8.1367, Confs: Student Org. of Ling, Boston U. Conf.

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-8-1367. Thu Sep 25 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 8.1367, Confs: Student Org. of Ling, Boston U. Conf.

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Date:  Wed, 24 Sep 1997 15:45:41 -0700
From:  Joao Costa <a.j.costa at mail.telepac.pt>
Subject:  ConSOLE 6

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Date:  Wed, 24 Sep 1997 09:29:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:  BU Conference on Language Development <langconf at louis-xiv.bu.edu>
Subject:  BUCLD '97 Pre-reg/Other information

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Date:  Wed, 24 Sep 1997 15:45:41 -0700
From:  Joao Costa <a.j.costa at mail.telepac.pt>
Subject:  ConSOLE 6

ConSOLE 6 (the conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics
in Europe) will be held at the University of Lisbon, from 15/12/95 until 17/12/95.  During the conference, the proceedings
of ConSOLE 5 (London).  Registration will take place at the conference site
More information may be obtained from the following email address:

	sole at rullet.leidenuniv.nl

Preliminary Program:

	CONSOLE 6
	University of LISBON
	15-17/12/97
	INVITED SPEAKER: Eduardo Raposo (UC, Santa Barbara)

December 15

9.30-10.15- Transitive Expletive Constructions (Olaf Koeneman & Ad
            Neeleman/ Utrecht University and UCL) 10.15-11.00- Word Order
            Variation in Irish Non-finite Clauses and the Visibility of
            Functional
            Heads (Elizabeth McCoy/U. of York)

Coffee

11.30-12.15- Focus and ECM (Aniko Liptak/ HIL-Leiden)
12.15-13.00- En-cliticization, Raising to Subject and Case (Marie Claude
             Boivin/MIT)


Lunch
15.00-15.45- Syllable Structure and Consonant Durations in Dutch (Julitte
             Waals /Utrecht U)
15.45-16.30- On the Prosodic Status of Stressless functional Words in
             European Portuguese (Marina Vigario / U. of Minho)

Coffee

17.00-17.45- Infl as AGR or T, but not both (Laurel la Porte-Grimes, UConn)
17.45-18.30- On Restructuring Constructions in European Portuguese
             (Anabela Goncalves/ U.of Lisbon)

December 16

9.30-10.15- Actuality Entailments of Ability Modals (Rajesh Bhatt /UPenn
            and MIT)
10.15-11.00- Verbal Small Clauses (Joan Rafel/ U.of Girona)

Coffee

11.30-12.15- On classifying classification as a class of inflection in German
             Sign Language (Susanne Gluck and Roland Pfau/ Goethe-Univ)
12.15-13.00- Prosodic and Syntactic Interaction: the acquisition of NP
             functional projections in European Portuguese (Maria Joao Freitas
             & Matilde Miguel /U. of Lisbon)

Lunch

15.00-15.45- Non Predicative Particles in Swedish (Mikael Vinka/McGill)
15.45-16.30- The Lexical Extension Control Verb Hypothesis (Hironobu 	Hosoi
             / McGill)

Coffee

17.00-17.45- A formal approach to Dialectology: Vowel Reduction in 	
             Romance (Viola Miglio /U. of Maryland)
17.45-18.30- Positional Faithfulness and Truncation in child speech: What
             gets kept and why? (Susan Garrett/ UPenn)

19.00- INVITED SPEAKER - Eduardo P. Raposo (Univ. of California, Santa
       Barbara) - Title TBA

PARTY in the Evening!

December 17
9.30-10.15- The Acquisition of Expletive Definite articles in Modern Greek
            (Theodore Marinis/ U. of Potsdam)
10.15-11.00- English Verbal Morphology and Feature Movement (Adolfo 	Ausin
            /UConn)

Coffee

11.30-12.15- Gerundive Nominals and the Role of Aspect (Laura Siegel/ 	UPenn)
12.15-13.00- The Common Basis of Clitic Doubling and Scrambling (Dalina
             Kallulli/U. of Durham)

Lunch

15.00-15.45- A morphosyntactic based analysis for nominal compounds in 	Spanish
             (Jose Luis Mendez/ U.Autonoma de Madrid & IUOrtega y 	Gasset)
15.45-16.30- Nominal Projection in a case of Agrammatic Aphasia in Dutch
             (Esterella de Roo/ HIL-Leiden U)

Coffee

17.00-17.45- Anaphoric Binding in Modern Greek (Maria Lapata/ Carnegie 	Mellon
             University)
17.45-18.30- Economy, asymmetries and the Ellipsis Scope Generalization
             (Danny Fox, MIT)

Alternates:
Phonology:
Evidence for <m> in Sudanese Colloquial Arabic (Michael Redford/ HIL-	Leiden)
An Optimality-approach to Dual-Edge Dependency in Malay dialects (Sung-	A Kim/
U. of Texas,Austin)

Syntax:
Karitiana: a Verb-Second language from Amazonia (Luciana Storto/MIT)


	


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Date:  Wed, 24 Sep 1997 09:29:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:  BU Conference on Language Development <langconf at louis-xiv.bu.edu>
Subject:  BUCLD '97 Pre-reg/Other information


Thank you for your interest in the Boston University
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