conference
Edith A Moravcsik
edith at CSD.UWM.EDU
Thu Feb 8 17:58:58 UTC 1996
>> 23th UWM Linguistics Symposium
>> CONFERENCE ON FUNCTIONALISM AND FORMALISM IN LINGUISTICS
>> April 18-20, l996
>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>>
>> This document contains the following information:
>>
>> I. TIME AND PLACE
>> II. CONTACT PERSONS
>> III. REGISTRATION FEES
>> IV. HOTELS
>> V. CONFERENCE PROGRAM
>>
>> The conference is supported by a grant from the
>> National Science Foundation.
>>
>> I. TIME AND PLACE
>>
>> WHEN? April 18-20, Thursday through Saturday, l996
>>
>> WHERE? Golda Meir Conference Center
>> Library Building, 4th floor
>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus
>> (2311 E. Hartford Avenue)
>>
>> ************
>>
>> II. CONTACT PERSONS
>>
>> For more information, get in touch with Michael Noonan or
>> Edith Moravcsik.
>>
>> E-mail: noonan at csd.uwm.edu
>> edith at csd.uwm.edu
>>
>> Telephone: (414) 229-4539 (Noonan)
>> (414) 229-6794 (daytime for Moravcsik)
>> (414) 332-0141 (evenings for Moravcsik)
>> (414) 229-4285 (message for Noonan or Moravcsik)
>>
>> Fax: (414) 229-6258 (for Noonan or Moravcsik)
>>
>> Snail-mail: Michael Noonan or Edith Moravcsik
>> Department of Linguistics
>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>> Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413
>>
>> ************
>>
>> III. REGISTRATION FEES
>>
>> BEFORE MONDAY, APRIL 1: ON THE SPOT:
>>
>> Non-students: $55 $60
>> Students: $35 $40
>> (UWM students register for free.)
>>
>> Please make out your check to UWM Linguistic Symposium and
>> send it to the following address:
>>
>> Linguistics Symposium
>> Department of Linguistics
>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>> Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413
>>
>> ************
>>
>> IV. HOTELS
>>
>> GENERAL INFORMATION:
>> - In each of the hotels named below, a block of rooms is being
>> held for participants of the meeting through the cut-off
>> dates given.
>> - When making reservations, please mention "UWM Linguistics
>> Symposium" to get the rates given below.
>> - The room prices are cited without the 14.7% tax.
>> - None of the hotels are within easy walking distance to
>> campus; however, all but the Hyatt will provide free van service to
>> and from campus mornings and evenings.
>> - There will be information sheets that you can ask for upon
>> arrival at the hotel regarding van schedule and, for people with
>> cars, on how to drive to campus and where to park.
>> - We will be able to arrange for limited crash space. If
>> interested, send a message to Paul Roser (pkroser at csd.uwm.edu),
>> call him at (414) 962-3042, or leave a message for him
>> at the Linguistics Department ((414) 229-4258).
>> - If you are arriving by plane, you can take a limousine to
>> any of the hotels listed below. The limousine leaves on the hour
>> and then every twenty minutes from exit #3 of the airport's
>> baggage claim level; the cost is $7.50 one way. For going to
>> the airport, you can find out about pick-up times at your hotel
>> or call Limousine Services directly at (414) 769-9100.
>>
>> HOTELS:
>>
>> PARK EAST HOTEL
>> 916 East State Street
>> Milwaukee, WI 53202
>>
>> Telephone: (800) 328-PARK or (414) 276-8800
>> Fax: (414) 765-1919
>>
>> Single room: $55
>> Double room: $65
>>
>> Cut-off date: Monday, March 25
>>
>> ASTOR HOTEL
>> 924 East Juneau Avenue
>> Milwaukee, WI 53202
>>
>> Telephone: (800) 558-0200 or (414) 271-4220
>> Fax: (414) 271-6370
>>
>> Room with 1 queen-size bed (one or two persons): $54.00
>> Room with 2 queen-size beds (one or two persons): $62.00
>> Room with 1 king-size bed (one or two persons): $60.00
>>
>> Cut-off date: Sunday, March 17
>>
>> PLAZA HOTEL
>> 1007 North Cass
>> Milwaukee, WI 53202
>>
>> Telephone: (800) 340-9590 or (414) 276-2101
>> Fax: (414) 276-0404
>>
>> Room with one full bed: $45.00
>> Suite with one full bed: $55.00
>> Suite with two full beds: $65.00
>>
>> Cut-off date: Sunday, March 17
>>
>> HYATT REGENCY MILWAUKEE
>> 333 West Kilbourn Avenue
>> Milwaukee, WI 53203
>>
>> Telephone: (414) 276-1234
>> Fax: (414) 276-6338
>>
>> Single room: $80.00
>> Double room: $99.00
>> Triple room: $118.00
>> Quadruple room: $137.00
>>
>> Note: No van service available to campus; you would need a car
>> or would need to take a city bus.
