Moderator: Welsh VSO talk at LAGB

Elizabeth J. Pyatt ejp10 at psu.edu
Mon Jul 15 19:49:39 UTC 2002


FYI - There will be one Celtic talk on Welsh VSO syntaxfrom Robert
Borseley given at the Linguistics Association of Great Britain.

See announcement below for details.

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>Date:  Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:00:49 +0100
>From:  Marjolein Groefsema <M.Groefsema at herts.ac.uk>
>Subject:  LAGB Autumn Meeting 2002 at UMIST
>
>
>
>LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN
>
>Autumn Meeting 2002: University of Manchester Institute of Science and
>Technology  (UMIST)
>
>The 2001 Autumn Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain
>will be held at UMIST, from September 17 to 19. The Local Organiser is Paul
>Bennett <paul at ccl.umist.ac.uk>.
>The Meeting will be immediately preceded by a Workshop on Agreement;  for
>more information, see below.
>
>The conference website is at: http://mull.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/lagb/
>

>
>PROGRAMME
>
>
>Tuesday 17 September
>
>1.00 LUNCH
>
>2.00	Workshop on Quantitative and Corpus-based Perspectives on the
>Morpho-Syntactic
>             History of English
>             Organised by Dr Susan Pintzuk (University of York).
>             Contributors are Dr Eric Haeberli (University of Reading),
>Professor Tony Kroch
>             (University of  Pennsylvania), Dr Susan Pintzuk (University of
>York), and Dr Ann Taylor
>             (University of  York).
>
>3.45 TEA
>
>4.15     Workshop continues.
>
>6.30 DINNER
>
>
>7.45	Henry Sweet Lecture 2002
>
>Prof. Tony Kroch (University of Pennsylvania)
>
>'Variation and Change in the Historical Syntax of English'
>
>9.15 WINE PARTY
>Hosted by the Department of Language and Linguistics.
>
>
>Wednesday 18 September
>
>Session A
>9.00 	Kairi Igarashi (Keiwa College) 'A pragmatic account of almost'
>9.20	Marjolein Groefsema (Hertfordshire) 'Concepts as word meanings: A
>dynamic view'
>10.20	Eva Delgado Lavín (Basque Country) 'Concessive conditionals: Another
>look at the bridge example'
>
>Session B
>9.00	Ana Luís (Coimbra) & Andrew Spencer (Essex) 'A paradigm function
>account of "mesoclisis" in European Portuguese'
>9.40	Matthew Baerman (Surrey) 'Indexing and directionality in inflection'
>10.20	Dunstan Brown, Marina Chumakina, Greville Corbett & Andrew Hippisley
>(Surrey) 'Prototypical suppletion'
>
>Session C
>9.00	Anna Anastassiadis-Symeonidis (Thessaloniki), Angeliki Efthymiou
>(Aegean) & Asimakis Fliatouras (Patras) 'Conversion or ellipsis? Evidence
>from Modern Greek'
>9.40	Anders Holmberg (Durham) 'A mainland Scandinavian subjectless
>construction'
>10.20	Joanne Close (York) 'Multiple have in English dialects'
>
>11.00 COFFEE
>
>Session A
>11.30	Bill Palmer (New South Wales) 'Rethinking spatial frames of reference'
>12.10	Simon Musgrave (Leiden) 'Typological databases and linguistic data: A
>new approach'
>
>Session B
>11.30	Alastair Butler (Amsterdam) 'Licensing polarity sensitive items: An
>interface story'
>12.10	Nicholas Sobin (Wales, Bangor) 'Negative inversion as non-movement'
>
>Session C
>11.30	Deborah Anderson (Research Centre for English and Applied
>Linguistics, Cambridge) 'Tough-structures in early child English:
>Reconciling synchronic evidence with a diachronic claim'
>12.10	Dimitra Kolliakou (Newcastle) & Jonathan Ginzburg (KCL) 'Elliptical
>utterances in children's conversations: A constraint-based approach'
>
>1.00 LUNCH
