7.868, Confs: Bangor Conference on Syntactic Categories

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Subject: 7.868, Confs: Bangor Conference on Syntactic Categories
 
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Date:  Mon, 10 Jun 1996 15:36:20 BST
From:  a.von.klopp at bangor.ac.uk (Ana von Klopp)
Subject:  Program for the Bangor Conference on Syntactic Categories
 
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Date:  Mon, 10 Jun 1996 15:36:20 BST
From:  a.von.klopp at bangor.ac.uk (Ana von Klopp)
Subject:  Program for the Bangor Conference on Syntactic Categories
 
 
CONFERENCE ON SYNTACTIC CATEGORIES
 
University of Wales, Bangor from June 24th to June 26th
 
The Conference on Syntactic Categories will bring together
researchers working on the nature of syntactic categories from
a number of different theoretical perspectives.
 
The conference will include the following papers:
 
Anne Abeille and Daniele Godard (Paris), `French word order and
     lexicality'
David Adger (York), `Eliminating N-features by merger in
     morphology'
Robert Borsley (Bangor) and Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse), `Mixed
     extended projections'
Ronnie Cann (Edinburgh), `Categories, labels and types:
     functional versus lexical'
Jane Grimshaw (Rutgers), `Optimizing lexical choice: expletives
     and opaque clitics as cases of minimal violation'
Anders Holmberg (Tromso), `Scandinavian stylistic fronting:=20
     moving form without content',
Dick Hudson (UCL), `Syntax without functional projections'
Andreas Kathol (Groningen), `S-categories and P-categories'
Ruth Kempson (SOAS), `Syntactic computation as labelled natural
     deduction - WH a case study'
Fritz Newmeyer (Seattle), `Event structure, minimal projection,
     and the discrete nature of syntactic categories'
Carl Pollard (Ohio State), `Are syntactic categories necessary'
Ian Roberts (Bangor) and Juan Uriagereka (Maryland), to be
     announced
Anna Roussou (Bangor) and Rita Manzini (UCL), `On empty
     categories'
Jerry Sadock (Chicago), `Syntactic categories in polyhierarchical
     grammar'
Ivan Sag and Jong-Bok Kim (Stanford), `A lexicalist alternative
     to head-movement'
 
The exact details of the programme are not yet finalized. For details
on accommodation, fees, travelling to Bangor, etc. please see the
information on our World Wide Web site at URL
 
http://www.linguistics.bangor.ac.uk/dept/conf.html
 
or contact Bob Borsley <r.d.borsley at bangor.ac.uk>.
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