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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 15:52:35 CST
From: edith at csd.uwm.edu (Edith A Moravcsik)
Subject: Functionalism/Formalism Conference Program
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 17:19:04 +0100
From: markus.hiller at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Markus Hiller)
Subject: Conf: Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS)
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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 15:52:35 CST
From: edith at csd.uwm.edu (Edith A Moravcsik)
Subject: Functionalism/Formalism Conference Program
23th UWM Linguistics Symposium
CONFERENCE ON FUNCTIONALISM AND FORMALISM IN LINGUISTICS
April 18-20, l996
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The conference is supported by a grant from the
National Science Foundation.
I. TIME AND PLACE
WHEN? April 18-20, Thursday through Saturday, l996
WHERE? Golda Meir Conference Center
Library Building, 4th floor
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus
(2311 E. Hartford Avenue)
II. CONTACT PERSONS
For more information, get in touch with Michael Noonan or
Edith Moravcsik.
E-mail: noonan at csd.uwm.edu
edith at csd.uwm.edu
Telephone: (414) 229-4539 (Noonan)
(414) 229-6794 (daytime for Moravcsik)
(414) 332-0141 (evenings for Moravcsik)
(414) 229-4285 (message for Noonan or Moravcsik)
Fax: (414) 229-6258 (for Noonan or Moravcsik)
Snail-mail: Michael Noonan or Edith Moravcsik
Department of Linguistics
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413
III. REGISTRATION FEES
BEFORE MONDAY, APRIL 1: ON THE SPOT:
Non-students: $55 $60
Students: $35 $40
(UWM students register for free.)
Please make out your check to UWM Linguistic Symposium and
send it to the following address:
Linguistics Symposium
Department of Linguistics
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413
IV. HOTELS
GENERAL INFORMATION:
- In each of the hotels named below, a block of rooms is being
held for participants of the meeting through the cut-off
dates given.
- When making reservations, please mention "UWM Linguistics
Symposium" to get the rates given below.
- The room prices are cited without the 14.7% tax.
- None of the hotels are within easy walking distance to
campus; however, all but the Hyatt will provide free van service to
and from campus mornings and evenings.
- There will be information sheets that you can ask for upon
arrival at the hotel regarding van schedule and, for people with
cars, on how to drive to campus and where to park.
- We will be able to arrange for limited crash space. If
interested, send a message to Paul Roser (pkroser at csd.uwm.edu),
call him at (414) 962-3042, or leave a message for him
at the Linguistics Department ((414) 229-4258).
- If you are arriving by plane, you can take a limousine to
any of the hotels listed below. The limousine leaves on the hour
and then every twenty minutes from exit #3 of the airport's
baggage claim level; the cost is $7.50 one way. For going to
the airport, you can find out about pick-up times at your hotel
or call Limousine Services directly at (414) 769-9100.
HOTELS:
PARK EAST HOTEL
916 East State Street
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Telephone: (800) 328-PARK or (414) 276-8800
Fax: (414) 765-1919
Single room: $55
Double room: $65
Cut-off date: Monday, March 25
ASTOR HOTEL
924 East Juneau Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Telephone: (800) 558-0200 or (414) 271-4220
Fax: (414) 271-6370
Room with 1 queen-size bed (one or two persons): $54.00
Room with 2 queen-size beds (one or two persons): $62.00
Room with 1 king-size bed (one or two persons): $60.00
Cut-off date: Sunday, March 17
PLAZA HOTEL
1007 North Cass
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Telephone: (800) 340-9590 or (414) 276-2101
Room with one full bed: $45.00
Suite with one full bed: $55.00
Suite with two full beds: $65.00
Cut-off date: Sunday, March 17
HYATT REGENCY MILWAUKEE
333 West Kilbourn Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53203
Telephone: (414) 276-1234
Fax: (414) 276-6338
Single room: $80.00
Double room: $99.00
Triple room: $118.00
Quadruple room: $137.00
Note: No van service available to campus; you would need a car
or would need to take a city bus.
