Subject: linguistics association of great britain

linguistics association of great britain the 1995 autumn meeting will be held from monday 18 september to wednesday 20 september at the university of essex , where the association will be the guests of the department of language and linguistics . enquiries and bookings ( by 25 august ) should be sent to : lagb 1995 , david britain and stella markantonatou , department of language and linguistics , university of essex , colchester , essex , great britain co4 3sq . events : the henry sweet lecture 1995 on the monday evening will be delivered by professor edwin williams ( princeton ) , and is entitled " focus and anaphoric destressing " . there will also be a special guest lecture by professor greg stump ( kentucky ) , entitled " the autonomy of morphomic indexing " . professor williams will also be participating in a workshop on the topic of ellipsis , focus and anaphora , on the monday afternoon . the workshop is organised by david adger ( york ) ; other contributors are caroline heycock ( edinburgh ) , ruth kempson , ( soas ) and wynn chao ( soas ) . there will be a language tutorial on the australian language kayardild ( note change of language ) , given by dr nicholas evans ( melbourne ) . kayardild is a tangkic language of bentinck island , north west queensland , and the two sessions will aim to cover the main features of the grammar , exemplified as far as possible through study of a traditional text . after situating the language sociolinguistically , most of the tutorial will deal with morphosyntactic features of typological interest , in particular with its complex and unusual nominal morphology : the use of ' modal case ' to signal mood and tense categories on nps within the vp ; a further use of ' complementizing case ' , marked on every word of a clause , to show interclausal relations , and the phenomenon of case stacking that leads to nouns inflecting for up to four cases , forcing morphological representations to have ( finitely ) recursive case features . a final feature of nominal case morphology is the presence of a subset of case suffixes , known to tangkicists as ' verbal case ' , which , though demonstrably an inflectional category , converts the morphological class of its host from nominal to verb , thus posing problems to the view that inflections never change word class . internet home page : the lagb internet home page is now active at the following address : http : / / clwww . essex . ac . uk / lagb . electronic network : please join the lagb electronic network which is used for disseminating lagb information and for consulting members quickly . it can be subscribed to by sending the message " add lagb " to : listserv @ postman . essex . ac . uk . programme : monday 18 september 1995 2 . 00 workshop : " ellipsis , focus and anaphora " organised by david adger ( york ) ; participants : edwin williams ( princeton ) , caroline heycock ( edinburgh ) , ruth kempson , ( soas ) , wynn chao ( soas ) . 7 . 45 henry sweet lecture 1995 : edwin williams ( princeton ) tuesday 19 september 1995 session a 9 . 00 j . m . de wind ( amsterdam ) " inverted subjects in french , nominative case - checking and expletive pro in antisymmetric minimalism " 9 . 40 anna pettiward ( soas ) " agreement & optionality in french : a conflicting account " 10 . 20 alison henry ( university of ulster at jordanstown ) " dialect variation and minimalist syntax " session b 9 . 00 richard breheny ( ucl ) " revisions in relevance theory and enrichment " 9 . 40 vladimir zegarac ( middlesex ) " three connectives in serbo - croat " 10 . 20 anna papafragou ( ucl ) " the comprehension of metonymy " session c 9 . 00 andrew spencer ( essex ) " agreement morphology is morphology " 9 . 40 lynne j cahill & gerald gazdar ( sussex ) " from syllable to inflection in german " 10 . 20 andrew hippisley ( surrey ) " russian lexeme formation : a lexeme-based approach to derivational morphology in datr " session a 11 . 30 helge lodrup ( oslo ) " norwegian resultatives , unaccusativity , and lexical mapping theory " 12 . 10 corinne cortes ( barcelona ) " the unaccusative hypothesis and the syntax - lexical semantics interface " session b 11 . 30 marjolein groefsema ( hertfordshire ) " processing for relevance " 12 . 10 mark durrant - peatfield & william marslen - wilson " the role of the discourse representation in immediate zero anaphor resolution " session c 11 . 30 victoria c . mueller gathercole ( bangor / florida ) " the acquisition of the mass / count distinction by bilingual vs . monolingual children " 12 . 10 greville g . corbett and marianne mithun ( surrey and university of california , santa barbara ) " associative forms in central alaskan yup ' ik : implications for the typology of number systems " session a 2 . 00 richard hudson ( ucl ) " syntactic complexity " 2 . 40 josef taglicht ( the hebrew university of jerusalem ) " syntactic constraints on intonational phrasing in english " 3 . 20 dimitra kolliakou ( edinburgh ) " possessives and pseudo - possessives : an hpsg account " session b 2 . 00 hussein m . al - ageli ( essex ) " optimally degenerate : super heavy syllables in msa " 2 . 40 zaharani ahmad ( essex ) " optimality and malay vowel sequences " 3 . 20 kuniya nasukawa ( tohoku gakuin ) " melodic structure and no constraint-ranking in japanese verbal inflexion " session c 2 . 00 maggie tallerman ( durham ) " the middle welsh ' historic infinitive ' " 2 . 40 najib jarad ( bangor / aleppo ) " the rise of " for " in middle english to - infinitives " 3 . 20 m . siobh n cottell ( bangor ) " predication in copular and cleft constructions in modern irish " 4 . 30 lagb business meeting 5 . 30 special guest lecture greg stump ( kentucky ) " the autonomy of morphomic indexing " 7 . 45 language tutorial : kayardild nicholas evans ( melbourne ) wednesday 20 september 1995 session a 9 . 00 peter sells ( stanford ) " ' subject ' raising in the philippine languages " 9 . 40 jim miller ( edinburgh ) " the english perfect and specific time adverbs " session b 9 . 00 bruce l . peng ( singapore ) " a rule - based analysis of nasal harmony " 9 . 40 ann denwood ( london ) " khalkha - mongolian - vowel harmony or head alignment " 10 . 20 phillip backley and toyomi takahashi ( ucl and surugadai ) " activate alpha : harmony without spreading " session c 9 . 40 george j . xydopoulos ( ucl ) " on aspect - sensitive adverbials in modern greek " 10 . 20 inga kohlhof ( tuebingen ) " the interaction of syntax and discourse reference in adverbial quantification in german " session a 11 . 30 marga petter ( vrije universiteit amsterdam ) " external authority theta - roles of deontic modals and their interference with control " 12 . 10 miriam engelhardt ( the hebrew university ) " control as predication " session b 11 . 30 faisal al - mohanna ( essex ) " on the role of extrametricality in stress systems " 12 . 10 judith m . broadbent ( survey of english usage , ucl ) " a reanalysis of certain consonant - vowel interactions in maltese arabic " session c 11 . 30 akiko yoshimura ( osaka gakuin ) " negative polarity in comparatives : the need for contrastive assumptions " 12 . 10 michael t . wescoat ( osaka ) " lexical sharing and english " headless " noun phrases " 2 . 00 language tutorial : kayardild nicholas evans ( melbourne ) 4 . 00 tea and close booking form please return this form , with your remittance , by 25 august to : lagb 1995 , david britain and stella markantonatou , department of language and linguistics , university of essex , colchester , essex , great britain co4 3sq . please make cheques payable to " university of essex " . name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . name of your institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . address for this mailing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . email address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i enclose remittance as indicated : either 1 . complete conference package ( a ) or ( b ) : ( a ) including monday lunch preceding workshop ( i ) if sent to arrive before 25 august 107-30 sterling . . . . . . . . . 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