6.129 Confs: Programs for SALT 5 and BLS 21
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Subject: 6.129 Confs: Programs for SALT 5 and BLS 21
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 12:55:41 -0600 (CST)
From: LIGK417 at utxvms.cc.utexas.edu
Subject: SALT 5 - Semantics conference
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Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 09:43:21 +0300
From: jnamkung at uclink.berkeley.edu (erma)
Subject: BLS 21 Conference Program
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 12:55:41 -0600 (CST)
From: LIGK417 at utxvms.cc.utexas.edu
Subject: SALT 5 - Semantics conference
Preliminary Program: Semantics and Linguistic Theory 5 (SALT 5)
University of Texas at Austin, February 24 - 26, 1995
(Names of invited speakers appear in CAPITALS)
Thursday, February 23:
8-11p.m. Registration and Get-together in the Driskill hotel
Friday, February 24:
8-9 Registration
9-10 RAY JACKENDOFF, Brandeis University:
"The Conceptual Structure of Intending and Volitional Action"
10-10.40 Jost Zwarts, Utrecht University:
"The Semantics of Relative Position"
10.40-11 Break
11-11.40 Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh,
Ann Copestake, Stanford University:
"The Pragmatics of Word Meaning"
11.40-12.20 Anatoli Strigin, Max Planck Group "Structural Grammar", Berlin:
"Abductive Inference During Update: The German preposition 'with'"
12.20-1.30 Lunch
1.30-2.10 Claudia Maienborn, Humboldt University, Berlin:
"Towards a Compositional Semantics for Locative Modifiers"
2.10-2.50 Giulia Centineo, UCSC/UCB:
"The Distribution of the Clitic 'si' in Italian Transitive/
Inchoative Pairs"
2.50-3.10 Break
3.10-3.50 Robin Schafer, UCSC/UCSD:
"The SLP/ILP Distinction in 'Have' Predication"
3.50-4.30 Chris Barker, University of Rochester:
"Episodic '-ee' in English"
4.30-4.50 Break
4.50-5.30 Friederike Moltmann, CUNY:
"Deriving Readings of Part Structure Modifiers"
5.30-6.30 ARNIM VON STECHOW, University of Tuebingen:
"The Proper Representation of Tense"
Saturday, February 25:
9-10 STANLEY PETERS, Stanford University:
TBA
10-10.40 Satoshi Tomioka, University of Massachusetts at Amherst:
"Focus Restricts Scope: Quantifier in VP Ellipsis"
10.40-11 Break
11-11.40 Jan Lerner, Manfred Pinkal, University of Saarbruecken:
"Comparative Ellipsis and Variable Binding"
11.40-12.20 Toshiyuki Ogihara, University of Washington, Seattle:
"Non-factual 'Before' and Adverbs of Quantification"
12.20-1.30 Lunch
1.30-2.10 Jeroen Groenendijk, University of Amsterdam:
"Definite Descriptions in Update Semantics"
2.10-2.50 Reinhard Blutner, Max Planck Group "Structural Grammar", Berlin:
"'Normality' in Update Semantics"
2.50-3.10 Break
3.10-3.50 Yoad Winter, OTS, Utrecht:
"Syncategorematic Conjunction and Structured Meanings"
3.50-4.30 Daniel Buering, University of Cologne:
"The Great Scope Inversion Conspiracy"
4.30-5.00 Business Meeting
5.30 Excursion to THE SALT LICK RESTAURANT, Hays County (Texas BBQ)
Sunday, February 26:
9-10 VENEETA DAYAL, Rutgers University:
"Licensing 'any' in Non-Modal/Non-Negative Contexts"
10-10.40 Eric Jackson, University of Groningen:
"Negative Polarity and General Statements"
10.40-11 Break
11-11.40 Maria Uribe-Echevarria, UCI:
"Negative Polarity Licensing, Indefinites, and Complex Predicates"
11.40-12.20 Utpal Lahiri, UCI:
"On Negative Polarity Items in Hindi"
Alternates:
Anastasia Giannakidou, University of Groningen:
"Subjunctive, Habituality, and the Licensing of Polarity Items"
Polly Jacobson, Brown University:
"On Apparent Exceptions to Weak Crossover in a Variable-Free Semantics"
Knud Lambrecht, University of Texas at Austin:
"Compositional and Constructional Meaning: The case of French 'comme'"
The conference will be held at the University of Texas at Austin,
Flawn Academic Center, 4th Floor
Conference fees: $35, $25 for students, payable by check or cash
at registration.
Rooms have been reserved in the Driskill hotel in downtown Austin,
phone 512-4745911, 1-800-2529367 8am-6pm CST, fax 512-4742188.
