West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, or WCCFL (pronounced /ˈwɪkfəl/) is an annual linguistics conference, usually held in the spring, at an institution in western North America. Presentations can focus on any aspect of natural language analysis, including, but not limited to, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and discourse structure.
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 Kayne (New York University) |
| 20 | 2001 | University of Southern California | |
| 21 | 2002 | UC Santa Cruz | Joe Pater (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh) |
| 22 | 2003 | UC San Diego | Mary Beckman (OSU)
Tom Wasow (Stanford University) |
| 23 | 2004 | UC Davis | Georgia Green (UIUC)
Robert Kluender (UCSD) |
| 24 | 2005 | Simon Fraser University | Bruce Hayes (UCLA)
Mark Steedman (Edinburgh) |
| 25 | 2006 | University of Washington | James McCloskey (UCSC)
Maria Polinsky (UCSD) |
| 26 | 2007 | Berkeley | Adam Albright (MIT)
Lyn Frazier (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) |
| 27 | 2008 | UC Los Angeles | Hagit Borer (USC)
Elliott Moreton (UNC) Liina Pylkkänen (NYU) |
| 28 | 2010 | University of Southern California | Richard Kayne (NYU)
Sun-Ah Jun (UCLA) |
| 29 | 2011 | University of Arizona | Susanne Gahl (University of California, Berkeley)
Norvin Richards (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| 30 | 2012 | UC Santa Cruz | Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland)
Christopher Potts (Stanford University) |
| 31 | 2013 | Arizona State University | Diana Archangeli (University of Arizona)
Hilda Koopman (UCLA) |
| 32 | 2014 | University of Southern California | Sabine Iatridou (MIT)
Jon Sprouse (University of Connecticut) |
| 33 | 2015 | Simon Fraser University | Kyle Johnson (UMass, Amherst) Heather Goad (McGill) Matt Wagers (UCSC) |
| 34 | 2016 | University of Utah | |
| 35 | 2017 | tba | |
| 36 | 2018 | tba | |
| 37 | 2019 | tba | |
| 38 | 2020 | tba | |
| 39 | 2021 | University of Arizona (tentative) | |
| 40 | 2022 | tba |