15.2442, Confs: General Ling/American Sign Lang/Storrs, CT, USA

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Date:  Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:33:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:  miguel.rodriguez-mondonedo at uconn.edu
Subject:  NELS 35: Special Session on Sign Languages

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Date:  Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:33:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:  miguel.rodriguez-mondonedo at uconn.edu
Subject:  NELS 35: Special Session on Sign Languages


NELS 35: Special Session on Sign Languages
Short Title: NELS 35

Date: 22-Oct-2004 - 24-Oct-2004
Location: Storrs, CT, United States of America
Contact: Sandra Wood
Contact Email: woodsandra at msn.com
Meeting URL: http://www.linguistics.uconn.edu/nels35.html

Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics

Subject Language: American Sign Language

This is a session of the following conference: 35th Conference of the
North Eastern Linguistic Society

Meeting Description:

NELS 35 is pleased to announce a SPECIAL SESSION on SIGN LANGUAGES.
Abstracts are also invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes of
discussion) within the special session on any topic related to the
theoretical or experimental study of Sign Languages.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2004

POSTER SESSION I
14.15 - 15.15
Carlo Geraci (U. Milano Bicocca)
Negation in Italian Sign Language (LIS)

SATURDAY OCTOBER 23, 2004

POSTER SESSION II
15.15 - 16.15
Mélanie Jouitteau & Gaëlle Ferre (U. Naoned/Nantes
Visibility doesn't mean hearablility: Multichannel syntax

SL LINGUISTICS (CHAIR: TBA)
16.15

Jairo Nunes & Ronice Müller de Quadros (Universidade de São Paulo &
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)
Focus duplication of wh-elements in Brazilian Sign Language

Christian Rathmann (U. Texas, Austin)
FINISH in American Sign Language: One or two lexical entries?

Roland Pfau & Markus Steinbach (U. Amsterdam & U. Mainz)
Relative clauses in German Sign Language: Extraposition and
reconstruction

17.45
COFFEE BREAK

18.00
INVITED TALK
Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut)
Sign Linguistics and the Interfaces

NELS 35 University of Connecticut

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