LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN

Autumn Meeting 1995: University of Essex

Second Circular

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. The Local Organisers are (David
Britain dbritain@essex.ac.uk) and Stella Markantonatou
(marks@essex.ac.uk). Enquiries 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.

Accommodation will be in South Courts and the talks will be
held in the Lecture Theatre Block, which is nearby (within two
minutes walk). Registration will begin at 10am on Monday the
18th in the Lecture Theatre foyer.

Travel: There are railway stations at Colchester (short trip
by taxi to campus) or Wivenhoe (short trip by bus to campus),
served by trains to/from London Liverpool Street. Train
travellers from Scotland and the North-East can avoid London
by travelling via Peterborough and Ipswich. There is a
National Express Coach Service both to London and the
Midlands. By car, Colchester, lies on the A12 which connects
with the M25 for those travelling from the South and West and
with the A14 for those driving from Scotland, the North and
the Midlands. Free parking is available to those attending the
conference (please indicate on the booking form
Colchester is also a short train journey from
both Harwich and Felixstowe, two important ports with ferry
connections to Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Belgium. The
nearest airport is London Stansted, a 45 minute drive away.

Parking: Free parking is available. To obtain a permit, tick the
appropriate space on the enclosed booking form.

Events: The Henry Sweet Lecture 1995 on the Monday evening
will be delivered by Professor Edwin Williams (Princeton).

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.

Human Language Series: Participants will also be given the
opportunity to view three films in this series which has now
become available for educational use in the United Kingdom.
The films, produced and directed by Gene Searchinger, aim to
introduce fundamental questions in the study of language.
(Originally planned for the Newcastle meeting).

Bookings should be sent to the Local Organisers, address
above, to arrive by 25 August. Cheques should be made payable
to "University of Essex".

Guests: Members may invite any number of guests to meetings of
the association, upon payment of a guest invitation fee of 5
pounds. Members wishing to invite guests should photocopy the enclosed
booking form.

Abstracts are available to members who are unable to attend
the meeting. Please order from the Local Organiser on the
booking form below.

Business Meeting: This is to be held on the afternoon of
Tuesday 19 September. Items for the agenda should be sent to
the Honorary Secretary.

Nominations for speakers: Nominations are requested for future
guest speakers; all suggestions should be sent to the Honorary
Secretary.

Changes of address: Members are reminded to notify the
Membership Secretary (address below) of changes of address. An
institutional address is preferred; bulk mailing saves
postage.

Committee members:

President
Professor Grev Corbett, Linguistic and International Studies,
University of Surrey, GUILDFORD, Surrey, GU2 5XH. e-mail:
g.corbett@surrey.ac.uk

Honorary Secretary
Dr. David Adger, Dept. of Language and Linguistic Science,
University of York, Heslington, York. YO1 5DD. e-mail:
da4@tower.york.ac.uk.

Membership Secretary
Dr. Kersti Borjars, Department of Linguistics, University of
Manchester, MANCHESTER M13 9PL. e-mail: k.e.borjars@
manchester.ac.uk

Meetings Secretary
Dr. Billy Clark, Communication Studies, Middlesex University,
Trent Park, Bramley Road, LONDON N14 4XS. e-mail: billy1@mdx.
ac.uk

Treasurer
Dr. Paul Rowlett, Dept. of Modern Languages, University of
Salford, Salford M 4WT. e-mail: p.a.rowlett@mod-lang.
salford.ac.uk

Assistant Secretary
Dr. April McMahon, Dept. of Linguistics, University of
Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, CAMBRIDGE CB3 9DQ. e-mail:
AMM11@phx.cam.ac.uk

BLN Editor
Dr. Sue-Yiew Killingley, Grevatt and Grevatt, 9 Rectory Drive,
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE NE13 1XT.

Employment exchange: Dr. Killingley is also the employment
exchange organiser. Tel: 0191-285-8083 10.00-12.45 and
14.00-16.00 weekdays (sometimes working at other venues during
the day - ring 20.00-21.00 weekdays if necessary).

British Linguistic Newsletter: Members are reminded that they
can subscribe to BLN (ISBN0964-6574) by contacting the Editor,
Dr. S-Y. Killingley. Subscriptions for BLN are not to
be sent to the LAGB Treasurer.

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.

Future Meetings:

Spring 1996 April 11-13, University of Sussex.

Autumn 1996 September 7-9, Cardiff Institute of Higher Education.

Spring 1997 (provisional), University of Edinburgh.

Autumn 1997 (provisional), University of Hertfordshire.

The Meetings Secretary would very much like to receive offers
of future venues, particularly from institutions which the
LAGB has not previously visited or from places with newly
established linguistics programmes.

