6.129 Confs: Programs for SALT 5 and BLS 21

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Subject: 6.129 Confs: Programs for SALT 5 and BLS 21
 
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 12:55:41 -0600 (CST)
From: LIGK417 at utxvms.cc.utexas.edu
Subject: SALT 5 - Semantics conference
 
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Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 09:43:21 +0300
From: jnamkung at uclink.berkeley.edu (erma)
Subject: BLS 21 Conference Program
 
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 12:55:41 -0600 (CST)
From: LIGK417 at utxvms.cc.utexas.edu
Subject: SALT 5 - Semantics conference
 
 
Preliminary Program: Semantics and Linguistic Theory 5 (SALT 5)
 
University of Texas at Austin, February 24 - 26, 1995
 
(Names of invited speakers appear in CAPITALS)
 
Thursday, February 23:
 
8-11p.m.    Registration and Get-together in the Driskill hotel
 
Friday, February 24:
 
8-9         Registration
9-10        RAY JACKENDOFF, Brandeis University:
              "The Conceptual Structure of Intending and Volitional Action"
10-10.40    Jost Zwarts, Utrecht University:
              "The Semantics of Relative Position"
10.40-11    Break
11-11.40    Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh,
            Ann Copestake, Stanford University:
              "The Pragmatics of Word Meaning"
11.40-12.20 Anatoli Strigin, Max Planck Group "Structural Grammar", Berlin:
              "Abductive Inference During Update: The German preposition 'with'"
12.20-1.30  Lunch
1.30-2.10   Claudia Maienborn, Humboldt University, Berlin:
             "Towards a Compositional Semantics for Locative Modifiers"
2.10-2.50   Giulia Centineo, UCSC/UCB:
              "The Distribution of the Clitic 'si' in Italian Transitive/
               Inchoative Pairs"
2.50-3.10   Break
3.10-3.50   Robin Schafer, UCSC/UCSD:
              "The SLP/ILP Distinction in 'Have' Predication"
3.50-4.30   Chris Barker, University of Rochester:
              "Episodic '-ee' in English"
4.30-4.50   Break
4.50-5.30   Friederike Moltmann, CUNY:
              "Deriving Readings of Part Structure Modifiers"
5.30-6.30   ARNIM VON STECHOW, University of Tuebingen:
              "The Proper Representation of Tense"
 
Saturday, February 25:
 
9-10        STANLEY PETERS, Stanford University:
              TBA
10-10.40    Satoshi Tomioka, University of Massachusetts at Amherst:
              "Focus Restricts Scope: Quantifier in VP Ellipsis"
10.40-11    Break
11-11.40    Jan Lerner, Manfred Pinkal, University of Saarbruecken:
              "Comparative Ellipsis and Variable Binding"
11.40-12.20 Toshiyuki Ogihara, University of Washington, Seattle:
              "Non-factual 'Before' and Adverbs of Quantification"
12.20-1.30  Lunch
1.30-2.10   Jeroen Groenendijk, University of Amsterdam:
              "Definite Descriptions in Update Semantics"
2.10-2.50   Reinhard Blutner, Max Planck Group "Structural Grammar", Berlin:
              "'Normality' in Update Semantics"
2.50-3.10   Break
3.10-3.50   Yoad Winter, OTS, Utrecht:
              "Syncategorematic Conjunction and Structured Meanings"
3.50-4.30   Daniel Buering, University of Cologne:
              "The Great Scope Inversion Conspiracy"
4.30-5.00   Business Meeting
5.30        Excursion to THE SALT LICK RESTAURANT, Hays County (Texas BBQ)
 
Sunday, February 26:
 
9-10        VENEETA DAYAL, Rutgers University:
              "Licensing 'any' in Non-Modal/Non-Negative Contexts"
10-10.40    Eric Jackson, University of Groningen:
              "Negative Polarity and General Statements"
10.40-11    Break
11-11.40    Maria Uribe-Echevarria, UCI:
              "Negative Polarity Licensing, Indefinites, and Complex Predicates"
11.40-12.20 Utpal Lahiri, UCI:
              "On Negative Polarity Items in Hindi"
 
Alternates:
Anastasia Giannakidou, University of Groningen:
   "Subjunctive, Habituality, and the Licensing of Polarity Items"
Polly Jacobson, Brown University:
   "On Apparent Exceptions to Weak Crossover in a Variable-Free Semantics"
Knud Lambrecht, University of Texas at Austin:
   "Compositional and Constructional Meaning: The case of French 'comme'"
 
The conference will be held at the University of Texas at Austin,
   Flawn Academic Center, 4th Floor
Conference fees: $35, $25 for students, payable by check or cash
   at registration.
 
Rooms have been reserved in the Driskill hotel in downtown Austin,
   phone 512-4745911, 1-800-2529367 8am-6pm CST, fax 512-4742188.
   Please mention that you take part in the SALT
   conference in order to get the special rate of $65 single, $75 double
   room. THESE RATES WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLY TILL WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8!
 
