Lingujistics Association meeting - Liverpool & day meeting in London
Inge Zwitserlood
inge.zwitserlood at LET.UU.NL
Mon Mar 11 09:24:38 UTC 2002
Hey Bencie,
Just in case I didn't make this clear already: yes, I'll be happy to attend
the 1-day workshop!
And thanks for organizing it!
Cheers,
Inge
At 10:30 27-02-02 -0800, you wrote:
>Below is the programme for the spring meeting of the Linguistics
>Association of Great Britain. There are several sessions dedicated to
>sign linguistics papers which SLLING-L members should find of
>particular interest. The full programme and registration form are at the
>end of this message.
>
>-------------------
>Sign linguists attending the LAGB are also invited to participate in a 1-
>day workshop on sign linguistics at City University London, which will
>be held on the Friday, 12 April, the day after the LAGB finishes. There
>will be a small administrative charge for the workshop to cover
>interpreting costs, coffees and teas. If you would like to attend the
>London workshop, please contact Bencie Woll <b.woll at city.ac.uk>
>before 1 April, so that we can work out the numbers and charges.
>
>Bencie Woll
>City University London
>
>----------------------
>LAGB Spring Meeting 2001: Edge Hill College of Higher Education
>
> Second Circular
>
>The 2001 Spring Meeting will be held from 9th to 11th April at Edge Hill
>College of Higher Education, where the Association will be the guests
>of the Department of English Language and Literature. The local
>organisers are Patrick Honeybone (honeybop at edgehill.ac.uk) and
>Kevin Watson (watsonk at edgehill.ac.uk). Postal enquiries about the
>meeting should be addressed to: Patrick Honeybone, Department of
>English, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Ormskirk, Lancashire,
>L39 4QP.
>
>Please check the Meeting's website for updates and further details:
>www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/lagb.htm
>
>Edge Hill College is situated just north of Liverpool, a vibrant city with a
>world-class reputation for its contributions to popular and classical
>culture. The Liverpool Tate gallery, the stunning architecture, famous
>football clubs and the several shrines to the Beatles are just a few of
>the reasons why visitors are drawn to the city from around the world.
>Edge Hill is in Ormskirk, an ancient Lancashire market town, which,
>though it now feels the urban draw of Liverpool, has a history and
>identity of its own and is within a short distance of the rural beauty of
>both the Lake District and the Peak District. Ormskirk is also close to
>the seaside towns of Blackpool and Southport and the vast urban
>centre of Greater Manchester.
>
>Accommodation: Edge Hill has a compact and easily accessible
>campus. Accommodation, talks, the book display and food will all be
>within easy walking distance of each other. All bedrooms are single,
>and there is a choice between rooms with en suite facilities and rooms
>with shared bathrooms/showers.
>
>Registration: will begin at 12 noon on Tuesday 9th of April in the Main
>Entrance Foyer at Edge Hill. This is the obvious entrance to the
>college's main building and will be clearly sign-posted.
>
>Bar: a bar will be available during the two evenings of the conference.
>
>Food: please indicate vegetarian and any other dietary requirements on
>the booking form below.
>
>Childcare: if you require childcare during the conference, please
>contact the Local Organiser for further details.
>
>Travel: Edge Hill College is situated in Ormskirk, just north of
>Liverpool. Liverpool Lime Street station is served by regular Intercity
>and cross-country trains and connections from everywhere in Britain,
>and there is a frequent connection to Ormskirk from Liverpool Central
>station, on the Northern Line of Liverpool's suburban railway network
>(the 'Merseyrail'). Liverpool Central station can easily be reached by
>public transport from Liverpool John Lennon Airport and Manchester
>Airport. Ormskirk station also has a less frequent train service to
>Preston. Edge Hill can be reached by car off the A59 or A570; the
>A570 can be reached from the M6 by taking the M58 (towards
>Liverpool) at junction 26. Further details on how to reach Edge Hill will
>be posted on the website address given above. Please contact the
>Local Organiser with any queries.
>
>Parking: Free parking will be available on campus during the
>conference, as it is taking place during the Easter vacation.
>
>Events: The following events will form part of the meeting: · The
>Linguistics Association 2002 Lecture on Tuesday evening will be
>delivered by Professor Judy Kegl (University of Southern Maine); title
>"Serial Verbs in an Emergent Language" · There will be a Workshop on
>Sign Language Linguistics, organised by Dr Bencie Woll (City
>University). · There will be a Language Tutorial on British Sign
>Language, by Dr Bencie Woll (City University). A session of Linguistics
>at School will be held, organised by the LAGB Education Committee,
>entitled: "Linguistics in teacher education".
