CONFS: Linguistics Association of Great Britain
Billy Clark
b.clark at MDX.AC.UK
Tue Mar 10 20:03:28 UTC 1998
Linguistics Association of Great Britain
Spring Meeting 1998, Lancaster University
PROGRAMME:
Tuesday 14 April 1998
1.00 LUNCH
2.00 Linguistics Association Lecture 1998
Professor Frederick J. Newmeyer (University of Seattle)
'Formal linguistics and functional explanations: bridging the gap'
3.30 TEA
4.00 Workshop on Formalism, Functionalism and Typology
Convenor: Dr. William Croft (University of Manchester),
with Professor Frederick J. Newmeyer, Professor Anna Siewierska
and Dr. Simon Kirby
6.30 DINNER
7.45 Workshop continues
9.00 WINE PARTY
Wednesday 15 April 1998
Session A
9.00 Anna Papafragou (UCL) "Another look at short-circuited
implicatures" 9.40 Richard Breheny (UCL) "Strongest meaning
observations" 10.20 Corinne Iten (UCL) "Concessive conjunction: a
procedural account of although"
Session B
9.00 James Hurford (Edinburgh) "Why linguists should study the
evolution of language" 9.40 Marisa Lohr (Cambridge) "Genetic
classification and biological methodology" 10.20 Iraide
Ibarretxe-Antunano (Edinburgh) "Is metaphor the only explanation for
semantic change?"
Session C
9.00 Adam Przepiorkowski (Tübingen) "Do so and lexical theories of
passivisation"
9.40 Peter Sells (Stanford) "Japanese postposing involves no
movement"
10.20 Kook-Hee Gill (Edinburgh) "Long-distance binding in Korean: a
lexicalist perspective"
11.00 COFFEE
11.30 Language Tutorial: Quechua
Professor Pieter Muysken (University of Amsterdam)
1.00 LUNCH
Session A
2.00 David Adger & George Tsoulas (York) "Choice sets in syntactic
theory" 2.40 Elizabeth McCoy (York) "Word order in Irish non-finite
clauses and the visibility of functional heads" 3.20 Nick Sobin (UALR)
"The Comp-trace effect, the adverb effect,
and minimal structure"
Session B
2.00 Ludovica Serratrice (Edinburgh) "Access to functional categories:
evidence from bilingual to first language acquisition" 2.40 Janig
Stephens (Cardiff) "The language development of a child with a
cochlear implant" 3.20 Eva Eppler (Lancaster & UCL) "Mixed and
scrambled subordinations"
Session C
2.00 Nikolas Gisborne (Hong Kong) "Force dynamics and the modality of
SOUND-class verbs"
2.40 Seiko Ayano (Durham & MIE) "The [+state]/[-state] ambiguity of
the desiderative complex in Japanese" 3.20 William McGregor & Xiaokang
Zhou (Leuven & Melbourne) "Verbal classification in Mandarin Chinese"
4.00 TEA
4.30 Annual General Meeting
5.30 Language Tutorial continues
6.30 DINNER
7.45 Language Tutorial continues
Thursday 16 April 1998
Session A
9.00 Joan Rafel (Girona) "Clausal small clauses"
9.40 Odile E. Cyrille (Salford) "Inversion in French interrogatives
and que questions" 10.20 Masayoshi Amano (Nagoya) "On the licensing
condition of pro in nominal adjectives"
Session B
9.00 Jasper Holmes (UCL) "Resultatives: a semantic analysis"
9.40 Richard Hudson (UCL) "English subject-verb agreement"
10.20 And Rosta (Central Lancashire) "The syntactic characteristics of
interrogative clauses"
Session C
9.00 Dunstan Brown (Surrey) and Tore Nesset (Tromso) "Structuring grammatical
categories: the place of `sub-case'"
9.40 Diane Nelson (Leeds) "Universal constraints
on inflectional morphology: the importance of nonsyntactic features in
the Mongolian past tense" 10.20 Patrick Honeybone (Newcastle)
"Constraint creation and Gothic reduplication"
11.00 COFFEE
Session A
11.30 Robert D. Borsley (Bangor) "Weak auxiliaries, compound verbs and
inflected complementizers in Polish"
Session B
11.30 Shu-Ming Chen (Essex) "An OT analysis of Mandarin Third Tone
Sandhi"
12.10 Raising public awareness of language: `The World of Language' Project
Roger Bowers
1.00 LUNCH
Session A
2.00 Stella Markantonatou (NTUA & Cyprus) and Bjarne Oersnes
(Copenhagen) "Group adjectives are not disguised arguments; they are plain
adjectives!"
2.40 Noel Burton-Roberts (Newcastle) "Phonology in UG?"
[55-minute slot - ends 3.35]
Session B
2.00 Alastair Butler (York) "Comparatives and Kratzer's predicate
distinction"
Session C
2.00 Anna Siewierska (Lancaster) "From pronoun to agreement marker:
why objects don't make it"
3.40 TEA AND CLOSE
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