Happy Year of the Rabbit to all those who celebrate, their family, and their friends!
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USC Working Papers call for papers
The call for papers for Volume 6 of the USC Working Papers in Linguistics is out! See below for information from graduate student editors Darby Garchek and Metehan Oğuz:
We are happy to announce again that we are now accepting submissions for our annual departmental journal, USC Working Papers in Linguistics! For this year’s volume, we will be accepting paper submissions until the deadline, May 15th, 2023.
For this year’s volume, we are looking for submissions from both students and faculty that are completed projects which are close to being ready to send to journals. This includes things like screening project papers, manuscripts, and conference presentations for conferences without proceedings. If you have a question about whether something should be submitted, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us!
Please note that the publications in this journal are considered a work-in-progress, and publication in this journal does not preclude publication of the same work in a different journal. The idea behind these submissions is to provide opportunities for students and faculty to get smaller publications on their way to more outward-facing journal publications. This allows those who submit to receive more feedback from other members of the department, and also acquire more publications for their CVs/websites/etc. It also allows other linguistics departments to see what sort of work we are producing at USC.
You can find the call for papers with more information on submission requirements on our website. Submissions should be sent to uscwpinling@gmail.com. You can also find the style sheet for submissions attached to this email. We are accepting both LaTeX and word submission this year.
We look forward to your submissions! Please feel free to email us with any questions you might have!
Darby & Mete
Look Who’s Talking 🗣
- Elsi Kaiser lead a seminar on ambiguity in language titled “Ambiguity in Language: At the Intersection of Linguistics and Psychology ” at Semper Curious. This is an organization that provides seminars by guest scholars on various topics (history, art, psychology, chemistry, anthropology, etc) that interested individuals can sign up for in order to learn about new topics.
Happy Lunar New Year!

Linguistics graduate students celebrated the Lunar New Year on Saturday with a dinner at Northern Cafe. Happy Year of the Rabbit!
Upcoming Events
Departmental Colloquium on Feb. 2
This is a reminder that there will be a departmental colloquium on Thursday, 2/2 at 3:30pm in GFS 330. Please check your email for details.
Department Events
- Monday, 1/30 at 1pm @ PhonLunch: Professionalization talk
- Tuesday, 1/31 at 9:30am @ Psycholing Lab: Darby Garchek, title TBD
- Wednesday, 2/1 at 5pm @ MeaningLab: Yasha Sapir (Philosophy) on “Slurs denote subordinated social properties and presuppose bad background theories”
- Friday, 2/3 at 1:30pm @ S-Side Story: paper discussion, details circulated via email