7.255, Confs: Unity in Diversity, Ling Assoc of Great Britain

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-255. Sat Feb 17 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  227
 
Subject: 7.255, Confs: Unity in Diversity, Ling Assoc of Great Britain
 
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Date:  Fri, 16 Feb 1996 15:30:28 GMT
From:  lynne at CompApp.DCU.IE (Lynne Bowker)
Subject:  Unity in Diversity -- Call for Participation
 
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Date:  Fri, 16 Feb 1996 16:26:10 GMT
From:  BILLY1 at mdx.ac.uk ("billy clark")
Subject:        CONFERENCES: LAGB SPRING MEETING
 
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Date:  Fri, 16 Feb 1996 15:30:28 GMT
From:  lynne at CompApp.DCU.IE (Lynne Bowker)
Subject:  Unity in Diversity -- Call for Participation
 
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                UNITY IN DIVERSITY
International Translation Studies Conference, 9-11 May 1996
           Dublin City University, Ireland
 
 
***URGENT: REGISTER NOW TO ENSURE ACCOMMODATION***
=============================================================
 
Dublin is a beautiful city on the east coast of Ireland.  Rich in
culture, tradition and learning, Dublin is a popular spot for
tourists, conventions, and trade shows, as well as conferences; hence,
finding suitable accommodation at the last minute can be next to
impossible. A certain number of rooms have been blocked off for
participants in the Unity in Diversity conference, but you must
register NOW to ensure accommodation.
 
The cost of the conference is 100(IR pounds) for delegates (120(IR
pounds) for late registration) and includes lunches, coffees,
receptions, and a banquet followed by Irish-style entertainment.
 
Confirmed speakers include: Lawrence Venuti, Mona Baker, Mattias Heyn,
Rosemary Arrojo, Annie Brisset, Alexis Nouss, Christiane Nord, Dieter
Huber, Franz Poechhacker, Paul Bennett, Heidemarie Salvesky, Luise von
Flotow, Bill Findlay, Eithne O'Connell, Kitty Shields, and many more.
 
Accommodation costs range from 17-137(IR pounds)/night and include
breakfast. But remember: you must book early to guarantee a room.
 
Don't be left out in the cold! Register NOW. Registration forms and
further information on the conference and accommodation can be
obtained from:
 
International Translation Studies Conference Secretariat
CIE Tours International
35 Lower Abbey Street
Dublin 1
Ireland
Fax: +353 1 874 7324
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Date:  Fri, 16 Feb 1996 16:26:10 GMT
From:  BILLY1 at mdx.ac.uk ("billy clark")
Subject:        CONFERENCES: LAGB SPRING MEETING
 
LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN
Spring Meeting 1996:  University of Sussex
 
PROGRAMME
 
Queries to: Nicola Woods (nicolajw at cogs.susx.ac.uk)
 
             Thursday 11 April 1996
 
2.00    Workshop: "New Cognates for Historical Linguistics"
 Organisers: April McMahon (Cambridge), Kersti Borjars (Manchester).
 
     2.00    Introduction by the organisers.
     2.10    Professor Anna Siewierska (Lancaster) "Historical
             Linguistics and Typology"
     3.00    Dr. Paul Foulkes (Newcastle) "Historical Linguistics and
             Experimental Phonetics"
     4.30    Dr. Rob McMahon and Dr. April McMahon (Cambridge)
             "Historical Linguistics and Genetics"
     5.30    Panel discussion between the workshop speakers,
             Professor Johanna Nichols (keynote speaker) and the
             audience.
 
7.45   Linguistics Association 1996 Lecture:
       "Where on earth is Indo-European?"
       Professor Johanna Nichols (Berkeley)
 
                   Friday 12 April 1996
 
Session A
9.00 Pat Poussa (Helsinki) "Drifting Northward: Implicational Scales
         in Syntactic Levelling"
9.40 Richard Coates (Sussex) "On a Recent View of the Linguistic
         Prehistory of Europe"
10.20 Jane Stuart-Smith (Oxford/Birmingham) "What Role Should
         Phonetics Play in Historical Phonological Reconstruction?"
 
