16.2420, Confs: General Linguistics/Oxford, United Kingdom

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Date: 16-Aug-2005
From: Anna McNay < anna.mcnay at st-hildas.ox.ac.uk >
Subject: Oxford Linguistics Postgraduate Conference 

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Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:31:56
From: Anna McNay < anna.mcnay at st-hildas.ox.ac.uk >
Subject: Oxford Linguistics Postgraduate Conference 

Oxford Linguistics Postgraduate Conference 
Short Title: LingO 

Date: 23-Sep-2005 - 24-Sep-2005 
Location: Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom 
Contact: Anna McNay 
Contact Email: anna.mcnay at st-hildas.ox.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/events/lingo 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

We are pleased to announce that the first ever Oxford Linguistics  Postgraduate
Conference - LingO - will take place at the University of Oxford, Mansfield
College, on 23rd-24th September 2005. The purpose of the conference is to
provide postgraduates with an opportunity to present their research. 

There will be 12 talks per day grouped into two parallel sessions. Each talk
will be allocated 45 minutes: 30 minutes for the presentation, 10 minutes for
the discussion and 5 minutes overruning/moving session.

Coffee breaks are scheduled between the talks.

Nigel Fabb is our invited guest speaker. The lecture (the topic is yet to be
confirmed) will be given in the evening of the first conference day followed by
a formal dinner in Mansfield college.

SPEAKERS

1A Clitics, Parsing Strategies and the Left-Periphery: a Dynamic Syntax Account
of Clitic Placement
Miriam Bouzouita, King's College, London 

2A Information Structure, Argument Structure and Non-Configurationality in
Nuuchahnulth
Ben Braithwaite, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 

3A Information Structure at the Phase Level
Anna McNay, University of Oxford 

4A Problems in the Left Periphery of Hungarian Non-Finite Clauses 
Krisztina Szecsenyi, ELTE Budapest 

5A Head Deletion and Ellipsis
Kirsten Gengel, University of Stuttgart 

6A Prepositional Numerals and Distance Distributivity 
Stella Gryllia, University of Leiden 

7A On the Syntax-Semantics Interface in Romance LSP Passive
V Carolin Patzelt, University of Siegen 

8A Parenthetical and-Clauses
Yordanka Kavalova, University College London 

9A The Rise of Verb Initial Word Order in Old Irish: a Minimalist Account of the
Development of Head Movement
Glenda Newton, University of Cambridge 

10A The Anaphor-Agreement Effect and Visibility Hitoshi Shiraki, University
College London 11A On the Relevance of Unambiguous Argument Identification 
Judith M. Kainhofer, University of Salzburg 

12A Sloppy Identity and VP-Ellipsis in English and Arabic
Maha Kolko, Reading University 

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1B On the Phonetic Characteristics of Implosives in a Southern China Dialect Cun
Xi, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 

2B Where have the Japanese Velar Glides Gone? 
Gabor Pinter, Kobe University 

3B Statistical versus Linguistic Automatic Segmentation: Confrontation and
Compromise 
Christophe Pimm, Universite de Toulouse-le-Mirail 

4B Not in Latine or French or any other Language than English? 
Michel Paradis, University of Oxford 

5B The Regulation of Language in Call Centre Service Transactions 
Anna Kristina Hultgren, University of Oxford 

6B Language Variation in North-East England : /h/-dropping in Sunderland Lourdes
Burbano-Elizondo, University of Sheffield 

7B The Empowered Emanuenses: A Computer-mediated Ethnography of two CMC Channels
among Self-Appointed Editors of a Collaboratively-Authored English Slang Dictionary
John A. Damaso, Queen Mary, University of London 

8B Decline of Speech in Two Types of Dementia
Christina Knels, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich 

9B Japanese Discourse Markers and the Communication of Emotions - Linguistic
Semantics and Pragmatic Inference
Ryoko Sasamoto, University of Salford 

10B The TIME PASSING IS MOTION Metaphor in Mandarin Chinese
John C Y Chang, University of Cambridge 

11B Developmental Differences in the Use of Deixis by Children from 3 to 9 plus
13-year olds 
Mehmet Ozcan, Middle East Technical University 

12B Don't Panic! The Disfluency Guide to Gaze and Behaviour in the Map Task Galaxy 
Hannele Nicholson, University of Edinburgh 

POSTERS 

1. Individual differences in second language acquisition 
Mohsen Mobaraki, Durham 

2. The effects of the organization of vocabulary entries in Distributed
Morphology as seen in terms of verb classification in Modern Greek Alexandra
Galani, York 

3. Non-native speakers proficiency of English intonation 
Yu Jiang, Durham 

4. Vowel sandhi phenomena in North eastern Catalan 
Elisenda Campmany, Barcelona 

5. What's in a case 
Pavel Grashchenkov, Moscow 

6. Neighbourhood density and the phonetic realisation of English function words 
Rachel Baker, Cambridge 

7. The Syntax of the Bi comparative Construction in Mandarin Hsiu-Ju 
Sally Chung 

8. Questions and relevant Parameters in a Simulation of Recursive Grammars 
Joseph Eddy, Edinburgh 

9. Discourse, Axiology and Anaphora 
Przemyslaw Zywiczynski and Tomasz Fojt, Torun, Poland

10. Americanisms in British English 
Oxford Group

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