Conf: Negation: Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics

[Frans Plank]

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>UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD, GREATER MANCHESTER, UK
>EUROPEAN STUDIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE
>
>NORTH WEST CENTRE FOR LINGUISTICS
>FIRST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
>
>NEGATION: SYNTAX, SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS
>(Organiser: Paul Rowlett, Salford)
>
>Friday 30 October to Sunday 1 November 1998
>Faraday House, Research & Graduate College,
>University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK
>
>Sponsored by: The British Academy,
>The Linguistics Association of Great Britain
>The French Embassy in London
>
>KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
>William A Laduasaw, UCSC, USA
>Laurence R Horn, Yale, USA
>Liliane Haegeman, Geneva, Switzerland
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>PROGRAM
>(Booking form at the end of this posting)
>
>FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER 1998
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>8.45-9.15am
>Registration and coffee
>
>9.15-9.30am
>Introduction and welcome
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>9.30-10.0am
>Metalinguistic negation in focus,
>Suengho Ham, Seoul University, Korea
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>10.0-10.30am
>Focus-induced neg-concord failures,
>Vieri Samek-Lodovici, University College London, UK
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>10.30-11.0am
>The focusing negative 'mhaih' in Cantonese Chinese: a look at
>contrastive and metalinguistic negation,
>Juliet Wai Hong, University of Texas at Austin, USA
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>11.0-11.30am
>Coffee
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>11.30am-12noon
>Compositional, inherent and frozen negation: lexicalism versus
>functional categories,
>Kazuhiko Fukushima, Kansai Gaidai University, Japan
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>12noon-1pm
>KEYNOTE LECTURE
>Negation, saturation and predication,
>William Ladusaw, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
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>1.0-2.0pm
>Lunch
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>2.0-2.30pm
>A minimalist approach to the syntax of multiple negation in French,
>Hugues M. Peters, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
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>2.30-3.0pm
>Negation and the diachrony of features,
>Anna Roussou, University of Wales, Bangor, UK
>and Ian Roberts, Stuttgart University, Germany
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>3.0-3.30pm
>A lexical-functional approach to the syntax of negation in French,
>Veronika Knueppel, Konstanz University, Germany
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>3.30-4.0pm
>Tea
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>4.0-4.30pm
>The riddle of n-words in Polish: quantificational versus
>non-quantificational, universal versus existential,
>Joanna Blaszczak, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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>4.30-5.0pm
>Negative polarity items in Russian,
>Asya Pereltsvaig, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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>5.0-5.30pm
>Negation in Hungarian,
>John Payne and Erika Chisarik, University of Manchester, UK
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>6.0-7.0pm
>Reception at Blackwell's Campus Bookshop
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>SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 1998
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>9.0-9.30am
>Coffee
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>9.30-10.0am
>On Romance sensitivity to non-veridicality,
>Joao Peres, University of Lisbon, Portugal
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>10.0-10.30am
>(Non-)occurrence of sentential 'no' in Spanish negative sentences,
>Javier Martin-Gonzalez, Harvard University, USA
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>10.30-11.0am
>Negation with [-Neg] features,
>Marie-Therese Vinet, Sherbrooke University, Quebec City, Canada
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>11.0-11.30am
>Coffee
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>11.30am-12noon
>Adverbial verb phrases and downwards monotonicity: negativity and the
>DeMorgan taxonomist's dilemma,
>Jay Atlas, Pomona College, California, USA
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>12noon-1.0pm
>KEYNOTE LECTURE
>Free-choice indefinites and the two 'any' problem
>Laurence R Horn, Yale University, USA
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>1.0-2.0pm
>Lunch
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>2.0-2.30pm
>Negative concord and the scope of universals,
>Anastasia Giannakidou, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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>2.30-3.0pm
>Procedural marking of propositional attitude in Norwegian sentences
>with a negative 'wh'-complement,
>Thorsten Fretheim, University of Trondheim, Norway
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>3.0-3.30pm
>Some problems with the semantics of negation with reference to
>English and Korean,
>Hye-Kung Lee, University of Cambridge, UK
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>3.30-4.0pm
>Tea
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>4.0-4.30pm
>Syntactic licensing of negative polarity,
>Patrick A Schindler, Tuebingen University, Germany
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>4.30-5.0pm
>The grammatical basis of polarity items,
>Ana Maria Martins, University of Lisbon, Portugal
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>5.0-5.30pm
>The bi-polarity of 'any',
>Lucia Tovena, Institute of Scientific & Technological Research,
>Trento, Italy
>and Jacques Jayez, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
>Paris, France
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>5.30-6.30pm
>European Studies Research Institute wine reception
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>8.0pm
>Conference dinner (Manchester)
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>SUNDAY 1 NOVEMBER 1998
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>9.0-9.30am
>Coffee
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>9.30-10.0am
>Focus particles in negative polarity in Hindi,
>Sharavan Vasishth, Ohio State University, USA
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>10.0-10.30am
>Two types of negation in Bengali,
>Gillian Ramchand, Oxford University, UK
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>10.30-11.0am
>The syntax of negation and OV in Late Middle English,
>Richard Ingham, University of Reading, UK
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>11.0-11.30am
>Coffee
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>11.30-12noon
>Blocking effects in the expression of negation,
>Jacob Hoeksema, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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>12noon-1pm
>KEYNOTE LECTURE
>Verb movement, tense and negation in West Flemish,
>Liliane Haegeman, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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>1.0-2.0pm
>Lunch
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>2.0-2.30pm
>Negative polarity, modality and the comparative: a parametric
>approach,
>Nathalie Schapansky, Simon Fraser University, British Colombia,
>Canada
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>2.30-3.0pm
>Negation and the acquisition of 'strong' indefinites,
>Irene Kraemer, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen,
>The Netherlands
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>3.0-3.30pm
>Head-movement in negation in English,
>Annabel Cormack and Neil Smith, University College London, UK
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>3.30-4.0pm
>Tea
>
>ALTERNATES
>
>How many types of NPI are there? Evidence from Korean and English,
>Chungmin Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
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>Negative chains and operator movement,
>Rita Bhandari, SUNY, USA
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>Grammaticalization in progress: the development of a negative focus
>particle,
>Ton van der Wouden, Universities of Groningen & Leiden, The
>Netherlands
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>Negative constituent licensing in a negative concord language,
>Nedzad Leko, University of Oslo, Norway
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>Welsh negation,
>Robert D Borsley, University of Wales, Bangor, UK
>and Bob Morris-Jones, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
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>UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD, GREATER MANCHESTER, UK
>EUROPEAN STUDIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE
>
>NORTH WEST CENTRE FOR LINGUISTICS
>FIRST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
>
>NEGATION: SYNTAX, SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS
>(Organiser: Paul Rowlett, Salford)
>
>Friday 30 October to Sunday 1 November 1998
>Faraday House, Research & Graduate College,
>University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK
>
>Sponsored by: The British Academy,
>The Linguistics Association of Great Britain
>The French Embassy in London
>
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