Cut-off date: Wednesday, March 27
RAMADA INN - DOWNTOWN
633 West Michigan Street
Milwaukee, WI 53203
Telephone: (414) 272-8410
Fax: (414) 272-4651
Single room: $49.00
Double room: $55.00
Cut-off date: Wednesday, March 20
V. CONFERENCE PROGRAM
* ****************** *
* THURSDAY, APRIL 18 *
* ****************** *
7:30- REGISTRATION
8:00-11:30 PLENARY SESSION: INTRODUCTION; SYNTAX
8:00-8:15 Words of welcome
8:15-9:00 Introductory paper
Michael NOONAN, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
9:00-9:45 Formalist syntax position paper
Howard LASNIK, U. of Connecticut
10:15-11:00 Functionalist syntax position paper
/speaker yet to be identified/
11:00-11:30 Discussion of the syntax position papers
Werner ABRAHAM, U. of Groningen
12:00-1:05 PARALLEL SESSIONS
SESSION 1: SYNTAX
12:00-12:30 "Lexis, grammar, and grammatical change: the
Koykon classifier prefixes"
Melissa AXELROD, U. of New Mexico
12:35-1:05 "Configurations, typology and language change:
Givon to Chomsky 'Where is the beef?'"
Jose BONNEAU, McGill U., and Pierre PICA, CNRS
SESSION 2: SYNTAX
12:00-12:30 "Quantifiers as starting points"
Karen VAN HOEK, U. of Michigan
12:35-1:05 "Emergent Peircean semiotic functions of X-bar syntax:
a formalism functionalists can live with"
Alan D. MANNING, Brigham Young U.
SESSION 3: PHONOLOGY
12:00-12:30 "Prediction and explanation of cross-linguistic
regularities within the functional-typological
paradigm"
Gertraud FENK-OCZLON and August FENK, U. of
Klagenfurt
12:35-1:05 "Towards an integration of generative and cognitive
approaches to phonology: evidence from k-deletion in
Istanbul Turkish"
Nicholas KIBIE, U. of California, Santa Barbara
2:30-4:00 PLENARY SESSION: SYNTAX
2:30-3:15 "What functionalists can learn from formalists in syntax"
William CROFT, U. of Manchester
3:15-4:00 "What formalists can learn from functionalists in
syntax"
Steven ANDERSON, Yale U.
4:15-5:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS
SESSION 1: SYNTAX
4:15-4:45 "Foundations of contensive formal grammar"
Sebastian SHAUMYAN, Yale University
4:50-5:20 "Functional search yields formal solution: scientist
stunned! What do brow raises do in ASL?"
Ronnie WILBUR, Purdue U.
SESSION 2: PHONOLOGY
4:15-4:45 "Formal versus functional domains in Oneida intonation"
Karin MICHELSON, State U. of New York, Buffalo
4:50-5:20 "Perceptual constrains and neutralization: a formal
functionalist account"
Scott MYERS, U. of Texas
SESSION 3: GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS
4:15-4:45 "German impersonal constructions and the nonautonomy of
grammar"
Michael B. SMITH, Oakland U.
4:50-5:20 "Mission impossible? The formalization of grammar in
discourse"
Machtelt BOLKESTEIN, U. of Amsterdam
5:35-7:05 PLENARY SESSION: PHONOLOGY
5:35-6:20 "What formalists can learn from functionalists in
phonology"
Michael HAMMOND, U. of Arizona
6:20-7:05 "What functionalists can learn from formalists in
phonology"
Geoffrey NATHAN, U. of Southern Illinois
* **************** *
* FRIDAY, APRIL 19 *
* **************** *
8:00- REGISTRATION
8:30-11:00 PLENARY SESSION: PHONOLOGY
8:30-9:15 Functionalist phonology position paper
Joan BYBEE, U. of New MEXICO
9:15-10:00 Formalist phonology position paper
Bruce HAYES, U. of California, Los Angeles
10:00-10:30 Discussion of the phonology position papers
Jane PIERREHUMBERT, Northwestern U.
11:00-1:00 POSTER SESSION
- "Pragmatic scope and locality conditions on negative polarity
licensing"
Raul ARANOVICH, U. of California, San Diego
- "Mapping so-called pragmatic phenomena according to a
linguistic-nonlinguistic distinction"
Mira ARIEL, Tel Aviv U.