>>
>> Cut-off date: Wednesday, March 27
>>
>> RAMADA INN - DOWNTOWN
>> 633 West Michigan Street
>> Milwaukee, WI 53203
>>
>> Telephone: (414) 272-8410
>> Fax: (414) 272-4651
>>
>> Single room: $49.00
>> Double room: $55.00
>>
>> Cut-off date: Wednesday, March 20
>>
>> ************
>>
>> V. CONFERENCE PROGRAM
>> * ****************** *
>> * THURSDAY, APRIL 18 *
>> * ****************** *
>>
>> 7:30- REGISTRATION
>>
>> 8:00-11:30 PLENARY SESSION: INTRODUCTION; SYNTAX
>> 8:00-8:15 Words of welcome
>> 8:15-9:00 Introductory paper
>> Michael NOONAN, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>> 9:00-9:45 Formalist syntax position paper
>> Howard LASNIK, U. of Connecticut
>>
>> 9:45-10:15 COFFEE BREAK
>>
>> 10:15-11:00 Functionalist syntax position paper
>> /speaker yet to be identified/
>> 11:00-11:30 Discussion of the syntax position papers
>> Werner ABRAHAM, U. of Groningen
>>
>> 11:30-12:00 COFFEE BREAK
>>
>> 12:00-1:05 PARALLEL SESSIONS
>> SESSION 1: SYNTAX
>> 12:00-12:30 "Lexis, grammar, and grammatical change: the
>> Koykon classifier prefixes"
>> Melissa AXELROD, U. of New Mexico
>> 12:35-1:05 "Configurations, typology and language change:
>> Givon to Chomsky 'Where is the beef?'"
>> Jose BONNEAU, McGill U., and Pierre PICA, CNRS
>>
>> SESSION 2: SYNTAX
>> 12:00-12:30 "Quantifiers as starting points"
>> Karen VAN HOEK, U. of Michigan
>> 12:35-1:05 "Emergent Peircean semiotic functions of X-bar syntax:
>> a formalism functionalists can live with"
>> Alan D. MANNING, Brigham Young U.
>>
>> SESSION 3: PHONOLOGY
>> 12:00-12:30 "Prediction and explanation of cross-linguistic
>> regularities within the functional-typological
>> paradigm"
>> Gertraud FENK-OCZLON and August FENK, U. of
>> Klagenfurt
>> 12:35-1:05 "Towards an integration of generative and cognitive
>> approaches to phonology: evidence from k-deletion in
>> Istanbul Turkish"
>> Nicholas KIBIE, U. of California, Santa Barbara
>>
>> ---------------------------------------
>> 1:05-2:30 LUNCH BREAK
>> ---------------------------------------
>>
>> 2:30-4:00 PLENARY SESSION: SYNTAX
>> 2:30-3:15 "What functionalists can learn from formalists in syntax"
>> William CROFT, U. of Manchester
>> 3:15-4:00 "What formalists can learn from functionalists in
>> syntax"
>> Steven ANDERSON, Yale U.
>>
>> 4:00-4:15 COFFEE BREAK
>>
>> 4:15-5:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS
>> SESSION 1: SYNTAX
>> 4:15-4:45 "Foundations of contensive formal grammar"
>> Sebastian SHAUMYAN, Yale University
>> 4:50-5:20 "Functional search yields formal solution: scientist
>> stunned! What do brow raises do in ASL?"
>> Ronnie WILBUR, Purdue U.
>>
>> SESSION 2: PHONOLOGY
>> 4:15-4:45 "Formal versus functional domains in Oneida intonation"
>> Karin MICHELSON, State U. of New York, Buffalo
>> 4:50-5:20 "Perceptual constrains and neutralization: a formal
>> functionalist account"
>> Scott MYERS, U. of Texas
>>
>> SESSION 3: GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS
>> 4:15-4:45 "German impersonal constructions and the nonautonomy of
>> grammar"
>> Michael B. SMITH, Oakland U.
