HPSG99 Programme

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			       HPSG99
		   6th International Conference on
		 Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
                       University of Edinburgh

			   August 4-6, 1999


The 6th International Conference on HPSG will be held at the
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, on August 4th to 6th 1999, hosted
by the Human Communication Research Centre and the Department of
Linguistics.

The following message contains the conference programme. Further
information about the conference, including registration and
accommodation information can be found at the conference website at
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~hpsg99/. Abstracts of the talks can be
found via links from the programme at the website.


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                         HPSG99 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

                          Wednesday, August 4, 1999
                   Special Session on Grammatical Interfaces


09:00-10:00  Registration
10:00-11:00  Invited Speaker
             Ewan Klein (Edinburgh)
             Interfaces, Intrafaces and Outerfaces: the Case of Prosody
11:00-11:30  BREAK
11:30-12:00  Valia Kordoni (Tuebingen)
             Agentivity vs. Causation: at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
12:00-12:30  Dimitra Kolliakou (Newcastle and Jerusalem) and Theodora
             Alexopoulou (Edinburgh)
             On Linkhood and Clitic Left Dislocation
12:30-13:00  Jong-Bok Kim and Byung-Soo Park (Kyung Hee University)
             Grammatical Interfaces in Korean Relatives
13:00-14:30  LUNCH
14:30-15:30  Invited Speaker
             Georgia Green (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
             The Nature of Pragmatic Information
15:30-16:00  Ash Asudeh (Stanford) and Line Hove Mikkelsen (Santa Cruz)
             Danish Syntactic Noun Incorporation: A Case Study in
             Grammatical Interfaces
16:00-16:30  BREAK
16:30-17:30  Invited Speaker
             Gosse Bouma (Groningen)
             TBA

                        Thursday, August 5, 1999

09:30-10:00  Andreas Kathol (UC Berkeley)
             Internally and Externally Headed Relative Clauses: The
             Case of Lai
10:00-10:30  Robert Levine (OSU), Tom Hukari (University of Victoria) and
             Mike Calcagno (Tuebingen)
             Parasitic Gaps in English: non-nominal, non-pronominal and
             case-consistent
10:30-11:00  Kordula De Kuthy (Saarbruecken) and Detmar Meurers (Tuebingen)
             Argument raising meets adjuncts-as-dependents and traceless
             extraction
11:00-11:30  BREAK
11:30-12:30  Invited Speakers
             Anne Abeille (Paris) and Daniele Godard (Lille)
             Some Remarks on French Interrogatives
12:30-14:00  LUNCH
14:00-14:30  Bob Borsley (Bangor) and Bob Morris Jones (Aberystwyth)
             Negation in Welsh
14:30-15:00  Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer (Tuebingen)
             Sentential Negation in French and Conditions on Logical
             Form in HPSG
15:00-15:30  Kook-Hee Gill (Edinburgh)
             Topicalisation, Scrambling and Anaphor Binding
15:30-16:00  BREAK
16:00-17:00  Invited Speaker
             Jonathan Ginzburg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
             Describing Conversational Interaction: Some Implications
             for HPSG
20:00-00:00  Conference Party

                                Friday, August 6, 1999

09:30-10:00  Theodora Alexopoulou (Edinburgh)
             A unified treatment of A/A-bar dependencies
10:00-10:30  Anna Kupsc (Polish Academy of Sciences and Universite Paris7)
             Syntactic Analysis of Clitic Climbing in Polish
10:30-11:00  Stefan Mueller (Saarbruecken)
             Separable Prefix Verbs in German
11:00-11:30  BREAK
11:30-12:00  Robert Malouf (Stanford and UC Berkeley)
             A head-driven account of long-distance case assignment
12:00-12:30  Cathryn Donohue and Ivan Sag (Stanford)
             Domains in Warlpiri
12:30-14:00  LUNCH
14:00-14:30  Frank Van Eynde (Leuven)
             On the semantics of the auxiliaries
14:30-15:00  Emily Bender and Ivan A. Sag (Stanford)
             Incorporating Contracted Auxiliaries in English
15:00-15:30  BREAK
15:30-16:30  Invited Speaker
             Stephen Wechsler (Texas)
             Four Agreement Puzzles

Alternates:
Berthold Crysmann (Saarbruecken)
   Clitics and Coordination in Phenogrammatical Structure
Jesse Tseng (Edinburgh)
   A Three-Way Classification of Prepositions
Shalom Lappin (King's College London) and David Johnson (IBM T.J. Watson
Research Center)
   Wh-questions in a multiple inheritance constructional type hierarchy