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LINGUIST List: Vol-7-981. Thu Jul 4 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 292
Subject: 7.981, Confs: Eastern States Conference on Linguistics '96
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Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 22:18:33 -0300
From: MOTA at admin1.csd.unbsj.ca ("VIRGINIA MOTAPANYANE")
Subject: ESCOL '96 - PROGRAM
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Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 22:23:16 -0300
From: MOTA at admin1.csd.unbsj.ca ("VIRGINIA MOTAPANYANE")
Subject: ESCOL '96 - travel&accommodation
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Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 22:18:33 -0300
From: MOTA at admin1.csd.unbsj.ca ("VIRGINIA MOTAPANYANE")
Subject: ESCOL '96 - PROGRAM
ESCOL '96
(Eastern States Conference on Linguistics)
August 31 - September 2, 1996
University of New Brunswick - Saint John
PROVISIONAL PROGRAM
Saturday August 31
8:30 Registration and coffee OH202
9:15 Welcome and announcements OH206
9:30 Perfective participle paradox in English VP-fronting
Satoshi Oku - University of Connecticut
10:00 Infinitival relative clauses in English: An antisymmetric
approach to discontinuous constituency
Stanley Dubinsky - University of South Carolina
10:30 Predicative and argumental bare measure phrases
Murat Kural - University of California, Los Angeles
11:00 Break
11:15 How general are our generalizations? What speakers actually
know and what they actually do.
Brian Joseph - Ohio State University
12:15 Lunch
2:00 Deriving final syllable strength in Cayuga
Carrie Dyck - University of Toronto
2:30 Government Switching in Phonology
David Michaels and Heeheon Park - University of Connecticut
3:00 Tone in North Kyungsang Korean Phrases
No-Ju Kim - Ohio State University
3:30 Representing a sign as a single segment
Rachel Crain - University of Maryland
4:00 Break
4:15 The role of contrast: evidence from variability
Keren Rice - University of Toronto
5:15 Break
5:30 The meaning of Accusative case in Turkish
Regina Pallat Moorcroft - Cornell University
6:00 Case, scope and Feature-movement
Kazuko Yatsushiro - University of Connecticut
6:30 Negative concord, events and negative chains
Lucia Tovena - University of Geneva
7:00 Dinner
Sunday September 1
8:30 Coffee
9:00 The psycholinguistics of French clitic placement
Nigel Duffield and Philippe Prevost - McGill University
9:30 A unified theory of empty pronouns, the EPP, and the nature
of finiteness in a Minimalist framework
George Tsoulas - University of York
10:00 Two subject positions without two functional heads
Peter Svenonius - University of Tromso
10:30 Ainu: evidence against the Polysynthesis parameter
Lizanne Kaiser - Yale University
11:00 Break
11:15 Unaccusativity and the adjective/verb distinction
Mark Baker - McGill University
12:15 Lunch
2:30 A goal phrase and unaccusativity
Mika Kizu - McGill University
3:00 LF movement of Wh-in-situ
Hidekazu Tanaka - McGill University
3:30 An incorporation analysis of causatives
Marit Julien - University of Troms
4:00 Break
4:15 Counterfactuals: Implicature or Entailment
Chung-hye Han - University of Pennsylvania
4:45 Derivational Linear Precedence Principle
Takashi Nakajima - Cornell University/ NUCBA-Japan
5:15 Fine-grained Logical Form
Laurent Dekydtspotter - Indiana University
5:45 Condition R (the concept formerly known as 'reflexivity')
Jeffrey Lidz - University of Delaware
6:15 Dinner
Monday September 2
8:30 Coffee
9:00 Theta-theory and the interpretation of noun phrases in
Romance
Juan Martin - University of Toledo
9:30 Aspect and nominal interpretation: the perfective paradox
revisited
Miwako Uesaka and Roumyana Slabakova - McGill University
10:00 A crosslinguistic asymmetry in the temporal interpretation
of Dps
Hamida Demirdache - University of British Columbia
10:30 Quantification and the lexical/functional split
David Basilico - University of Alabama at Birmingham
11:15 Break
