and the challenges and opportunities they create for democratic societies which value the privacy and autonomy of individuals. The question period was lively and still in full flow when the event concluded at 9:00 p.m. Visit this link for photos and the event video.
From left to right, Lise Getoor, Nathaniel Deutsch, and Pranav Anand.
This Tuesday, January 29th, Pranav Anand will participate in a panel conversation entitled “Data and Democracy” at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz. The presentation is part of The Humanities Institute at UCSC’s “Questions that Matter.” More information about the event can be found here. Unfortunately, tickets are sold out, but you can sign up here to be put on a wait list.
The Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award, which recognizes one UCSC Humanities faculty member per year for their transformative teaching and effective mentoring, has issued a call for nominations. Current undergraduate and graduate students as well as recent alumni may recommend a professor to receive the award by completing and turning in this form by March 4th, 2019. Since 2006, five Linguistics professors have received the award, the most recent being Jim McCloskey.
LIP: Thursday, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM, LCR: Nick Van Handel will lead discussion of Assgari and Stilp (2015), “Talker information influences spectral contrast effects in speech categorization.”
MRG: Thursday, 11:40 AM-12:40 PM, LCR: Ben Eischens will present work in progress on negation in San Martín Peras Mixtec.
WLMA: Friday, 1:00-2:30 PM, LCR: Jack Duff will present England (2007), “Marking aspect and mood and inferring time in Mam (Mayan).”
s/lab: Friday, 3:00 – 4:00 PM, STEV 102: Steven Foley will lead discussion of chapter three of Yang’s (2016) “The price of linguistic productivity: how children learn to break the rules of language.”