7.981, Confs: Eastern States Conference on Linguistics '96

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-981. Thu Jul 4 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  292
 
Subject: 7.981, Confs: Eastern States Conference on Linguistics '96
 
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Date:  Wed, 03 Jul 1996 22:18:33 -0300
From:  MOTA at admin1.csd.unbsj.ca ("VIRGINIA MOTAPANYANE")
Subject:        ESCOL '96 - PROGRAM
 
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Date:  Wed, 03 Jul 1996 22:23:16 -0300
From:  MOTA at admin1.csd.unbsj.ca ("VIRGINIA MOTAPANYANE")
Subject:        ESCOL '96 - travel&accommodation
 
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1)
Date:  Wed, 03 Jul 1996 22:18:33 -0300
From:  MOTA at admin1.csd.unbsj.ca ("VIRGINIA MOTAPANYANE")
Subject:        ESCOL '96 - PROGRAM
 
                                ESCOL '96
                (Eastern States Conference on Linguistics)
 
                       August 31 - September 2, 1996
 
                 University of New Brunswick - Saint John
 
                            PROVISIONAL PROGRAM
 
Saturday  August 31
 
 8:30     Registration and coffee                 OH202
 
 9:15     Welcome and announcements               OH206
 
 9:30     Perfective participle paradox in English VP-fronting
          Satoshi Oku - University of Connecticut
 
10:00     Infinitival relative clauses in English: An antisymmetric
            approach to discontinuous constituency
          Stanley Dubinsky - University of South Carolina
 
10:30     Predicative and argumental bare measure phrases
          Murat Kural - University of California, Los Angeles
 
11:00     Break
 
11:15     How general are our generalizations? What speakers actually
            know and what they actually do.
          Brian Joseph  - Ohio State University
 
12:15     Lunch
 
2:00      Deriving final syllable strength in Cayuga
            Carrie Dyck - University of Toronto
 
2:30     Government Switching in Phonology
         David Michaels and Heeheon Park - University of Connecticut
 
3:00    Tone in North Kyungsang Korean Phrases
          No-Ju Kim - Ohio State University
 
3:30    Representing a sign as a single segment
          Rachel Crain - University of Maryland
 
4:00 Break
 
4:15    The role of contrast: evidence from variability
          Keren Rice - University of Toronto
 
5:15 Break
 
5:30    The meaning of Accusative case in Turkish
          Regina Pallat Moorcroft - Cornell University
 
6:00    Case, scope and Feature-movement
          Kazuko Yatsushiro - University of Connecticut
 
6:30    Negative concord, events and negative chains
          Lucia Tovena - University of Geneva
 
7:00 Dinner
 
 
Sunday    September 1
 
 8:30     Coffee
 
 9:00     The psycholinguistics of French clitic placement
               Nigel Duffield and Philippe Prevost - McGill University
 
 9:30     A unified theory of empty pronouns, the EPP, and the nature
            of  finiteness in a Minimalist framework
           George Tsoulas - University of York
 
10:00     Two subject positions without two functional heads
          Peter Svenonius - University of Tromso
 
10:30     Ainu: evidence against the Polysynthesis parameter
          Lizanne Kaiser - Yale University
 
11:00     Break
 
11:15     Unaccusativity and the adjective/verb distinction
          Mark Baker - McGill University
 
12:15     Lunch
 
 2:30     A goal phrase and unaccusativity
          Mika Kizu - McGill University
 
 3:00     LF movement of Wh-in-situ
          Hidekazu Tanaka - McGill University
 
 3:30     An incorporation analysis of causatives
          Marit Julien - University of Troms
 
 4:00     Break
 
 4:15     Counterfactuals: Implicature or Entailment
          Chung-hye Han - University of Pennsylvania
 
 4:45     Derivational Linear Precedence Principle
          Takashi Nakajima - Cornell University/ NUCBA-Japan
 
 5:15     Fine-grained Logical Form
          Laurent Dekydtspotter - Indiana University
 
 5:45     Condition R (the concept formerly known as 'reflexivity')
          Jeffrey Lidz - University of Delaware
 
 6:15     Dinner
 
 
Monday    September 2
 
 8:30     Coffee
 
 9:00     Theta-theory and the interpretation of noun phrases in
            Romance
            Juan Martin - University of Toledo
 
 9:30     Aspect and nominal interpretation: the perfective paradox
            revisited
          Miwako Uesaka and Roumyana Slabakova - McGill University
 
