about

S-Circle is an informal forum for the discussion and presentation of new research in syntax, semantics, and their interconnections.

time

Fridays, 1:30–3:00pm

place

Linguistics Common Room (LCR)
(and virtually, via Zoom. Email coordinators for the link)

coordinators

Aidan Katson
Roumyana Pancheva

other quarters

fall 2024, winter 2025
winter 2024, spring 2024
fall 2022, winter 2023
fall 2021, spring 2022
fall 2020, winter 2021, spring 2021
fall 2019, spring 2020
fall 2018, winter 2019, spring 2019
fall 2017, winter 2018, spring 2018
fall 2016, winter 2017, spring 2017
fall 2015, winter 2016, spring 2016
fall 2014, winter 2015

University of California, Santa Cruz
Department of Linguistics

spring 2025

April 4th
  Metehan Oğuz
  Indexical Shift and its interactions with Perspective Sensitive Items (PSIs)
   Indexical PSIs in Turkish

April 11th
  No meeting
  Enjoy the Spring Research Symposium!

April 18th
  Philip Shushurin
  How to do voice restructuring in a language without voice:
   Transitivity concord in Chechen

April 21st, 1:30–3:00pm
  Danny Fox
  Assertion, Presupposition and Local Accommodation

May 2nd
  Yağmur Kiper
  Ellipsis meets case:
   an analysis of low sluicing and its interaction with case theory

May 9th
  Carol Rose Little
  Comitative strategies in Ch'ol

May 12th, 1:30–3:00pm
  Madelaine O'Reilly-Brown
  Null subjects, control, and agreement in Uyghur

May 14th, 3:00–4:30pm
  Adrian Brasoveanu
  Counterfactual Interpretation as Search for Coherence (In a Learned Model of the World)

May 23rd
  No Meeting
  Enjoy the colloquium!

May 30th
  No meeting
  Enjoy LURC!

June 6th, 11:00am–12:30pm
  Jungu Kang
   No Minimizer Left Behind:
    Split QP in Korean and its consequences in NPI licensing
  Jun Tamura
   A small-clause analysis of a class of phrasal comparatives in Japanese