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billy clark
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LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN
Autumn Meeting 1996: University of Wales Institute, Cardiff
Second Circular
The 1996 Autumn Meeting will be held from Saturday 7 to Monday 9 September at
the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff on the Cyncoed Campus, where the Association
will be the guests of the Faculty of Community and Health Sciences. The Local Organisers
are Janig Stephens (jstephens at uwic.ac.uk) and Helen Pandeli (hpandeli at uwic.ac.uk).
Enquiries about the meeting should be sent to: Janig Stephens/Helen Pandeli, LAGB
Autumn Meeting, School of Environmental and Human Sciences, UWIC, Llandaff,
Western Avenue, Cardiff CF5 2YB.
Accommodation: will be at the Cyncoed campus, Cyncoed Road, Cardiff. All the rooms
have en suite facilities: wash basin, shower and toilet. There are no double rooms. The
talks will take place on the campus, in a building very close to the accommodation building.
Rooms will be allocated strictly on a "first-come first-served" basis.
Registration: will begin at 10am on Saturday the 7th of September in the foyer of the main
building, near the main entrance. Late arrivals can collect their keys from the porters lodge
either from the porter or from the Security Officer after 10pm.
Bar: Delegates are welcome to use the campus bar adjacent to the conference building.
Food: vegetarian food will be available automatically. Please indicate any other dietary
requirements on the booking form below.
Creche: Creche facilities are available, at a cost of 40.00 sterling per child per day.
Please indicate on the booking form if you wish to book a place.
Travel: The Cyncoed campus is 3 miles from Cardiff Central Railway Station. The Central
Bus Station is directly opposite. The number 52 bus runs from the station to the Cyncoed
campus. Taxis are available at the station; the fare to the campus is approximately 4.00
sterling.
For delegates travelling by air to Cardiff Rhoose Airport, a bus service (X91) to the Central
Bus Station is available outside the terminal building. On Saturday, buses leave the
airport at: 06.48, 09.40, 10.40, 11.40, 12.40, 13.40, 14.45, 15.45, 16.45, 16.55 and 18.40. The
journey takes about 35 minutes. Delegates travelling by road should leave the M4 at
junction 29 (signpost to Cardiff East) and follow the A48 to the Llanedeyrn junction
(signpost to Cardiff East and Docks). Take the 3rd exit (Llanedeyrn) at the roundabout
and at the immediately next roundabout take the Llanedeyrn Road which joins Cyncoed
Road. Turn right at the traffic lights. The entrance to the Cyncoed campus is about 1 mile
up the road on the right.
Parking: Free parking is available on campus in the immediate vicinity of the
accommodation.
Events: The Henry Sweet Lecture 1996 on the Saturday evening will be delivered by
Professor Janet Dean Fodor (CUNY) and is entitled Setting parameters: fewer but
better triggers.
A Special Guest Lecture on Sunday evening will be given by Professor Robert D.
Van Valin Jr. (SUNY at Buffalo) entitled The role of pragmatics in the linking between
syntax and semantics.
There will be a Workshop on Learnability and language acquisition for linguists,
organised by Stefano Bertolo (MIT) and chaired by Robert Borsley (Bangor). The
course is tutorial in nature and presupposes no previous knowledge of these topics.
In the first part of the Workshop, Stefano Bertolo will introduce fundamental concepts and
results from formal learning theory (criteria of successful learning, classes of hypotheses,
modes of presentation and properties of learning functions) and assess the psychological
plausibility of some of the available alternatives. In the second part of the Workshop, Martin
Atkinson, Robin Clark, Jonathan Kaye and Ian Roberts will discuss some of the
consequences of such formal results with respect to Syntax, Complexity Theory,
Phonology and Diachronic Syntax respectively.
Martin Atkinson will take a selection of attempts to apply the Principle and Parameters
framework to acquisition problems, seeking to identify their strength and weaknesses.
He will show how, although the gap between conceptual framework and empirical
investigation is significant, the nature of the gap can itself be revealing.
Robin Clark will cover the relationship between complexity theory and learning theory.
Variable properties of language are such that they can be learned from finite exposure
to an input text. This implies that variation is bounded by the information available in a
finite text. His tutorial will introduce principles from information theory that can be used
to study these bounds.
Jonathan Kaye will elucidate why one must carefully distinguish the acquisition of
phonological parameters, to wit, structural parameters (branching rhymes, nuclei
or onsets), licensing constraints (U must be head, nothing can license I, etc.), empty
category parameters (license to govern, etc.) from the acquisition of group recognition
cues and show how much of what passes for "phonetics" is unrelated to linguistic
phenomena but rather forms part of the human group recognition system which shares
the vocal channel with the linguistic system.
Ian Roberts will discuss one of the fundamental ideas in historical linguistics, the idea that
grammars may be restructured by children acquiring them and show how, in terms of
principles and parameters theory, this can be seen as convergence on value j of a
parameter P where the adult language has P set to i. Elaborating on what Clark
& Roberts (1993) called the logical problem of language change he will show how, in
principle, a sufficiently close study of the circumstances of language change ought to
shed light on what causes on convergence on given parameter values.
