7.904, Confs: Media SIG & computer SIG (IATEFL), LP'96 on typology

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Subject: 7.904, Confs: Media SIG & computer SIG (IATEFL), LP'96 on typology

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Date:  17 Jun 1996 16:05:00 EDT
From:  101533.3504 at CompuServe.COM (Jack Lonergan)
Subject:  Media SIG & Computer SIG

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Date:  Mon, 17 Jun 1996 07:03:47 +0200
From:  palek at dec59.ruk.cuni.cz (UVT UK)
Subject:  LP'96 Conference on Typology - Program

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Date:  17 Jun 1996 16:05:00 EDT
From:  101533.3504 at CompuServe.COM (Jack Lonergan)
Subject:  Media SIG & Computer SIG

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From:	Jack Lonergan, 101533,3504
TO:	Jack Lonergan, INTERNET:lonergj at wmin.ac.uk
DATE:	17/06/96 20:51

RE:	Copy of: Iatefl

IATEFL
Media SIG & Computer SIG
Design and Multi Media
A practical workshop for language teachers interested in design, media
and computing.

Morning
09.30	Coffee
10.00	Design:	Creativity and user friendliness- demonstration
11.00	Potential:	Uses of the media - demonstration
12.00	Languages:	Design potential uses - discussion
Afternoon
13.00	Lunch
14.00 Hands-on sessions to enable participants to understand design
issues, implementation of programmes, and comparisons with language
CD-based materials.
17.00	Round-up
18.00	Depart

The facilities to be demonstrated and available for hands-on includes
fully-integrated network of computers:
. MacroMind Director, Photoshop, Quark, StrataPro, Vellum 3d,
Infini-D, Premiere;
. internet software e-mail, Netscape, Internet Relay Chat, Usenet;
. cd-rom burner, colour scanners, colour printers, greyscale printers,
35mm Slidewrite, SoundEdit, media 100;
. photography studios, video studios.

Harrow Campus, University of Westminster, is the site of one of
Europe's leading centres for design and media education. The purpose
of the workshop day is look at the potential of the hardware, software
and design features and their application to language teaching and
learning.

Date:	Tuesday 16 July 1996, 10.00 - 18.00
Venue: Harrow Campus, University of Westminster, nearest tube:
Northwick Park
Fee: Tea/coffee and lunch included in the day fee of L45 made payable
to University of Westminster Registration: Suki Cheung, University of
Westminster, 9-18 Euston Centre, London NW1 3ET
		Fax: +44 171 911 5007		E-mail: cheungs @ wmin.ac.uk

- ---------------------------$---------------------------------------------
REGISTRATION FORM for IATEFL Design and Multi Media Workshop on 16
July 1996

Please reserve _______ place(s) for the IATEFL Design and Multi Media
Workshop.

Name:________________________________________________
Tel no. and ext:____________________________________

Address:______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________

I enclose a cheque for L______________, made payable to the University
of Westminster.

Signature:__________________________________________________________________
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Date:  Mon, 17 Jun 1996 07:03:47 +0200
From:  palek at dec59.ruk.cuni.cz (UVT UK)
Subject:  LP'96 Conference on Typology - Program

                    A preliminary program of LP'96 Conference
                TYPOLOGY: prototypes, item orderings and universals
                             Prague, August 20-22 1996
                Organized under the auspice of Professor Karel Maly,
                           Rector of Charles University

Conference will be held at Carolinum, Prague 1, Czech Republic
Entrances: Celetna 20 (24 hour service); Ovocny trh 5 (open 6-18)
Registration: office near Green Hall
Plenary sessions: Tuesday: Blue Hall;  Wednesday, Thursday: Green Hall
Section A : Green Hall;   Section B : Lecture room 139

August 19  11.00 - 21.00 Registration

                               KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
August 20
9.00 Opening session

9.30 Hansjakob SEILER (University of Cologne) On the present state
                                  of language universals reseach

10.15 Jiri V. NEUSTUPNY (Osaka University) Typology in Prague: The
legacy of Vladimir Skalicka

11.15 Christian LEHMANN (University of Bielefeld) Person Prominents
and Relation Prominents

August 21
9.00 Bernard COMRIE (University of Southern California) Some Problems
in the Theory and Typology of Numeral systems

9.45 Paolo RAMAT (University of Pavia) On "classifying" languages

10.45 Norbert CORVER and Henk van RIEMSDIJK (Tilburg University) The
position of the head and the domain of scrambling

August 22

9.00
Masayoshi SHIBATANI (Kobe University, Japan) Voice Parameters

9.45

Osamu FUJIMURA (The Ohio-State University) Syllable features and
Underspecification

SECTION MEETINGS:
August 22
Section A

14.00 Cysouw Michael (University of Nijmegen) Metagrammaticalization:
Emerging Design in Language

14.30 Sgall Petr (Charles University, Prague) Foundations of language
types

15.00 Durst-Andersen, Per (Copenhagen Business School) Towards a
theory of linguistic supertypes: Speaker-based, hearer-based and
reality-based languages

15.45 Bourdin Philippe (Glendon College, York University, Toronto)
Towards a principled reappraisal of the sourse/goal contrast in a
crosslinguistic perspective