- "Classification and explanation of yes/no question markers"
Giulia BENCINI, U. of Colorado, and Alberto NOCENTINI,
U. of Florence
- "A comparative approach to grammatical agreement"
Paul BESSLER, U. of Toronto
- "The correlation of form and function in English argument
reversal"
Betty J. BIRNER, Northwestern University
- "Why we do not need Case Roles: a formal model of the
emergence of case relations"
Juergen BROSCHART, U. of Cologne
- "On null subjects in Finnish"
Juhani BUDANKO, U. of Tampere
- "Formal and functional factors in grounded phonology"
Donald G. CHURMA (independent scholar)
- "Impossible passives in Dutch"
Louise CORNELIS, Utrecht U.
- "A formalist and a functionalist call it a day"
Joseph DAVIS, U. of Kentucky
- "Against the presentational deictic and cognitive grammar"
Kristin DENHAM, U. of Washington
- "Structuring the sentence: a difference between formalism
and functionalism"
Inga DOLININA, McMaster U.
- "Inversion in English - a 'root transformation' revisited"
Heidrun DORGELOH, U. of Duesseldorf
- "'Mixed' subject status in English inversion: multiple
perspectives"
Heidrun DORGELOH and Dieter STEIN, U. of Duesseldorf
- "The function of form"
Yehuda N. FALK, The Hebrew U. of Jerusalem
- "On the similarity between morphology and syntax as coding
devices: split configurationality in the Cariban language
family."
Spike GILDEA, Rice U.
- "Form and function in the voicing of Japanese postnasal
stops"
Emiko HAYASHI and Gregory IVERSON, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- "Metaphors we do linguistics by: ideologies and politics in
grammatical theory"
Susan HERRING, U. of Texas at Arlington
- "Formalist and functionalist interpretations of the notion
of economy"
Julia HERSCHENSOHN, U. of Washington
- "On the interaction between formalism and functionalism:
the case of long-distance reflexivization"
Yan HUANG, U. of Reading
- "The conceptual basis of syntax: the semantics of the
nominative marker 'ga' in Japanese"
Toshiyuki KUMASHIRO, U. of California, Irvine and U. of
California, San Diego
- "Faulty judgments: what makes a sentence seem ungrammatical?"
Ritva LAURY, California State U., Fresno
- "Isomorphism in syntax: the functional-pragmatics approach"
Yaron MATRAS, U. of Manchester
- "Functional expansion of 'olsem' in Bislama: formal bases
for semantic shift"
Miriam MEYERHOFF, U. of Pennsylvania, and Nancy
NIEDZIELSKI, U. of California, Santa Barbara
- "The role of sentence type in a formal theory of language
function: constructional inheritance and English
exclamations"
Laura MICHAELIS, U. of Colorado, and Knud LAMBRECHT, U. of
Texas
- "Evolution of a passive structure: explanatory power of
functional and formal approaches to language change"
Viola G. MIGLIO, U. of Maryland
- "When exception becomes the rule"
Miren Lourdes ONEDERRA, Euskal Herriko U.
- "When double object constructions can contribute to the
formalism/functionalism debate"
Maria POLINSKY, U. of Southern California
- "The holophrastic hypothesis revisited: structural
and functional approaches"
Elizabeth PURNELL, Indiana U.
- "Can we do all our relation-changing at once and get it
over with? The grammatical status of semantic roles and
arguments for multistratalism"
Steven SCHAEUFELE (independent scholar)
- "Antifrequency effect in the acquisition of English regular
past"
Yasuhiro SHIRAI, Carnegie Mellon U. and Daito Bunka U.
- "Focus, presupposition, and crossover phenomena"
Takeshi TSURUSAKI, Meikai U.
- "Creolization: a combined functionalist and formalist
approach"
Zvjezdana VRZIC, New York U.
- "Noted with distinction: a functional approach to L2
phonology"
Steven H. WEINBERGER, George Mason U.
- "Formalism and Wittgenstein's infinite regress"
David WIBLE, Providence U.
