6.170 Confs: WCCFL XIV program, CogSci95 Summer School in Sofia

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-170. Thu 09 Feb 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 296
 
Subject: 6.170 Confs: WCCFL XIV program, CogSci95 Summer School in Sofia
 
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 12:52:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Hajime Hoji (wccfl at mizar.usc.edu)
Subject: WCCFL XIV Program
 
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Date:         Tue, 07 Feb 95 14:39:37 BG
From: Boicho Kokinov (KOKINOV at BGEARN.BITNET)
Subject:      CogSci95 Summer School in Sofia
 
 
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 12:52:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Hajime Hoji (wccfl at mizar.usc.edu)
Subject: WCCFL XIV Program
 
                          WCCFL XIV
       University of Southern California, Los Angeles
                      March 10-12, 1995
 
                     PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
 
FRIDAY, March 10
 
8:30-9:15 REGISTRATION
9:15-9:30 WELCOME
9:30-10:00   Piroska Csuri (Brandeis University)
              "DRT and the two types of Anaphora"
10:00-10:30  Virginia Brennan (Vanderbilt University)
              "Tag Questions in   Discourse"
 
10:45-11:15  Mireille Tremblay (UQAM) "Empty prepositions and UG"
11:15-11:45  Yuji Takano (UC-Irvine) "VP-Internal Oject Shift"
11:45-12:15  Masanori Nakamura (McGill University)
              "Theme Extraction in Bantu Applicatives
 
Lunch
 
1:30-2:00  Jongho Jun (UCLA) "Place assimilation as the result of conflicting
              Perceptual and Articulatory Constraints"
2:00-2:30  Edward Flemming (UCLA) "Evidence for Constraints on Contrasts"
2:30-3:00  Hubert Truckenbrodt (MIT) "A prosodic Constraint on extraposition
              and the syntax-phonology mapping"
 
3:15-3:45  Andre Meinunger (Forderungsgesellschaft Wissenschaftliche)
             "Focus Relations and Weak Islands"
3:45-4:15  Daniel Buring (Univ. zu Koln) and Katharina Hartmann (Univ.
              Frankfurt) "Extraposition, Quantifier Raising, and Association
              with Focus"
4:15-4:45  Jenny Doetjes and Martin Honcoop (Leiden University) "Eventual
              Objects & Scopal Islands"
 
5:15-5:45  Diana Cresti (MIT) "Economy and the Scope of Amount Phrases"
5:45-6:15  Christine Tellier and Daniel Valois (Univ de Montreal) "Agreement
                and Extraction out of DP"
6:15-6:45  Keun-Won Sohn (Univ of Connecticut) "Scope Interpretation without
              Rigidity Condition"
 
SATURDAY, March 11
 
9:00-9:30   Ruriko Kawashima (MIT) and Hisatsugu Kitahara (Princeton Univ.)
              "On the Definition of Move: Strict Cyclicity Revisited"
9:30-10:00  Roumyana Izvorski (Univ. of Pennsylvania) "A Solution to the
              Subcomparative Paradox"
10:00-10:30 Andreas Kathol and Carl Pollard (Ohio State Univ.) "Wh-Extraction
              in German Subordinate Clauses"
 
10:45-11:15 Satoshi Tomioka (Univ. of Mass., Amherst) "Donkey Pronouns and
              Sloppy Identity in VP ellipsis"
11:15-11:45 Helen de Hoop and Jaume Sola (Univ of Groningen) "Determiners,
              context sets, and focus"
11:45-12:15 Soowon Kim and James Lyle (Univ. of Washington) "Parasitic gaps,
              multiple questions, and VP ellipsis"
 
1:30-2:00  Knut Tarld Taraldsen (Univ. of Tromso) "Case, subject-orientation
              and agreement in Icelandic and Faroese"
2:00-2:30  Kevin Russell and Charlotte Reinholtz (Univ. of Manitoba)
              "Hierarchical Structure in a Non-Configurational Language"
2:30-3:00  Marco Haverkort (Univ. of Kansas)
              "Minimal and Maximal Clitics: A Typology"
 
3:15-3:45  Eugene Buckley (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
              "Constraint Domains in Kashaya"
3:45-4:15  Abigail R. Kaun (Univ. of Iowa)
              "Harmony as Alignment in Shuluun Hoh"
4:15-4:45  Orhan Orgun (UC-Berkeley) "Correspondence and Identity Constraints
              in two-level Optimality Theory"
 
5:15-5:45  Elly van Gelderen (Groningen Univ.)  "Restraining Functional
              Categories: the Case of Auxiliaries and Participles"
5:45-6:15  Renate Musan (MIT)
              "Present/Past incompatibilites with tenses and modifiers"
6:15-6:45  Sabine Iatridou (Univ. of Pennsylvania) "To Have and Have not:
              Participial Agreement and the lack thereof"SUNDAY, March 12
 
7:30    RECEPTION
 
SUNDAY, March 10
 
9:00-9:30  Maria Uribe-Etxebarria (UC-Irvine) "Levels of Representation and
              Negative Polarity Item Licensing"
9:30-10:00 Jong-Bok Kim and Ivan Sag (Stanford Univ.) "Parametric Differences
              between English and French Negation: A Non-derivational
              Approach"
10:00-10:30 Utpal Lahiri (UC-Irvine) "On Negative Polarity Items in Hindi"
 
