Linguistics

Linguistics Conferences

Annual Student Research Conferences

Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC)

Every year towards the end of the winter quarter, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) conference showcases the research of advanced graduate students. This conference coincides with a virtual visit to campus of prospective graduate students, and always features an invited speaker, a Ph.D. alumna or alumnus of the Department.

LASC 2025

Date: Monday, March 10, 2025
Time: 1:30 – 4:30pm
Venue: Stevenson Fireside Lounge (STEV 177)
Guest Speaker: Rodrigo Gutiérrez Bravo (El Colegio de México)

Program

Photograph of presenters at LURC

Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC)

Towards the end of the spring quarter each year, the Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) showcases the research of the department’s undergraduate students. This conference always features an invited speaker, a distinguished B.A. alumnus or alumna of the department.

LURC 2025

Date: Friday, May 30, 2025
Time: 2:00 – 5:00pm
Location: Stevenson Fireside Lounge (STEV 177)
Keynote Speaker: Anissa Zaitsu (Stanford University)

Flyer

Photograph of presenters at LSRS

Linguistics Spring Research Symposium (LSRS)

The Linguistics Research Seminar Symposium (LRSS) is a venue for second- and third-year students to present their qualifying papers in progress, as the culmination of their participation in the department’s professionalization course (Linguistics 290: Research Seminar).

LSRS 2025

Dates: Friday, April 10, 2025
Time: 1:00 – 4:00pm
Venue: HUM 2-259

Program

Other Conferences and Workshops

The department has hosted numerous international conferences, as well as workshops and regional conferences, in addition to the three annual student research conferences above.

  • 2025: Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group (BAyLI). October 10, 2025.
  • 2025: BayPhon, A Workshop on Phonetics and Phonology. May 10, 2025.
  • 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). November 18, 2017.
  • 2017: Symposium on Oaxacan Linguistics. 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: Linguistics at Santa Cruz: Theory & Practice (50th Anniversary Event). April 4, 2015.
  • 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.
  • 2000: Trilateral Phonology Weekend (TREND 10).
  • 1999: Workshop on Optimal Typology. October 1999.
  • 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 ’96).
  • 1995: Trilateral Phonology Weekend (TREND 4).
  • 1993: West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 12).
  • 1993: Trilateral Phonology Weekend (TREND 1).
  • 1991: LSA Linguistic Institute.
  • 1986: HAAS Conference, in honor of Mary Haas. June 1986.
  • 1984: West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 3).

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