16.2077, Confs: General Ling/ Cambridge, UK

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Subject: 16.2077, Confs: General Ling/ Cambridge, UK

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Date: 04-Jul-2005
From: Patrick Honeybone < patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk >
Subject: Linguistics Association of Great Britain Annual Meeting 2005 

	
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Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 01:50:08
From: Patrick Honeybone < patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk >
Subject: Linguistics Association of Great Britain Annual Meeting 2005 
 



Linguistics Association of Great Britain Annual Meeting 2005 
Short Title: LAGB 2005 

Date: 31-Aug-2005 - 03-Sep-2005 
Location: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Contact: Theresa/Raffaella Folli/Biberauer 
Contact Email: LAGB at hotmail.co.uk 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The 2005 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain will be held at the University of Cambridge, at Fitzwilliam College, from 31st August to 3rd September. The local organisers will be Theresa Biberauer and Raffaella Folli (and the meeting email address will be LAGB at hotmail.co.uk). The 2005 meeting will last four days and will feature several special events, including two invited speakers and an invited Language Tutorial. 

The second circular for the Cambridge LAGB meeting, with a full programme and booking form is now available (in pdf form) here:

http://www.lagb.org/b1.htm

(click on 'LAGB 2005: Second Circular (with programme and booking form) in pdf format')

Highlights of the conference include the following...

1. The Henry Sweet Lecture 2005 will be delivered by Gennaro Chierchia (Università degli Studi di Milano) on the evening of 31st August, with the title 'Recursive pragmatics'.

2. There will also be a Workshop on 'Pragmatics, Multidimensional Semantics, and Grammar', related to the Henry Sweet lecture, featuring invited speakers, and organised by Gennaro Chierchia (Università degli Studi di Milano) and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (University of Cambridge) on the afternoon of 31st August.

3. The Linguistics Association Lecture 2005 will be delivered by David Pesetsky (MIT) on 3rd September, with the title 'Subcategorization phenomena and Case-theory effects: some possible explanations.'

4. There will also be a special, themed session, related to David Pesetsky's Linguistics Association Lecture with the title 'Complementation and Selection for Syntactic Categories'.

5. There will be a Language Tutorial on Pirahã, given by Daniel L. Everett (University of Manchester). 

6. There will be a session with the theme 'An A-level in Linguistics?', organised by the LAGB's Education Committee, featuring Billy Clark, Judith Broadbent, Graeme Trousdale and Dick Hudson; for further details: www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/ec/ecsessions.htm.

7. The chair of the Linguistics RAE subpanel, John Local, will give a short presentation and will answer questions as part of the AGM on the afternoon of 1st September.

8. Wine parties will be held on the evening of 31st August and 2nd September.





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