WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ

On Saturday, November 3rd, Nido de Lenguas hosted a booth at local non-profit Senderos’ Día de los Muertos celebration. Visitors enjoyed playing interactive language games in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec and San Martín Peras Mixtec while learning about the languages of Oaxaca. The event was a great success and drew participants from around Santa Cruz County.

Pictured from left to right are UCSC linguists Jack Duff, Andrew Angeles, Jérémie Beauchamp, Azusena Orozco, and Jed Pizarro-Guevara.

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SPLAP: Wednesday, 3:00-4:00 PM, LCR: the group will finish discussion of Deal (2017): “Shifty asymmetries: universals and variation in shifty indexicality.”

MRG: Friday, 9:00-10:00 AM, LCR: the group will discuss Matthews (1965), “Some Concepts in Word-and-Paradigm Morphology.”

Phlunch: Friday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Grant McGuire will present on his current research.

LIP, S-Circle s/lab and WLMA will not be meeting this week.

The most recent issue of Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (Volume 36 Number 4) has just appeared. It includes a paper by recent alumnus Jason Ostrove called “Stretching, spanning, and linear adjacency in Vocabulary Insertion,” which deals with the complexities of verbal morphology in Irish and Scots Gaelic. Also in the issue is a paper by alumna Ruth Kramer of Georgetown, one which grows out of her collaboration with Mark Baker of Rutgers University. Their paper is titled “Doubled clitics are pronouns.”

UCSC faculty Junko Ito and Armin Mester were in complementary distribution in Santa Cruz during the past two weeks, thanks to their travel schedules. Junko travelled first to the East (Boston, Mass), where she was an invited speaker at WAFL (Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics) at MIT on October 20th, and then Armin to the Far East (Tokyo, Japan), where he was an invited speaker at ICPP 2018 (International Conference on Phonology and Phonetics) at NINJAL (National Institute of Japanese Languages and Linguistics) on October 27th. In each of these venues, they presented their recent work on “Preaccentuation and tonal alignment,” which proposes a new version of the antepenultimate accent principle which defines the default location of pitch accent in Japanese. The chief innovation in this work is that accent in compounds with “short” second nouns (one or two moras—so-called “preaccentuation” at the end of the first noun) now follows from the same principle, as does the prototypical junctural N2-initial accent in compounds with “long” N2 (three to four moras), given a very simple extension of the analysis of unaccentedness in Japanese in Ito and Mester (2016, Linguistic Inquiry), a PDF of which can be accessed here.

Ryan Bennett spent a crisp fall weekend at UMass Amherst for Sound Systems of Latin America III, held from Oct. 19-21. Along with co-author Robert Henderson (UCSC PhD 2012), Ryan presented ongoing work on the interaction of tone and intonation in Uspanteko. The conference was a lovely event, and showcased top-notch research on the phonetics and phonology of indigenous languages of the Americas. Also in attendance was Scott AnderBois (UCSC PhD 2011), presenting collaborative work on the use of falsetto in A’ingae discourse.

s/lab: Monday, 3:30-4:30 PM, LCR: s/lab will host an abstract workshop for CAMP 2018.

LIP: Wednesday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Maho Morimoto will present on a project with UCSC faculty member Shigeko Okamoto on gender construction in Japanese.

SPLAP: Wednesday, 3:00-4:00 PM, LCR: the group will discuss Deal (2017): “Shifty asymmetries: universals and variation in shifty indexicality.”

MRG: Friday, 9:00-10:00 AM, LCR: the group will discuss Embick and Halle (2005) “On the status of stems in morphological theory.”

Phlunch: Friday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Richard Bibbs will present work in progress on laryngeal segments in Chamorro.

S-Circle: Friday, 1:20-2:50 PM, LCR: Jed Pizarro-Guevara will present work on the interaction between voice morphology and A’-dependencies in Tagalog.

WLMA: Friday, Time TBD, LCR: UCLA PhD student Iara Mantenuto will present current work on San Sebastián del Monte Mixtec.