15.2660, Confs: General Ling/Flint, MI, USA

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Subject: 15.2660, Confs: General Ling/Flint, MI, USA

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Date: 24-Sep-2004
From: Kazuko Hiramatsu < kazukoh at umflint.edu >
Subject: Michigan Linguistic Society


	
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 23:29:42
From: Kazuko Hiramatsu < kazukoh at umflint.edu >
Subject: Michigan Linguistic Society

Michigan Linguistic Society

Date: 16-Oct-2004 - 16-Oct-2004
Location: Flint, MI, United States of America
Contact: Kazuko Hiramatsu
Contact Email: linguistics at umflint.edu
Meeting URL: http://spruce.flint.umich.edu/~kazukoh/mls

Linguistic Sub-Fields(s): General Linguistics

Meeting Description:

Annual Meeting of the Michigan Linguistic Society

Saturday, October 16, 2004
University of Michigan-Flint

Keynote Speaker: Lisa Green, University of TX
''Theory and Practice: Research of African American English and
Application in Educational Contexts''

The registration form is available from the conference website. There is no
registration fee and lunch will be provided.

Conference Program

8:45-9:15       Registration
9:15-9:30       Welcoming remarks

Morning Sessions

Phonology, Morphology, Semantics
9:30-10:00       On the exception to Sievers' Law in Gothic
       Marc Pierce, University of Michigan
10:00-10:30     Morpho-phonological information in the input:
Evidence from English loanwords in Japanese
       Masahiko Mutsukawa, Michigan State University
10:30-11:00     What instantiates the nominal feature in attributive adjectives
       Masaaki Kamiya, Hamilton College
11:00-11:30     Formal features and parametric variation in nominal expressions
       Jaeshil Kim, University of California-Irvine
11:30-12:00     Are generics modal?
       Xiaofei Lu, Ohio State University

Syntax
9:30-10:00       Auxiliary selection in Germanic: The importance of diachrony
in synchronic description
       K. Aaron Smith, Illinois State University
10:00-10:30     The syntax of tense and aspect: The division of labor in Berber
       Hamid Ouali, Acrisio Pires, University of Michigan
10:30-11:00     Romanian clause structure and Icelandic object shift
       Simona Herdan, University of Connecticut
11:00-11:30     Negative Concord, Agreement and subject extraction
       Hamid Ouali, University of Michigan
11:30-12:00     The A-bar status of the EPP position in Russian
       Ilana Mezhevich, University of Calgary
12:00-1:00       Lunch and Business Meeting

1:00-2:00       Keynote Address
       Theory and Practice:  Research on African American English and Application in
Educational Contexts
       Lisa Green, University of Texas

Afternoon Sessions

Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition
2:15-2:45       Identity construction in a sociolinguistic interview
       Diana Marinova, Georgetown University
2:45-3:15       The pragmatics of code-switching: A Gricean approach
       Brianna Grohman Rauschuber, University of Texas
3:15-3:45       Arabic-based scripts in Senegalese Muslim communities:
The case of Wolofal
       Fallou Ngom, Western Washington University
3:45-4:15       Musical training and L2 pronunciation
       Craig Callender, University of South Carolina
4:15-4:45       The early acquisition of pronominal clitics in Croatian
       Andrea Stiasny, University of Michigan
4:45-5:15       Tony Blair, Colin Powell and the case of the "sexed up" British
intelligence dossier: A linguistic analysis
       John Lesko, Saginaw Valley State University

Syntax
2:15-2:45       The PROs of a new theory of rationale clauses
       Christopher Hirsch, MIT
2:45-3:15       Interclausal (co)dependency: the case of the comparative correlative
       Heather Lee Taylor, University of Maryland
3:15-3:45       On the syntax of nonsententials
       Catherine Fortin, University of Michigan
3:45-4:15       Matching and raising unified
       Brent Henderson, University of Illinois
4:15-4:45       Deriving Successive Cyclicity
       Lydia Grebenyova, University of Maryland
4:45-5:15       Prosodic stress assignment in dynamic computations
       Kleanthes K. Grohman, University of Cyprus
and Michael T. Putnam, University of Kansas



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