10.254, Confs: Generative Linguistics in the Old World

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Subject: 10.254, Confs: Generative Linguistics in the Old World

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Date:  Wed, 17 Feb 1999 17:37:02 +0100
From:  Artemis Alexiadou <artemis at zas.gwz-berlin.de>
Subject:  Generative Linguistics in the Old World, Conference Program

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Date:  Wed, 17 Feb 1999 17:37:02 +0100
From:  Artemis Alexiadou <artemis at zas.gwz-berlin.de>
Subject:  Generative Linguistics in the Old World, Conference Program

Generative Linguistics in the Old World Conference.

The 22nd GLOW Conference is jointly organized by the Zentrum
fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) Berlin, the Department of
Linguistics of the University of Potsdam and LOT
(Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics).

The Colloquium Venue

The GLOW colloquium will be held at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy
of Sciences from 29th to 31st March 1999.

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Jaegerstrae 22/23
D - 10117 Berlin
Germany

The conference will then continue on 1st April with parallel
workshops held in Potsdam University.

Registration

Registration will take place on Sunday, March 28 from 18:00 to
approx. 20:00 at ZAS, Jaegerstr. 10/11, 10117 Berlin,
rooms 006/007 (groundfloor).
Participants arriving March 29 or later can register at the
registration desk in front of the conference room at the Academy
building.

A preregistration form can be found on our homepage:

http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/events/glow/index.htm

Main Session Program

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Jaegerstr. 22/23, Plenarsaal

Monday, March 29
09:00
Edwin Williams (Princeton University)
A Characterization of the Outer Bounds of
Head to Head Movement
10:00 COFFEE  BREAK
10:30
Robert Frank, Paul Hagstrom (Johns Hopkins University) &
K. Vijay-Shanker (U. Delaware) Roots,
Constituents and C-Command
11:30
Matt Pearson (UCLA) X(P)-Movement and Word Order Typology: 'Direct' versus
'Inverse' Languages
12:30 LUNCH  BREAK
14:00 Juan Romero (MIT) Are Agreement Features Universal?
15:00
J.D. Bobaljik (McGill) The Difference between -nin and -nen:
Constraints on Contextual Allomorphy
16:00 TEA  BREAK
16:30
Elena Anagnostopoulou (U. Crete) Person Restrictions
17:30
Jaume Mateu & Gemma Rigau (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Universals of Lexico-syntactic Typology
and Parametric Variation

19:00 Mouton  de Gruyter invites to a reception next door

Tuesday, March 30

09:00
Ian Roberts (U. Stuttgart) & Anna Roussou (U. Cyprus)
Language Change and Universals
10:00 COFFEE  BREAK
10:30
Yoonjung Kang (MIT) Phonetic Basis of Coronal Phono-tactics
11:30
Joao Costa & M. Joao Freitas (U. Lisbon) On the Non-Universality of
Unmarked Values: Evidence from Syntax and Phonology
12:30 LUNCH  BREAK
14:00
Murat Kural (UC Irvine) A Four-Way Classification of Monadic Verbs
15:00
Shalom Zuckerman (U. Groningen) Economy-Based Markedness as a
Universal for Language Acquisition
16:00 TEA  BREAK
16:30
Guglielmo Cinque (U. Venezia) 'Restructuring' and the Universal
Hierarchy of Functional Heads
17:30 BUSINESS  MEETING

Wednesday, March 31
09:00
Norvin Richards (Kanda U.) Pied-piping and Islands: the that-trace Effect
10:00 COFFEE  BREAK
10:30
Joachim Sabel (U. Frankfurt am Main) A Unified Analysis of Wh- and
Non-Wh-Expletives
11:30
Maya Arad (MIT) "Transitivity" as a Universal: the Status of v
12:30 LUNCH  BREAK
14:00
Luis Lopez (U. Missouri) On the (Non)complementarity of Theta Theory
and Checking Theory
15:00
 C. Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS) Spec, DP and (In)definiteness Spread
16:00 TEA  BREAK
16:30
Philippe Schlenker (MIT) A Unified Theory of Pronouns and Tense in
Attitude Contexts
17:30
Dominique Sportiche (UCLA) Reconstruction, Constituency and Morphology

