6.1562, Confs: Workshop on Focus at UMASS
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Subject: 6.1562, Confs: Workshop on Focus at UMASS
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Date: Sun, 05 Nov 1995 23:30:30 EST
From: focus at linguist.umass.edu (Workshop on Focus)
Subject: Workshop on Focus Program
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Date: Sun, 05 Nov 1995 23:30:30 EST
From: focus at linguist.umass.edu (Workshop on Focus)
Subject: Workshop on Focus Program
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WORKSHOP ON FOCUS
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
December 8-10, 1995
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****Preliminary Schedule****
FRIDAY 12/8
12:00 - 1:00 Registration
1:00 - 1:10 Opening Remarks
1:10 - 1:50 Catherine Rudin (Wayne State College),
Tracy Holloway King (Standford),
Roumyana Izvorski (University of Pennsylvania):
Focus in Bulgarian and Russian Yes-No Questions.
1:50 - 2:30 Maribel Romero (University of Massachusetts, Amherst):
The P-set of a Focused wh-word.
Break (20 min.)
2:50 - 3:30 Olga Babko-Malaya (Rutgers University)
Context-Dependent Quantifiers Restricted by Focus.
3:30 - 4:10 Daniel Buring (University og Koln):
Topics and Disambiguation.
4:10 - 4:50 Julie Sedivy, Michael Tannenhaus, Gregory Carlson:
Using Contrast Sets to Resolve Reference On-line.
Break (20 min.)
5:10 - 6:20 Invited Speakers:
Eva Hajicova (Universita Karlova)
Barbara Partee (University of Massachusetts)
Petr Sgall (Universita Karlova)
TBA
SATURDAY 12/9
9:30 - 10:10 Eugenia Casielles (University of Massachusetts, Amherst):
Focus Preposing (it's called).
10:10 - 10:50 David Beck (Universtiy of Toronto)
On the Syntactic Expression of Topic and Rheme in Two
Salishan Languages.
Break (20 min.)
11:10 - 12:20 Invited Speaker
Elizabeth Selkirk (University of Massachusetts)
TBA
Lunch (1h. 40 min.)
2:00 - 2:40 Akihiko Uechi (University of British Columbia):
Focus Phrasing in Japanese: An Optimality Approach.
2:40 - 3:10 Amy Schafer (University of Massachusetts at Amherst):
Prosodic Phrasing and Focus: The Bounded Projection Hypothesis.
Break (20 min.)
3:30 - 4:10 Elena Herburger (University of Southern California):
Presupposition vs. Assertion: a Neo-Davidsonian Account.
4:10 - 4:50 Cecile Meier (University of Tubingen):
Allegation under Negation in Causal Contexts.
4:50 - 5:30 Mary Wu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign):
Focus, Structure and Uniqueness: Implications of the NP --
with special reference to complex NPs in Mandarin Chinese.
SUNDAY 12/10
9:30 - 10:10 Ricardo Echepare (University of Maryland):
A Case for Two Types of Focus in Basque.
10:10 - 10:50 Juvenal Ndayiragije (University of Western Ontario):
TP-Internal Focus in Bantu and "Attract-F".
10:50 - 11:30 Edward Gobbel (University of Tubingen):
On the Syntax of Focus-Movement in Romanian.
Break (20 min.)
11:50 - 12:30 Dag E. Wold (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
How to Interpret Multiple Foci without Moving
a Focused Constituent.
12:30 - 1:10 Bernhard Schwarz (University of Massachusetts, Amherst):
On Kratzer's Tanglewood Example.
*Alternates*
Eloise Jelinek (University of Arizona)
Pronoun Classes and Focus
Rosemary Stevenson (University of Durham)
Focusing of Elements in a Discourse Model:
Thematic Role Effects on the Accessibility of a
PronounUs Antecedents
Robert Van Valin (State University of New York)
Cross-Linguistic Variation in Structural Constraints on Focus
Robert Westmoreland (Indiana University)
Contrastiveness as embedded focus
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REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Fees
Before Nov.24 Student $10 Others $15
After Nov. 24
and on-site Student $15 Others $25
Please, send check or money order made out to GLSA together with the
registration form below to: Workshop on Focus, Dept. of Linguistics
(South
College), University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA 01003.
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Registration Form
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Name ______________________________________________
Affiliation __________________ Address ____________________
Telephone number _____________________
Email ___________________________
Crash Space
A small number of crash space can be provided in student appartments.
If you need crash space, please contact us at focus at linguist.umass.edu
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HOTEL ACCOMMODATION
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In the next few days we will be sending information about
lodging alternatives and how to get to the UMass campus.
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