16.360, Confs: General Ling/Manchester, UK

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Date: 03-Feb-2005
From: Nuria Yanez-Bouza < nuriya at mixmail.com >
Subject: 14th Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics at Manchester (UK) 

	
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Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 06:17:49
From: Nuria Yanez-Bouza < nuriya at mixmail.com >
Subject: 14th Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics at Manchester (UK) 
 

14th Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics at Manchester (UK) 

Date: 04-Mar-2005 - 04-Mar-2005 
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom 
Contact: Nuria Yanez-Bouza 
Contact Email: pgconference2005 at hotmail.co.uk 
Meeting URL: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

14th Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics at the University of Manchester

Friday 4th March 2005, 9.00am-5.30pm in the Coupland 3 Building at The University of 
Manchester

contact email: pgconference2005 at hotmail.co.uk 

contact address: 
14th Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics at Manchester
Department of Linguistics and English Language
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
UK 

The University of Manchester, 
Coupland Building 3, LG 9 & LG 10

8.30	Registration and welcoming

9.00	
(1) Mark McConville, Edinburgh
Inheritance and the categorial lexicon 	
(2) Christiana Themistocleous, Manchester
Diglossia in Cyprus: Investigation in the domain of the internet

9.30	
(3) Robert Truswell, UCL
Strong islands and phases at the interfaces	
(4) Yuen-yi Sandy Lo, Manchester
A preliminary study of code-switching of the Manchester Chinese community

10.00	
(5) Yicheng Wu, University of Edinburgh
How an anomalous construction becomes acceptable: A dynamic account
	
(6) Jenny Sia, Birkbeck College - London
Are you Bilingual?

10.30	Coffee/Tea Break

11.00	
(7) Nuria García Ordiales, UCD
Cl2 in Asturian: A derivation by phase analysis
(8) Nodira Isamukhamedova, The Uzbek State World Languages University
Cognitive analysis in the assessment of the adequacy of literary translation (Evidence from English 
- Russian - Uzbek translation)

11.30	
(9) Lucy Carey, Durham
Structural narrative analysis: Assessing language abilities in autism
	
(10) Ziwei Huang, Nottingham
Evaluation of literary metaphor in Michèle Roberts' Playing Sardines - A text-world analytical 
approach

12 - 13	Lunch

13.00-14.00	
Guest Speaker (Theatre C) 
PROF. GEOFFREY LEECH, University of Lancaster

14.00	
(11) Sandra Döring, Leipzig (Germany)
Parentheses in Modern German	
(12) Arnaud Richard & Stephane Riou, University Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3 (France)
« Dopage du riche » versus « Dopage du pauvre » (« Rich's doping » versus « Poor's doping ») 
Why does the language need to reflect a vision of the reality.

14.30	
(13) Wei-chen Hsu, Essex 
An OT perspective on second language phonology: Acquisition of English two-consonant word-
final clusters by Taiwanese learners	
(14) Michael Camenzuli Chetcuti, Manchester
Language and Thought in Normal and Handicapped Children

15.00	Coffee/Tea Break

15.30	
(15) Glenda Newton, Cambridge 
The contribution of the Old Irish verbal system to the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European 
syntax
(16) Linet Frey, Cambridge
Mechanism of suppression - A central cognitive skill?

16.00	
(17) Efthymios Sipetzis, Cambridge
Excursus in the evolution of the case system in Greek
(18) Lin Jiang, Essex
L2 acquisition of English 'pronominality' by Chinese speakers

16.30	
(19) Miriam Bouzouita, King's College London
Object clitic placement in Medieval & Renaissance Spanish: A dynamic syntax account
	
(20) Maja Milicevic, Cambridge
Transfer of L1 morphology in L2 acquisition of verbal reflexives by English and Serbian learners of 
Italian

17.00	
(21) Tim Nisbet, Reading
Benefactives in Germanic	
(22) Milja Djurkovic, Cambridge
L1 acquisition of the passive and impersonal in Serbian: Structural vs. frequency effects





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