>> 4:50-5:20 "Mission impossible? The formalization of grammar in
>> discourse"
>> Machtelt BOLKESTEIN, U. of Amsterdam
>>
>> 5:20-5:35 COFFEE BREAK
>>
>> 5:35-7:05 PLENARY SESSION: PHONOLOGY
>> 5:35-6:20 "What formalists can learn from functionalists in
>> phonology"
>> Michael HAMMOND, U. of Arizona
>> 6:20-7:05 "What functionalists can learn from formalists in
>> phonology"
>> Geoffrey NATHAN, Southern Illinois U. at Carbondale
>>
>> * **************** *
>> * FRIDAY, APRIL 19 *
>> * **************** *
>>
>> 8:00- REGISTRATION
>>
>> 8:30-11:00 PLENARY SESSION: PHONOLOGY
>> 8:30-9:15 Functionalist phonology position paper
>> Joan BYBEE, U. of New MEXICO
>> 9:15-10:00 Formalist phonology position paper
>> Bruce HAYES, U. of California, Los Angeles
>> 10:00-10:30 Discussion of the phonology position papers
>> Jane PIERREHUMBERT, Northwestern U.
>>
>> 10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
>>
>> 11:00-1:00 POSTER SESSION
>> - "Pragmatic scope and locality conditions on negative polarity
>> licensing"
>> Raul ARANOVICH, U. of California, San Diego
>> - "Mapping so-called pragmatic phenomena according to a
>> linguistic-nonlinguistic distinction"
>> Mira ARIEL, Tel Aviv U.
>> - "Classification and explanation of yes/no question markers"
>> Giulia BENCINI, U. of Colorado, and Alberto NOCENTINI,
>> U. of Florence
>> - "A comparative approach to grammatical agreement"
>> Paul BESSLER, U. of Toronto
>> - "The correlation of form and function in English argument
>> reversal"
>> Betty J. BIRNER, Northwestern University
>> - "Why we do not need Case Roles: a formal model of the
>> emergence of case relations"
>> Juergen BROSCHART, U. of Cologne
>> - "On null subjects in Finnish"
>> Juhani BUDANKO, U. of Tampere
>> - "Formal and functional factors in grounded phonology"
>> Donald G. CHURMA (independent scholar)
>> - "Impossible passives in Dutch"
>> Louise CORNELIS, Utrecht U.
>> - "A formalist and a functionalist call it a day"
>> Joseph DAVIS, U. of Kentucky
>> - "Against the presentational deictic and cognitive grammar"
>> Kristin DENHAM, U. of Washington
>> - "Structuring the sentence: a difference between formalism
>> and functionalism"
>> Inga DOLININA, McMaster U.
>> - "Inversion in English - a 'root transformation' revisited"
>> Heidrun DORGELOH, U. of Duesseldorf
>> - "'Mixed' subject status in English inversion: multiple
>> perspectives"
>> Heidrun DORGELOH and Dieter STEIN, U. of Duesseldorf
>> - "The function of form"
>> Yehuda N. FALK, The Hebrew U. of Jerusalem
>> - "On the similarity between morphology and syntax as coding
>> devices: split configurationality in the Cariban language
>> family."
>> Spike GILDEA, Rice U.
>> - "Form and function in the voicing of Japanese postnasal
>> stops"
>> Emiko HAYASHI and Gregory IVERSON, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>> - "Metaphors we do linguistics by: ideologies and politics in
>> grammatical theory"
>> Susan HERRING, U. of Texas at Arlington
>> - "Formalist and functionalist interpretations of the notion
>> of economy"
>> Julia HERSCHENSOHN, U. of Washington
>> - "On the interaction between formalism and functionalism:
>> the case of long-distance reflexivization"
>> Yan HUANG, U. of Reading
>> - "The conceptual basis of syntax: the semantics of the
>> nominative marker 'ga' in Japanese"
>> Toshiyuki KUMASHIRO, U. of California, Irvine and U. of
>> California, San Diego
>> - "Faulty judgments: what makes a sentence seem ungrammatical?"
