LAGB Autumn Meeting (fwd)

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From: M.Groefsema at HERTS.AC.UK (M.Groefsema)
Marjolein Groefsema
Meetings Secretary LAGB


>                   LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN
>
>                   Autumn Meeting 1998: University of Luton
>
>                               Second Circular
>
>
>The 1998 Autumn Meeting will be held from Thursday 10 to Saturday 12
>September at the University of Luton, at its Park Square Campus, where the
>Association will be the guests of the Department of Linguistics. The Local
>Organiser is Vlad Zegarac (vladimir.zegarac at luton.ac.uk). Enquiries about
>the meeting should be addressed to:
>Vlad Zegarac, LAGB 1998, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Luton, 75
>Castle Street, Luton , Bedfordshire, LU1 3AJ.
>
>The conference immediately follows the Relevance Theory Workshop, which takes
>place at the University of Luton from 8th to 10th of September (for further
>information contact: S.Nicolle at mdx.ac.uk).
>
>Accommodation: will be in the University Halls of Residence, within 5-7
>minutes
>walking distance from the Park Square building where the talks will take
>place.   All bedrooms are single.   Each bedroom is part of a flat, which
>consists of a bathroom, kitchen and five bedrooms.  Rooms will be allocated
>strictly on a "first-come first-served" basis.
>
>Registration: will begin at 12 noon on Thursday the 10th of September in
>the Park Square Building.
>
>Bar: a bar will be available every day during the conference.
>
>Food: please indicate vegetarian and any other dietary requirements on the
>booking form below.
>
>Childcare: If you require childcare during the conference, please contact
>the Local Organiser for further details.
>
>Travel by train:  There are direct trains to Luton from London Kings Cross
>Station and from Gatwick Airport. It takes five minutes to walk from the
>rail station to Park Square Campus (a map will be sent with your booking
>receipt).
>
>Travel by car: If driving, take junction 10 off the M1; initially follow
>the sign for the A1081; from the next roundabout follow signs for town
>centre; once you are near the town centre follow signs for Park
>Square/university of Luton.
>
>Parking: free parking will be available for all delegates.
>
>Events: The Henry Sweet Lecture 1998 on the Thursday evening will be delivered
>by Dan Sperber (CNRS, and CREA, Ecole Polytechnique
>Paris) and is entitled Relevance in an Evolutionary Perspective.
>
>Dan Sperber will also be participating in a Workshop on Experimental
>pragmatics on Thursday afternoon and evening. The workshop is organised by
>Billy Clark (Middlesex University). Other contributors are Anne
>Bezuidenhout (South Carolina), Stephen Newstead (Plymouth),Steve Nicolle
>(Middlesex), and Ira Noveck (Ecole Polytechnique Paris).
>
>There will be a Language Tutorial on Roshani, a Pamir language of the Eastern
>Iranian group of Indo-European, given by John Payne (University of
>Manchester).
>
>There will be a Wine Party on the Thursday evening, following Dan Sperber's
>lecture.
>
>Bookings: should be sent to the Local Organiser, address above. There is a 10%
>discount on bookings received by Friday  21 August. Cheques should be made
>payable to "University of Luton".
>
>
>                               PROGRAMME
>
>                       Thursday 10 September 1998
>
>1.00 LUNCH
>
>2.00 Workshop on Experimental Pragmatics
>Organiser: Billy Clark (Middlesex University)
>With Anne Bezuidenhout (South Carolina), Stephen Newstead (Plymouth),
>Steve Nicolle (Middlesex), Ira Noveck (Ecole Polytechnique Paris),
>Dan Sperber (CNRS, and CREA, Ecole Polytechnique Paris)
>
>3.30 TEA
>
>4.00 Workshop continues
>
>6.30 DINNER
>
>7.45 Henry Sweet Lecture 1998
>Dan Sperber (CNRS, and CREA, Ecole Polytechnique Paris)
>Relevance in an Evolutionary Perspective
>
>
>                      Friday 11 September 1998
>
>Session A
>9.00   Masako Ohara (Essex) "Mixed characteristics of verbal nouns in
>Japanese"
>9.40   Kensei Sugayama (Kobe City) "Japanese NQs and unaccusativity: From a
>       WG point of view"
>10.20  Jasper Holmes (UCL) "Causing, changing and acting"
>
>Session B
>9.00   A. Sophia S. Marmaridou (Athens) "Conceptual metaphor and the
>       relativity issue: The case of M. Greek financial discourse"
>9.40   Nathalie Franken (ULB) "Towards a new definition of the act of
>       communication"
>10.20  Isao Higashimori (Kobe College) "Metaphor and metonymy in loanwords:
>       Relevance Theory vs. Lakovian Cognitive Semantics"
>
>Session C
>9.00   Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin and UCL) "Prenasalisation as a case
>       of lenition"
>9.40   Cecile De Cat and Bernadette Plunkett (York) "On the status of
>peripheral
>       strong pronouns in early French"
>10.20  Harald Clahsen and Sam Featherston (Essex) "Four accounts of `trace
>       reactivation': evidence from German scrambling"
>
>11.00 COFFEE
>
>11.30  Language Tutorial: Roshani
>       John Payne (University of Manchester)
>
>1.00 LUNCH
>
