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Subject: 7.315, Confs: 19th GLOW Colloquium - Athens, Greece
 
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Date:  Thu, 29 Feb 1996 12:16:06 +0200
From:  easy at netor.gr ("J. Farmaki")
Subject:  19th GLOW Colloquium - Athens, Greece
 
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Date:  Thu, 29 Feb 1996 12:16:06 +0200
From:  easy at netor.gr ("J. Farmaki")
Subject:  19th GLOW Colloquium - Athens, Greece
 
                 The 19th GLOW Colloquium 1996
 
                           (A) Symmetry
 
                    April 17-19  Athens, Greece
 
The local organisers would like to welcome you to the 19th GLOW
Colloquium, hosted by the Department of Linguistics, University of
Athens
 
The Colloquium will be followed, on April 20, by three
simultaneous workshops on
 
                          Weight Effects
 
                  The Syntax of Balkan Languages
 
              Current trends in Modern Greek Syntax:
                   From Minimality to Optimality
 
 
 
                              PROGRAM
 
Wednesday, April 17
 
09.00 - 10.00  Hans Bennis, Norbert Corver, Marcel den Dikken:
               (A)Symmetries in Predication and the Meaning of
               Structure
10.00 - 10.30  Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30  Edward Garrett: On the Asymmetry of Wh-in-Situ
               Interpretation
11.30 -12.30   Viviane Deprez: Subject / Object Asymmetries in
               Indefinite Licensing
12.30 - 14.30  Lunch Break
14.30 - 15.30  Gisbert Fanselow: Minimal Links, Phi-Features,
               Case, and Theta Linking
15.30 - 16.30  Artemis Alexiadou & Elena Anagnostopoulou:
               Symmetries, Asymmetries and the Role of Agreement
16.30 - 17.00  Coffee Break
17.00 - 18.00  Carlo Cecchetto: Clitic Right Dislocation is not
               Right Dislocation
18.00 - 19.00  Caroline Heycock & Anthony Kroch: Identity,
               Predication and Connectivity in Pseudo-Clefts
 
 
Thursday, April 18
 
09.00 - 10.00  Gisbert Fanselow & Anoop Mahajan: Some
               Wh-Asymmetries, Successive Cyclicity, and Feature
               Attraction
10.00 - 10.30  Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30  Phil Branigan: The Difference Between Root and
               Embedded Wh-Questions in Germanic
11.30 - 12.30  Anna Maria di Sciullo: Configurational Xo/XP
               Asymmetries
12.30 - 14.30  Lunch Break
14.30 - 15.30  Laura Bruge & Giuliana Giusti: On Demonstratives
15.30 - 16.30  Ben Hermans: A Symmetric Account of the Iambic /
               Trochaic Asymmetry
16.30 - 17.00  Coffee Break
17.00 - 18.00  Andrea Moro: Dynamic Antisymmetry
18.00              Business Meeting
                       Party
 
 
Friday, April 19
 
09.00 - 10.00  Laura Benua & Hagit Borer: Passive / Antipassive
               in a Predicate Based Approach to Argument
               Structure
10.00 - 10.30  Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30  Anna Roussou: Specifiers, Head Dependencies, and
               Asymmetric Relations
11.30 - 12.30  Elena Anagnostopoulou & Martin Everaert:
               Asymmetries in Binding: Configurational and
               Thematic Effects on Anaphora
12.30 - 14.30  Lunch Break
14.30 - 15.30  Harry van der Hulst: (A)Symmetries in the Set of
               Phonological Primes
15.30 - 16.30  Nancy Ritter: The Role of Asymmetrical Headedness
               in the Reduction Theory of Elements
16.30 - 17.00  Coffee Break
17.00 - 18.00  Leah Nash & Alain Rouveret: Functional Heads and
               Proxies: An Asymmetric Set
18.00 - 19.00  Rita Manzini: From Merge and Move to Form Dependency
 
 
Alternate Papers
 
Itziar Laka & Josep Quem: Extrapositions Stranded in a Small
Clause ( Syntax )
Maya Arad: The Asymmetric Nature of Theta-Relations ( Syntax )
Lynn Nichols: Asymmetry in the Syntax of 1st & 2nd vs. 3rd Person
Arguments ( Syntax )
Phil Harrison: Asymmetry in the Acquisition of Phonological Primes
( Phonology )
 
 
                         19th GLOW WORKSHOPS
                           APRIL 20, 1996
 
1. WEIGHT EFFECTS
 
09.00 - 09.05  Opening
09.05 - 09.50  Elan Dresher, Toronto: Weight Effects and
               Head-Dependent Asymmetries in Tiborian Hebrew
               Prosody
09.50 - 10.35  Matthew Gordon, UCLA: Three- and Four-Way Weight
               Hierarchies: A Phonetically Driven Account of
               Weight
10.35 - 11.00  Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.45  Adamantios Gafos, Johns Hopkins University: Weight
               Effects and the Morphology-Phonology Interface of
               Temiar
11.45 - 12.30  Kristia Hanson, UBC: Quantative Meter in English
12.30 - 14.30  Lunch Break
14.30 - 15.15  Ben Hermans, Tilburg: The Second Tonal Position
15.15 - 15.45  Coffee Break
15.45 - 16.30  Sonia Frota & Marina Vigario, Lisbon & Minho: On
               Weight Effects in European Portuguese
16.30 -17.15   Aditi Lahiri, Konstanz: Rapport Between Phrasing
               and Phrasal Span
 
 
Alternate Paper
Harry van der Hulst, Leiden & Sam Rosenthall, Columbus Ohio:
Weight by - Position by Position
 
