10.456, Confs: Turkic Languages

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-456. Sun Mar 28 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.456, Confs: Turkic Languages

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Date:  Sat, 27 Mar 1999 12:43:45 -0000 (GMT)
From:  Cigdem Balim <cb at nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
Subject:  First Manchester Conference on Turkic Languages

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Date:  Sat, 27 Mar 1999 12:43:45 -0000 (GMT)
From:  Cigdem Balim <cb at nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
Subject:  First Manchester Conference on Turkic Languages


CONFERENCE- First Manchester Conference on Turkic Languages, Apr. 6-7

Organized by the Research Group on Central Asia and
the Caucasus and the North-West Centre for Linguistics

6-7 April 1999

University of Manchester, Oxford Road
Arts Building
Room: South Wing Ground floor 1 (SG1)

Website: http://www.art.man.ac.uk/german/nwcl/notebrd.htm#turkic


Tuesday, 06 April


10:00-10:30      Registration and Coffee
There is no registration fee, but those planning to attend should
contact Cigdem Balim (cb at nessie.mcc.ac.uk) in advance.

10:30-10:40      Opening Remarks

10:40-11:20     "Partitive constructions in Turkish"
                 Jaklin Kornfilt, Syracuse University

11:20-12:00     "Specificity and subject positions in Turkish"
                 Nigar G^nlsat Tosun, Harvard University

12:00-12:40     "Evidence for configurationality of Turkish in
                 early child language"
                 Natalie Batman-Ratyosyan & Karin Stromswold, Rutgers
                 University

12:40-14:00      Lunch

14:00-14:40      "Does Turkish prefer events to states?"
                 Celia Kerslake, University of Oxford

14:40-15:20      "Directives and the use of the modal adverbials
                 mutlaka and kesinlikle in Turkish"
                 S^nkriye Ruhi, Middle East Technical University

15:20-15:40      Tea

15:40-16:20      "Towards a typology of spatial deixis in Turkic
                 and Finno-Ugric"
                 Charles F. Carlson, Kazakh/Kirgiz Services, RFE/RL, Czech
                 Republic

16:20-17:00      "Towards a typological analysis of noun compounds
                 in Turkic and English"
                 Aida Sadikova, Kazan Pedagogical University


Wednesday, 07 April


10:00-10:40      "On agreement in modern Turkmen"
                 Engin Sezer, Harvard & Bilkent Universities

10:40-11:20      "Copied strategies of relativization in the area
                 Southeast Anatolia and Western Iran"
                 Christiane Bulut, Mainz University

11:20-12:00      "Relative constructions in Irano-Turkic"
                 Filiz Kiral, Mainz University

12:00-14:00      Lunch

14:00-15:00      Special session on language teaching and technology
                 "Teaching the languages of the Turks: where are we?"
                 Erika Gilson, Princeton University

15:00            Closing Remarks
                 Geoffrey Lewis, University of Oxford


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