The department newsletter of the Department of Linguistics at UCLA
Volume 7 (2006-7, prepared June 2007)
Draft in progress
Contents of this issue:
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The department newsletter of the Department of Linguistics at UCLA Volume 7 (2006-7, prepared June 2007) Draft in progress
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Jobs for our (current and former) graduate students
Christina Esposito (Ph.D. 2006) has accepted a tenure-track position at Macalester College. Jeff Heinz (Ph.D. 2007) will be starting a tenure-track position in phonology and computational linguistics at the University of Delaware. Sahyang Kim (Ph.D. 2004) will be starting in a permanent Lecturer position at Hong-Ik University in Seoul. Gianluca Storto (Ph.D. 2003) is currently on the research staff at Google, Inc. in their Santa Monica offices. Nathan Kleindinst is serving in a two-year postdoctoral position (2006-2008) at the Institut Jean-Nicod in Paris. Katya Pertsova has a postdoctoral position at the Tufts University Center for Cognitive Studies. Congratulations to all!
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Professor Russell Schuh has been presented with the quintessential academic honor, a Festschrift volume. The reference is: Paul Newman and Larry M. Hyman, eds. (2006) West African Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Russell G. Schuh, Studies in African Linguistics, Supplement 11. Columbus: Ohio State University. |
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Craig Melchert joins the faculty
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The newest faculty member in Linguistics (as of July 2007) will be Prof. Craig Melchert, who will be the first A. Richard Diebold Professor of Indo-European Studies. Prof. Melchert, who is one of the leading Indo-European scholars of our day, specializes in Hittite and other Anatolian languages. Craig will have a joint appointment with our department and the Interdepartmental Program in Indoeuropean Studies, and will be bringing new strength to our department in the area of historical linguistics. |
Our building, Campbell Hall, has been being remodeled for about two years now. We now have AC, earthquake reinforcement, and sprinklers for fire safety. In progress is nice new bamboo flooring, ceiling tiles, and a new paint job. For a report, visit this link.
In Fall Quarter 2006, the Linguistics Department offered, for the first time, an undergraduate course in morphology (Linguistics 105), taught by Russ Schuh. The course has Linguistics 20 (intro) as its only prerequisite and teaches the basic principles of analyzing words into their parts.