16.15 Melo Moura, Heronides (UFSC, Brasil) Comparison: restructuring
categories

16.45 Selner, B. Manfred (University of Salzburg) Verbs of Vision:
Proto- typicality and Parameters on Japanese and German

17.15 Koktova E. (Academy of Sciences, Prague) Word order and typology

17.45 Gilmullin, Alik (Kazan State University) Syntax complexity-left
branched languages

Section B

14.00 Schmidt, Karl Horst (The University of Bonn) Problems of Diachronic
Typology

14.30 Bauer, Brigitte L.M. (University of Nijmegen) Genetic and Areal
Comparison of Word-Order Patterns: The adjective in Italic and Romance

15.00 Romaschko, Sergej (Academy of Sciences, Moscow) Typology and
reconstruction: Some open questions

15.45 Blazek Vaclav (Masaryk University, Brno) The etymological
analysis of numerals and its typological implications

16.15 Kuteva, Tania (University of Cologne) Indefinite articles:
Genesis and Typology

16.45 Luraghi, Silvia (Terza Universita di Roma) The typology of
Null-arguments in the Ancient Indo-European Languages

17.15 Sabrsula Jan (Ostrava University) Formations premorphologiques
analytiques dans le latin flexionnel

17.45 Hoskovec, Tomas (Masaryk University, Brno) Le temps comme
categorie verbale et la reconstruction de l'Indo-Europeen

August 21

Section A

11.30 Willim Ewa (Jagellonian University, Cracow) On N Movement in
Polish NPs

14.00 Moravcsik, Edith (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee) Parts and
Wholes in the Hungarian Noun-Phrase - A typological study

14.30

Drossard Werner (University of Cologne) Polysythesis and polysynthetic
languages - in a comparative perspective

15.00 Casad G. (Summer Institute of Linguistics) Many Goofs: How to
exploit a non-prototypical verb structure

15.45 Honti L. (University of Gronningen) Zur Frage nach dem
zusammenhang zwischen der Wortfolge und der Abfolge von Suffixen

16.15 Tallerman Maggie (University of Durham):Item ordering and
markedness in Welsh

16.45 Roberts E, Wyn (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Recursion,
linear order, and the classification of linguistic units

17.15 Ehala Martin (Tallin Pedagogical University) Chance and
necessity in word- order typology

Section B

11.30 Lanszweert, Rene (University of Berne) On the origin of
Indo-European Numerals, Some new ideas

14.00 Kurzova Helena (Southbohemian University) Morphosyntactic
Processes in Europe

14.30 Gross, Thomas M. (Doshisha Women's College, Kyoto) A typological
questions of Japanese adjectives

15.00 Fiala, Karel (Charles University, Prague) Towards a
Hypersyntactic Typology (On certain properties of Japanese predicates)

15.45 Gatiatullina, Zaituna (Kazan Pedagogical University) Typological
analysis of the Lexico-grammatical structures of English and Kazan
Tatar

16.15 Carlsson, Charles F. (Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty)
Semantic parallels in Finno-Ugric and Turkic

16.45 Sadykova, Aida (Kazan Pedagogical University) Typological study
of the Semantic Component of Noun Composites in two Unrelated
Languages - English and Kazan Tatar

August 22
Section A

10.45 Koptjevskaja,Tamm M. (Stockholm University) Possessive Nos and
their patterns of polysemy: a cross linguistic study

11.15 Podlesskaya,Vera I. (Academy of Sciences, Moscow) Typology of
clause linkage: Grammatical marking in conditional construction

11.45 Eguzkitza,Andolin (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain)
Indirect Questions and other Adnominals in the Grammar of Basque

14.00 Paleeva T.I. (Peoples' friendship University, Moscow) Iconicity/
isomorphism in the accentual structure of word-formation chains in
Russian

14.30 Krause Marion (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena) The
interaction of lexical and prosodical markers of epistemic modality

15.00 Zubkova L.G. (Peoples' friendship University, Moscow) The
typological determinant and Sound Structure of language

15.30 Krasina E. (Moscow University) The dichotomy of unmarked -
marked word-order in Russian sentences of characterisation and
existence

Section B

10.45 De Faveri, Claudia Borges (Universidade Federal de Santa
Catarina, Brasil) Les relations et les concepts dans les reseaux
semanti= ques

11.15 Lima, Ronaldo (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil)
La hierarchie dans le modele des graphes conceptuels de Sowa

11.45 Kirsanov N. (St Petersburg) A language to describe the
morphology of artificial and natural languages

14.00 Rylov A., Chizdenko V. (Ministry of Justice, Minsk) Speaker
recognition system for a forensic phonetic expertise

14.30 Novak P, Nebesky L. (Charles University, Prague) Different
degrees of word order engagement in syntax

15.00 Nekvapil J. (Charles University, Prague) Item orderings in
conversation

15.30 Palek B. (Charles University, Prague) Conceptual frame of item
ordering in typology

16.00 CLOSING SESSION

16.45 Meeting of the LP'98 Organizing Committee

Last minute changes see http://www.ruk.cuni.cz/lp96

e-mail contact: palek at ruk.cuni.cz or palek at ff.cuni.cz
mail contact: B.Palek, Institute of Linguistics, Charles University,
              2,Jan Palach Sq. Prague 1, Czech republic;
              phone:xx422 24492524, fax: xx24491 588
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