Linguistics at Santa Cruz

March 18, 2017 — Humanities I, Room 210 – UC Santa Cruz

Morning
8:30	Light Breakfast
9:35	Welcome Jim McCloskey
Session 1 Chair: Maho Morimoto
9:45	Margaret Kroll	Is working memory sensitive to at-issueness? Experimental evidence from at-issue appositives pdf
10:15	Tom Roberts	The semantics of responsive predicates and their complements in Estonian pdf
10:45	Break
Session 2 Chair: Jenny Bellik
11:00	Steven Foley	The role of split ergativity in Georgian relative clause processing pdf
11:30	Jake Vincent	Phonological lowering in Chamorro circumnominal relative clauses pdf
Afternoon
12:00	Lunch is served in Humanities II, Room 259.
Session 3 Chair: Deniz Rudin
13:00	Hitomi Hirayama	Expressing ignorance in Japanese: contrastive wa vs. at least pdf
13:30	Lauren McGarry	Pragmatic conditions on non-polar responses pdf
14:00	Break
Session 4 Chair: Jason Ostrove
14:15	Kelsey Sasaki	Predicate initiality in Hawai’i Creole pdf
14:45	Jed Pizarro-Guevara	An auditory masked priming study of nasal substitution in Dabaw Bisaya (Cebuano) pdf
15:15	Coffee & Snack Break
Distinguished Alumnus Address Chair: Kelsey Kraus
15:30	Introduction Donka Farkas
15:35	Kyle Rawlins Johns Hopkins University	Unary ‘or’ pdf
17:00	Closing Remarks Matt Wagers, Graduate Director

Dinner & Celebration

The LASC Dinner and Celebration will be held at the Cowell Provost House from 5:45pm to 8pm. Dinner will be served at 6pm. The Cowell Provost House is a pleasant walk from Humanities or Stevenson College, and any local will gladly show you the way.