Please mention that you take part in the SALT
conference in order to get the special rate of $65 single, $75 double
room. THESE RATES WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLY TILL WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8!
SALT 5 committee
Dept. of Linguistics
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1196
LIGK417 at UTXVMS.CC.UTEXAS.EDU
NASHER at BERTIE.LA.UTEXAS.EDU
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Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 09:43:21 +0300
From: jnamkung at uclink.berkeley.edu (erma)
Subject: BLS 21 Conference Program
The Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
University of California, Berkeley
February 17-20, 1995
Conference Program
Parasession: Historical Issues in Sociolinguistics/
Social Issues in Historical Linguistics
Special Session: Discourse in Southeast Asian Languages
SPECIAL SESSION, FRIDAY, February 17, 1995
Sproul Rooms, International House
2299 Piedmont Ave at Bancroft
Invited speakers: Alton Becker, University of Michigan, Jack Bilmes,
University of Hawaii, Yung-O Biq, San Francisco State University,
David Solnit, University of Michigan
8:00 Registration Begins
MORNING SESSION:
9:00 A. L. Becker, University of Michigan, "Giving distance its due"
9:40 Michael C. Ewing, UC Santa Barbara, "Two pathways to
identifiability in Cirebon Javanese"
10:10 Mark Durie, University of Melbourne, "Framing Acehnese: Language
choice and discourse structures in Aceh"
LATE MORNING SESSION:
10:50 Yung-O Biq, San Francisco State University, "Causal relation and
information sequencing in Mandarin"
11:30 Minglang Zhou, University of Oregon, "Local and global coreferences:
third-person zero pronoun in Chinese narratives"
12:00 Yili Shi, Ball State University, "On the degrees of givenness:
An analysis of noun phrases in some Chinese constructions
LUNCH BREAK (12:30-1:30)
AFTERNOON SESSION:
1:30 Jack Bilmes, University of Hawaii, "Dividing the rice II: Reaching
a compromise in Northern Thai"
2:10 Shoichi Iwasaki, UCLA and Preeya Horie, National Language Institute,
Japan, "Creating the middle ground register in Thai conversation"
2:40 Leela Bilmes, UC Berkeley, "The grammaticalization of Thai 'Come'
and 'Go'"
LATE AFTERNOON SESSION:
3:20 David Solnit, University of Michigan, "Parallelism in Kayah Li:
Elaborate expressions and beyond"
4:00 Li-chiung Yang, Georgetown University, "Prosodic patterns and
discourse organization"
4:30 Eric Schiller, Linguistics Unlimited, "Not yes, not no: The Zen
of Khmer discourse particles"
5:10 Stephen C. Fincke, UC Santa Barbara, "Social responsibility and
deixis in Tagalog demonstratives"
5:40 Sherri Brainard, "Functions of marked aspect in expository
discourse in Upper Tanudan Kalinga (Philippines)"
GENERAL SESSION and PARASESSION
February 18-20, 1995
Boalt Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Invited speakers, General Session:
Young-Mee Yu Cho, Stanford University, Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers University,
Michael Silverstein, University of Chicago,
Invited speakers, Parasession:
John McWhorter, Cornell University, Derek Nurse, Memorial University of
Newfoundland, Suzanne Romaine, Merton College, Oxford University
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1995
8:00 Registration for General Session and Parasession Opens
MORNING SESSION: General Session
9:00 Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers
9:40 Bernard Tranel, UC Irvine, "On the Status of Universal Association
Conventions: Evidence from Mixteco"
10:10 Andrea Heiberg, U Arizona, "A Non-derivational Approach to Winnebago
Stress"
LATE MORNING SESSION: Parasession
11:05 Suzanne Romaine, Merton College, Oxford University, "Internal vs.
External Change in Socio-Historical Linguistics: A Fruitless
Dichotomy?"
11:45 Kevin Tuite, U de Montreal, "The Declension of Ethnonyms in English"
12:15 Jose Hualde, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Benjamin P. Sanders,
Northeastern University, "Historical Development of the Andalusian
Vowel System"
12:45 Ian Green, Australian National University, "The Death of "prefixing":
Contact Induced Typological Change in Northern Australia"
LUNCH BREAK (1:15-2:25)
AFTERNOON SESSION: General Session
2:25 Rachel Nordlinger, Stanford, "Split Tense and Mood Inflection in
Wambaya"
2:55 Ed Zoerner, UC Irvine, "Conjunction as a Case Feature-Checker"
3:25 Yoon-Suk Chung, UCB, "On a Scalar Operator"
3:55 Raul Aranovich, UCSD, "Spanish 'casi' as a Scalar Operator"
LATE AFTERNOON SESSION: General Session
4:50 Jun Da, U Texas, "The Interaction of Binding Principles and the
Chinese Reflexive ta-ziji"
5:20 Barbara Birch, CSU Fresno, "Neurological Evidence for a Functional
Basis for Lexical Categories"
5:50 Elisabeth Kuhn, Virginia Commonwealth U, "Germany vs "The South"
or: Should (and Can?) Second Language Learners Be Taught How to
Be "rude" or "sweet"?"