>> Ritva LAURY, California State U., Fresno
>> - "Isomorphism in syntax: the functional-pragmatics approach"
>> Yaron MATRAS, U. of Manchester
>> - "Functional expansion of 'olsem' in Bislama: formal bases
>> for semantic shift"
>> Miriam MEYERHOFF, U. of Pennsylvania, and Nancy
>> NIEDZIELSKI, U. of California, Santa Barbara
>> - "The role of sentence type in a formal theory of language
>> function: constructional inheritance and English
>> exclamations"
>> Laura MICHAELIS, U. of Colorado, and Knud LAMBRECHT, U. of
>> Texas
>> - "Evolution of a passive structure: explanatory power of
>> functional and formal approaches to language change"
>> Viola G. MIGLIO, U. of Maryland
>> - "When exception becomes the rule"
>> Miren Lourdes ONEDERRA, Euskal Herriko U.
>> - "When double object constructions can contribute to the
>> formalism/functionalism debate"
>> Maria POLINSKY, U. of Southern California
>> - "The holophrastic hypothesis revisited: structural
>> and functional approaches"
>> Elizabeth PURNELL, Indiana U.
>> - "Can we do all our relation-changing at once and get it
>> over with? The grammatical status of semantic roles and
>> arguments for multistratalism"
>> Steven SCHAEUFELE (independent scholar)
>> - "Antifrequency effect in the acquisition of English regular
>> past"
>> Yasuhiro SHIRAI, Carnegie Mellon U. and Daito Bunka U.
>> - "Focus, presupposition, and crossover phenomena"
>> Takeshi TSURUSAKI, Meikai U.
>> - "Creolization: a combined functionalist and formalist
>> approach"
>> Zvjezdana VRZIC, New York U.
>> - "Noted with distinction: a functional approach to L2
>> phonology"
>> Steven H. WEINBERGER, George Mason U.
>> - "Formalism and Wittgenstein's infinite regress"
>> David WIBLE, Providence U.
>> - "Pronominals, epithets and attributivity: script
>> dependency"
>> Yael ZIV, Hebrew U. in Jerusalem
>>
>> ---------------------------------------
>> 1:00-2:15 LUNCH BREAK
>> ---------------------------------------
>>
>> 2:15-3:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS
>> SESSION 1: ACQUISITION
>> 2:15-2:45 "Complementary contributions of funtionalism and
>> formalism to an analysis of argument
>> representation in early Inuktitut"
>> Shanley E.M. ALLEN and Heike SCHRODER, Max
>> Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
>> 2:50-3:20 "The form and function of input: their relation to
>> children's development of language form and function"
>> Erika HOFF-GINSBERG, U. of Wisconsin-Parkside
>> 3:25-3:55 "Form and function: insights from second language
>> acquisition"
>> Robert KOSUTH, U. of Wisconsin-Superior
>>
>> SESSION 2: ALONG THE TIME AXIS
>> 2:15-2:45 "On three explanations for the critical period"
>> James R. HURFORD, U. of Edinburgh
>> 2:50-3:20 "A dysfunctional family of functional accounts for the
>> alleged unidirectionality of grammaticalization
>> --and an alternative functional/formal treatment
>> for it"
>> Richard D. JANDA, U. of Chicago
>> 3:25-3:55 "Constraints on constraints, or the limits of
>> functional adaptation"
>> Simon KIRBY
>>
>> SESSION 3: GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS
>> 2:15-2:45 "Hypostasis, explanation and the local case
>> system in Old Georgian"
>> H. Paul MANNING, U. of Chicago
>> 2:50-3:20 "Topicality and agreement"
>> Andre MEINUNGER, Foerderungsgesellschaft,
>> Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
>> 3:25-3:55 "Functional optimality theory: evidence from
>> split case systems"
>> Wataru NAKAMURA, State U. of New York, Buffalo
>>
>> 3:55-4:10 COFFEE BREAK
>>
>> 4:10-6:10 PLENARY SESSION: FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
>> 4:10-4:55 Functionalist first language acquisition position
>> paper
>> Brian MACWHINNEY, Carnegie Mellon U.
