about

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

time

Fridays, 1:30–3:00 pm

place

Linguistics Common Room
Stevenson College
(and virtually, via Zoom)

coordinators

Jack Duff
Maziar Toosarvandani

other quarters

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, spring 2015
fall 2013, winter 2014, spring 2014

University of California, Santa Cruz
Department of Linguistics

spring 2022

 

April 8
Jess Law
Force shift as speech act anchoring (Joint work with Haoze Li, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and Diti Bhadra, University of Minnesota)

April 15
Sandy Chung
Tough movement in English and Chamorro

April 22
Eli Sharf
Deixis and restrictive modification

May 13
Sophia Stremel
The syntax of reduced parenthetical clauses in English

May 20
Vera Gribanova (Stanford)
Conjunction meets negation meets ellipsis

June 3
Boris Harizanov (Stanford)
Syntactic head movement and projection