6:20 Brian F. Bowdle, Northwestern, "Generic Demonstratives"
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1995
MORNING SESSION: General Session
9:00 Michael Silverstein, U Chicago, "Kiksht (Wasco-Wishram)
'Impersonals' as Anaphors and the Predictiveness of Grammatical-
Categorical Universals""
9:40 Julie Solomon, Stanford, "Local and Global Functions of a Borrowed/
Native Pair of Discourse Markers in a Yucatec Maya Narrative"
10:10 Nicholas Kibre, UCSB, "Word Order, Mutation, and Grammatical
Relations in Welsh"
LATE MORNING SESSION: General Session
11:05 Eric Jackson, U of Groningen, "Negative Concord and Logical Form"
11:35 Jong-Bok Kim, Stanford, "English Negation from a Non-Derivational
Perspective"
12:05 Michael Israel, UCSD, "Two Types of Negative Polarity Constructions"
12:35 Kyoko Hirose Ohara, UCB, "What's in a Place? Extended uses of a
physical-world noun in Japanese"
LUNCH BREAK (1:05-2:15)
AFTERNOON SESSION: Parasession
2:15 John McWhorter, Cornell University, "Renewing our Vows: Creole
Studies and Historical Linguistics"
2:55 Patricia Cukor-Avila, U of North Texas and Guy Bailey, U of Memphis,
"Gramaticalization in AAVE"
3:25 Laurel Brinton, U British Columbia, "Pragmatics Markers in a
Diachronic Perspective"
3:55 Derek Nurse, Memorial University of Newfoundland, "Linguistics and
History in Africa"
LATE AFTERNOON SESSION: General Session
4:50 Robert Kirchner, UCLA, "Contrastiveness is an Epiphenomenon of
Constraint RankingS
5:25 Paul Fallon, Ohio State U, "Diachronic Typology; The Case of
Ejectives"
5:50 Philip Hamilton, U Toronto, "Vowel Phonotactic Positions in
Australian Aboriginal Languages"
6:20 Matthew Gordon, U Michigan Ann Arbor, "The Phonological Composition
of Personal Pronouns: Implications for Genetic Hypotheses"
EVENING: BLS PARTY
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1995
MORNING SESSION: Parasession
9:00 Marvin Kramer, UCB, "Yokuts as a Target Language in a Shift from Miwok"
9:40 Robbin Clamons, Hamline U, "How Recent Contact Erased Ancient
Traces in the Gender Systems of Oromo Dialects"
10:10 Gregory Anderson, U Chicago, "Diachronic Aspects of Russianisms
in Siberian Turkic: Assimilation to 'Codeswitching'"
10:40 Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl, UCB, "Variation in Modern Dutch d-weakening"
LATE MORNING SESSION: General Session
11:35 Yoshimi Miyake, U Michigan Ann Arbor, "Local Prestige of a Dialect
in the Face of a Standard: a Japanese Case Study"
12:05 Hope Doyle, U Colorado Denver, "Ethnolinguistic Loyalties among
Barcelona's Teens"
12:35 Yoko Hasegawa, UCB and Kazue Hata, Speech Technology Laboratory,
Panasonic Technologies, Inc., "The Function of F0-peak Delay in
Japanese"
LUNCH BREAK (1:05-2:15)
AFTERNOON SESSION: General Session
2:15 Young-Mee Yu-Cho, Stanford, "'Ordering Paradoxes' Revisited"
2:55 Lionel Wee, UCB, "Verbal Prefixation in Malay: Reconfiguring
Paradigmatic Relations"
3:25 C. Orhan Orgun, UCB, "Flat versus Branching Morphological
Structures: The Case of Suspended Affixation"
3:55 Piroska Csuri, Brandeis, "One-anaphora and Residual DRS's"
LATE AFTERNOON SESSION: General Session
4:50 Rebecca Wheeler, Independent, "'Understand' in Conceptual
Semantics"
4:45 Martin Everaert, Utrecht U, "Predicate Fusion; Light Verb
Constructions"
5:15 Mengistu Amberber, McGill U, "Functional Verbs in Predicate
Formation: Event-type Hierarchy and Grammaticization"
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