[NAACLT Announcements] Kevin Drummond Says: Free Celtic Syntax 9/7-8 at U of Calif, Berkeley

[Marion Gunn]

MED (= FYI).

Foinse: announcements at naaclt.org.

Sounds absolutely brilliant - great start to the academic new year!

Passing this notice to GAELIC-L, CELTLING, BREZHONEG-L, WELSH-L, GAELG, 
GAIDHLIG-B and OLD-IRISH-L members.

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Ádh mór oraibh, a Shéamais Mhic Bhloscaidh agus a chairde eile thall.
mg




> Kevin Drummond says,  If you don't already know about this:
> On 24/08/2012 17:11, J. K. Drummond wrote:
>
> Dear Celts:
> The UCB Linguistics Department is hosting a very special Celtic
> linguistics workshop.
>
> "New Perspectives on Celtic Syntax"
> will take place on campus:
>
> Friday-Saturday, September 7-8, 2012
> O'Neill Room, Faculty Club
> University of California, Berkeley
>
> Program and further information can be found at:
> http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~garrett/celtic-syntax.html
>
> There is no registration fee; all are welcome.
> NOTE: As you'll see from the program, this is linguists being linguists
> - the focus is on syntactic structure and change, not on culture,
> literature, or broader Celtic subjects.  If you're waiting for a broader
> Celtic conference, that's definitely coming too, later this year - the
> California Celtic Conference will be held in Berkeley during Spring 2013.
>
> New perspectives on Celtic syntax
> An international workshop
> Friday-Saturday, September 7-8, 2012
O'Neill Room, Faculty 
> Club
University of California, Berkeley
> Last schedule revision: August 6.
> Friday, September 7, 2012
> 8:30-9:00
> Coffee and tea
> 9:00-10:00
> Mélanie Jouitteau (CNRS, IKER, Bayonne)
> "Case-licensed infinitives"
> 10:00-10:30
> Coffee break
> 10:30-11:30
> Randall Hendrick (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
> "Types of recursion and the locality of Breton Raising to Subject"
> 11:30-12:30
> Lenora Timm (University of California, Davis)
> "Some observations on language contact and Breton morphosyntax"
> 12:30-2:00
> Lunch break
> 2:00-3:00
> Steve Hewitt (UNESCO)
> "Welsh 'syntactic mutation' and Arabic 'faulty accusative': Case or 
> configuration?"
> 3:00-4:00
> Robert Borsley (University of Essex)
> "Resumptive pronouns in Welsh"
> 4:00-4:30
> Coffee break
> 4:30-5:30
> Maggie Tallerman (Newcastle University) and Joel Wallenberg (Newcastle 
> University)
> "The Middle Welsh historic infinitive"
> 5:30-6:30
> David Willis (University of Cambridge)
> "A diachronic perspective on pronouns and agreement in Welsh dialects"
> Saturday, September 8, 2012
> 8:30-9:00
> Coffee and tea
> 9:00-10:00
> Aaron Griffith (Universität Wien)
> "Coordination and Small Clauses in Old Irish"
> 10:00-10:30
> Coffee break
> 10:30-11:30
> Elliott Lash (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)
> "Reanalyzing analogy: New perspectives on some diachronic developments 
> in Old and Middle Irish"
> 11:30-12:30
> Karin Stüber (Universität Zürich)
> "Periphrastic constructions in Old and Middle Irish"
> 12:30-2:00
> Lunch break
> 2:00-3:00
> Séamas Mac Bhloscaidh (University of California, Santa Cruz)
> "Focus and the grammar of exception in Irish"
> 3:00-4:00
> Andrew Carnie (University of Arizona)
> "On the lack of Double Object constructions in Scottish Gaelic and 
> Modern Irish"
> 4:00-4:30
> Coffee break
> 4:30-5:30
> David Adger (Queen Mary, University of London)
> "Preposition/Case alternations in the (Gaelic) Noun Phrase"
> Credits
> Local organizers: Andrew Garrett, Gary Holland, Line Mikkelsen, 
> Christine Sheil, Eve Sweetser
> Sponsors: Department of Linguistics, Celtic Studies Program, Diebold 
> fund for Indo-European studies (all at the University of California, 
> Berkeley)
> Banner photographs by Aindriú Mac Gearóid and Alex Madonik
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Marion Gunn * eGteo (Estab.1991)
27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an
Bhóthair, An Charraig Dhubh,
Co. Átha Cliath, Éire/Ireland.
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