Workshop on Features

[Adams Bodomo (Anna Kibort)]

Dear Colleague, 

If you haven't yet heard about our 'Workshop on Features' through the
Linguist List or the LAGB e-mail list, I'd like to let you know that
Greville Corbett and are organising the following two-day workshop, for
which registration is now open:

Workshop on Features, 1-2 September 2007
King's College London
in association with the 2007 LAGB meeting

Linguistic fields: General Linguistics, Language Description,
 Linguistic
Theories, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Typology, Computational
Linguistics.

The workshop will bring together linguists who have grappled with
 features
as a component of theoretical models together with others who have
considered their range and variability in the world's languages.

Invited speakers:
* David Adger  'Features and functional categories'
* Ann Copestake  'Features and computational semantics'
* Ron Kaplan  'Formal aspects of underspecified features'
* Maria Polinsky  'Features in categorization, or why women are not
dangerous things'
* Ivan Sag  'Feature geometry and predictions of locality'

Please visit our Workshop website for the updated programme and booking
information:
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/lis/smg/Workshop_on_features.html

*The deadline for early registration is 1 August 2007*.

Contact person: Anna Kibort (a.kibort @ surrey.ac.uk)