A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
This Tuesday, January 22nd, Nido de Lenguas will host a gathering for the UCSC community from 6:00-8:00 PM in Humanities 210. Come by to enjoy free food, learn about the mission and work of Nido de Lenguas, and find out how you can get involved! 
Donka Farkas will spend the 2019-2020 academic year as the Kelley Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. Donka writes:
I will teach two courses during the year, one in semantics, and one in pragmatics. I am looking forward to joining colleagues in the Linguistics Program there, as well as in the Philosophy department. After a year on the East Coast I will be, I am sure, eager to return home to Santa Cruz.
S-Circle: Wednesday, 2:00-3:00 PM, LCR: Margaret Kroll and Tom Roberts will present work entitled, “I hold these truths to be self-evident: Of course as a marker of uncontroversiality.”
MRG: Thursday, 11:40 AM-12:40 PM, LCR: the group will discuss Embick and Noyer (2007) “Distributed Morphology and the Syntax/Morphology Interface.”
Phlunch: Friday, 9:00 – 10:00 AM, LCR: Max Kaplan will present work by Sam Tilsen on space and time in models and speech rhythm.
s/lab: Friday, 3:00 – 4:00 PM, STEV 102: Jake Vincent will be presenting on his second qualifying paper, entitled “Relative clause subextraction in English.”
UCSC PhD alums Vera Lee-Schoenfeld (University of Georgia) and Anya Lunden (College of William and Mary) recently published a paper in The Linguistic Review. The paper, entitled “The syntax, information structure, and prosody of German ‘VP’-fronting” can be found along with an abstract here. Congratulations, Vera and Anya!
The UN has declared 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages, with the goal of raising awareness and support for Indigenous groups and their languages. As a result of this designation, Linguistics departments around the nation are encouraged to redouble their involvement in the study, documentation, and revitalization of Indigenous languages. More information about the International Year of Indigenous Languages and how you can participate can be found here.
LaLoCo: Tuesday, 12:00-1:00 PM, Room 217: the group will discuss chapter seven of Lee and Wagenmakers (2014), “Bayesian cognitive modeling: a practical course.”
LIP: Thursday, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM, STEV 217: the group will meet to create a reading plan for the quarter.
MRG: Thursday, 11:40 AM-12:40 PM, LCR: the group will discuss Holmberg and Wang (2018), “Roots, categorizers, and reduplication in Xining Chinese.”
WLMA: Friday, 1:00 – 2:30 PM, LCR: Judith Aissen will present joint work with Telma Can Pixabaj entitled “‘how’ questions in K’iche’ (Mayan): A light verb construction.”
s/lab: Friday, 3:00 – 4:00 PM, STEV 102: Jed Pizarro-Guevara and Anelia Kudin will present chapters one and two of Yang’s “The price of linguistic productivity: how children learn to break the rules of language” (2016).
UCSC linguists were present and active at last weekend’s LSA conference in New York City. They participated in special sessions, presented research, and received prestigious awards. A rundown of activities is below:
Inside Segments (LSA Special Session)
Organizers:
Myriam Lapierre (UC Berkeley)
Karee Garvin (UC Berkeley)
Martha Schwarz (UC Berkeley)
Sharon Inkelas (UC Berkeley)
Ryan Bennett (UCSC)
Presentations:
Are bare adverbial responses derived by ellipsis? Definitely.
Authors:
Margaret Kroll (UCSC)
Tom Roberts (UCSC)
Pronouns over gaps in parsing? The Subject Relative Clause Advantage in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec.
Authors:
Steven Foley (UCSC)
Jed Pizarro-Guevara (UCSC)
Kelsey Sasaki (UCSC)
Maziar Toosarvandani (UCSC)
Matthew Wagers (UCSC)
Ken Hale Award:
Judith Aissen was formally presented with the Ken Hale Award, recognizing “her energetic documentation of Tzotzil and other Mayan languages, her success at bringing these languages to bear on linguistic theory, and her commitment to the nurturing of indigenous linguists.” Congratulations, Judith!