>
>Session A
>2.00		Language tutorial on Romani
>		Dr Yaron Matras (Manchester)
>
>Session B
>2.00		Linguistics in Schools: on Community languages
>          	Chair - Dr Anthea Fraser Gupta (University of Leeds)
>
>3.30 TEA
>
>Session A
>4.00	Irina Nikolaeva (Konstanz) 'A constructional approach to mixed
>categories (between nouns and adjectives)'
>
>Session B
>4.00	Danijela Trenkic (Heriot Watt) 'Word order, adjectival "definite"
>aspect, and demonstratives in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian do not
>grammaticalise definiteness'
>
>Session C
>4.00	Ryo Otoguro (Essex) 'Japanese verb-verb compounds and grammatical
>information spreading'
>
>
>4.45                LAGB Business Meeting
>
>
>6.30 DINNER
>
>
>8.00-9.30		Language tutorial continues
>
>
>
>Thursday 19 September
>
>Session A
>9.00	Timothy Jowan Curnow (La Trobe) 'First person verbal agreement as
>logophoric marker'
>9.40	Peter Schmidt (Trier) 'Grammatical agreement: How much syntax, how
>much semantics?'
>10.20	Robert D. Borsley (Essex) 'On the nature of Welsh VSO clauses'
>
>Session B
>9.00	Miriam Butt (Konstanz) & Biljana Scott (Oxford) 'Structuring events:
>The role of light verbs and directionals'
>9.40	Geoffrey Horrocks (Cambridge) & Melita Stavrou (Thessaloniki)
>'Morphologically encoded aspect and resultative predication: Why some
>people just can't "wipe the sink clean"'
>10.20	Stéphanie Pourcel (Durham) 'Rethinking "Thinking for speaking"'
>
>Session C
>9.00	Ho-Young Lee (Seoul National) 'Acoustic cues of Korean nuclear tones'
>9.40	Sang Jik Rhee (Leiden) 'Nasals and segmental complexity in Korean'
>10.20	Pierre Rucart (Paris VII) 'Verbal template in Qafar'
>
>11.00 COFFEE
>
>Session A
>11.30	Ruth Kempson & Masayuki Otsuka (KCL) 'Generation in a parsing-based
>grammar formalism'
>12.10	M. Lynne Murphy (Sussex) 'Three feet tall, but not thirty pounds
>heavy: Licensing the measure phrase + adjective construction'
>
>Session B
>11.30	Kersti Börjars, Tolli Eythòrsson & Nigel Vincent (Manchester) 'On
>defining degrammaticalisation'
>12.10	Eric Haeberli & Richard Ingham (Reading) 'The position of negation
>and adverbs in early Modern English'
>
>Session C
>11.30	Svetlana Toldova & Natalia Serdobolskaia (Moscow State) 'Information
>structure and direct object encoding in Mari (Cheremis)'
>12.10	Elena Kalinina (Moscow State) 'Complement clauses in Bagwalal: The
>implications for the typology of complement clauses'
>
>1.00 LUNCH
>
>Session A
>2.00	Patrick Honeybone (Edge Hill) 'Where did you get that [x]? The
>introduction of consonantal lenition into Liverpool English'
>2.40 	April McMahon & Paul Heggarty (Sheffield) 'Measuring phonetic
>similarity'
>3.20	Victorina González Díaz (Manchester & Vigo) 'On the evolution of
>(adjectival) double periphrastic comparatives in early Modern English'
>
>Session B
>2.00 	Virve-Anneli Vihman (Edinburgh) & Katrin Hiietam (Manchester) 'The
>personal passive in Estonian'
>2.40	Satu Manninen (Lund) & Diane Nelson (Leeds) 'The Finnish passive is
>really a passive'
>3.20	Katrin Hiietam (Manchester) 'On definite object marking in Estonian'
>
>Session C
>2.00	Eric Mathieu (UCL) 'Partial wh-movement and intervention effects:
>German versus Hungarian'
>  2.40	Sun-Ho Hong (Essex) 'Anti-superiority effects and the Relative
>Uniformity Principle'
>3.20	Kook-Hee Gill, Steve Harlow & George Tsoulas (York) 'Disjunction,
>quantification and free choice'
>
>4.00 TEA and CLOSE
>
>
>
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