- "Pronominals, epithets and attributivity: script
dependency"
Yael ZIV, Hebrew U. in Jerusalem
2:15-3:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS
SESSION 1: ACQUISITION
2:15-2:45 "Complementary contributions of funtionalism and
formalism to an analysis of argument
representation in early Inuktitut"
Shanley E.M. ALLEN and Heike SCHRODER, Max
Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
2:50-3:20 "The form and function of input: their relation to
children's development of language form and function"
Erika HOFF-GINSBERG, U. of Wisconsin-Parkside
3:25-3:55 "Form and function: insights from second language
acquisition"
Robert KOSUTH, U. of Wisconsin-Superior
SESSION 2: ALONG THE TIME AXIS
2:15-2:45 "On three explanations for the critical period"
James R. HURFORD, U. of Edinburgh
2:50-3:20 "A dysfunctional family of functional accounts for the
alleged unidirectionality of grammaticalization
--and an alternative functional/formal treatment
for it"
Richard D. JANDA, U. of Chicago
3:25-3:55 "Constraints on constraints, or the limits of
functional adaptation"
Simon KIRBY
SESSION 3: GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS
2:15-2:45 "Hypostasis, explanation and the local case
system in Old Georgian"
H. Paul MANNING, U. of Chicago
2:50-3:20 "Topicality and agreement"
Andre MEINUNGER, Foerderungsgesellschaft,
Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
3:25-3:55 "Functional optimality theory: evidence from
split case systems"
Wataru NAKAMURA, State U. of New York, Buffalo
4:10-6:10 PLENARY SESSION: FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
4:10-4:55 Functionalist first language acquisition position
paper
Brian MACWHINNEY, Carnegie Mellon U.
4:55-5:40 Formalist first language acquisition position paper
Nina HYAMS, U. of California, Los Angeles
5:40-6:10 Discussion of the first language acquisition
position papers
Melissa BOWERMAN, Max Planck Institute for
Psycholinguistics
6:30-8:30 RECEPTION
* ****************** *
* SATURDAY, APRIL 20 *
* ****************** *
8:00- REGISTRATION
8:30-10:00 PLENARY SESSION: ERGATIVITY
8:30-9:15 "Ergativity from a functionalist perspective"
John DUBOIS, U. of California, Santa Barbara
9:15-10:00 "Ergativity from a formalist perspective"
Alec MARANTZ, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:00-10:30 "Ergative in Hindi/Urdu: markedness principles
for a structural case" (Discussion of the two papers
on ergativity)
Alice DAVISON, U. of Iowa
11:00-12:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS
SESSION 1: GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS
11:00-11:30 "Semantic compatibility and complement distribution"
Michel ACHARD, U. of Florida
11:35-12:05 "The limits of formal analysis: pragmatic
motivation in Oromo grammar"
Robbin CLAMONS, Ann E. MULKERN, Gerald
SANDERS, and Nancy STENSON, U. of Minnesota
12:10-12:40 "Form and function in Tsez syntax"
Bernard COMRIE and Maria POLINSKY, U. of
Southern California
SESSION 2: GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS
11:00-11:30 "Formal and functional theories of definiteness"
Richard EPSTEIN, Duke U.
11:35-12:05 "Form versus function in the distribution of
'self'-forms"
Ralph W. FASOLD, Georgetown U.
12:10-12:40 "Transitivity and structure-preserving: the
case of Chinese 'ba'-sentences"
Feng-hsi LIU, U. of Arizona
SESSION 3: THE BIG PICTURE
11:00-11:30 "Functionalism and its difficulties in biology and
linguistics"
Daniel NETTLE, U. College London
11:35-12:05 "The nomenclaturist bias in the autonomy debate"
Ricardo OTHEGUY, City U. New York
12:10-12:40 "Formalizing functionally"
Kees HENGEVELD, U. of Amsterdam
2:15-3:20 PARALLEL SESSIONS
SESSION 1: CONSTITUENT ORDER
2:15-2:45 "Functional form: a minimalist/functional approach to
discourse-oriented word order languages"
John F. BAILYN, State U. of New York, Stony Brooks
2:50-3:20 "Representing the structure-discourse iconicity of the
Japanese post-verbal construction"
Lizanne KAISER, Yale U.
SESSION 2: SYNTAX
2:15-2:45 "Relativized minimality as backward masking"
Harry HOWARD, Tulane U.
2:50-3:20 "A formal account of register"
John C. PAOLILLO, U. of Texas, Arlington
SESSION 3: PHONOLOGY
2:15-2:45 "Towards a conflation of form and function: tone
sandhi in Comaltepec Chinantec"
Daniel SILVERMAN, U. of California, Los Angeles
2:50-3:20 "Welsh soft mutation and marked word order"
Maggie TALLERMAN, U. of Durham
3:35-6:35 PLENARY SESSION: WORD ORDER
3:35-4:20 "Word order from a formalist point of view"
David PESETSKY, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4:20-5:05 "Word order from a functionalist point of view"
Doris PAYNE, U. of Oregon
5:20-5:50 Discussion of the two papers on word order
Kenneth HALE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5:50-6:35 Summary paper
Frederick NEWMEYER, U. of Washington
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 17:19:04 +0100
From: markus.hiller at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Markus Hiller)
Subject: Conf: Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS)
this announces a conference addressed mainly to people
in the german speaking area of europe, so the remainder
of this posting is in german. m.h.
