USC Ling Weekly Digest 10/01

Miran Oh was selected as the Student Council representative for the Technical Committee on Speech Communication of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA)!. Student representatives at ASA serve as a conduit for information for students, promoting the interests of students in the Society. This position begins November, 2018 and will last until Fall, 2020. Congrats Miran!

Elsi Kaiser gave an invited talk at a workshop at Harvard on logophoricity and anaphoricity entitled “Crosslinguistic investigations of (anti-) logophoricity: Perspectival effects within and across clauses” (Sep 22-23).

In anticipation of our first colloquium speaker of the year, we are still looking for someone to help with pick-up on Saturday Oct 6th – please contact Hayeon Jang and Sarah Harper for more information.

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This week, in the linguistics department:

Monday (10/01) at 3:30pm in the Conference Room: Syntax+! Sarah Lee is going to give a talk titled “The Interpretation of the Comparison Class in Degree Predication inside Relative Clauses.”

Wednesday (10/03) at 12pm in the Conference Room: PhonLunch! Miran Oh and Sarah Harper will be presenting.

For more information on our weekly fun run, contact Jesse Storbeck.