11:30 Salish evidence for the universality of generalized
quantifiers
Lisa Matthewson - University of British Columbia
12:00 Tense ambiguity and specificity
Ayumi Matsuo - University of Connecticut
12:30 Two semantic components of noun phrases
Richard Zuber - Universite de Paris 7
1:00 Closing, lunch and departure
ALTERNATES:
Numerals as attributes
John Payne - University of Manchester
For agreement phrase
Patricia Schneider-Zioga - University of Southern California
More arguments for a common treatment of scrambling and clitic
doubling
Diana Gierling - University of Tuebingen
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Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 22:23:16 -0300
From: MOTA at admin1.csd.unbsj.ca ("VIRGINIA MOTAPANYANE")
Subject: ESCOL '96 - travel&accommodation
ESCOL '96
(Eastern States Conference on Linguistics)
August 31 - September 2, 1996
University of New Brunswick - Saint John
INFORMATION ON TRAVEL, ACCOMMODATION AND REGISTRATION
TRAVEL
Flights: There are daily flights from Boston to Saint John; this
is the best way to travel from the US. Participants coming from
Europe may consider Montreal and Halifax as connecting points. When
you make your travel arrangements, please make sure that the agent
sends you to Saint John, NB, and NOT to St. John's, NF!!!
Bus: It is possible, from Bangor, but it takes a long time and
is almost as expensive as flying from Boston.
Driving: It takes 8 hours from Boston, 10 hours from New York.
From the airport : Diamond Taxi has a van service from the
airport to various hotels downtown (CAN$7/person); the van meets all
the flights, and is announced as "ground transportation to Saint
John". The bus 15/16 runs every half hour from downtown (King
Square) to the campus; fare CAN$1.35. You can also take a taxi from
airport to university (CAN$20), or from downtown to university
(CAN$5).
There is no bank office in the airport to change money; banks in
town close Friday afternoon until Monday morning.
TAXES ON GOODS AND SERVICES
Two taxes apply to any purchase price (including hotel bills):
GST - a federal tax (7%) and PST - a provincial tax (11%), which
increase the actual price with 18%.
However, there are tax breaks for foreigners: if you spend a minimum
of CAN$200 on accommodation and "souvenirs", you are eligible for a
GST refund. In order to apply for this refund, you have to: pick up
the form at the customs when you come to Canada; and keep all your
receipts to prove the amount of money spent.
ACCOMMODATION
Arrangements are in progress to book the students residence for
the conference participants. If the negotiations are successful, you
will receive a second message on this issue.
The accommodation available at the moment is as follows:
1. Camping:
You may consider bringing a tent. Rockwood Park Campsite is at
walking distance from the campus; their rate is CAN$15/day, it
includes electricity and shower.
2. Crash space:
Very limited. Bring your sleeping bag.
3. Hotels:
These hotels are on the bus line to the campus.
EARLE OF LEINSTER INN Single: CAN$63 (includes tax)
Double: CAN$68 (includes tax)
Phone: (506) 652-3275
KEDDY'S FORT HOWE Single: CAN$59 + tax Double: CAN$59 + tax
Phone: (506) 657-7320 or 1-800-561-7666
HOWARD JOHNSON Single: CAN$69 + tax Double: CAN$69 + tax
Phone: (506) 642-2622 or 1-800-446-4656
DELTA Single: CAN$94 + tax Double: CAN$94 + tax
Phone: (506) 648-1981 or 1-800-268-1133
For reservations, call directly the hotel, or e-mail:
i00 at acad1.unbsj.ca
DINNER
Due to the limitations of funds, we cannot offer a dinner party.
We will make reservations in a (good) restaurant for Saturday night,
but we each have to pay for our own bill (more or less CAN$25 without
drinks). If you would like to join us, please let us know two weeks
before the conference.
REGISTRATION
A symbolic conference fee of CAN$10 has to be paid when you
register in OH202. However, we would like to have your confirmation
of attendance as soon as possible.
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