6.945, Confs: Historical ling (12th ICHL), Futures of Scots

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Subject: 6.945, Confs: Historical ling (12th ICHL), Futures of Scots
 
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Date:  Wed, 05 Jul 1995 08:54:36 GMT
From:  MFCEPDD at fs1.art.man.ac.uk (David Denison)
Subject:        12th ICHL Workshop
 
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Date:  Fri, 07 Jul 1995 13:08:20 -0000
From:  kim at ling.ed.ac.uk (Kim Hardie)
Subject:  Conf.update: Futures of Scots
 
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Date:  Wed, 05 Jul 1995 08:54:36 GMT
From:  MFCEPDD at fs1.art.man.ac.uk (David Denison)
Subject:        12th ICHL Workshop
 
Here is the final programme for the workshop organised by Lyle
Campbell and Alice Harris at the 12th International Conference on
Historical Linguistics (Manchester, 13th-18th August 1995)
 
What:  Syntactic change in cross-linguistic perspective
When:  Friday, Aug 18
Who:  Lyle Campbell, Alan Dench, Jan Terje Faarlund, Spike
Gildea, and Alice Harris.
 
Program:
8:30-8:35 a.m. Alice Harris.  Introduction.
8:35-9:05 Alan Dench.  The Struggle for (In)dependence:
      Subordination and Insubordination in the Pilbara
      Languages of Western Australia.  Questions:  9:05-9:15
9:15-9:55 Spike Gildea.  From Biclausal Coreference Conditions
      to Monoclausal Alignment:  The Evolution of Cariban
      Split-Ergativity  Questions:  9:55-10:05
10:05-10:20 Tea time
10:20-11:00 Jan Terje Faarlund.  The Reanalysis of
      Prepositions as Verbal Particles in Nordic.  Questions:
      11:00-11:10
11:10-11:40 Lyle Campbell.  How and Why Multiple-clause
      Constructions become Single-clausal ones.  Questions:
      11:40-11:50
11:50-12:00 Summary remarks.  Alice Harris.
12:00-12:30 General questions and discussion.
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Date:  Fri, 07 Jul 1995 13:08:20 -0000
From:  kim at ling.ed.ac.uk (Kim Hardie)
Subject:  Conf.update: Futures of Scots
 
 
 
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One-day conference
Regent Lecture Theatre,
King's College,
University of Aberdeen,
Aberdeen - Scotland, U.K.
 
Speakers:
 
MARACE DAREAU           Scots as a field of study and research
 
ALASTAIR ALLAN          A language planning programme
 
ROBBIE ROBERTSON        Scots in the schools
 
STUART McHARDY          The role of the Language Resource Centre
 
FINLAY MacLEOD          The lessons of Gaelic:broadcasting and the media
 
KENNETH MacKINNON       The lessons of Gaelic:social and demographic
                        research
 
KIM HARDIE              Scots language: the Belgian experience
 
 
The conference, which is open to anyone with an interest in the Scots
tongue, will be held under the auspices of the Forum for Research into
the Languages of Scotland and Ulster.  The fee will include moring and
afternoon coffee and a sandwich lunch, and will be about 12 pounds
sterling.
For further information please contact:
 
 
Mr J.Derrick McClure
Chairman, FRSLU
Department of English
King's College,
Taylor Building,
Old Aberdeen AB9 2UB
Scotland - UK.
Europe.
______________________________________________________________________
Miss Kim Hardie
dept.of Linguistics             Email: kim at ling.ed.ac.uk
University of Edinburgh         http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~kim/
AFB, 40 George Square           Tel: +44 131 650 6660
Edinburgh EH8 9LL
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