Other dates for your diary:

Sept. 7-10, 1995: ASSOCIATION FOR LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY, Inaugural
Meeting, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Email: auwera@reks.uia.ac.be;
Frans.Plank@pan.rz.uni-konstanz.de

Oct 27-29 1995: RELEVANCE THEORY WORKSHOP, University of
Hertfordshire. Email: M.Groefsema@herts.ac.uk

Dec 7-9, 1995: GOING ROMANCE 1995 (Ninth Symposium on Romance
Linguistics), Amsterdam. Abstracts deadline: September 22,
1995. E-mail: Going.Romance@let.vu.nl

Dec 14-16, 1995: CONSOLE 4 (Student Organisation of
generative Linguistics in Europe), Paris. Email:
ruben@csli.stanford.edu.

January 8-10, 1996: FOURTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON LANGUAGE
AND LINGUISTICS, Mahidol University, Nakompathom, Thailand.
Email: oissj@chulkn.chula.ac.th

June 1996: CONFERENCE ON AFROASIATIC LANGUAGES, Sophia
Antipolis. Email: jl@llaor.unice.fr; shlonsky@uni2a.unige.ch

April 26-28, 1996: SALT VI (SEMANTICS AND LINGUISTIC THEORY),
Rutgers University. Abstract deadline: December 1, 1995.
Email: salt6@zodiac.rutgers.edu

April 26-28, 1996: GLAC2 (GERMANIC LINGUISTICS ANNUAL
CONFERENCE) University of Wisconsin-Madison. Abstracts
deadline: 31 December 1995. Email: rhowell@macc.wisc.edu;
jsalmons@facstaff.wisc.edu

April 1-4, 1996: CONFERENCE ON THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN
LANGUAGE, University of Edinburgh. (Main topics: The
chronology of the spread of mankind over the planet, and its
relationship to language. The continuity/discontinuity of the
language faculty with other human and nonhuman systems).
Email: jim@ling.ed.ac.uk

April 11-14 1996: CORTONA PHONOLOGY MEETING III, Scuola
Normale Superiore, Cortona. Abstracts deadline: 30 September
1995. Email: bertinet@sns.it; gaeta@sab.sns.it;
jecev@sab.sns.it

July 4-9, 1996: 5TH INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS CONFERENCE,
Mexico City (Special Topic: Conversation). Abstracts by 1
October 1995. Email: ipra@reks.uia.ac.be

July 15-19, 1996: 23rd INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL
CONGRESS, Sydney. Email: isfc.syd@uts.edu.au

July 17-18, 1996: DAARC96 (DISCOURSE ANAPHORA AND ANAPHOR
RESOLUTION COLLOQUIUM) Lancaster University. Abstract
deadline: 1 December, 1995. Email: spb@comp.lancs.ac.uk;
mcenery@comp.lancs.ac.uk

Aug 13-18, 1996: SEVENTH EURALEX INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
(European Association of Lexicography), University of
Gothenburg, Sweden.Abstract deadline: 1 October 1995. Email:
gellerstam@svenska.gu.se. Information:http://logos.svenska.
gu.se/euralex.html

Aug 20-22, 1996: LP'96 - TYPOLOGY: PROTOTYPES, ITEMS
ORDERINGS AND UNIVERSALS, Dept. of Linguistics and Finno-Ugric
Studies and Institute of Phonetic Studies, Charles University,
Prague. Abstract deadline: September 30, 1995. Email:
palek@ruk.cuni.cz; palek@ff.cuni.cz. Information: http://www.
cuni.cz/lp96

Oct 22-24, 1996: INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS CONFERENCE:
SOCIOLINGUISTIC PROBLEMS IN VARIOUS REGIONS OF THE WORLD,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. E-mail: socio@iling.
msk.su.

PROGRAMME:

Autumn Meeting: University of Essex

Monday 18 September 1995

1.00 LUNCH

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).

4.00 TEA

4.30 Workshop continues

6.30 DINNER

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"

11.00 COFFEE

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"

1.00 LUNCH

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"

4.00 TEA

4.30 LAGB Business Meeting

5.30 Special Guest Lecture
Greg Stump (Kentucky)
"The Autonomy of Morphomic Indexing"

6.30 DINNER

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 N. Erteschik-Shir (Ben Gurion) "The Middle: Lexical and
Focus Structures" [60-minute session]

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
9.00 Jim Miller (Edinburgh) "The English Perfect and Specific
Time Adverbs"
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"

11.00 COFFEE

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"

1.00 LUNCH

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".
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