19.1081, Confs: General Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 19.1081, Confs: General Linguistics/USA

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Date: 31-Mar-2008
From: Dave Kush < dave.w.kush at gmail.com >
Subject: University of Maryland - Mayfest 2008

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Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:27:22
From: Dave Kush [dave.w.kush at gmail.com]
Subject: University of Maryland - Mayfest 2008 
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University of MD - Mayfest 2008 

Date: 09-May-2008 - 10-May-2008 
Location: College Park, MD, USA 
Contact: Dave Kush 
Contact Email: dave.w.kush at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://ling.umd.edu/events/mayfest/2008/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

10th U of MD Mayfest! This year's topic: Island Perspectives. 

Every year the graduate students of the Linguistics Department of the
University of Maryland organize a linguistics workshop focusing on a
different aspect of language. 

Since Ross's (1967) dissertation, the constraints on long-distance dependencies
dubbed ''islands'' have been at the forefront of linguistic investigation. They
have had tremendous impact on theories of grammar, parsing, and acquisition, and
to this day remain a source of productive research. Our workshop aims to take
stock of the state-of-the-art approaches to island phenomena, and re-assess the
balance of explanation among several domains of inquiry:

Syntactic constraints and processes; 
Constraints on the interpretation of extraction from island domains; 
Processing models of real-time dependency formation; and 
Functional or pragmatic constraints on island-creating configurations. 

This year's Mayfest 2008 is a culminating event of the NSF-supported project:
''Islands and Linearization'' (Norbert Hornstein, Juan Uriagereka, & Howard Lasnik).

Mayfest 2008 has no registration fee and is open to all interested guests. We
strongly encourage anyone with an interest in language acquisition to attend our
workshop. Click here to register online!





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