10:45-11:15 Philip Spaelti (UC-Santa Cruz)
              "A Constraint-based Theory of Reduplication Patterns"
11:15-11:45 Amy Fountain (Univ. of Arizona)
              "Constraint Violability and Western Apache Syllabification"
11:45-12:15 Ayako Tsuchida (Cornell Univ.) "English loans in Japanese:
              Constraints in loanword phonology"
 
12:30-1:00  Teun Hoekstra (Leiden University) and Nina Hyams (UCLA) "The
              Syntax and Interpretation of `Dropped' Categories in Child
              Language. A Unified Account"
1:00-1:30  Carson Schutze (MIT) "Evidence for Case-Related Functional
              Projections in Early German"
 
ALTERNATES
 
Ad Neeleman (Utrecht Univ.) "PP-Complements and LF Theta-Role Discharge"
Mengistu Amerber (McGill Univ.) "The Transitivity of Verbs of SAYING revisited"
James Lyle (Univ. of Washington) "Split Ergativity and NP-Movement"
 
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Date:         Tue, 07 Feb 95 14:39:37 BG
From: Boicho Kokinov (KOKINOV at BGEARN.BITNET)
Subject:      CogSci95 Summer School in Sofia
 
                      2nd International Summer School
                                    in
                             Cognitive Science
                          Sofia, July 3-16, 1995
 
                   First Announcement and Call forPapers
 
The Summer School features introductory and advanced courses
in Cognitive Science, participant symposia, panel
discussions, student sessions, and intensive informal
discussions. Participants will include university teachers
and researchers, graduate and senior undergraduate students.
 
International Advisory Board
 
Elizabeth BATES (University of California at San Diego, USA)
Amedeo CAPPELLI (CNR, Pisa, Italy)
Cristiano CASTELFRANCHI (CNR, Roma, Italy)
Daniel DENNETT (Tufts University, Medford, Ma, USA)
Ennio De RENZI (University of Modena, Italy)
Charles DE WEERT (University of Nijmegen, Holland)
Christian FREKSA (Hamburg University, Germany)
Dedre GENTNER (Northwestern University, Evanston, Il, USA)
Christopher HABEL (Hamburg University, Germany)
Joachim HOHNSBEIN (Dortmund University, Germany)
Douglas HOFSTADTER (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
Keith HOLYOAK (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Mark KEANE (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
Alan LESGOLD (University of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA)
Willem LEVELT (Max-Plank Inst. of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen,
Holland)
David RUMELHART (Stanford University, California, USA)
Richard SHIFFRIN (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
Paul SMOLENSKY (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Chris THORNTON (University of Sussex, Brighton, England)
Carlo UMILTA' (University of Padova, Italy)
 
Courses
 
Computer Models of Emergent Cognition - Robert French
(Indiana University, USA)
Hemispheric Mechanisms in Cognition - Eran Zaidel (UCLA, USA)
Cross-Linguistic Studies of Language Processing -
Elizabeth Bates (UCSD, USA)
Aphasia Research - Nina Dronkers (UC at Davis, USA)
Selected Topics in Cognitive Linguistics - Elena Andonova (NBU, Bulgaria
Spatial Attention - Carlo Umilta' (University of Padova, Italy)
Parallel Pathways of Visual Information Processing - Angel Vassilev (NBU
Color Vision - Charles De Weert (University of Nijmegen, The
Netherlands)
Integration of Language and Vision - Geoff Simmons (Hamburg
University, Germany)
Emotion and Cognition - Cristiano Castelfranchi (CNR, Italy)
Philosophy of Mind - Lilia Gurova (NBU, Bulgaria)
Analogical Reasoning: Psychological Data and Computational Models -
Boicho Kokinov (NBU, Bulgaria)
 
Participants are not restricted on the number of courses they can
register for. There will be no parallel running courses.
 
Participant Symposia
 
Participants are invited to submit papers which will be
presented (30 min) at the participant symposia. Authors
should send full papers (8 single spaced pages) in
triplicate or electronically (postscript, RTF, or plain
ASCII) by March 31. Selected papers will be published in the
School's Proceedings after the School itself. Only papers
presented at the School will be eligible for publishing.
 
Panel Discussions
 
Language Processing: Rules or Constraints?
Vision and Attention
Integrated Cognition
 
Student Session
 
At the student session proposals for M.Sc. Theses and Ph.D.
Theses will be discussed as well as public defense of such
theses. Graduate students in Cognitive Science are invited
to present their work.
 
Local Organizers
 
New Bulgarian University, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Bulgarian Cognitive Science Society
 
Timetable
 
Application Form:     now
Deadline for paper submission:   March 31
Notification for acceptance:   April 30
Early registration:     May 15
Arrival day and on site registration July 2
Summer School      July 3-14
Excursion       July 15
Departure day      July 16
 
Paper submission to:
Boicho Kokinov
Cognitive Science Department
New Bulgarian University
21, Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1635, Bulgaria
fax: (+3592) 73-14-95
e-mail: kokinov at bgearn.bitnet
 
Send your Application Form to:
e-mail: cogsci95 at adm.nbu.bg
 
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      International Summer School in Cognitive Science
                   Sofia, July 3-14, 1995
 
                      Application Form
 
Last Name:
 
First Name:
 
Researcher / Graduate Student / Undergraduate Student
 
Affiliation:
 
 University:
 
 Department:
 
Country:
 
Mailing address:
 
 
e-mail address:
 
fax:
 
I would like to attend the following courses:
 
I intend to submit a paper: (title)
 
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