Conf: Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS)
Erster Rundbrief
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| Eine wichtige Gelegenheit zum Austausch im gesamten deutschen |
| Sprachraum bietet die |
| S t u d e n t i s c h e T a g u n g |
| S p r a c h w i s s e n s c h a f t (StuTS). |
| Diese wird seit neun Jahren jedes Semester von je einer Fachschaft |
| organisiert und hat bisher in Hamburg, Muenchen, Kiel, Duesseldorf, |
| Konstanz, Bonn, Tuebingen, Graz, Trier, Wuppertal, Osnabrueck, |
| Saarbruecken und Berlin stattgefunden. Die gastgebende Fachschaft |
| organisiert gewoehnlich die Tagungsraeume, kostenlose Schlafplaetze |
| und das gemeinsame Fruehstueck. |
| |
| Die je viertaegigen Tagungen geben den Studierenden |
| sprachwissenschaftlicher Faecher Zeit und neue Anregungen, ueber |
| ihre Studiensituation und die Situation ihrer Faecher zu diskutieren,|
| Ideen darueber auszutauschen und gemeinsame Initiativen zu planen. |
| |
| Insgesamt bietet die StuTS Gelegenheit, die Studienmoeglichkeiten |
| verschiedener Unis zu vergleichen. |
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From: teichner at RMHS2.urz.tu-dresden.de (Roberto Teichner)
19. StuTS: Erster Rundbrief
===========================
Hallo liebe StuTSlerInnen,
im Mai 1996 ist es endlich wieder so weit: Die 19. Studentische Tagung
Sprachwissenschaft wird vom 15. - 19.05. an der TU Dresden
stattfinden.
Neben den AGs sind eine Besichtigung des Codex Dresdensis
(Maya-Handschrift) in der Saechsischen Landesbibliothek, eine
Vorstellung der sprachwissenschaftlichen Institute der TU, eine
Stadtrundfuehrung, eine Abschlussparty am 18.05. und vieles mehr
geplant.
Bitte gebt uns Bescheid, wenn ihr keine Uebernachtungsmoeglichkeit in
Dresden habt, damit wir Euch ein Quartier besorgen. Zur Zeit rechnen
wir mit einem Tagungsbeitrag von ca. DM 15,--. Wir versuchen die
Fahrtkosten fuer alle TeilnehmerInnen (besonders aber fuer sehr lange
Fahrtstrecken mit den entsprechenden Preisen) durch Zuschuesse in
zumutbaren Grenzen zu halten.
Diesem "elektronischen" Ersten Rundbrief wird ein postalischer
folgen. Ab Mitte Maerz werden Euch dann zwei weitere Rundbriefe
erreichen, wenn wir bis 01.03.1996 eine Rueckmeldung von Euch
erhalten. Eine Seite im WWW ist ausserdem geplant.
Ueber zahlreiche AG-Angebote Eurerseits wuerden wir uns sehr freuen,
weil dieser Punkt erfahrungsgemaess bei jeder StuTS ein Problem
darstellt. Da eine AG ja auch einiger Vorbereitung bedarf, laege es
auch in Eurem Interesse uns moeglichst bis Anfang Maerz Eure
AG-Vorschlaege zuzusenden. Im zweiten Rundbrief koennten wir Euch
dann ueber das aktuelle AG-Angebot informieren.
Alle Anmeldungen via e-mail sendet ihr bitte an mich. (Vergesst bitte
nicht anzugeben, ob Ihr eine Unterkunft braucht oder nicht, und wenn
von wann bis wann!)
Fuer weitere Infos stehen wir Euch natuerlich gern zur Verfuegung
( teichner at RMHS2.urz.tu-dresden.de )
Eure StuTS-Organisatoren
P.S.: Bitte verbreitet unsere Rundbriefe und Plakate.
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