>> 4:55-5:40 Formalist first language acquisition position paper
>> Nina HYAMS, U. of California, Los Angeles
>> 5:40-6:10 Discussion of the first language acquisition
>> position papers
>> Melissa BOWERMAN, Max Planck Institute for
>> Psycholinguistics
>>
>> 6:30-8:30 RECEPTION
>>
>> * ****************** *
>> * SATURDAY, APRIL 20 *
>> * ****************** *
>>
>> 8:00- REGISTRATION
>>
>> 8:30-10:00 PLENARY SESSION: ERGATIVITY
>> 8:30-9:15 "Ergativity from a functionalist perspective"
>> John DUBOIS, U. of California, Santa Barbara
>> 9:15-10:00 "Ergativity from a formalist perspective"
>> Alec MARANTZ, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>> 10:00-10:30 "Ergative in Hindi/Urdu: markedness principles
>> for a structural case" (Discussion of the two papers
>> on ergativity)
>> Alice DAVISON, U. of Iowa
>>
>> 10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
>>
>> 11:00-12:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS
>> SESSION 1: GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS
>> 11:00-11:30 "Semantic compatibility and complement distribution"
>> Michel ACHARD, U. of Florida
>> 11:35-12:05 "The limits of formal analysis: pragmatic
>> motivation in Oromo grammar"
>> Robbin CLAMONS, Ann E. MULKERN, Gerald
>> SANDERS, and Nancy STENSON, U. of Minnesota
>> 12:10-12:40 "Form and function in Tsez syntax"
>> Bernard COMRIE and Maria POLINSKY, U. of
>> Southern California
>>
>> SESSION 2: GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS
>> 11:00-11:30 "Formal and functional theories of definiteness"
>> Richard EPSTEIN, Duke U.
>> 11:35-12:05 "Form versus function in the distribution of
>> 'self'-forms"
>> Ralph W. FASOLD, Georgetown U.
>> 12:10-12:40 "Transitivity and structure-preserving: the
>> case of Chinese 'ba'-sentences"
>> Feng-hsi LIU, U. of Arizona
>>
>> SESSION 3: THE BIG PICTURE
>> 11:00-11:30 "Functionalism and its difficulties in biology and
>> linguistics"
>> Daniel NETTLE, U. College London
>> 11:35-12:05 "The nomenclaturist bias in the autonomy debate"
>> Ricardo OTHEGUY, City U. New York
>> 12:10-12:40 "Formalizing functionally"
>> Kees HENGEVELD, U. of Amsterdam
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------
>> 12:40-2:15 LUNCH BREAK
>> --------------------------------------
>>
>> 2:15-3:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS
>> SESSION 1: CONSTITUENT ORDER
>> 2:15-2:45 "Functional form: a minimalist/functional approach to
>> discourse-oriented word order languages"
>> John F. BAILYN, State U. of New York, Stony Brooks
>> 2:50-3:20 "Representing the structure-discourse iconicity of the
>> Japanese post-verbal construction"
>> Lizanne KAISER, Yale U.
>>
>> SESSION 2: SYNTAX
>> 2:15-2:45 "Relativized minimality as backward masking"
>> Harry HOWARD, Tulane U.
>> 2:50-3:20 "A formal account of register"
>> John C. PAOLILLO, U. of Texas, Arlington
>>
>> SESSION 3: PHONOLOGY
>> 2:15-2:45 "Towards a conflation of form and function: tone
>> sandhi in Comaltepec Chinantec"
>> Daniel SILVERMAN, U. of California, Los Angeles
>> 2:50-3:20 "Welsh soft mutation and marked word order"
>> Maggie TALLERMAN, U. of Durham
>>
>> 3:20-3:35 COFFEE BREAK
>>
>> 3:35-6:35 PLENARY SESSION: WORD ORDER
>> 3:35-4:20 "Word order from a formalist point of view"
>> David PESETSKY, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>> 4:20-5:05 "Word order from a functionalist point of view"
>> Doris PAYNE, U. of Oregon
>>
>> 5:05-5:20 COFFEE BREAK
>>
>> 5:20-5:50 Discussion of the two papers on word order
>> Kenneth HALE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>> 5:50-6:35 Summary paper
>> Frederick NEWMEYER, U. of Washington
>>
>> ************
>>
>> NOTE: If you are a music fan, you may wish to stay a day longer!
>> On Sunday afternon (April 21) at 3:00pm, the Fine Arts Quartet
>> will play two Beethoven string quartets on campus (No. 1 in F
>> major, Op. 18, No. 1 and No 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131).
>>
>>
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