10:00     A crosslinguistic asymmetry in the temporal interpretation
            of Dps
          Hamida Demirdache - University of British Columbia
 
10:30     Quantification and the lexical/functional split
          David Basilico - University of Alabama at Birmingham
 
11:15     Break
 
11:30     Salish evidence for the universality of generalized
            quantifiers
          Lisa Matthewson - University of British Columbia
 
12:00     Tense ambiguity and specificity
          Ayumi Matsuo - University of Connecticut
 
12:30     Two semantic components of noun phrases
          Richard Zuber - Universite de Paris 7
 
 1:00     Closing, lunch and departure
 
 
ALTERNATES:
 
     Numerals as attributes
          John Payne - University of Manchester
 
     For agreement phrase
          Patricia Schneider-Zioga - University of Southern California
 
     More arguments for a common treatment of scrambling and clitic
        doubling
          Diana Gierling - University of Tuebingen
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Date:  Wed, 03 Jul 1996 22:23:16 -0300
From:  MOTA at admin1.csd.unbsj.ca ("VIRGINIA MOTAPANYANE")
Subject:        ESCOL '96 - travel&accommodation
 
                                ESCOL '96
                (Eastern States Conference on Linguistics)
 
                       August 31 - September 2, 1996
 
                 University of New Brunswick - Saint John
 
           INFORMATION ON TRAVEL, ACCOMMODATION AND REGISTRATION
 
TRAVEL
     Flights: There are daily flights from Boston to Saint John; this
is the best way to travel from the US.  Participants coming from
Europe may consider Montreal and Halifax as connecting points.  When
you make your travel arrangements, please make sure that the agent
sends you to Saint John, NB, and NOT to St. John's, NF!!!
     Bus: It is possible, from Bangor, but it takes a long time and
is almost as expensive as flying from Boston.
     Driving: It takes 8 hours from Boston, 10 hours from New York.
     From the airport : Diamond Taxi has a van service from the
airport to various hotels downtown  (CAN$7/person); the van meets all
the flights, and is announced as "ground transportation to Saint
John".  The bus 15/16 runs every half hour from downtown (King
Square) to the campus; fare CAN$1.35.  You can also take a taxi from
airport to university (CAN$20), or from downtown to university
(CAN$5).
     There is no bank office in the airport to change money; banks in
town close Friday afternoon until Monday morning.
 
TAXES ON GOODS AND SERVICES
     Two taxes apply to any purchase price (including hotel bills):
GST - a federal tax (7%) and PST - a provincial tax (11%), which
increase the actual price with 18%.
However, there are tax breaks for foreigners: if you spend a minimum
of CAN$200 on accommodation and "souvenirs", you are eligible for a
GST refund. In order to apply for this refund, you have to: pick up
the form at the customs when you come to Canada; and keep all your
receipts to prove the amount of money spent.
 
ACCOMMODATION
     Arrangements are in progress to book the students residence for
the conference participants. If the negotiations are successful, you
will receive a second message on this issue.
     The accommodation available at the moment is as follows:
 
1. Camping:
You may consider bringing a tent. Rockwood Park Campsite is at
walking distance from the campus; their rate is CAN$15/day, it
includes electricity and shower.
 
2. Crash space:
Very limited. Bring your sleeping bag.
 
3. Hotels:
     These hotels are on the bus line to the campus.
 
EARLE OF LEINSTER INN    Single: CAN$63 (includes tax)
                         Double: CAN$68 (includes tax)
     Phone: (506) 652-3275
 
KEDDY'S FORT HOWE   Single: CAN$59 + tax     Double: CAN$59 + tax
     Phone: (506) 657-7320 or 1-800-561-7666
 
HOWARD JOHNSON Single: CAN$69 + tax     Double: CAN$69 + tax
     Phone: (506) 642-2622 or 1-800-446-4656
 
DELTA               Single: CAN$94 + tax     Double: CAN$94 + tax
     Phone: (506) 648-1981 or 1-800-268-1133
 
For reservations, call directly the hotel, or e-mail:
i00 at acad1.unbsj.ca
 
DINNER
     Due to the limitations of funds, we cannot offer a dinner party.
We will make reservations in a (good) restaurant for Saturday night,
but we each have to pay for our own bill (more or less CAN$25 without
drinks). If you would like to join us, please let us know two weeks
before the conference.
 
REGISTRATION
     A symbolic conference fee of CAN$10 has to be paid when you
register in OH202. However, we would like to have your confirmation
of attendance as soon as possible.
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