 
2. CURRENT TRENDS IN MODERN GREEK SYNTAX: FROM MINIMALITY TO
OPTIMALITY
 
09.00 - 09.05  Opening
09.05 - 09.50  Gaberell Drachman, University of Salzburg: Soft
               Constraints in the Acquisition of Greek Syntax
09.50 - 10.35  Irene Philippaki-Warburton, University of Reading:
               Functional Categories and Modern Greek Syntax
10.35 - 11.00  Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.45  Spyridoula Varlokosta, Bernhard Rohrbacher, Anne Vainikka,
	       Upenn & Brown University: Functional Projections, Markedness,
               and Root Infinitives in Early Child Greek
11.45 - 12.30  Sila Klidi, University of Salzburg: Negative
               Quantifiers in Modern Greek
12.30 - 14.30  Lunch Break
14.30 - 15.15  Sabine Iatridou, Upenn: To be Announced
15.15 - 15.45  Coffee Break
15.45 - 16.30  Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, University of Cambridge:
               A-Bar Bound Clitics in Strong AGR-O: The Case of
               Greek
16.30 - 17.15  Anastasia Giannakidou & Jason Merchant, University of Groningen
               & University of California at Santa Cruz: Reverse Sluicing in
Greek
 
 
Alternate Papers
Artemis Alexiadou & Melita Stavrou, FAS Berlin & University of
Thessaloniki:(A)Symmetries in Dps and Clauses: Evidence from
Derived Nominals
Filippo Beghelli, UCLA:Indefinites and Subjacency in Modern Greek
 
3. THE SYNTAX OF BALKAN LANGUAGES
 
09.00 - 09.05  Opening
09.05 - 09.50  Maria Luisa Rivero, Ottawa: Last Resort and
               V-Movement in Balkan Languages
09.50 - 10.35  Arhonto Terzi, GUNY: Cypriot Greek and
               Serbo/Croatian: Clitic Positioning and
               Modal Aspectual Features
10.35 - 11.00  Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.45  Iliyana Krapova, Plovdiv: Subjunctives in
               Bulgarian and Modern Greek
11.45 - 12.30  Antonia Androutsopoulou, UCLA: Adjectival
               Determiners in Albanian and Greek
12.30 - 14.30  Lunch Break
14.30 - 15.15  Brian Joseph, Ohio State: Is Balkan Comparative
               Syntax Possible?
15.15 - 15.45  Coffee Break
15.45 - 16.30  Dalina Kallulli, Durham/Venice: Clitic Doubling in
               Albanian
16.30 - 17.15  Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, CNRS/Paris VII: Anaphoric
               Null Subjects in Subjunctive Clauses
 
Alternate Paper
Anna Roussou, Bangor: Complementisers and Inflection in the Balkan
Languages
 
 
 
The Colloquium venue
The main colloquium and the three workshops will be held at Divani
Palace  Acropolis hotel. The hotel is situated at the foot of  the
Acropolis and has a magnificent view of the Parthenon  (19-25
Parthenonos st., tel. +301-9222.945,9229.650, fax.+301-9214.993).
It is located within five minutes walking distance from Plaka  -
the old part of the city - and only 1 km from  the  city centre.
 
Colloquium fee
Status         Before March 15th    After March 15and on site
GLOW members        8.500 GRD       10.500 GRD
GLOW members        7.000 GRD        9.000 GRD
(students/unemployed)
Non-GLOW members    17.000 GRD      19.000 GRD
Non-GLOW members    10.500 GRD      12.500 GRD
(students/unemployed)
 
Payment   of  Colloquium  registration  fee  by  non-GLOW  members
includes GLOW membership for 1996.
 
Participants from Albania, the Baltic States, Belorussia,  Bosnia,
Bulgaria,  the Czech Republic, Croatia, FYROM, Hungary,  Moldavia,
Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia,  Slovenia, Yugoslavia and  the  Ukraine
are  exempted from payment  of  the  colloquium registration fee.
The  registration  fee includes full coffee with  cakes,  cookies,
biscuits  and  juices during the morning breaks and simple  coffee
and juices during afternoon breaks.
Note: at the time of writing, 1 US$ equals 230 GRD.
 
Method of payment
Payment  of conference fee should be made in Greek Drachmas  (GRD)
by bank transfer to the following bank account:
ERGO BANK, Account number 38/12450-10/99, Psychico Branch,
5 Solomou street, 154 51 Neo Psychico, Greece
The  participant's  name  must  be clearly  written  on  the  bank
transfer document, a photocopy of which must be sent together with
the registration form to the Conference Secretariat; otherwise the
bank may deduct the amount from the participant's account, but the
conference  secretariat will be unable to trace payment  and  will
therefore not acknowledge receipt.
 
 
Useful addresses
Questions regarding the academic aspect of the colloquium should
be addressed to: Professor Dimitra Theophanopoulou-Kontou,
Department of Linguistics, University of Athens, School of
Philosophy, Panapistimiopoli Ilissia, 15784 Athens,Greece
Fax: +30-1-7248979
 
Matters of practical nature should be referred to the
Colloquium Secretariat and Official Travel Agency
EASY TRAVEL, 19 Anagnostopoulou st., GR-106 73 Athens, GREECE
Tel: +30-1-3601.502,3609.442 Fax:+30-1-3625.572 e-mail:
easy at netor.gr Also available for questions: GLOW96 at atlas.uoa.gr
EASY TRAVEL will provide registration forms and information on lodging
facilities and booking procedures.
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