>Session A
>2.00  Norio Nasu (UCL) "Attract F and the status of Spec-IP in infinitival
>      clauses"
>2.40  Seiki Ayano (Durham) "Multiple feature-checking and a double object
>      construction in Japanese"
>3.20  Laura Rupp (Essex) "`Inverted' negative imperatives in English"
>
>Session B
>2.00  Christoph Unger (SLI) "Causality and relevance"
>2.40  Anne Furlong (Newfoundland) "The Soul of Wit: a relevance-theoretic
>      approach"
>3.20  Anna Papafragou (UCL) "Possibility and concession"
>
>Session C
>2.00  Dick Hudson (UCL) "Syncretism and the X-form"
>2.40  Chet Creider (Western Ontario) "Swahili verbal inflectional morphology
>      in theoretical perspective"
>3.20  Anne Zribi-Hertz (Paris-8) "Number specification and referentiality: a
>      contrast between French and Malagasy"
>
>4.00 TEA
>
>4.30  LAGB Business Meeting
>
>5.30  Language Tutorial continues
>
>6.30 DINNER
>
>7.45  Language Tutorial continues
>
>
>
>                          Saturday 12 September 1998
>
>Session A
>9.00   Shen Yuan (Hong Kong) "Sentences with indefinite subjects and their
>       information structures"
>9.40   Mayumi Masuko (Waseda) "Valence reduction and lexical meaning"
>10.20  Valia Kordoni (Tübingen) "Agentivity, causation, cliticization and
>psych
>       verb constructions: at the syntax-lexical semantics interface"
>
>Session B
>9.00   S J Hannahs & Maggie Tallerman (Durham) "On getting `the' right in
>       Welsh"
>9.40   Nedzad Leko (Oslo) "Syntactic versus semantic agreement in the Oslo
>       Corpus of Bosnian texts"
>10.20  John Payne and Erika Chisarik (Manchester) "Case-markers and
>       postpositions: the Hungarian problem"
>
>Session C
>9.40   Sam Featherston, Harald Clahsen, Thomas Muente and Matthias Grosz
>       (Essex) "Raising and equi structures in HPSG and PPT: psycholinguistic
>       evidence"
>10.20  Chieko Kuribara (Reading) "Resetting or tactics?: Acquisition of
>       Functional Category C by Japanese Learners of English"
>
>11.00 COFFEE
>
>Session A
>11.30  Delia Bentley and Thórhallur Eythórsson (Manchester) "`Have' is not BE"
>12.10  Bernadette Plunkett (York) "Locutionary inversion in modern French"
>
>Session B
>11.30  S J Hannahs (Durham) "Unexceptional exceptions and French glides"
>
>1.00 LUNCH
>
>Session A
>2.00   Roger Maylor (Durham) "The German be- prefix: a case of incorporation"
>2.40   Jim Miller (Edinburgh) "What is a non-configurational language?"
>
>Session B
>2.00   April McMahon (Cambridge) "Expecting the unexpected: predictability and
>       contingency in Optimality Theory"
>2.40   Guy Deutscher (Trinity) "The different faces of uniformitarianism"
>
>3.20 TEA AND CLOSE
>
>
>                             BOOKING FORM
>
>Please return this form, with your remittance, to: Vlad Zegarac, Dept. of
>Linguistics, University of Luton, 75 Castle Street, Luton , Bedfordshire,
>LU1 3AJ. Please make cheques payable to "University of Luton". (All prices
>are in pounds sterling ("stlg")).
>_____________________________________________________________________
>NAME:                                  INSTITUTION:
>
>ADDRESS FOR THIS MAILING:
>
>E-MAIL ADDRESS:
>
>I enclose remittance as indicated (select appropriate package):
>
>1. Complete conference package:
>(a) including Thursday lunch preceding workshop
>                (i) if sent to arrive before 21 August    96.10 stlg
>.....
>                (ii) if sent to arrive after 21 August   104.00 stlg
>.....
>
>(b) excluding Thursday lunch
>                (i) if sent to arrive before 21 August    87.10 stlg
>.....
>                (ii) if sent to arrive after 21 August    95.00 stlg
>.....
>
>(c) Surcharge for non-members, 5.00 stlg
>.....
>
>
>                                                           TOTAL:
>........
>
>2.      Selected items:
>        (a) conference fee (OBLIGATORY) to cover cost of
>        abstracts, tea and coffee, room bookings,
>        speakers' expenses etc.                   15.00 stlg       ..........
>        (b) Thursday lunch                         9.00 stlg       ..........
>        (c) Thursday dinner                        9.00 stlg       ..........
>        (d) B&B Thursday/Friday                   22.00 stlg       ..........
>        (e) Friday lunch                           9.00 stlg       ..........
>        (f) Friday dinner                          9.00 stlg       ..........
>        (g) B&B Friday/Saturday                   22.00 stlg       ..........
>        (h) Saturday lunch                         9.00 stlg       ..........
>
>                                                   SUB-TOTAL:      ..........
>
>        Deduct 10% if sent to arrive before 15 August              ..........
>        (i) Surcharge for non-members, 5-00 stlg                   ..........
>
>                                                       TOTAL:      ..........
>
>4. Abstracts only, for those not attending:
>5-00 stlg UK....................         6-00 stlg
>overseas.....................
>
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>
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