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Subject: 6.1642, Confs: GURT '96, Going Romance '95
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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 12:56:43 EST
From: GURT at guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
Subject: GURT'96
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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 16:06:42 +0100
From: F.van.der.Leeuw at let.uva.nl ("F. van der Leeuw")
Subject: Going Romance program
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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 12:56:43 EST
From: GURT at guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
Subject: GURT'96
Georgetown University Round Table
on Languages and Linguistics 1996
Linguistics, language acquisition, and language variation:
Current trends and future prospects
March 14 - March 16, 1996
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This is a brief version intended to keep list messages short.
To see the full program, visit this www-site:
>> http://www.georgetown.edu/conferences/gurt96/gurt96.html
...or contact the GURT staff at the address given below.
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Thursday, March 14, 1996
Opening remarks
James E. Alatis, Chair, Georgetown University Round Table
1996
Dedication of Conference to Earl Stevick, Independent Researcher
Plenary Address
David Crystal, Cambridge University Press
"Playing with linguistic problems from Orwell to Plato and
back again"
*****
Friday, March 15 and Saturday, March 16, 1996
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Michael Breen, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Anna Uhl Chamot, The George Washington University
Donna Christian, Center for Applied Linguistics
Mary Ann Christison, Snow College
Reinhold Freudenstein, IFS der Philipps-Universitaet, Marburg/Lahn,
Germany
Braj Kachru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yamuna Kachru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephen Krashen, University of Southern California
Donna Lardiere and Andrea Tyler, Georgetown University
Ronald P. Leow, Georgetown University
Joan Morley, University of Michigan
Peter Patrick, Georgetown University
Theodore Rodgers, University of Hawaii and Bilkent University,
Ankara, Turkey
Renzo Titone, University of Rome, Italy and University of Toronto,
Ontario
Walt Wolfram and Gail Hamilton, North Carolina State University
and Ocracoke School, North Carolina
*****
Tutorial with Stephen Krashen, School of Education, University of
Southern California
This workshop will cover, and attempt to integrate, material
presented at Krashen's GURT presentations since 1989. It will
review evidence for and against the input hypothesis, the reading
hypothesis, applications of the input hypothesis to beginning
and intermediate language and literacy development, the role of
light reading, and applications to bilingual education.
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For more information, please contact Carolyn A. Straehle,
Coordinator * GURT 1996 * Georgetown University
International Language Programs and Research * 306-U
Intercultural Center * Washington, DC 20057-1045
e-mail: gurt at guvax.bitnet or gurt at guvax.georgetown.edu *
voice: 202/687-5726 * fax: 202/687-0699
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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 16:06:42 +0100
From: F.van.der.Leeuw at let.uva.nl ("F. van der Leeuw")
Subject: Going Romance program
PROGRAM
GOING ROMANCE 1995
Ninth Symposium on Romance Linguistics
Amsterdam, December 7-9
Organized by the Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics (HIL), the
Research Institute for Language and Speech (OTS Utrecht) and the
departments of French and Italian of the University of Amsterdam.
Details about preregistration follow the program.
Thursday, December 7
9.30 - 9.45 Opening of the conference by Aafke Hulk (University of
Amsterdam/HIL)
9.45 - 10.45 Jacqueline Gueron, Paris X (Invited Speaker)
Missing Tenses: Contrasts between French and English
10.45 - 11.05 Break
11.05 - 11.45 Alessandra Giorgi & Fabio Pianesi, University of Bergamo
& IRST
Definite Temporal Arguments: a Comparison between Italian
and English
11.45 - 12.25 Manuel Espanol-Echevarria, UCLA
Definiteness in A of a N contexts
12.25 - 14.25 Lunch
14.25 - 15.05 Gloria Cocchi, University of Firenze
Two Cases of Split Ergativity in Italian Dialects
15.05 - 15.45 Caterina Donati, University of Firenze
Comparative Clauses: a Raising Analysis
15.45 - 16.05 Break
16.05 - 16.45 Xavier Villalba, University of Barcelona
Leftward Right Dislocation
16.45 - 17.45 James Harris, MIT (Invited Speaker)
Spanish Imperatives: Syntax Meets Morphology
17.45 - ? Drink
Friday, December 8
9.30 - 10.30 Alain Rouveret, Paris VIII (Invited Speaker)
Clitics, Subjects and Tense in European Portuguese
10.30 - 10.50 Break
10.50 - 11.30 Anna Pettiward, SOAS
Anti-Procrastinate Effects and Optional Agreement in French
11.30 - 12.10 Eduardo Raposo, UCSB
Towards a Restrictive Theory of Clitic Placement in Romance
12.10 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.15 Patrick Sauzet, Paris VIII (Invited Speaker)
Affixation, Cliticization and Word Order
15.15 - 15.55 Mara Frascarelli, University of Rome III
The Prosody of Focus in Italian
15.55 - 16.15 Break
16.15 - 16.55 Fernando Martinez-Gil, Ohio State University
Consonant Vocalization in Chilean Spanish: a
Constraint-Based Approach
16.55 - 17.35 Leo Wetzels, Free University of Amsterdam/HIL
The Phonetics and Phonology of Nasality in Brazilian Portuguese
18.00 - ? Going Romance Dinner
Saturday, December 9
9.30 - 10.10 Liliane Haegeman, University of Geneva
Null Subjects in the non Pro-Drop Languages and the
Structure of CP.
10.10 - 10.50 Carlo Cecchetto, Dipartimento di Scienze Cognitive, Milan
Reconstruction and Clitic Left (Right) Dislocation
10.50 - 11.10 Break
11.10 - 11.50 Viviane Deprez, Rutgers University
Negative Concord in French and Haitian Creole
11.50 - 12.30 Christine Tellier & Daniel Valois, University of Montreal
Agreements and Extraction: a Representational View
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 15.10 Andrea Moro, Dipartimento di Scienze Cognitive, Milan
Case Theory and the Distribution of "ci" in Italian:
Towards a Unified Theory of "essere" and "avere"
15.10 - 16.10 Luigi Rizzi, University of Geneva
The Fine Structure of the Left Periphery
Alternates:
1. Ana Maria Martins, University of Lisbon
Clitic Climbing and the Structure of Infinitival Complements
2. Teresa Satterfield, University of Iowa
Null Subjects and the Extended Parametrization Hypothesis
3. Petra Sleeman, University of Amsterdam
The licensing of Empty Noun Constructions
PREREGISTRATION is possible by e-mail, regular mail or fax.
Please indicate your name, affiliation, address, e-mail address, phone
number and fax number.
After your preregistration we will send further information about
the conference, accomodation etc.
The conference fee is f.35,-, on-site payment is possible.
The Organizing Committee:
J. Dekkers, D. Delfitto, A. Hulk, F. van der Leeuw, M. Nespor, M. de Wind.
Address: Phone:
Going Romance ++31-20-5253805 or
Department of French ++31-20-5254635
University of Amsterdam Fax:
Spuistraat 134 ++31-20-5254429
1012 VB Amsterdam E-mail:
The Netherlands Going.Romance at let.uva.nl
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