Margaret Jacks Hall
Department Trivia
Stanford Linguists
QPs
100

The name of the main conference room for the department.

What is the Greenberg Room?

100

This is the name of the department's online newsletter.

What is the Sesquipedalian?

100

This current faculty member is a PhD alum advised by Penny Eckert.

Who is Rob Podesva?

100

QP1 is typically developed during this course.

What is Linguist 395?

200

This lab is located in the basement right next to the main MJH staircase.

What is the ALPs Lab?

200

This university is tied with Stanford in having graduated the largest number of current Stanford Linguistics faculty.

What is UC Santa Cruz.

200

This faculty member co-wrote an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in the case of Campos-Chaves v. Garland?

Who is Cleo Condoravdi?

200

QP committees have at least this many faculty members.

What is three?

300

The name of the small conference room located in the Linguistics main office.

What is the Sag Room?

300

This Linguistics faculty member actually has a degree in Electrical Engineering.

Who is Beth Levin?

300

This PhD alum won the Language Best Paper Award in 2016 for collaborative work with John Rickford.

Who is Sharese King?

300
QP1 should be fully complete by the end of this quarter in this year in the program.

What is Fall of the second year?

400

Linguistics shares the MJH basement with this IDP.

What is Symbolic Systems?

400

This faculty member has been on the Stanford faculty the longest of any current faculty member.

Who is Beth Levin?

400

This recent PhD alum is now a professor in the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

Who is Dora Demszky?

400

This expected length of the QP oral talk.

What is 10 minutes?

500

Linguistics shares the MJH basement with a collection from this department.

What is Archeology?

500

This is the number of current and former Linguistics faculty who have won the MacArthur "Genius" Award.

What is 2? (Dan Jurafsky and Shirley Brice Heath)

500

This Linguistics faculty member won the American Book Award in 2000. 

Who is John Rickford?

500

A QP that is on a language other than standard English can be used to fulfill this program requirement.

What is the language requirement paper?

600

The humanitarian and philanthropist Margaret Jacks was born in this California city.

What is Monterey?
600

The departmentalization of Stanford Linguistics happened in this year.

What is 1975?

600

This Linguistics faculty member has been interviewed for This American Life.

Who is Penny Eckert?

600

This form is good to bring to the QP Oral so that you don't have to collect signatures from everyone afterwords.

What is the QP Oral Form?

700

The secret MJH vending machine is located on this floor of the building.

What is the third floor?
700

The department granted its first PhD degrees in this decade.

What is the 1960s?

700

This Linguistics faculty member's PhD thesis is on ergative case marking.

Who is Chris Manning?

700

Both QPs should be completed by the end of this quarter in this year.

What is Spring Quarter of the second year?

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