11.2179, Confs: Michigan Linguistics Society Meeting

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Date:  Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:03:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:  kissock  <kissock at Oakland.edu>
Subject:  Michigan Linguistics Society Meeting

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Date:  Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:03:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:  kissock  <kissock at Oakland.edu>
Subject:  Michigan Linguistics Society Meeting

The Department of Linguistics at Oakland University
is hosting the Michigan Linguistics Society Annual
Meeting.  The tentative conference program is
below.

For more details and program updates for the
MLS meeting, please see the web site at:
http://www.lin.oakland.edu/MLS.html

Michigan Linguistics Society
Annual Meeting
Saturday, November 4, 2000
Oakland University
Gold Rooms, Oakland Center

Tentative Program


 8:30
           Registration (coffee and pastries)
 8:55
           Introductory Remarks
 9:00
           `Deriving Adjectives Syntactically'
           Scott Fults
           Linguistics Program, Eastern Michigan University
 9:20
           `Children's Negative Questions with Doubled Auxiliary Verbs'
           Kazuko Kiramatsu
           English Dept., University of Michigan-Flint
 9:40
           `Constituency and Phrase Structure in Spanish WH-Relative
	   Clauses'
           Jason D. Duncan
           Dept. of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese, Pennsylvania State
	   University
 10:00
           `Awareness and Skills: Some Reflections on Linguistic
	   Competence'
           Alice S. Horning
           Depts. of Rhetoric and Linguistics, Oakland University
 10:20
           Coffee Break
 10:40
           `Attributive, referential, de dicto and de re'
           Barbara Abbott
           Dept. of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African
	   Languages, Michigan State University
 11:00
           `Lexicon and Syntax Interface: A Unified Analysis of l w4'
           Boonjeera Chiravate
           Dept. of Lingusitics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African
	   Languages, Michigan State University
 11:20
           `Raising over the Experiencer in Spanish'
           Adolfo Ausin
           Dept. of Linguistics, University of Connecticut
 11:40
           `The Domain of Predication of Comparative
	   Conditionals: Evidence from Spanish'
           Eddy Gaytann
           Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Chicago State
	   University
 12:00
           `On the Phonosemantic Coherence of English Rimes'
           John M. Lawlor
           Dept. of Linguistics, University of Michigan
 12:20-1:40
           Lunch Break
 1:40
           `Is the `Arbitrary Interpreatation' a Semantic
	   Epiphenomenon?: Evidence from Spanish'
           Luis Alonso-Ovalle
           Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, University of
	   Massachusetts-Amherst
 2:00
           Aspect Phrase(s)
           Ljiljana Progovac
           English Dept., Wayne State University
 2:20
           `WH-in-situ and Across the Board Movement'
           Yu-fen Liou
           Dept. of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African
	   Languages, Michigan State University
 2:40
           `A Preliminary Assessment of Language Mixing in Santiagueno
	   Quichua in Northwestern Argentina'
           Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino
           Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, Temple University
 3:00
           `Passive and Topicalization: Beyond the Common View'
           Andrea Sans
           Dept. of Lingusitics, University of Pavia, Italy
 3:20
           Coffee Break
 3:40
           `The Descriptive Value of Redundancy Differentiation: Degrees
	   and Types of Grammaticality'
           Avram Hy Derrow
           Dept. of Linguistics, University of Michigan
 4:00
           `Phonation Types of Vietnamese Tones: New Evidence for
	   Phonological Features'
           Hoa Pham
           Dept. of Linguistics, University of Toronto
 4:20
           `The Use of `Sir' by Witnesses During Cross-Examination in a
	   Louisiana Criminal Trial'
           Kara Gibson
           Linguistics Program, Louisiana State University
 4:40
           `Ikalanga Benefactive Applicatives: Evidence for
	   Morphosyntactic Case Feature "Parameters"'
           Rose Letsholo
           Dept. of Linguistics, University of Michigan
 5:00-5:15
           Break
 5:15-6:15
           Keynote Speaker: Mark Hale
           Dept. of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Concordia
	   University
 6:15-7:15
           Reception for Conference Attendees


Alternates:

`The Acquisition of Mental State Terms  I:  Desire:  The Evidence from
Spanish'
Leo Ferres
Institute of Interdiscipinary Studies, Carleton University

`Disyllabicity in Japanese Loanword Truncation'
Cheng Chihjen
The Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chengchi University,
Taipei


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