>
>There will be a Wine Party on Tuesday night, hosted by Edge Hill's
>Research Office.
>
>Bookings: should be sent to the Local Organisers, on the booking form
>at the end of this mailing. There is a 10% discount on bookings
>received by Friday 15th March and accommodation can only be
>guaranteed if it is booked before this date. Cheques should be made
>payable to "Edge Hill Enterprises Ltd".
>
>Guests: members may invite any number of guests to meetings of the
>association, upon payment of a guest invitation fee of 5 pounds in
>addition to the standard fees. Members wishing to invite guests should
>photocopy the enclosed booking form.
>
>Abstracts: are available to members who are unable to attend the
>meeting. Please order using the booking form below.
>
>Annual General Meeting: This is to be held on the afternoon of 10 April.
>Items for the agenda should be sent to the Honorary Secretary.
>
>Nominations for speakers: Nominations are requested for future guest
>speakers; all suggestions should be sent to the Honorary Secretary.
>
>Changes of address: Members are reminded to notify the Membership
>Secretary (address below) of changes of address. An institutional
>address is preferred; bulk mailing saves postage.
>
> Committee members:
>
>President Professor April McMahon Department of English Language
>and Linguistics, University of Sheffield, 5 Shearwood Road, Sheffield
>S10 2TD april.mcmahon at shef.ac.uk
>http://www.shef.ac.uk/english/language/staff/april.html
>
>Honorary Secretary
>Dr Ad Neeleman
>Dept. of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, Gower
>Street, London WC1E 6BT
>ad at ling.ucl.ac.uk
>http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/ad/home.htm
>
>Membership Secretary
>Dr David Willis
>Dept. of Linguistics, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue,
>Cambridge
>CB3 9DA dwew2 at cam.ac.uk
>http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/ling/staff.htm#willis
>
>Meetings Secretary
>Dr Marjolein Groefsema
>Dept. of Linguistics, University of Hertfordshire, Watford Campus,
>Aldenham, Herts. WD2 8AT m.groefsema at herts.ac.uk
>http://www.herts.ac.uk/fhle/faculty/humanities/web%20pages/linguistics
>/MGr
>oe fsema.htm
>
>Treasurer
>Dr Wiebke Brockhaus
>Dept. of German, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester
>M13 9PL
> wiebke.brockhaus at man.ac.uk
>http://www.art.man.ac.uk/german/brockhs.htm
>
>Assistant Secretary
>Dr Gillian Ramchand
>Centre for Linguistics and Philology, Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HG
>gillian.ramchand at ling-phil.oxford.ac.uk
>
>Nominations for the Committee
>
>David Willis's term as Membership Secretary is reaching its end, and
>he has indicated that he does not want to stand again. Therefore, the
>LAGB would like to receive nominations for a new Membership
>Secretary.
>
>All enquiries and nominations should reach the Assistant Secretary,
>Gillian Ramchard, by 30 March at <gillian.ramchand at linguistics-
>philology.oxford.ac.uk>.
>
>
>Internet home page: The LAGB internet home page is now active at the
>following address: http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LAGB.
>
>Electronic network: Please join the LAGB electronic network which is
>used for disseminating LAGB information and for consulting members
>quickly. It can be subscribed to by sending the message "add lagb" to:
>majordomo at essex.ac.uk
>
>
>Future Meetings:
>
>17-19 September 2002 UMIST
>14-16 April 2003 University of Sheffield
>4-6 September 2003 University of Sussex
>Spring 2004 (provisional) University of Surrey Roehampton
>
>
>PROGRAMME
>
>Tuesday 9 April
>
>LUNCH
>
>2.00 Workshop on Sign Language Linguistics
>Organised by Dr Bencie Woll (City University)
>
>2.00 - 2.30 Introduction:
>Judy Kegl, University of Southern Maine; Gary Morgan, City University
>Researching signed languages: coding and transcription issues
>
>2.30 - 3.15 First talk
>Gary Morgan, City University London
>Current issues in sign language acquisition
>
>3.15 - 3.45 Second Talk Bencie Woll, City University London Sign
>Language and the Brain: a review of current research on functional
>imaging studies and implications for understanding the relationship of
>modality and linguistic structure
>
>3.45 TEA
>
>4.15 - 4.45 Research in progress: brief reports by research
>students
>
>4.45 - 5.30 Third talk Diane Brentari, Purdue University; Wendy
>Sandler, University of Haifa; Adam Schembri, University of Bristol;
>Bencie Woll, City University; Gary Morgan, City University; Judy Kegl,
>University of Southern Maine Discussion panel: Cross-linguistic
>research on sign languages: issues and problems
