15.3254, Confs: Linguistic Theories/Tromsoe, Norway

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LINGUIST List: Vol-15-3254. Fri Nov 19 2004. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

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Date: 17-Nov-2004
From: Sylvia Blaho < sylvia.blaho at hum.uit.no >
Subject: 13th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe 
 

	
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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:29:46
From: Sylvia Blaho < sylvia.blaho at hum.uit.no >
Subject: 13th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe 
 

13th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe 
Short Title: ConSOLE XIII 

Date: 02-Dec-2004 - 04-Dec-2004 
Location: Tromsoe, Norway 
Contact: Sylvia Blaho 
Contact Email: console at hum.uit.no 
Meeting URL: http://uit.no/castl/

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories 

Meeting Description: 

The Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL) at the
University of Tromsoe, Norway, is pleased to host the 13th annual
Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe, 2-4
December 2004.

ConSOLE, organised by a different European university every year, provides
a forum for students of linguistics from all over the world to present
independent research. 

REGISTRATION

Participants are asked to register on-line at http://uit.no/castl
For practical reasons, registration closes on 24th November.

PROGRAMME

Wednesday

19.00
Registration in Driv (Søndre Tollbugt. 3b)

Thursday

10.00
Conference opening

Chair: Nino Grillo (Siena/Utrecht)

10.10
MICHAEL WAGNER (MIT)
NPI-licensing and focus movement

10.50
MARTIN SALZMANN (Leiden)
Long-distance A'-movement disguised by phase-based argument spell-out

11.30
Break

Chair: Vyara Iskratkova (Tromsø)

11.45
HIROYOUCHI UCHIDA (UCL)
Indefinites: an extra-argument selection analysis

12.25
JIRO INABA (Frankfurt)
Extraposition and the head parameter

13.05
Lunch

Chair: Michael Wagner (MIT)

14.00
ZOLTÁN KISS (Budapest)
Graduality and closedness in consonantal phonotactics - a perceptually
grounded approach

14.40
LISA ROCHMAN (Ben Gurion)
The role of intonation in floating quantifiers

15.20
Break

Chair: Eytan Zweig (NYU)

15.35
JANNEKE HUITINK (Nijmegen)
Analyzing anankastic conditionals

16.15
EMAR MAIER (Nijmegen)
De re and de se in quantified belief reports

16.55
Break

Chair: Zhenya Romanova (Tromsø)

17.15
GILLIAN RAMCHAND (Tromsø) (invited)
Argument structure: from the Lexical Garden of Eden to the Land of Big Trees

Friday

Chair: Vera Prochazkova (Tromsø)

10.00
HIRONOBU KASAI (Harvard)
ATB movement and reconstruction

10.40
JAKUB DOTLACIL (Tromsø/Prague/Utrecht)
Non-local binding in Slavic and restructuring

11.20
Break

Chair: Lucie Medova (Princeton/Tromsø)

11.35
KRZYSZTOF MIGDALSKI (Tilburg)
On two types of perfect tenses in Slavic

12.15
FRANC MARUSIC (Stony Brook) & ROK ZAUCER (Ottawa)
A case for phonologically null lexical verbs

12.55
Lunch

Chair: Sara Mackenzie (Toronto)

14.00
LEENDERT PLUG (York)
Reduction and categorisation in exemplar-based phonological representation

14.40
JENNIFER NYCZ (NYU)
The dynamics of near-merger: accounting for gradience in phonology

15.20
Break

Chair: Luis Vicente (Leiden)

15.35
JAKUB FAST (Warsaw)
Structurally underspecified semantics for distributive plural predication

16.15
YUKIO FURUKAWA (McGill)
Why can bare NPs in Japanese have their universal readings in certain
environments?

16.55
Break

Chair: Patrik Bye (Tromsø)

17.15
CHARLES REISS (Concordia) (invited)
Substance-free phonology


Saturday

Chair: Kristine Bentzen (Tromsø)

10.00
HEATHER NEWELL (McGill)
>From happier to unhappier: morphological late adjunction

10.40
TOMOHIRO FUJI (Maryland)
Copy-raising and A-chain pronunciation

11.20
Break

Chair: Martin Salzmann (Leiden)

11.35
SCOTT FULTS (Maryland)
Matching and raising compared

12.15
NINO GRILLO (Siena/Utrecht)
Minimality effects in agrammatic comprehension

12.55
Lunch

Chair: Sylvia Blaho (Tromsø)

14.00
ELAN DRESHER (Toronto) (invited)
T. B. A.

15.00
Break

Chair: Mai Tungseth (Tromsø)

15.15
SARA MACKENZIE (Toronto)
Similarity and contrast in consonant harmony systems

15.55
MANAMI HIRAYAMA (Toronto)
Place asymmetry and markedness of labials in Japanese: evidence from loanwords

16.35
Break

Chair: Mark de Vos (Leiden)

16.50
MICHAL STARKE (Tromsø) (invited)
T. B. A.

17.50
Closing remarks

19.00
Conference dinner and party (Polarmiljøsenteret)


Alternates

BJÖRN ROTHSTEIN (Stuttgart)
Readings of the German present perfect

EYTAN ZWEIG (NYU)
Adjectival numerals and hidden nouns





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