LAGB Autumn Meeting: University of Hertfordshire

                    Thursday 4 September 1997

                           1.00  LUNCH

2.00      Workshop: Celtic Syntax
             Organiser: Maggie Tallerman (Durham)

2.00      "Introduction to Celtic exotica"
             Maggie Tallerman (Durham)

2.10      "Word order in finite clauses"
              Bob Borsley (University of Wales Bangor)

2.35      "V2 in Brythonic and Goedelic"
              David Willis (Oxford) & Cathal Doherty (University
                                                                Colle=
ge Dublin)

                             3.30 TEA

4.00      "Infinitival clauses in Brythonic"
              Maggie Tallerman (Durham)

4.20      "Infinitival clauses in Goedelic"
             Gillian Ramchand (Oxford) & David Adger (York)

5.05      Progress in Celtic linguistics
            Jim McCloskey (University of California at Santa Cruz)

                           6.30  DINNER

7.45                   Henry Sweet Lecture:
                    Jim McCloskey (University of California at Santa =
Cruz)
                    Building clauses - in Irish and in general


                     Friday 5 September 1997

Session A
9.00      Ricardo Berm=A3dez-Otero (Manchester/Santiago de Compostela=
)
             "Factorial  typology and language change"
9.40      Debra Ziegeler (Michigan State University)
            "Ontogenetic-diachronic parallels in retention"
10.20    Guy Deutscher (Cambridge) "Before syntactic and
              lexical-semantic control? Evidence from Babylonian"

Session B
9.00      Anna Papafragou (UCL) "Modal expressions in early child
             language"
9.40      Indra Sinka, Michael Garman and Christina Schelletter
             (Reading) "Tense, agreement and optional infinitives: Bi=
lingual evidence from
             English, German and Latvian"
10.20    Susan Clack (University of Wales Bangor) "The optional
             infinitive in child Welsh"

Session C
9.00      Philip Miller (Lille III) "Complements vs adjuncts: Some
             tests which are supposed to distinguish them but don't r=
eally do so"
9.40      Ursel Luhde (University of Wales Bangor) "Ergativity,
             telicity and auxiliary  selection in motion verbs"
10.20     Maya Arad (UCL) "Are unaccusatives aspectually
              characterized?"

                          11.00  COFFEE

11.30                Language Tutorial: Welsh
                 Gwen Awbrey (University of Wales Cardiff)
                & Bob Morris Jones (University of Wales Aberystwyth)

                           1.00  LUNCH

Session A
2.00      Andrew Spencer & Marina Zaretskaya (Essex) "Inflection,
            derivation and the lexeme - evidence from the Russian lex=
icon"
2.40      Tessa Say & Harald Clahsen (Essex) "Regular and irregular
            inflection in the mental lexicon: evidence from Italian"
3.20      Mark Donohue & Kersti Borjars (Manchester) "Much ado about
            nothing: features and zeroes in morphology"

Session B
2.00      Bernadette Plunkett (York) "The status of root clause
complementisers"
2.40      M. Siobhan Cottell (University of Wales Bangor) "A raising
             analysis of cleft constructions"
3.20      Kook-Hee Gill (Edinburgh) & George Tsoulas (York)
            "Predication, Existence, Possession and the double subjec=
t construction in Korean"

Session C
2.00      Marjolein Groefsema (Hertfordshire) "Concepts as word
             meanings: a dynamic  view"
2.40      Corinne Iten (UCL) "The relation between causal and
             concessive connectives"
3.20      Richard Breheny (UCL) "The pragmatics of weak and strong
             readings of definites"

                            4.00  TEA

4.30                  LAGB Business Meeting

Session A
5.30      Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin/UCL) "Licensing chain and
             potential strength"

Session B
5.30      Louisa Sadler (Essex) "Clitics and the hierarchy of
             constructions/morphological  blocking"

Session C
5.30      S.J. Hannahs & Maggie Tallerman (Durham) "Wackernagel
            revisited: second position phenomena in P-Celtic"

                           6.30  DINNER

7.45                    Language Tutorial
            Gwen Awbrey (University of Wales Cardiff)
           & Bob Morris Jones (University of Wales Aberystwyth)


                    Saturday 6 September 1997


Session A
9.00      Louisa Sadler, Andrew Spencer & Ana Lu=A1s (Essex) "Tensed
             pronouns in English"
9.40      Kersti Borjars (Manchester), Kate Burridge (La Trobe) & Sue
             Spence (Manchester) "From complementiser to inflection? =
The
             fer...zu construction in  Pennsylvania German"
10.20    Dick Hudson (UCL) "The case of Icelandic PRO"

Session B
9.00      Mary Lou Grimberg (Hertfordshire) "The univocality of
             pro-terms: arguments against REF"
9.40      Steve Nicolle (Middlesex) "The effect of modal auxiliaries
             on `immediate inference' tasks: an investigation into Re=
levance and
             Mental Models"
10.20    David Tugwell (Edinburgh) "Dynamic syntax and the
             architecture of the language
            faculty"

Session C
9.00      Nicholas Sherrard (Essex) "Blending theory - correspondence
             theory with multiple inputs"
9.40      Zaharani Ahmad (Essex) "There are no "glides" in Malay: an
             Optimality Theoretic account"
10.20    Faisal Al-Mohanna (Essex) "The superheavy syllable in
             Arabic: An OT account"

                          11.00  COFFEE

11.30                   Language Tutorial
            Gwen Awbrey (University of Wales Cardiff)
           & Bob Morris Jones (University of Wales Aberystwyth)

                           1.00  LUNCH

Session A
2.00      David Adger (York) "Modals and type underspecification"
2.40      Anastasia Giannakidou & Melita Stavrou (Groningen/Aristotle
             University, Thessaloniki) "Nominal subdeletion, substant=
ivization and
             the syntax-semantics interface"
3.20      Ivan A. Derzhanski (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
            "Presupposition and interrogation"

Session B
2.00      Siety Meijer (Hertfordshire) "Lexical and non-lexical
             prepositions"
2.40      Andrew Caink (Durham) The South Slavic Cluster at the
             Lexical and PF interfaces"
3.20      Mark Donohue (Manchester) "Syntactic roles and semantic
             roles in grammar:  evidence for external possession"

Session C
2.00      Jeanine Treffers-Daller (Hertfordshire) "A psychological
             account of variability in code-switching"

                       4.00  TEA AND CLOSE