SALT 5 committee
Dept. of Linguistics
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1196
LIGK417 at UTXVMS.CC.UTEXAS.EDU
NASHER at BERTIE.LA.UTEXAS.EDU
 
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Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 09:43:21 +0300
From: jnamkung at uclink.berkeley.edu (erma)
Subject: BLS 21 Conference Program
 
 
The Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
                University of California, Berkeley
                        February 17-20, 1995
 
                         Conference Program
 
Parasession:      Historical Issues in Sociolinguistics/
                 Social Issues in Historical Linguistics
 
Special Session:     Discourse in Southeast Asian Languages
 
               SPECIAL SESSION, FRIDAY, February 17, 1995
                   Sproul Rooms, International House
                     2299 Piedmont Ave at Bancroft
 
Invited speakers: Alton Becker, University of Michigan, Jack Bilmes,
University of Hawaii, Yung-O Biq, San Francisco State University,
David Solnit, University of Michigan
 
8:00    Registration Begins
 
MORNING SESSION:
9:00    A. L. Becker, University of Michigan, "Giving distance its due"
9:40    Michael C. Ewing, UC Santa Barbara, "Two pathways to
        identifiability in Cirebon Javanese"
10:10   Mark Durie, University of Melbourne, "Framing Acehnese: Language
        choice and discourse structures in Aceh"
 
LATE MORNING SESSION:
10:50   Yung-O Biq, San Francisco State University, "Causal relation and
        information sequencing in Mandarin"
11:30   Minglang Zhou, University of Oregon, "Local and global coreferences:
        third-person zero pronoun in Chinese narratives"
12:00   Yili Shi, Ball State University, "On the degrees of givenness:
        An analysis of noun phrases in some Chinese constructions
 
LUNCH BREAK (12:30-1:30)
 
AFTERNOON SESSION:
1:30    Jack Bilmes, University of Hawaii, "Dividing the rice II:  Reaching
        a compromise in Northern Thai"
2:10    Shoichi Iwasaki, UCLA and Preeya Horie, National Language Institute,
        Japan, "Creating the middle ground register in Thai conversation"
2:40    Leela Bilmes, UC Berkeley, "The grammaticalization of Thai 'Come'
        and 'Go'"
 
LATE AFTERNOON SESSION:
3:20    David Solnit, University of Michigan, "Parallelism in Kayah Li:
        Elaborate expressions and beyond"
4:00    Li-chiung Yang, Georgetown University, "Prosodic patterns and
        discourse organization"
4:30    Eric Schiller, Linguistics Unlimited, "Not yes, not no: The Zen
        of Khmer discourse particles"
 
5:10    Stephen C. Fincke, UC Santa Barbara, "Social responsibility and
        deixis in Tagalog demonstratives"
5:40    Sherri Brainard, "Functions of marked aspect in expository
        discourse in Upper Tanudan Kalinga (Philippines)"
 
 
                  GENERAL SESSION and PARASESSION
                        February 18-20, 1995
                            Boalt Hall
                 University of California, Berkeley
 
Invited speakers, General Session:
Young-Mee Yu Cho, Stanford University, Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers University,
Michael Silverstein, University of Chicago,
 
Invited speakers, Parasession:
John McWhorter, Cornell University, Derek Nurse, Memorial University of
Newfoundland,  Suzanne Romaine, Merton College, Oxford University
 
                     SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1995
 
8:00    Registration for General Session and Parasession Opens
 
MORNING SESSION:   General Session
9:00    Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers
9:40    Bernard Tranel, UC Irvine, "On the Status of Universal Association
        Conventions:  Evidence from Mixteco"
10:10   Andrea Heiberg, U Arizona, "A Non-derivational Approach to Winnebago
        Stress"
 
LATE MORNING SESSION:   Parasession
11:05   Suzanne Romaine, Merton College, Oxford University, "Internal vs.
        External Change in Socio-Historical Linguistics:  A Fruitless
        Dichotomy?"
11:45   Kevin Tuite, U de Montreal, "The Declension of Ethnonyms in English"
12:15   Jose  Hualde, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Benjamin P. Sanders,
        Northeastern University,  "Historical Development of the Andalusian
        Vowel System"
12:45   Ian Green, Australian National University, "The Death of "prefixing":
        Contact Induced Typological Change in Northern Australia"
 
LUNCH BREAK (1:15-2:25)
 
AFTERNOON SESSION:   General Session
2:25    Rachel Nordlinger, Stanford, "Split Tense and Mood Inflection in
        Wambaya"
2:55    Ed Zoerner, UC Irvine, "Conjunction as a Case Feature-Checker"
3:25    Yoon-Suk Chung, UCB, "On a Scalar Operator"
3:55    Raul Aranovich, UCSD, "Spanish 'casi' as a Scalar Operator"
 
