Linguistics

Publications

The Linguistics Research Center (LRC) publishes work by faculty and students in the Department of Linguistics, as well as associates of the LRC, in a several different venues. In addition to Festschriften in honor of distinguished faculty, this includes two working paper series:

and the proceedings of several conferences:

Phonology at Santa Cruz (PASC)

Phonology at Santa Cruz, Volume 2

Armin Mester and Scarlett Robbins (eds.)
1991 vii, 116 pp. Paper [no ISBN number]

Contents
  • “The Optimal Iambic Foot and Reduplication in Axininca Campa” by H. Andrew Black
  • “Munster Irish Stress” by Cathal Doherty
  • “Issues in Thai Template Phonology: Word Chains and Word Reversal” by David Duryea
  • “Multiplanar Reduplication: Evidence from Sesotho” by Louise McNally
  • “Secondary Articulations and Feature Geometry” by Brian O’Herin
  • “Lexicalized Metrical Foot Structure in Maidu” by Scarlett Robbins

Phonology at Santa Cruz, Volume 4: Papers on Stress, Accent, and Alignment

Rachel Walker, Ove Lorentz, and Haruo Kubozono (eds.)
1995 iv, 102 pp. Paper [no ISBN number]

Contents
  • “Loanword Accent and Minimal Reranking in Japanese” by Motoko Katayama
  • “Alignment Constraints in French” by Ewan Klein
  • “Constraint Interaction in Japanese Phonology: Evidence from Compound Accent” by Haruo Kubozono
  • “Tonal Prominence and Alignment” by Ove Lorentz
  • “An Alignment Solution to Bracketing Paradoxes” by Jason Merchant
  • “For the Love of Trochees” by Ruben van de Vijver
  • “Mongolian Stress: Typological Implications for Non-finality in Unbounded Systems” by Rachel Walker

Phonology at Santa Cruz, Volume 5

Rachel Walker, Motoko Katayama, and Daniel Karvonen (eds.)
1997 iv, 115 pp. Paper [no ISBN number]

Contents
  • “Georgian Syllable Structure” by Ryan Bush
  • “A Sympathetic Account of Nasal Substitution in Ponapean Reduplication” by Stuart Davis
  • “Featural Sympathy: Feeding & Counterfeeding Interactions in Japanese” by Junko Itô and Armin Mester
  • “Sympathy, Opacity, and U-umlaut in Icelandic” by Daniel Karvonen and Adam Sherman
  • “The Markedness of Voiced Geminates in Japanese” by Motoko Katayama
  • “Sympathetic Devoicing and continuancy in Catalan” by Jason Merchant
  • “Perceptual Distance of Contrast: Vowel Height and Nasality” by Jaye Padgett
  • “Feet Dependent on Heads: Morphological and Prosodic Dominance” by Anthi Revithiadou
  • “On Sympathetic Correspondence” by Nathan Sanders
  • “Faith and Markedness in Esimbi Feature Transfer” by Rachel Walker

Phonology at Santa Cruz, Volume 6

Adam Ussishkin, Dylan Herrick, Kazutaka Kurisu, and Nathan Sanders (eds.)
1999 96 pp. Paper [no ISBN number]
Available at: http://escholarship.org/uc/lrc

Contents
  • “Georgian Yes-No Question Intonation” by Ryan Bush
  • “Syllabification in Khalka Mongolian and Output-Output Correspondence” by Ryuji Harada
  • “Catalan Cluster Simplification and Nasal Place Assimilation” by Dylan Herric
  • “Lexical Classes in Japanese: A reply to Rice” by Junko Ito, Armin Mester, and Jaye Padgett
  • “Infixal Nominal Reduplication in Manarayi” by Kazutaka Kurisu and Nathan Sanders
  • “Relational Markedness in Bantu Vowel Height Harmony” by Jason Riggle
  • “Head Dominance in Modern Hebrew Prosodic Morphology” by Adam Ussishkin
  • “Turkish Emphatic Reduplication” by Andrew Wedel

Phonology at Santa Cruz, Volume 7

Aaron Kaplan and David Teeple, Editors
2007
Available at: http://escholarship.org/uc/lrc

Contents
  • Kaplan, Abby: If *NT and *ND Got in a Fight, Who Would Win? Ranking Paradoxes and English Postnasal Stop Deletion, 2007
  • Kaplan, Aaron F.: The Syllable as Contour Tone Host, 2007
  • Kirchner, Jessica: Cleaning Up the Scraps: A New Look at Kwak’wala m’u:t Reduplication, 2007
  • Kramer, Ruth: Nonconcatenative Morphology in Coptic, 2007
  • Lunden, Anya: Why Syllable Weight Seems to Work Differently at the Right Edge, and Why It Really Works the Same, 2007
  • Ní Chiosáin, Máire; Padgett, Jaye: Contrast, Comparison Sets, and the Perceptual Space, 2007
  • Teeple, David: Intra-Paradigmatic Contrast in Arabic Verbal Morphology, 2007
  • Van Allen, Ember: True Output Theory: The Phonetics and Phonology of Low Vowel Lengthening in Hungarian, 2007
  • Harada, Ryuji: Syllabification in Khalka Mongolian and Output-Output Correspondence, 1999
  • Herrick, Dylan: Catalan Cluster Simplification and Nasal Place Assimilation, 1999
  • Ito, Junko; Mester, Armin; Padgett, Jaye: Lexical Classes in Japanese: A reply to Rice, 1999
  • Kurisu, Kazutaka; Sanders, Nathan: Infixal Nominal Reduplication in Mangarayi, 1999
  • Ussishkin, Adam: Head Dominance in Modern Hebrew Prosodic Morphology, 1999
  • Wedel, Andrew: Turkish Emphatic Reduplication, 1999

Syntax & Semantics at Santa Cruz (SASC)

Syntax & Semantics at Santa Cruz (SASC) publishes working papers by students, faculty, and visitors in the Department of Linguistics on syntax, semantics, and allied fields. Originally founded in 1992 as Syntax at Santa Cruz, the series was restarted in 2020 with Volume IV. A new volume is planned for each subsequent year.

All volumes are available for free online on UC’s eScholarship platform. Print copies can also be purchased at cost (via the links below). Any questions about the series can be directed to the editors by email at: sasc@ucsc.edu.

Volume I (1992)

Edited by H. Andrew Black & James McCloskey

Contents
Syntax & Semantics At Santa Cruz Volume 1 Book Cover

Volume II (1993)

Edited by Geoffrey K. Pullum & Eric Potsdam

Contents
Syntax & Semantics At Santa Cruz Volume 2 Book Cover

Volume III (2001)

Edited by Séamas Mac Bhloscaidh

Contents
Syntax & Semantics At Santa Cruz Volume 3 Book Cover

Volume IV (2020)

Edited by Andrew A. Hedding & Morwenna Hoeks

Contents
Syntax & Semantics At Santa Cruz Volume 4 Book Cover

Volume V (2022)

Edited by Lalitha Balachandran & John Duff

Contents
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A Book of GB Syntax Problems

A Book of GB Syntax Problems

Sandra Chung
1993. iv, 46 pp. Paper [no ISBN number]
PDF (95KB)

A collection of 25 GB problem sets: 19 designed for a problem-intensive introduction to GB, plus 6 designed for an intermediate course in A-bar dependencies. Suitable for graduate or (advanced) undergraduate courses.

Festschrifts

Over the years, the LRC has published numerous Festschrifts in honor of its distinguished faculty:

Last modified: Jun 18, 2025