There will be a Language Tutorial on Mohawk, given by Professor Marianne Mithun
(University of California, Santa Barbara). Mohawk is an Iroquoian language spoken in six
communities in northeastern North America. Unlike many North American languages, it is
still spoken skilfully by several thousand adults. The language has always been enjoyed,
valued, and cultivated by its speakers, and now, due to great efforts within the communities,
children are again beginning to learn it as a mother tongue.
The tutorial will present an overview of the structure of the language, from phonology through
morphology, syntax, and discourse. Grammatical categories and patterns will be described
and their use examined in samples of spontaneous connected speech. Among the features
of special interest are the relation between lexical and syntactic categories, agent-patient
case patterning, extensive noun incorporation, and fully pragmatically determined word order.
The relatively elaborate morphological structure has important implications for the nature of
the syntax. In addition, it offers speakers important options in the way information is packaged
in speech, options unavailable to speakers of many of the more familiar languages of Europe
and Asia.
There will be a Wine Party on the Saturday evening, following Professor Fodor s lecture,
sponsored by the Faculty of Community Health Sciences.
Bookings: should be sent to the Local Organisers, address above, to arrive by Friday 9th
August. Cheques should be made payable to "LAGB Cardiff 1996".
Guests: Members may invite any number of guests to meetings of the association, upon
payment of a 5.oo sterling guest invitation fee. Members wishing to invite guests should
photocopy the enclosed booking form.
Abstracts: are available to members who are unable to attend the meeting. Please order
using the booking form below.
Business Meeting: This is to be held on the afternoon of Sunday 8 September. Items for the
agenda should be sent to the Honorary Secretary.
Nominations for speakers: Nominations are requested for future guest speakers; all
suggestions should be sent to the Honorary Secretary.
Changes of address: Members are reminded to notify the Membership Secretary (address
below) of changes of address. An institutional address is preferred; bulk mailing saves
postage.
Committee members:
President:
Professor Greville Corbett, Linguistic and International Studies, University of Surrey,
GUILDFORD, Surrey, GU2 5XH. e-mail: g.corbett at surrey.ac.uk
Honorary Secretary:
Dr. David Adger, Dept. of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York,
Heslington, York. YO1 5DD. e-mail: da4 at tower.york.ac.uk.
Membership Secretary:
Dr. Kersti Borjars, Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester,
MANCHESTER M13 9PL. e-mail: k.e.borjars at manchester.ac.uk
Meetings Secretary:
Dr. Billy Clark, Communication Studies, Middlesex University,
Trent Park, Bramley Road, LONDON N14 4XS. e-mail: billy1 at mdx.ac.uk
Treasurer:
Dr. Paul Rowlett, Dept. of Modern Languages, University of
Salford, Salford M5 4WT. e-mail: p.a.rowlett at mod-lang.salford.ac.uk
Assistant Secretary:
Dr. April McMahon, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick
Avenue, CAMBRIDGE CB3 9DQ. e-mail: AMM11 at hermes.cam.ac.uk
BLN Editor:
Dr. Siew-Yue Killingley, Grevatt and Grevatt, 9 Rectory Drive,
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE NE13 1XT.
British Linguistic Newsletter: Members are reminded that they can
subscribe to BLN (ISBN0964-6574) by contacting the Editor, Dr. S-Y. Killingley.
Please do not send subscriptions for BLN to the LAGB Treasurer.
Internet home page: The LAGB internet home page is now active at the
following address: http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LAGB.
Electronic network: Please join the LAGB electronic network which is
used for disseminating LAGB information and for consulting members quickly. It can be
subscribed to by sending the message "add lagb" to: listserv at postman.essex.ac.uk.
Future Meetings:
7-9 April 1997 University of Edinburgh.
4-6 September 1997 University of Hertfordshire.
14-16 April 1998 University of Lancaster.
10-12 September 1998 (dates provisional) University of Luton.
Spring 1999 (provisional) University of Manchester.
Autumn 1999 (provisional) University of York.
Spring 2000 (provisional) University College London.
The Meetings Secretary would very much like to receive offers of
future venues, particularly from institutions which the LAGB has not previously
visited or from places with newly established linguistics programmes.
Other dates for your diary:
20-22 September 1996: Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Conference: Thought and
Language. For details and booking form, send full postal address to:
J.M.Preston at reading.ac.uk
4-6 April 1997: GALA '97. Further information, including abstracts deadline,
on: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/gala/
(N.B. immediately preceding the LAGB meeting in Edinburgh 7-9 April)
PROGRAMME:
Saturday 7 September 1996
1.00 LUNCH
2.00 Workshop: Learnability and language acquisition for linguists
Organiser: Stefano Bertolo (MIT). Chair: Robert Borsley (Bangor).