LATE AFTERNOON SESSION:  General Session
4:50    Jun Da, U Texas, "The Interaction of Binding Principles and the
        Chinese Reflexive ta-ziji"
5:20    Barbara Birch, CSU Fresno, "Neurological Evidence for a Functional
        Basis for Lexical Categories"
5:50    Elisabeth Kuhn, Virginia Commonwealth U, "Germany vs "The South"
        or:  Should (and Can?) Second Language Learners Be Taught How to
        Be "rude" or "sweet"?"
6:20    Brian F. Bowdle, Northwestern, "Generic Demonstratives"
 
                        SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1995
 
MORNING SESSION:  General Session
9:00    Michael Silverstein, U Chicago, "Kiksht (Wasco-Wishram)
        'Impersonals' as Anaphors and the Predictiveness of Grammatical-
        Categorical Universals""
9:40    Julie Solomon, Stanford, "Local and Global Functions of a Borrowed/
        Native Pair of Discourse Markers in a Yucatec Maya Narrative"
10:10   Nicholas Kibre, UCSB, "Word Order, Mutation, and Grammatical
        Relations in Welsh"
 
LATE MORNING SESSION:  General Session
11:05   Eric Jackson, U of Groningen, "Negative Concord and Logical Form"
11:35   Jong-Bok Kim, Stanford, "English Negation from a Non-Derivational
        Perspective"
12:05   Michael Israel, UCSD, "Two Types of Negative Polarity Constructions"
12:35   Kyoko Hirose Ohara,  UCB, "What's in a Place?   Extended uses of a
        physical-world noun in Japanese"
 
LUNCH BREAK (1:05-2:15)
 
AFTERNOON SESSION:   Parasession
2:15    John McWhorter, Cornell University, "Renewing our Vows:  Creole
        Studies and Historical Linguistics"
2:55    Patricia Cukor-Avila, U of North Texas and Guy Bailey, U of Memphis,
        "Gramaticalization in AAVE"
3:25    Laurel Brinton, U British Columbia, "Pragmatics Markers in a
        Diachronic Perspective"
3:55    Derek Nurse, Memorial University of Newfoundland, "Linguistics and
        History in Africa"
 
LATE AFTERNOON SESSION:  General Session
4:50    Robert Kirchner, UCLA, "Contrastiveness is an Epiphenomenon of
        Constraint RankingS
5:25    Paul Fallon, Ohio State U, "Diachronic Typology; The Case of
        Ejectives"
5:50    Philip Hamilton, U Toronto, "Vowel Phonotactic Positions in
        Australian Aboriginal Languages"
6:20    Matthew Gordon, U Michigan Ann Arbor, "The Phonological Composition
        of Personal Pronouns:  Implications for Genetic Hypotheses"
 
EVENING: BLS PARTY
 
                      MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1995
 
MORNING SESSION:   Parasession
9:00    Marvin Kramer, UCB, "Yokuts as a Target Language in a Shift from Miwok"
9:40    Robbin Clamons, Hamline U, "How Recent Contact Erased Ancient
        Traces in the Gender Systems of Oromo Dialects"
10:10   Gregory Anderson, U Chicago, "Diachronic Aspects of Russianisms
        in Siberian Turkic:  Assimilation to 'Codeswitching'"
10:40   Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl, UCB, "Variation in Modern Dutch d-weakening"
 
LATE MORNING SESSION:  General Session
11:35   Yoshimi Miyake, U Michigan Ann Arbor, "Local Prestige of a Dialect
        in the Face of a Standard: a Japanese Case Study"
12:05   Hope Doyle, U Colorado Denver, "Ethnolinguistic Loyalties among
        Barcelona's Teens"
12:35   Yoko Hasegawa, UCB and Kazue Hata, Speech Technology Laboratory,
        Panasonic Technologies, Inc., "The Function of F0-peak Delay in
        Japanese"
 
LUNCH BREAK  (1:05-2:15)
 
AFTERNOON SESSION:   General Session
2:15    Young-Mee Yu-Cho, Stanford, "'Ordering Paradoxes' Revisited"
2:55    Lionel Wee, UCB, "Verbal Prefixation in Malay: Reconfiguring
        Paradigmatic Relations"
3:25    C. Orhan Orgun, UCB, "Flat versus Branching Morphological
        Structures:  The Case of Suspended Affixation"
3:55    Piroska Csuri, Brandeis, "One-anaphora and Residual DRS's"
 
LATE AFTERNOON SESSION:  General Session
4:50    Rebecca Wheeler, Independent, "'Understand' in Conceptual
        Semantics"
4:45    Martin Everaert, Utrecht U, "Predicate Fusion; Light Verb
        Constructions"
5:15    Mengistu Amberber, McGill U, "Functional Verbs in Predicate
        Formation:  Event-type Hierarchy and Grammaticization"
 
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