6.404 Confs: Student Conf in Linguistics program and correction

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-404. Mon 20 Mar 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 153
 
Subject: 6.404 Confs: Student Conf in Linguistics program and correction
 
Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. <aristar at tam2000.tamu.edu>
            Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at emunix.emich.edu>
 
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               Ann Dizdar <dizdar at tam2000.tamu.edu>
               Ljuba Veselinova <lveselin at emunix.emich.edu>
               Annemarie Valdez <avaldez at emunix.emich.edu>
 
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Date:         Tue, 14 Mar 95 14:40:28 EST
From: Carole Tenny Boster (TENNY at UConnVM.UConn.Edu)
Subject:      SCIL7 conference-program
 
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Date:         Tue, 14 Mar 95 13:50:30 EST
From: Carole Tenny Boster (TENNY at UConnVM.UConn.Edu)
Subject:      SCIL7 Error!
 
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Date:         Tue, 14 Mar 95 14:40:28 EST
From: Carole Tenny Boster (TENNY at UConnVM.UConn.Edu)
Subject:      SCIL7 conference-program
 
Here is the program for the 7th Annual Student Conference in Linguistics,
to be held at the University of Connecticut on April 8-9, 1995.  Students
AND faculty are invited to attend.  If you know of students who might be
interested, please pass this information along to them.
 
Registration, housing and travel information will be posted on the Listserv
soon.
 
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SCIL VII
Student Conference in Linguistics, VII
University of Connecticut, Storrs
April 8-9, 1995
 
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
 
SATURDAY, April 8
 
8:00 - 9:00    Registration and Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15    Opening Remarks
 
Session 1:     Semantics I
9:15 - 9:55    Elena Herburger, USC
          Focus Structures Quantification over Events
9:55 - 10:35   Andre Meinunger, FAS, Berlin
          Focus Relations and Weak Islands
 
10:35 -10:45   Break
 
Session 2:     Discourse/Language Acquisition
10:45 - 11:25  Piroska Csuri, Brandeis University
          Residual DRSUs and the Theory of Anaphora
11:25 - 12:05  Sjoukje van der Wal, University of Groningen
          What is negative to the child? Evidence from the Acquisition of
NPIs
 
12:05 - 1:30   Lunch Break
 
Session 3:     Syntax I
1:30 - 2:10    Masanori Nakamura, McGill University
          Wh-Disagreement
2:10 - 2:50    Rajesh Bhatt & Roumyana Izvorski, UPENN
          Implicit Arguments and Control
2:50 - 3:30    Hidekazu Tanaka, McGill University
          Reconstruction and Chain Uniformity
 
3:30 - 3:40    Break
 
Session 4:     Phonology
3:40 - 4:20    Ruben van de Vijver, Vrije Universiteit
          Get Your Feet Out of Here
4:20 - 5:00    Sechang Lee, USC
          Obstruent Unreleasing and Tensification in Korean
5:00 - 5:40    Takako Kawasaki, McGill University
          Voicing Underspecification in Optimality Theory
 
6:30-Midnight  Dinner Party
 
SUNDAY, April 9
 
8:00-9:00 Registration and Breakfast
 
Session 5:     Syntax II
9:00 - 9:40    Keiko Muromatsu, University of Maryland
          Integrals and Spatials: Two Types of Existentials in Japanese
9:40 - 10:20   Dae-ho Chung & Hong-Keun Park, USC
          An Indirect Question Analysis of Korean $/" Quantifiers
10:20 - 11:00  Roumyana Slabakova, McGill University
          Slavic SE and Aspect
 
11:00 - 11:10  Break
 
Session 6:     Semantics II
11:10 - 11:50  Stefan Engelberg, University of Wuppertal
          Event Structure and Verb Arguments
11:50 - 12:30  Ellen Thompson, University of Maryland
          The Syntactic Representation of Aktionsart
 
12:30 - 2:00   Lunch Break
 
Session 7:     Syntax III
2:00 - 2:40    Norvin Richards, MIT
          The Principle of Minimal Compliance
2:40 - 3:20    Uli Sauerland, MIT
          The Lemmings Theory of Case
3:20 - 4:00    Roumyana Izvorski, UPENN
          The Empty Category in Subcomparatives
 
ALTERNATES
Hong-Keun Park, USC
Quantification in English and Japanese/Korean: A-movment/Scrambling as a Fake
QR
 
Marc van Oostendorp, Tilburg University
Root Controlled Vowel Harmony and Segment Integrity
 
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Date:         Tue, 14 Mar 95 13:50:30 EST
From: Carole Tenny Boster (TENNY at UConnVM.UConn.Edu)
Subject:      SCIL7 Error!
 
For those of you who have received SCIL7 Conference registration materials
through your department (or any other snail-mail way), the driving directions
contained a mistake.  Here's the correction:
 
)From I-84 East, take Exit 68 and turn **RIGHT** onto Rt. 195 South.
)From I-84 West, take Exit 68 and turn left onto Rt. 195 South.
 
Please forward this information to anyone you know is planning to attend the
conference.  Also, please forward SCIL7 information to any friends and
colleagues who may not know about it.
 
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