>
>5.30 - 6.00 General discussion
>
>6.45 DINNER
>
>
>8.00 Linguistics Association 2002 Lecture
>
>Professor Judy Kegl (University of Southern Maine)
>
>"Serial Verbs in an Emergent Language"
>
>9.15 WINE PARTY
>hosted by Edge Hill's Research Office
>
>
>Wednesday 10 April
>
>Session A
>9.00 Joanne Close (York) 'Double aspectuals in English dialects: a
>multiple spell-out approach'
>9.40 Amela Camdzic and Dick Hudson (UCL)
>'Serbo-Croat clitics in Word Grammar'
>10.20 Delia Bentley (Manchester) 'On ne-cliticisation'
>
>Session B
>9.00 Christian Rathmann (University of Texas at Austin) 'Re-
>visiting topic constructions in signed languages' 9.40
>Gaurav Mathur (University of Connecticut) 'On number and agreement
>in signed languages'
>10.20 Inge Zwitserlood and Ingeborg van Gijn (UiL OTS / Utrecht
>University and City University / University of Amsterdam) 'On the
>relation between agreement and pro-drop in signed languages'
>
>
>Session C
>9.00 Shih-Ping Wang (Ming Chuan University / Nottingham)
>'Corpus-based approaches to ablaut reduplication and frozen word
>order'
>9.40 Ana Luís (Essex) 'The morphophonology of pronominal
>affixes in European Portuguese'
>10.20 Jacques Durand (Toulouse) 'The PFC project: overview and
>first results'
>
>11.00 COFFEE
>
>11.30 Language Tutorial on British Sign Language
> Bencie Woll (City University)
>
>1.00 LUNCH
>
>Session A
>2.00 Linguistics at school: "Linguistics in teacher education". Chair:
>Sue Barry (Manchester)
>Kate Ruttle (Ditton Lodge First School, Newmarket) Linguistics and
>assessment in primary literacy.
>Keith Brown (Centre for Research in English and Applied Linguistics,
>Cambridge) What, why and how?
>John Keen (University of Manchester School of Education) Language
>and assessment for writing development.
>
>For more information, see:
>http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/ec/edgehill.htm
>
>
>Session B
>2.00 Corinne Iten (UCL) 'Even if: a pragmatic perspective on the
>'consequent-entailment' problem'
>2.40 Rosa Vega-Moreno (UCL) 'Ad hoc concepts as constituents of
>the proposition expressed: evidence from idioms'
>
>Session C
>2.00 Melinda Whong-Barr (Durham) 'Valency-changing functional
>morphology and L2 acquisition'
>2.40 Cécile van der Weert (Reading) 'Nature or nurture: structured
>information knowledge'
>
>3.30 TEA
>
>
>Session A
>4.00 M. Ward (Dublin City University) 'Linguistics, CALL and
>endangered languages: a Nawat perspective'
>
>Session B
>4.00 Yukiko Morimoto (Düsseldorf) 'Grammatical coding of
>non-prototypical objects in Bantu'
>
>Session C
>4.00 Emma Thomas (Essex) 'On the status of 'in' and 'on' in
>directional expressions'
>
>
>4.45 LAGB Annual General Meeting
>
>
>6.30 DINNER
>
>
>Thursday 11 April
>
>Session A
>9.00 Matthew Baerman (Sussex) 'Against ordered morphological
>rules'
>9.40 Laurie Bauer (Victoria University of Wellington) 'Where did
>you get those As?'
>10.20 Yuki-Shige Tamura (Osaka) 'Relative viewing arrangement
>and English tenses in complement clauses'
>
>Session B
>9.00 Willem Hollmann (Manchester) 'The rise of causative get with
>an infinitive: a usage-based account'
>9.40 Richard Ingham (Reading) 'Diachronic change in Middle
>English negated arguments'
>10.20 David Willis (Cambridge) 'Headedness in Welsh numeral
>phrases and its implications for theories of language change'
>
>Session C
>9.00 Roland Pfau (Amsterdam) and Markus Steinbach (Mainz)
>'Optimal reciprocals in German Sign Language'
>9.40 Wendy Sandler (Haifa / Nijmegen) 'From phonetics to
>discourse: the nondominant hand and the grammar of sign language'
>10.20 Onno Crasborn (Nijmegen) 'Phonetic variation in the
>handshape parameter of Sign Language of the Netherlands'
>
>11.00 COFFEE
>
>11.30 Language Tutorial continues
>
>
>1.00 LUNCH
>
>
>Session A
>2.00 Thórhallur Eythórsson (Manchester) 'Changes in case
>marking in Faroese: a cue-based account'
>2.40 Maria Lekakou (UCL) 'Why there is no middle construction'
>
>
>Session B
>2.00 Gaëtanelle Gilquin (Louvain) 'Syntactic structure and corpus
>linguistics: the case of English causative constructions'
>2.40 Sun-Ho Hong (Essex) 'A paradigm in A-movement and A'-
>Movement'
>
>
>Session C
>2.00 Jose Maria Garcia Nunez (Cadiz) 'Focusability, quantification
>and distribution in English higher adverbs'
>2.40 Jonny Butler (York) 'What 'mustn't' and 'can't' mustn't and
>can't mean: propositions, propositional operators, and vP'
>
>
>3.20 TEA AND CLOSE
>
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>-- --- BOOKING FORM
>
>Please return this form to: Patrick Honeybone, Department of English,
>Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 4QP.
