8.604, Confs: Celtic Linguistics

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-8-604. Sat Apr 26 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 8.604, Confs: Celtic Linguistics

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Date:  Thu, 24 Apr 1997 15:06:51 +0100 (BST)
From:  Cathal Doherty <CDOHERTY at macollamh.ucd.ie>
Subject:  Celtic Linguistics

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Date:  Thu, 24 Apr 1997 15:06:51 +0100 (BST)
From:  Cathal Doherty <CDOHERTY at macollamh.ucd.ie>
Subject:  Celtic Linguistics


                  SECOND CELTIC LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE

               UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, JUNE 20-21 1997

FRIDAY JUNE 20

9.00-9.40      S.J. Hannahs & Maggie Tallerman, University of
                    Durham:
                    Wackernagel revisited: second position phenomena
                    in P-Celtic

9.40-10.20     Invited Speaker: Alain Rouveret, Universite Paris-
                     8:
                     A minimalist approach to Welsh pronouns: feature
                     identification and feature fission

10.20-11.00    Coffee

11.00-11.40    Diane Jonas, Yale University:
                     On feature checking and head movement

11.40-12.20    Brian O Curnain, Institiuid Ard-Leinn Bhaile Atha
                     Cliath:
                     Variables in Irish phonology and morphology:
                      linguistic and sociolinguistic implications

12.20-1.00     Invited Speaker: Jim McCloskey, University of California,
																					Santa Cruz:
                     Adjunct extraction and resumption in Irish

1.00-2.30      Lunch

2.30-3.10      Michel deGraaf, MIT
                    Pronominal copulas as resumptive nominals

3.10-3.50      Invited speakers: David Adger, University of York
                     & Gillian Ramchand, Oxford University:
                     Relativisation in Scottish Gaelic and Modern
                     Irish: a non-movement analysis, Part I

3-50-4.10      Coffee

4.10-5.30      Relativisation in Scottish Gaelic and Modern
                    Irish: a non-movement analysis, Part II

4.50-5.30      Maire Noonan, MIT & Universite du Quebec a
                    Montreal:
                    Initial consonant mutation in Modern Irish and
                    minimalist/reductionist approaches to syntactic
                    dependencies

SATURDAY 21 JUNE

9.30-10.10     Eithne Guilfoyle, University of Calgary:
                    The relationship between tense and initiation
                     point in Modern Irish

10.10-10.50    Nigel Duffield, McGill University:
                     How are compounds complex?

10.50-11.10    Coffee

10.10-11.50    Anna Bosch, University of Kentucky & Kenneth de
                     Jong, Indiana University:
                     The prosodic structure of Barra Gaelic

11.50-12.30    Antony Green, Cornell University:
                     The weight-to-stress principle in the Goidelic
                     languages

12.30-2.00     Lunch

2.00-2.40      Invited speaker: Ian Roberts, Universitat
                    Stuttgart:
                    Case, voice and VSO

2.40-3.20      David Willis, Oxford University:
                    Movement in Welsh relative clauses

3.20-3.40      Coffee

3,40-4.20      Invited speaker: Bob Borsley, University of Wales,
                    Bangor:
                    Some aspects of Welsh mutation

4.20-5.00      Andrew Carnie, University of Michigan & Heidi
                    Harley, University of Pennsylvania:
                    The EPP, PRO and Irish clausal architecture

Alternates:

Elizabeth Pyatt, Harvard University:
An algorithm for determining the mutation domain relative to
trigger size

Artemis Alexiadou, ZAS, Berlin & Elena Anagnostopoulou,
University of Tilburg:
Interface conditions on postverbal subjects

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Registration and accommodation information available from:

URL: www.ucd.ie/~linguist/clc2.html

E-mail: Cathal.Doherty at ucd.ie

Celtic Linguistics Conference
Department of Linguistics,
University College Dublin,
Dublin 4
Ireland

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