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Date:  Sat, 23 Mar 1996 15:55:35 CST
From:  djholsin at students.wisc.edu (Dave Holsinger)
Subject:  GLAC2:  The Second Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference

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Date:  Sat, 23 Mar 1996 15:55:35 CST
From:  djholsin at students.wisc.edu (Dave Holsinger)
Subject:  GLAC2:  The Second Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference

GLAC2: The Second Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference
Society for Germanic Philology
PROGRAM

Friday, April 26
8:30-10:30
Historical Phonology I
Page: On Verner's Law
Davis, Iverson, Salmons: Peripherality in the spread of the OHG Consonant Sh=
ift
Buccini: Consonantal palatalization  in the southern Dutch
        dialects and its relationship to the development of umlaut

Syntax
Ekerot: Outline of a typology  of adverbial constructions
Kappus: More evidence for the DP analysis from Swabian

Philology
Kallinger: The Philologist's Task: To provide evidence for the linguist,
        but what evidence? An application to Das Buch von Troja II
Woods: The New Philology and Germanic Linguistics: Where do they connect?
Israel: Nibelungen des Nordens

11-12:30:  K. J. Mattheier: Soziolinguistik der II. Lautverschiebung

2-4
Accentual-Metrical
Riad: The origin of the Scandinavian tone accent
Holtman & Zonneveld: A linguistic analysis of poetic  rhyme
Golston & Riad: The meter of Beowulf

Syntax
=46agan: Tests for unaccusativity revisited
Abraham: Unaccusativity, split ergativity, & Burzio's generalization revisit=
ed
Van Gelderen: The self in reflexives

Sociolinguistics I
Zimmermann: The art of  academic praise: A matter of politeness
Listen: Polite German SIE and  abstractions of address in Late Middle Low Ge=
rman
Dailey-O'Cain: Die Bayern klingen alle wie Kabarettisten

4:30-5:50
Rhotics
Kuipers: Vocalic /r/ in Old English break and backing of [E]
Humbert: Stable variation in the behavior of -r- in Dutch dialects

Gender assignment
Steinmetz: The Great Gender Shift and the fate of neuter  nouns
Kilarski: Gender assignment of  English loans in Scandinavian

5:50:  RECEPTION, Max Kade Institute

Saturday, April 27
8:30-10:30
Language Contact
Southern: Convergence vs. normativism: contact-induced change, standard
        languages & the Drang nach Normen
Evans: Bodleian MS Laud 626 as early evidence of grammatical borrowing in
        Middle English
Roberge: Remarks on an adjectival peculiarity of Afrikaans

Cognitive Linguistics
Diessel: German wenn: A study in cognitive semantics
Shannon: Hawkins' Performance Theory and ordering in Dutch & German
Hens: The semantics of the pluperfect in German

Yiddish
King: Word boundary and drift in Yiddish
Jacobs: Phonemic and phonetic vowel length in Yiddish dialects
Manaster-Ramer: Yiddish  plural origins

11-12:30 Ellen F. Prince: The Non-unitary Nature of Yiddish Subject-Prodrop

2-4
Hist. Verb Morphology
Niepokuj: Zero-grade vocalism in TVT- roots in Germanic and other IE
        languages: A treatment in Optimality Theory
Varley: The longer present optatives in OHG
=46ertig: Changes in the stem vowels of the German modal verbs

English Historical Syntax
Blockley: Subordination and word order in OE verse made explicit
Iyeiri: Negative contraction in ME verse and chronological conditions
Crawford: The impersonal construction in OE and syntactic theory

Sociolinguistics II
Benndorf: German-American clubs: Maintenance efforts & reality
Holsinger: Sociolinguistic variables in the speech of 19th
        century German students
Lane: Understanding dialect history through sociodemographic history:
       Thyboron, Denmark

4:30-5:50
Computers
Becker: Recasting Lautgesetze in computer code

Mood & Aspect
Arnett:  Processual and statal passives in Old Saxon: wesan
        vs. werdan
Mun: Referenzzeit und Temporale Perspektivzeit in Diskursanalyse des
        deutschen Perfekts

Word Order
Louden: Synchronic aspects of Pennsylvania German word order
Eichinger: Distanz als  Planungshilfe: Zur Funktion der Satzklammer im
        heutigen  Deutschen

8:30-9:30 Robert Stockwell:  Vocalization, length & diphthongs in Early Engl=
ish

Sunday, April 28
9-11:20
Consonantal  Changes
Stevens: On the bifurcation and repression theories
Denton: Versch=E4rfung & gemination: Processes in complementary distribution
=46ulk:  Consonant gemination in OE and West Germanic

The Syntax of NPs
te Velde:  Deriving conjoined NPs/DPs: Must the underlying structures be
        claused?
Sprouse: Germanic attributive adjectives in the Minimalist Program
Mallen: Genitive case matching in NPs in German

12-1 James Milroy:  Gender differentiation as a factor in language change

PREREGISTRATION FORM (mail by April 1)
Name:        _______________________________________

Address:     _______________________________________

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Phone:       _______________________________________

=46ax:         _______________________________________

Email:       _______________________________________

=46ee:               ___ Enclosed is $15 for registration.
                   ___ I am a student and wish to preregister (no fee).

SGP membership:    ___ I am a current SGP member.
                   ___ Enclosed is $25 for membership.
                   ___ Enclosed is $15 for student membership.

Total enclosed: ______ U.S. dollars

(SGP membership includes a subscription to the American Journal of Germanic
Linguistics & Literatures and to the SGP Newsletter.)

Mail to:   Robert B. Howell
           Dept of German
           818 Van Hise Hall
           1220 Linden Dr.
           Univ. of Wisconsin
           MADISON, WI 53706

Further information: Email Jeanne Schueller at jmschuel at students.wisc.edu.
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