19:30 GLOW  PARTY, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences


ALTERNATE  PAPERS  (SYNTAX):
Zeljko Boskovic (U. Connecticut): What is Special about Multiple
Wh-Fronting
Daniela Isac (U. Bucharest): Negative Concord
Ad Neeleman & Hans van de Koot (UCL): The Configurational Matrix

ALTERNATE  PAPERS  (MORPHOLOGY):
Anthi Revithiadou (U. Massachusetts): The Root-Affix Metaconstraint
and the Theory of Heads

ALTERNATE  PAPERS  (PHONOLOGY):
Ping Jiang-King (Chinese U. of Hong Kong): Universal Constraints of
Tonal Inventories across Chinese Dialects

GLOW Workshops
University of Potsdam

Workshop I: Sources of Universals

9:00
Juliette Blevins University of Cambridge -invited speaker-
Some phonotactic universals and their origins
10:00   COFFEE BREAK
10:30
Jaume Mateu Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Universals of semantic construal for lexical syntactic relations
11:30
Elisa Di Domenico Firenze
On the syntactic organization of agreement features
12:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:00
Jane Grimshaw  Rutgers University -invited speaker-
Sources of Universals in Optimality Theory
15:00
Luigi Burzio Johns Hopkins University
Representations as sources of entailments:
the self-organizing nature of the lexicon.
16:00  TEA BREAK
16:30 Hubert Haider   Salzburg invited discussant
TBA
17:30 Possibility for open discussion

Workshop II: Technical Aspects of Movement

9:00
Michael Brody -INVITED SPEAKER- UCL/HAS
 t.b.a.
10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:30
Tom Cornell Universitaet Tuebingen
On Representing Minimalist Derivations
11:30
Andrea Moro Universita San Raffaele, Milano
Dynamic Antisymetry and wh-movement
12:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:00
Marcus Kracht Freie Universitaet Berlin
Multidominance Structures
15:00
M. Rita Manzini and Anna Roussou UCL/Florence and Cyprus
Movement without traces
16:00 TEA BREAK
16:30
John Edward Drury   University of Maryland
Movement as Re-Merge & Command as Sub-Derivational
Precedence
17:30
Edward Stabler  -INVITED SPEAKER- University of California Los Angeles
t.b.a.

Alternates:

Ulf Brosziewski , Universitaet zu Koeln. A Combinatory Theory of
Movement.
Galina M. Alexandrova , University of Ottawa. When Move-F(eature)
makes sense.

Workshop III: Phonetics in Phonology

9:00
Daniel Silverman University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
On allophonic relations:
honetic similarity or functional identity?
10:00  COFFEE BREAK
10:30
Paul Boersma University of Amsterdam
There are no arbitrary substantive universals in phonology
11:30
Reese Heitner City University of New York
Revisiting Roger Brown's 'original word game': an experimental
approach to the semantic basis of language-specific speech
perception in late infancy
12:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:00
Edward Flemming Stanford University invited speaker
TBA
15:00
Darin Howe & Douglas Pulleyblank University of British Columbia
Patterns of glottalization in Wakashan
16:00 TEA BREAK
16:30
 Colin Wilson Johns Hopkins University
Positional faithfulness, licenser avoidance,
and harmonic ordering
17:30
Donca Steriade UCLA invited speaker
 TBA

Alternates:

1. Hyunsoon Kim (Sogang University, Seoul): "An optimality-theoretic
account of phonological affrication and
frication: a functional approach"

2. K.G. Vijayakrishnan (CIEFL, Hyderabad): "An optimality account of
grounded laryngeal configurations: the
case of Banglia, English and Meitei (Manipuri)"

For more information on the conference, travel and accommodation
visit:

http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/events/glow/index.htm
http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/ik/glow.html

Email to the organizers:

glow99 at zas.gwz-berlin.de
glow_workshop at ling.uni-potsdam.de

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