Session B
9.00 Hans van de Koot (UCL) "Strong Features and (Multiple)
         Specifiers"
9.40 Rhang K. Lee (Edinburgh) "A Typology of the Directionality of
         Checking and its Implications"
10.20 George Tsoulas (York) "Empty Categories in the Minimalist
         Program"
 
Session C
9.00 Vesselin Vatchkov (Oxford) "Word Order and Relevance: From
        Prague to London or to London from Prague"
9.40 Marco Rocha (Sussex) "Discourse Processing and Anaphora"
10.20 Dick Hudson (UCL) "Some Sentences That Students I Teach Can
       Remember Are Multiply Self-Embedded"
 
Session A
11.30 Ellen Thompson (Maryland) "The Syntax of Presentational and
        Predicational Sentences"
12.10 James Higginbotham and Gillian Ramchand (Oxford) "The
        Stage-Level/Individual-Level Distinction and the Mapping
        Hypothesis"
 
Session B
11.30     Bruce Connell (Oxford) "Four Tones and Downtrend"
12.10     Margaret Cobb (SOAS) "Vowel Harmony in Natal Brazilian
          Portuguese"
 
Session C
11.30     Yaron Matras (Manchester) "Grammatical Re-Cycling and
          Language Contact in Romani"
12.10     Anna Siewierska (Lancaster) "Constituent Order in the
          Languages of Europe"
 
Session A
2.00 Robert D. Borsley (Bangor) and Andreas Kathol (Groningen)
         "Breton as a V2 Language"
2.40 M. Siobh n Cottell (Bangor) "Verb-Movement, the Copula and
         Verb-Second Phenomena in Irish"
3.20 David Willis (Oxford) "Clausal Coordination and the Loss of
         Verb-Second in Welsh"
 
Session B
2.00 Corinne Cortes (Barcelona) "Structural Asymmetries, Agency and
         the Feature [+animate]"
2.40 Heloisa Salles (Bangor/Bras!lia) "Preposition Pied-Piping and
         Preposition Stranding: A Minimalist Approach"
3.20 Jamal Ouhalla (QMW) and Malcolm Edwards (Birkbeck) "Questions,
         Pronouns and Operators in Spoken Arabic"
 
Session C
2.00 Ute Bohnacker (Durham) "The Acquisition of Determiner Phrases in
         Early Child Language"
2.40 William McClure (Durham) "The Realisation of Tense in Japanese"
3.20 Andrew Spencer and Marina Zaretskaya (Essex) "Russian
         Resultatives"
 
4.30           Annual General Meeting
 
5.30-8.45     Language Tutorial: Chechen and Ingush
                Johnanna Nichols (Berkeley)
 
                      Saturday 13 April 1996
 
Session A
9.00 Najib Jarad (Aleppo/Bangor) "The Origin and Reanalysis of "for"
         as a Complementiser"
9.40 Isabel Muxi (Durham) "Catalan is Not VOS: Evidence from Old
         Catalan"
10.20 Kersti Borjars (Manchester) and Carol Chapman (Newcastle)
           "Agreement and Pro-Drop in Some Dialects of English"
 
Session B
9.00 Julia Barron (Manchester) "Circumstantial Complements in
         Romance: A Gerdts' Mapping Theory Account"
9.40 Nigel Vincent and Cecilia Goria (Manchester) "Psych-Adjectives"
10.20 Arancha Mateos (Durham) "Case, Agreement and Romance DPs"
 
Session C
9.00    Elizabeth McCoy (York) "Absolutives, Aspect and Prepositions"
9.40    David Adger and Bernadette Plunkett (York) "Clauses and Case"
10.20   Kerstin Hoge (Oxford) "The Yiddish Double Verb Construction"
 
Session A
11.30     Paul Rowlett (Salford) "Negative Pronouns in French"
12.10     Peter Kahrel (Lancaster) "Areal Features of Negative Indefinites"
 
Session B
11.30     Gerald Gazdar (Sussex) "Gikuyu Preprefixation"
12.10     Zaharani Ahmad (Essex) "Correspondence Theory and Verbal
          Reduplication in Malay"
 
Session C
11.30     Melanie Green (SOAS) "A Minimalist Approach to the Theory
          of Focus in Hausa"
12.10     Richard Breheny (UCL) "Pro-active Focus"
 
2.00           Language Tutorial: Chechen/Ingush
                   Johanna Nichols (Berkeley)
 
                        4.00 CLOSE
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