4.00 TEA
4.30 Workshop continues
6.30 DINNER
7.45 Henry Sweet Lecture:
Professor Janet Dean Fodor (City University of New York)
Setting parameters: fewer but better triggers
Sunday 8 September 1996
Session A
9.00 John Charles Smith (Manchester) "Skeuomorphy and Language Change"
9.40 Susan Pintzuk (York) "Syntactic Change via Grammatical Competition:
Evidence from Old English"
10.20 Oliver Currie (Cambridge) "The Development of Verb-Initial Order in Welsh
and the Discreteness of Syntactic Change"
Session B
9.00 Steve Nicolle (York) "A Relevance Theoretic Account of will and be going to:
how to maintain monosemy in the face of semantic retention"
9.40 Thorstein Fretheim (Trondheim) "The Pragmatics of Norwegian Sentence
Fragments Modified by the Particle s^2"
10.20 Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain (Michigan) "The Sociolinguistic Distribution of and
Subjective Attitudes toward the Discourse Marker 'like' in the Midwestern
United States"
Session C
9.00 Dalina Kallulli (Durham) "Noun Phrases, Specificity and Syntactic Structure"
9.40 Yuji Nishiyama (Keio) "Attributive and Non-referential NPs"
10.20 Dorothee Beermann (Tilburg) "Morphological Marking and Syntactic Scope
Resolution"
11.00 COFFEE
11.30 Language Tutorial: Mohawk
Professor Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara)
1.00 LUNCH
Session A
2.00 Hassan A Durgauhee (Edinburgh) "Towards an Explicit Ontology of Phonetic
Representation"
2.40 Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin) "Mora Nasal and Syllable Structure in
Japanese"
3.20 Richard Breheny (UCL) "Post-Nuclear Predictability"
Session B
2.00 Eun-Ju Noh (UCL) "A Relevance-Theoretic Account of Metarepresentative
Uses in Conditionals"
2.40 Anna Papafragou (UCL) "Indirect Requests: A Relevance-Theoretic Reappraisal"
3.20 Xose Rosales Sequeiros (Buckingham) "Communicated and Non-communicated
Relational Propositions"
Session C
2.00 Richard Hudson (UCL) "Partial-VP Fronting: taking the PS out of HPSG?"
2.40 Ian Roberts and Anna Roussou (Bangor) "Speculations on V2"
3.20 M Siobhan Cottell (Bangor) "VP-clefting and the Structure of VP"
4.00 TEA
4.30 LAGB Business Meeting
5.30 Language Tutorial: Mohawk
Professor Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara)
6.30 DINNER
7.45 Special Guest Lecture:
Professor Robert D. Van Valin Jr. (SUNY at Buffalo)
The role of pragmatics in the linking between syntax and semantics
Monday 9 September 1996
Session A
9.00 Nigel Vincent (Manchester) "The Theoretical Implications of Double Case
Marking"
9.40 Dunstan Brown (Surrey) "Facts that Influence the Shape of Inheritance
Hierarchies: A Bulgarian Example"
10.20 Andrew Spencer (Essex) "Pri-prefixation in Russian"
Session B
9.00 Tomoko Matsui (Birkbeck) "Bridging and Coherence"
9.40 Angelos Kokolakis (UCL) "Default Accent and Relevance"
10.20 Sheila Glasbey (Edinburgh) "Achievements v. Accomplishments: Do we need
the distinction?"
Session C
9.00 Alan R King (Zarautz) "Root Modals in European Languages: A Preliminary
Typology"
9.40 Jeanne Cornillon (SOAS) "Ne is an Expletive"
10.20 Maggie Tallerman (Durham) "Welsh Soft Mutation Doesn't Target Complements!"
11.00 COFFEE
11.30 Language Tutorial: Mohawk
Professor Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara)
1.00 LUNCH
Session A
2.00 Margaret Deuchar and Suzanne Quay (Bangor and Tokyo) "How Early is
Language Choice Possible?"
2.40 Pedro Fuentes (Salford) "Do the Features of the "Pro-Drop Parameter" form
a Cluster?"
Session B
2.00 Anne Cooreman and Anthony Sandford (Glasgow) "Temporal and Causal
Subordination in Discourse"
2.40 Heloisa Salles (Bangor) "Argument Licensing in Ditransitive Constructions: A
Minimalist Approach"
Session C
2.00 Anne Zribi-Hertz (Paris 8) "Postnominal Possessives in English and French"
2.40 Mike Davenport and S. J. Hannahs (Durham) "Evidence, Counterevidence and
Optimality Theory"
3.20 TEA AND CLOSE
BOOKING FORM:
Please return this form, with your remittance, by 9 August, to: Janig
Stephens/Helen Pandeli, LAGB Autumn Meeting, School of Environmental
and Human Sciences, UWIC, Llandaff, Western Avenue, Cardiff CF5 2YB.
Please make cheques payable to "LAGB Cardiff 1996".
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EITHER 1. Complete conference package (a) or (b):
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abstracts, tea and coffee, room bookings,
speakers' expenses etc. 15-00 sterling
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(c) Saturday dinner 8-80 sterling
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(f) Sunday lunch 7-00 sterling
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