Linguistics Conferences

In addition to three annual student research conferences (LASC and LURC and LRSS), the department hosts workshops, regional conferences, and occasionally a major conference in its field.

Upcoming Conferences and Workshops

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Past Conferences and Workshops

Here are some of the past events hosted by the Department with the Linguistics Research Center's support:

• 2023: The 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL-41)  May 5-7, 2023
• 2022: Human Sentencing Processing (HSP 2022)  March 24-26, 2022
• 2020: Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2020)  September 18-20, 2020
• 2019: Negation and Fragments Workshop  November 2, 2019
• 2019: California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP 2019)  October 26-27, 2019
• 2019: Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory II (SPOT II)  May 4, 2019.
• 2018: Semantics - Pragmatics Workshop  October 27, 2018.
• 2018: Pronouns in Competition Workshop  April 27-28, 2017.
• 2017: Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory (SPOT) Workshop  November 18, 2017.
• 2017: Symposium on Oaxacan Linguistics (WLMA) June 12, 2017.
• 2016: California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics (CUSP 9). October 21-22, 2016.
• 2016: PHREND (PHonology Research weekEND). September 24, 2016.
• 2016: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas (SULA 9). May 6-8, 2016.
• 2015: 50th Anniversary Event-Linguistics at Santa Cruz: Theory & Practice. April 4, 2015.  Photo Gallery
• 2013: Semantics and Linguistics Theory Conference (SALT 23). May 3-5, 2013.
• 2012: West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 30). April 13-15, 2012.
• 2010: Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics (FAJL 5). May 7-9, 2010.
• 2010: Polarity Particles Workshop. January 16, 2010.
• 2009: California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics (CUSP 2). November 21-22, 2009.
• 2009: Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 16). May 1-3, 2009.
• 2008: Alumni Conference. September 12-13, 2008.
• 2008: Trilateral Linguistics Weekend (TREND). May 10, 2008.
• 2007: Dialogues in Language and Poetry. April 21, 2007.
• 2006: Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW 21). March 31-April 2, 2006.
• 2004: Workshop on Modality and Its Kin. June 5, 2004. Semanticists from UCLA, Stanford, and UCSC presented their research.
• 2004: Southwestern Optimality Theory Workshop (SWOT). May 2004.
• 2003: Trilateral Phonology Weekend (TREND 11).
• 2002: West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 21). April 5-7, 2002. The proceedings of the conference can be ordered here.
• 2000: Trilateral Phonology Weekend (TREND 10).
• 1999: Workshop on Optimal Typology. October 1999. A joint Stanford/UCSC workshop.
• 1999: Scandinavian Phonology at Santa Cruz (SCASC). May 1999.
• 1999: Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 9). February 1999.
• 1997: Trilateral Phonology Weekend (TREND 7).
• 1996: Western States Conference on Linguistics (WECOL).
• 1995: Trilateral Phonology Weekend (TREND 4).
• 1993: West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 12).
• 1993: Trilateral Phonology Weekend (TREND 1). Phonologists from UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, and Stanford presented their research.
• 1991: LSA Linguistic Institute.
• 1986: HAAS Conference, in honor of Mary Haas. June 1986. Organized by Bill Shipley.
• 1984: West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 3).