The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, or WCCFL (pronounced /ˈwɪkfəl/) is an annual linguistics conference, usually held in the spring, at a university in western North America. Research presented there can focus on any aspect of natural language analysis, including, but not limited to, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and discourse structure. Along with NELS, it is one of two major U.S. regional conferences that focus on general linguistics, with an emphasis, in recent years, on syntactic topics.
History
WCCFL was first held in 1982. Proceedings for conferences 4-17 were published by the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford (CSLI); proceedings for conferences 18 and beyond have appeared with Cascadilla Press.
The years in which WCCFL has been held are listed below, together with the host institution and the invited speakers (where this information is available or applicable).
| WCCFL # | Year | Location | Invited Speaker (if available) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1982 | Stanford | |
| 2 | 1983 | University of Southern California | |
| 3 | 1984 | UC Santa Cruz | |
| 4 | 1985 | UC Los Angeles | |
| 5 | 1986 | University of Washington | |
| 6 | 1987 | University of Arizona | |
| 7 | 1988 | UC Irvine | |
| 8 | 1989 | University of British Columbia | |
| 9 | 1990 | Stanford | |
| 10 | 1991 | Arizona State University | |
| 11 | 1992 | UC Los Angeles | |
| 12 | 1993 | UC Santa Cruz | |
| 13 | 1994 | UC San Diego | |
| 14 | 1995 | University of Southern California | |
| 15 | 1996 | UC Irvine | |
| 16 | 1997 | University of Washington | |
| 17 | 1998 | University of British Columbia | |
| 18 | 1999 | University of Arizona | |
| 19 | 2000 | UC Los Angeles | John McCarthy (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Richard S. Kayne (New York University) |
| 20 | 2001 | University of Southern California | Alec Marantz (MIT) Alan Prince (Rutgers) |
| 21 | 2002 | UC Santa Cruz | Joe Pater (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh) Irene Heim (MIT) |
| 22 | 2003 | UC San Diego | Mary Beckman (OSU) Tom Wasow (Stanford University) Doug Pulleyblank (University of British Columbia) |
| 23 | 2004 | UC Davis | Georgia Green (UIUC) Robert Kluender (UCSD) José Hualde (UIUC) |
| 24 | 2005 | Simon Fraser University | Bruce Hayes (UCLA) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh) Rose-Marie Déchaine (UBC) |
| 25 | 2006 | University of Washington | James McCloskey (UCSC) Maria Polinsky (UCSD) Douglas Pulleyblank (UBC) |
| 26 | 2007 | Berkeley | Adam Albright (MIT) Lyn Frazier (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Manfred Krifka (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft) |
| 27 | 2008 | UC Los Angeles | Hagit Borer (USC) Elliott Moreton (UNC) Liina Pylkkänen (NYU) |
| 28 | 2010 | University of Southern California | Richard S. Kayne (NYU) Sun-Ah Jun (UCLA) David Beaver (UT Austin) Duane Watson (University of Illinois) Adamantios Gafos. T (Haskins/Yale) |
| 29 | 2011 | University of Arizona | Susanne Gahl (University of California, Berkeley) Norvin Richards (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Tom Bever (University of Arizona) |
| 30 | 2012 | UC Santa Cruz | Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland) Christopher Potts (Stanford University) Kie Zuraw (UCLA) |
| 31 | 2013 | Arizona State University | Diana Archangeli (University of Arizona) Hilda Koopman (UCLA) Lisa Matthewson (UBC) |
| 32 | 2014 | University of Southern California | Sabine Iatridou (MIT) Jon Sprouse (University of Connecticut) Yael Sharvit (UCLA) Jaye Padgett (UCSC) |
| 33 | 2015 | Simon Fraser University | Kyle Johnson (UMass, Amherst) Heather Goad (McGill) Matt Wagers (UCSC) |
| 34 | 2016 | University of Utah | Colin Phillips (University of Maryland) Sam Epstein (University of Michigan) Rachel Walker (USC) |
| 35 | 2017 | University of Calgary | Elan Dresher (University of Toronto) Heidi Harley (University of Arizona) Keir Moulton (Simon Fraser University) Neil Banerjee (MIT, invited student speaker) |
| 36 | 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles | Vincent Homer (UMass) Jie Zhang (Kansas) Ivy Sichel (UCSC) Akira Omaki (UW) |
| 37 | 2019 | not held | |
| 38 | 2020 | University of British Columbia | Meg Grant (Simon Fraser University) Jessica Rett (UCLA) Gillian Gallagher (NYU) Maziar Toosarvandani (UCSC) |
| 39 | 2021 | University of Arizona | Noam Chomsky (University of Arizona) Keren Rice (University of Toronto) Andrew McKenzie (University of Kansas) |
| 40 | 2022 | Stanford University | Line Mikkelsen (Berkeley) Juliet Stanton (NYU) Guillaume Thomas (Toronto) |
| 41 | 2023 | University of California, Santa Cruz | Luke Adamson (Rutgers University) Dorothy Ahn (Rutgers University) |
| 42 | 2024 | University of California, Berkeley | Maria Kouneli (Rutgers) Will Oxford (University of Manitoba) |
| 43 | 2025 | University of Washington | asdf |
| 44 | 2026 | ?? | asdf |
| 45 | 2027 | University of California, San Diego? | asdf |
| 46 | 2028 | ?? | asdf |
References
- Natsuko Tsujimura, "Linguistic Research and Language Teaching," Language and Linguistics Compass 2/2 (2008): 251–263.
- Abby Kaplan. “Discussion: Phonology at general linguistics conferences.” Phonolist. May 31, 2016 https://blogs.umass.edu/phonolist/2016/05/31/discussion-phonology-at-general-linguistics-conferences/