>
>Payment can be made by a cheque drawn on a Sterling bank account
>or by credit card. The easiest way is by cheque - these should simply
>be sent with the booking form (please make cheques payable to " Edge
>Hill Enterprises Ltd"). If you wish to pay by credit card, send your filled-
>in booking form to Patrick Honeybone at the above address. You will
>then be contacted and asked to telephone Edge Hill with your credit
>card details several weeks before the event. If you have any queries
>about this, please contact Patrick Honeybone
>(honeybop at edgehill.ac.uk).
>
>All prices are in pounds sterling. Please indicate if you require a
>receipt to be sent to you before your arrival at Edge Hill.
>_________________________________________________________
>_______________
>
>NAME:
>
>INSTITUTION:
>
>MAILING ADDRESS:
>
>
>E-MAIL ADDRESS:
>
>I would like to book the following (select appropriate package):
>
>1. Complete conference package in en suite bedroom:
>(a) including Tuesday lunch preceding workshop
> (i) if sent to arrive before 15 March £105.75 ..........
> (ii) if sent to arrive after 15 March £117.50 ..........
>
>(b) excluding Tuesday lunch
> (i) if sent to arrive before 15 March £98.10 ..........
> (ii) if sent to arrive after 15 March £109.00 ..........
>
>(c) Surcharge for non-members £5.00 ..........
>
> TOTAL ..........
>
>2. Complete conference package in standard bedroom:
>(a) including Tuesday lunch preceding workshop
> (i) if sent to arrive before 15 March £101.25 ..........
> (ii) if sent to arrive after 15 March £112.50 ..........
>
>(b) excluding Tuesday lunch
> (i) if sent to arrive before 15 March £93.60 ..........
> (ii) if sent to arrive after 15 March £104.00 ..........
>
>(c) Surcharge for non-members £5.00 ..........
>
> TOTAL ..........
>
>3. Selected items:
> (a) Registration fee (OBLIGATORY) to cover cost of abstracts, tea and
>coffee, room bookings, speakers' expenses etc £35.00 £35.00
> (b) Tuesday lunch £8.50 ..........
> (c) Tuesday dinner £9.50 ..........
> (d) B&B Tuesday/Wednesday (en suite) £19.00 ..........
> (e) B&B Tuesday/Wednesday (standard) £16.50 ..........
> (f) Wednesday lunch £8.50 ..........
> (g) Wednesday dinner £9.50 ..........
> (h) B&B Wednesday/Thursday (en suite) £19.00 ..........
> (i) B&B Wednesday/Thursday (standard) £16.50 ..........
> (j) Thursday lunch £8.50 ..........
>
> SUB-TOTAL: ..........
>
> Deduct 10% if sent to arrive before 15 March ..........
> (j) Surcharge for non-members £5.00 ..........
>
> TOTAL: ..........
>
>4. Abstracts booklet only: £5.00 UK.........
> £6.00 overseas...........
>
>HOW WILL YOU BE PAYING?
> (a) By sterling cheque (enclosed with this form) ..........
> (b) By credit card (to be paid later) ..........
>
>TICK TO RECEIVE RECEIPT BEFORE ARRIVAL: ..........
>TICK TO RECEIVE ABSTRACTS BEFORE ARRIVAL:..........
>TICK IF YOU WOULD LIKE VEGETARIAN FOOD: ..........
>
>OTHER SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (e.g. DIET, ACCOMMODATION):
>...........................................................................
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>... ...........................................................
>
>
>
>
>
>Dr. Bencie Woll
>b.woll at city.ac.uk
>Chair of Sign Language and Deaf Studies
>Language and Communication Science
>City University, Northampton Square
>London EC1V 0HB
>Tel: +44 (0)20 7040 8354 (voice) 8314 (textphone)
>Fax: +44 (0)20 7040 8577
>
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