8.88, Confs: Texas Lx Society, RWC '97,COLING/ACL-98

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Subject: 8.88, Confs: Texas Lx Society, RWC '97,COLING/ACL-98

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1)
Date:  Tue, 21 Jan 1997 02:43:51 -0700
From:  rblight at mail.utexas.edu (rblight)
Subject:  Texas Linguistics Society 1997

2)
Date:        22 JAN 97 12:54:18 EST
From:  PONeillBrown at doc.gov
Subject:     RWC '97

3)
Date:  Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:07:33 -0500
From:  isabelle at citi.doc.ca (P. Isabelle [TAO])
Subject:  COLING/ACL-98, first announcement

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 21 Jan 1997 02:43:51 -0700
From:  rblight at mail.utexas.edu (rblight)
Subject:  Texas Linguistics Society 1997

Below is the program for the 1997 Texas Linguistics Society
conference. A copy of this program, as well as information about
registration, housing, and transportation is currently available at
our website, http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/
If you have any additional questions, contact us at
tls at uts.cc.utexas.edu



            1997 Conference of the Texas Linguistics Society
               The Syntax and Semantics of Prediation
                       March 7 - 9, 1997
                The University of Texas at Austin


Friday, March 7

8:00-9:00AM -             Registration

9:00-9:30AM -             Opening Remarks

9:30-10:10AM -            Manuel Espanol-Echerarria (UCLA)
                          The Role of Predication in the Syntatic Licensing
of                            Purposive Adjuncts

10:10-10:50AM -           Youngjun Jang (Harvard University)
                          On the So-called Adjunct Predicates in Korean

10:50-11:30AM -           Yunsun Jung (Harvard University)
                          Obligatory Adjuncts

11:30-12:30PM -         LUNCH

12:30-1:10PM -            Dalina Kallulli (University of Durham)
                          NP Predicates

1:10-1:50PM -             Tony Badia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona)
                          Predicative Structures of Nominals in HPSG

1:50-2:30PM -             Nancy Mae Antrim (The University of Texas at El
Paso)

                          Interfacing Syntax and Semantics: The Predication
of Possession

2:30-2:45PM -           BREAK

2:45-3:25PM -             Veerle van Geenhoven (Max Planck Institut for
                         Psicolinguistik) & Louise McNally
                          (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

                          De Dicto Readings Via Semantic Incorporation

3:25-4:05PM -             Sheila Glasbey (University of Edinburgh)
                          I-level Predicates that Give Existential Readings
                          for Bare Plurals

4:05-4:45PM -             Francisco Gonzalvez Garcia    (University of
                           California, Santa Barbara)
                          A Modality View of Predicate Selection in Small
                          Clauses

4:45-5:00PM -            BREAK

5:00-6:00PM -             KEYNOTE #1- William Ladusaw (UC, Santa
                           Cruz)
                          TBA

Saturday, March 8

8:30-9:00AM -            Registration

9:00-10:00AM -            KEYNOTE #2 - Edwin Williams (Princeton
                          University)
                          The Asymmetry of Predication

10-10:10AM -             BREAK

10:10-10:50AM -           Stephen Wechsler (The University of Texas at
                          Austin)
                          Resultative Predicates and Control

10:50-11:30AM -           Leonard Babby (Princeton University)
                          Subject Control vs. Direct Predication

11:30-12:30PM -          LUNCH

12:30-1:10PM -            John Bowers (Cornell University)
                          A Binary Analysis of Resultatives

1:10-1:50PM -             Anke Luedeling (University of Tuebingen)
                          Strange Resultatives in German

1:50-2:30PM -             Soowon  Kim (University of Washington) & Joan
                          Maling (Brandeis University)
                          A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on Resultative
                          Formation

2:30-2:45PM -            BREAK

2:45-3:25PM -             Knud Lambrecht (The University of Texas at
                           Austin)
                          French Relative Clauses as Secondary Predicates

3:25-4:05PM -             Helen de Hoop (University of Groningen)
                          Optional Scrambling and Predication

4:05-4:15PM -            BREAK

4:15-4:55PM -             Ivy Sichel (City University of New York Graduate
                           Center)
                          Two Pronominal Copulas and the Syntax of Non-
                           Verbal Predication in Hebrew

4:55-5:35PM -             Caroline  Heycock (University of Edinburgh) &
                           Antony Kroch (University of Pennsylvania)
                          The Non-reducability of Equation to Predication


Sunday, March 9

8:30-9:00AM -            Registration

9:00-10:00AM -            KEYNOTE #3 - Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan
                           University)
                          Predicational 'Be'

10-10:10AM -             BREAK

10:10-10:50AM -           Andre Meinunger (Zentrum fur Allgemeine
                           Sprachwissenschaft)

                          The Structure of Cleft and Pseudo-cleft Sentences

10:50-11:30AM -           Eun Cho (Cornell University)
                          External Argument, Predicate Phrase, and Multiple
                           Feature Checking Theory

11:30-11:45AM -          BREAK

11:45-12:25PM -           Hotze Rullmann (University of Groningen) & Jan-
                           Wouter  Zwart (University of Groningen)
                          Subjects with Semantic Types of Predicates

12:25-1:05PM -            Hamida Demirdache (University of British
                           Columbia)
                          Predication Times in Statimcets Salish







-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:        22 JAN 97 12:54:18 EST
From:  PONeillBrown at doc.gov
Subject:     RWC '97

For information about the 1997 Real World Computing Symposium to be
held in Tokyo Jan. 29-31, go to:

http://www.rwcp.or.jp/events/rwc97e.html

Patti O'Neill-Brown
Japan Technology Analyst
Asia Pacific Technology Program
U.S. Department of Commerce


-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:07:33 -0500
From:  isabelle at citi.doc.ca (P. Isabelle [TAO])
Subject:  COLING/ACL-98, first announcement




			    COLING/ACL-98
			  FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT


I am pleased to announce that the 17th International Conference on
Computational Linguistics (COLING-98) and the 36th Annual Meeting of
the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-98) will be
combined into a single major event: COLING/ACL-98.

This landmark conference will take place during the week of August
10-14, 1998 on the main campus of the Universite de Montreal (Quebec,
Canada).

More information, including a call for papers, will be published in
due course.

	-- Pierre Isabelle
	   Chair, COLING/ACL-98 Organizing Committee

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