Subject: negation : syntax , semantics and pragmatics

university of salford , greater manchester , uk european studies research institute north west centre for linguistics first annual international conference negation : syntax , semantics and pragmatics ( organiser : paul rowlett , salford ) friday 30 october to sunday 1 november 1998 faraday house , research & graduate college , university of salford , greater manchester , uk sponsored by : the british academy the linguistics association of great britain the french embassy in london keynote speakers william a laduasaw , ucsc , usa laurence r horn , yale , usa liliane haegeman , geneva , switzerland program ( booking form at the end of this posting ) friday 30 october 1998 8 . 45 - 9 . 15am registration and coffee 9 . 15 - 9 . 30am introduction and welcome 9 . 30-10 . 0am metalinguistic negation in focus , suengho ham , seoul university , korea 10 . 0-10 . 30am focus - induced neg-concord failures , vieri samek - lodovici , university college london , uk 10 . 30-11 . 0am the focusing negative ' mhaih ' in cantonese chinese : a look at contrastive and metalinguistic negation , juliet wai hong , university of texas at austin , usa 11 . 0-11 . 30am coffee 11 . 30am - 12noon compositional , inherent and frozen negation : lexicalism versus functional categories , kazuhiko fukushima , kansai gaidai university , japan 12noon - 1pm keynote lecture negation , saturation and predication , william ladusaw , university of california at santa cruz , usa 1 . 0 - 2 . 0pm lunch 2 . 0 - 2 . 30pm a minimalist approach to the syntax of multiple negation in french , hugues m . peters , university of the west indies , jamaica 2 . 30 - 3 . 0pm negation and the diachrony of features , anna roussou , university of wales , bangor , uk and ian roberts , stuttgart university , germany 3 . 0 - 3 . 30pm a lexical-functional approach to the syntax of negation in french , veronika knueppel , konstanz university , germany 3 . 30 - 4 . 0pm tea 4 . 0 - 4 . 30pm the riddle of n-words in polish : quantificational versus non-quantificational , universal versus existential , joanna blaszczak , humboldt university , berlin , germany 4 . 30 - 5 . 0pm negative polarity items in russian , asya pereltsvaig , mcgill university , montreal , canada 5 . 0 - 5 . 30pm negation in hungarian , john payne and erika chisarik , university of manchester , uk 6 . 0 - 7 . 0pm reception at blackwell 's campus bookshop saturday 31 october 1998 9 . 0 - 9 . 30am coffee 9 . 30-10 . 0am on romance sensitivity to non-veridicality , joao peres , university of lisbon , portugal 10 . 0-10 . 30am ( non - ) occurrence of sentential ' no ' in spanish negative sentences , javier martin - gonzalez , harvard university , usa 10 . 30-11 . 0am negation with [ - neg ] features , marie - therese vinet , sherbrooke university , quebec city , canada 11 . 0-11 . 30am coffee 11 . 30am - 12noon adverbial verb phrases and downwards monotonicity : negativity and the demorgan taxonomist 's dilemma , jay atlas , pomona college , california , usa 12noon - 1 . 0pm keynote lecture free - choice indefinites and the two ' any ' problem laurence r horn , yale university , usa 1 . 0 - 2 . 0pm lunch 2 . 0 - 2 . 30pm negative concord and the scope of universals , anastasia giannakidou , university of amsterdam , the netherlands 2 . 30 - 3 . 0pm procedural marking of propositional attitude in norwegian sentences with a negative ' wh ' - complement , thorsten fretheim , university of trondheim , norway 3 . 0 - 3 . 30pm some problems with the semantics of negation with reference to english and korean , hye - kung lee , university of cambridge , uk 3 . 30 - 4 . 0pm tea 4 . 0 - 4 . 30pm syntactic licensing of negative polarity , patrick a schindler , tuebingen university , germany 4 . 30 - 5 . 0pm the grammatical basis of polarity items , ana maria martins , university of lisbon , portugal 5 . 0 - 5 . 30pm the bi-polarity of ' any ' , lucia tovena , institute of scientific & technological research , trento , italy and jacques jayez , ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales , paris , france 5 . 30 - 6 . 30pm european studies research institute wine reception 8 . 0pm conference dinner ( manchester ) sunday 1 november 1998 9 . 0 - 9 . 30am coffee 9 . 30-10 . 0am focus particles in negative polarity in hindi , sharavan vasishth , ohio state university , usa 10 . 0-10 . 30am two types of negation in bengali , gillian ramchand , oxford university , uk 10 . 30-11 . 0am the syntax of negation and ov in late middle english , richard ingham , university of reading , uk 11 . 0-11 . 30am coffee 11 . 30-12 noon blocking effects in the expression of negation , jacob hoeksema , university of groningen , the netherlands 12noon - 1pm keynote lecture verb movement , tense and negation in west flemish , liliane haegeman , university of geneva , switzerland 1 . 0 - 2 . 0pm lunch 2 . 0 - 2 . 30pm negative polarity , modality and the comparative : a parametric approach , nathalie schapansky , simon fraser university , british colombia , canada 2 . 30 - 3 . 0pm negation and the acquisition of 's trong ' indefinites , irene kraemer , max planck institute for psycholinguistics , nijmegen , the netherlands 3 . 0 - 3 . 30pm head - movement in negation in english , annabel cormack and neil smith , university college london , uk 3 . 30 - 4 . 0pm tea alternates how many types of npi are there ? evidence from korean and english , chungmin lee , seoul national university , korea negative chains and operator movement , rita bhandari , suny , usa grammaticalization in progress : the development of a negative focus particle , ton van der wouden , universities of groningen & leiden , the netherlands negative constituent licensing in a negative concord language , nedzad leko , university of oslo , norway welsh negation , robert d borsley , university of wales , bangor , uk and bob morris - 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