6.1505, Confs: Workshop on Final Heads,BU Language Development

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Subject: 6.1505, Confs: Workshop on Final Heads,BU Language Development

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Date:  Thu, 26 Oct 1995 19:13:53 BST
From:  C.L.Thiersch at kub.nl
Subject:  Workshop on Final Heads: Program

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Date:  Thu, 26 Oct 1995 19:31:22 EDT
From:  langconf at louis-xiv.bu.edu (BU Conference on Language Development)
Subject:  BU Conference on Lang. Dev. Reminder

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Date:  Thu, 26 Oct 1995 19:13:53 BST
From:  C.L.Thiersch at kub.nl
Subject:  Workshop on Final Heads: Program

F I N A L    H E A D S
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A Workshop jointly organized by:

The Models of Grammar Group             The Department of Linguistics
Tilburg University / CLS                University of Stuttgart
Henk van Riemsdijk                      Hubert Haider

Place:    Tilburg University, Building A, Room A 186
Time:     Friday November 24 and Saturday November 25
Price:    There will be a nominal charge for coffee, tea and the buffet
	  lunch on Saturday
Registr:  For this we need to know who will be participating in the
	  workshop, so please preregister at the e-mail address below.
Info:     CONCHITA at KUB.NL

The Program:

Friday November 24

10.30 - 12.00     Norbert Corver & Henk van Riemsdijk (Tilburg):
                    The Position of the Head and the Domain of Scrambling

Lunch Break (in the University Cafetaria)

13.00 - 14.30     Josef Bayer (Jena):
                    Final Complementizers in Hybrid Languages

Coffee Break

15.00 - 16.30     Martin Prinzhorn (Vienna):
                    t.b.a.

Tea Break

17.00 - 18.30     Shigeo Tonoike (Tokyo):
                    Japanese as an OVS Language

Drinks

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Saturday, November 25

09.30 - 11.00     Masayuki Oishi (Sendai):
                    Where does Linear Ordering Come From?

Coffee Break

11.30 - 13.00     Jan Koster (Groningen):
                    Extraposition as Coordination

Lunch Break (buffet)

14.00 - 15.30     Joost Zwarts (Utrecht):
                    Final Prepositions and the Syntax of Direction

Tea Break

16.00 - 17.30     Hubert Haider:
                    Lest Best -- And the Last Shall Be the First
		    [Marc IX:35]

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Date:  Thu, 26 Oct 1995 19:31:22 EDT
From:  langconf at louis-xiv.bu.edu (BU Conference on Language Development)
Subject:  BU Conference on Lang. Dev. Reminder

      20th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development

                     November 3, 4, 5, 1995

         KEYNOTE SPEAKER:   Lila Gleitman
		"When Prophecy Fails: How do We Discard Our Theories
		 of Learning?"

         PLENARY SPEAKER:   Lydia White
	        "The Tale of the Ugly Duckling (or The Coming of Age
		 of Second Language Acquisition Research)"

Sessions include first and second language acquisition of syntax,
morphology, phonology, lexical and conceptual knowledge, discourse,
narrative and literacy, social and cultural aspects of language use, as
well as exceptional language, language processing, and bilingualism.
Ninety papers are scheduled to be presented.

All conference sessions will be held on the Boston University campus
in the George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.

The Conference program, hotel and travel information, and the
registration form, may be obtained by sending a blank e-mail message
to info at louis-xiv.bu.edu

Note that although the preregistration deadline has passed, it is
still possible to register.

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