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Date: Thu, 02 Mar 95 15:57:02 EST
From: Greg Stump (ENG101 at UKCC.uky.edu)
Subject: KFLC Program
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 95 23:53:40 -0500
From: langconf at louis-xiv.bu.edu (BU Conference on Language Development)
Subject: BU Conference on Language Development '95- Call
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Date: Thu, 02 Mar 95 15:57:02 EST
From: Greg Stump (ENG101 at UKCC.uky.edu)
Subject: KFLC Program
In addition to numerous sessions on literary topics and on language
pedagogy, this year's Kentucky Foreign Language Conference will include
the following sessions on linguistics:
Friday afternoon, April 21
Morphosyntax I
2:00 Evaluative Affixation and Lexical Compounding
in Spanish: An Account within Optimality Theory
Norma G. Catalan, Georgetown University
2:30 Cliticization in Old Spanish and the Principle
of Phonology-Free Syntax
Harry Howard, Tulane University
3:00 Adjective Agreement and pro Identification:
Germanic v.Romance
Enrique Mallen, University of Florida
3:30 The Chain Condition in the Minimalist Framework
Jelly Julia de Jong, University of Groningen
4:30 On Strong and Weak Possessives in Old French
Deborah Arteaga, University of
Nevada-Las Vegas
Saturday morning, April 22
Morphosyntax II
9:00 Subordination, Topicalization, and
Nominalization in Proto-Tupi-Guarani
Charles Schleicher, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
9:30 Doing Without a Do-er: The Repercussions of
Nonagentive Subjects in the Analysis of
the Breton ober Conjugation
Robin Schafer, University of Califomia-
San Diego
10:00 Malagasy Phrase Structure: A Problem for the LCA
Rob Pensalfini, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and Dawn MacLaughlin, Boston
University
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Gustar and Gostar: A Constrastive Analysis of
Experiencer and Non-Experiencer Constructions
in Spanish and Portuguese
Linda McManness, Baylor University
11:30 Considerations sur la categorie de "mode verbal"
E. de Vicente, Universidad Complutense de
Madrid, and Caroline Foullioux, Universidad
Auton6ma de Madrid
Saturday afternoon
Varia
2:00 The Symbolic Nature of Esperanto
Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville
2:30 Language Planning for Global Use
John Lihani, University of Kentucky
3:00 Old Spanish s/x Alternation: A Salient Feature
Spreading in a Dialect-Contact Situation
Jose del Valle, Miami University
3:30 Velarization of -r- vs. Homophonetic
Neutralization of Liquids: Diastratic
Implications in a Puerto Rican Dialect
Hilton Alers-Valentin, University of
Massachusetts-Amherst and
Gloria D. Prosper-Sanchez, University of
Massachusetts-Amherst
4:00 Constraint Interaction and the Case of Portuguese
Plurals
Eric Holt, Georgetown University
4:30 The Strict Layer Hypothesis and Sandhi Variation
Michael L. Mazzola, Northern Illinois
University
5:00 Arrernte: A Case for VC(C) Syllabification
Rob Pensalfini, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
For information on conference registration and hotel
accommodations, please contact Greg Stump at
eng101 at ukcc.uky.edu.
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 95 23:53:40 -0500
From: langconf at louis-xiv.bu.edu (BU Conference on Language Development)
Subject: BU Conference on Language Development '95- Call
CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 20th Annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development
November 3, 4 and 5, 1995
Keynote Speaker: Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania
Plenary Speaker: Lydia White, McGill University
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FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
All topics in the field of language acquisition will be fully considered,
including:
Bilingualism Literacy
Cognition & Language Narrative
Creoles & Pidgins Neurolinguistics
Discourse Pragmatics
Exceptional Language Pre-linguistic Development
Input & Interaction Signed Languages
Language Disorders Sociolinguistics
Lexicon Speech Perception & Production
Linguistic Theory (Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, Morphology)
Abstracts submitted must represent original, unpublished research.
Presentations will be 20 minutes long, plus 10 minutes for questions.
PLEASE SUBMIT:
1) six copies of an anonymous, clearly titled 450-word
summary for review
2) one copy of a 150-word abstract for use in conference
program book if abstract is accepted; (if your paper is
accepted, you will be asked to resubmit your 150-word
abstract in electronic form, either on diskette or by
e-mail. Requests for these program abstracts will be
sent with acceptance letters.)
3) one 3 x 5 card stating:
i) title, ii) topic area, iii) audiovisual requests, and
iv) for EACH author:
a) Full name & affiliation d) Summer address & phone
b) Current address & phone e) Summer e-mail address
c) E-mail address f) Fax number
Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard for acknowledgment
of receipt. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by
late July. Pre-registration materials and preliminary schedule will
be available in late August 1995.
All authors who present papers at the conference will be invited to
contribute their papers to the Proceedings Volumes. Those papers will
be due in January, 1996.
Note: All conference papers will be selected on the basis of abstracts
submitted. Although each abstract will be evaluated individually, we will
attempt to honor requests to schedule accepted papers together in group
sessions.
DEADLINE: All submissions must be RECEIVED by May 1, 1995.
Send submissions to:
Boston University
Conference on Language Development
138 Mountfort Street
Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A.
Telephone: (617) 353-3085
E-mail: langconf at louis-xiv.bu.edu
info at louis-xiv.bu.edu (automated reply)
(WE REGRET THAT WE CANNOT ACCEPT ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS BY FAX OR E-MAIL.)
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We are pleased to announce that Cascadilla Press will be publishing
the proceedings of the 19th annual Boston University Conference on
Language Development, which was held this past November, 1994. The
proceedings will be published in two volumes in March 1995, and will
contain 58 papers, including the keynote address by Andrew Radford and
the plenary address by Jill de Villiers. A portion of the revenues will
go to help the conference.
The price of the volumes is just $42.00 plus shipping. Shipping is as
follows:
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