6.1642, Confs: GURT '96, Going Romance '95

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-1642. Wed Nov 22 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  287
 
Subject: 6.1642, Confs: GURT '96, Going Romance '95
 
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1)
Date:  Mon, 20 Nov 1995 12:56:43 EST
From:  GURT at guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
Subject:  GURT'96
 
2)
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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1)
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.
 
=====================================================================
 
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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2)
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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