The 1996 Spring Meeting will be held from Thursday 11 April to Saturday 13 April at the University of Sussex, where the Association will be the guests of the Linguistics Subject Group of the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences. The Local Organiser is Nicola Woods (nicolajw@cogs.susx.ac.uk). Enquiries about the meeting should be sent to: LAGB Spring Meeting 1996, Nicola Woods, School of Cognitive and Computing Science, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH.
Accommodation: will be in Kent House, which is 5 minutes walk from the building where the talks will take place. Registration will begin at 10am on the 11th of April in the ground floor foyer of the Physics block. Late arrivals can collect keys either from the porter in Kent House, who is avaliable until 6pm every day, or from the Security office in York House, which is open 24 hours a day. All rooms have wash basins, shaver points and shared bathrooms. A small number of rooms with twin beds are available. Rooms will be allocated strictly on a "first-come first-served" basis.
Bar: Delegates are welcome to use the Senior Common room and bar, which is next door to the accommodation. The bar will be open until midnight on Thursday and Friday evening.
Food: Vegetarian food will be available automatically. Please indicate any other dietary requirements on the booking form below.
Travel: Falmer British Rail station is immediately opposite the University entrance; frequent local trains (around 3 per hour) run from Brighton and Lewes until midnight. Trains take approximately 8 minutes from either direction. Delegates with heavy luggage may prefer to take a taxi from Brighton, as there are no taxis at Falmer and the walk to the accommodation in Kent House may take up to 15 minutes. Bus numbers 28, 128 and 729 travel between Brighton (Old Steine) and Lewes and stop outside the University. Bus number 25 runs between Brighton (Old Steine) and the University and comes to the North end of the campus (about 5 minutes from the accommodation in Kent House. By car, the University is on the A27 road between Brighton and Lewes, about 6 kilometres (4 miles) from the centre of Brighton and the same distance from Lewes. Delegates arriving from air who have a choice of airport should fly to London Gatwick which is closer to the University than London Heathrow. If you are coming by sea, there is a direct rail link from Newhaven to Falmer. From Portsmouth and Southampton, there is a direct link to Brighton. From all other ports, take the train to London and travel from Victoria to Brighton or Lewes.
Parking: Free parking is available in the immediate vicinity of the accommodation.
Events: The Linguistics Association 1996 Lecture on the Thursday evening will be delivered by Professor Johanna Nichols (Berkeley) and is entitled "Where on earth is Indo-European?"
Professor Nichols will also present a Language Tutorial on the Chechen and Ingush languages.This will cover: basic structure, typologically and theoretically interesting features, historical comparison, lexicon, transcription and orthography. Some cultural and geographical information on the people will be given, through slides and tape recordings of the languages and Chechen and Ingush music. There will be the chance for participants to gain active command of some basic phrases. Some basic grammatical and lexical material and a bibliography will be distributed.
There will also be a Workshop, organised by April McMahon (Cambridge) and Kersti Borjars (Manchester), entitled "New cognates for historical linguistics". Participants are: Paul Foulkes (Newcastle), April McMahon (Cambridge), Rob McMahon (Cambridge), Anna Siewierska (Lancaster). One of the most promising developments in current historical linguistics involves attempts to connect results from this domain with cognate disciplines. Participants will address potential connections of historical linguistics with typology, experimental phonetics/laboratory phonology, and genetics. The talks will be followed by a panel discussion involving the workshop speakers, Professor Nichols and the audience.
The Foundation of Endangered Languages, which was briefly presented to the LAGB by its president Nicholas Ostler at the Newcastle meeting in 1995, will be holding its sixth meeting from 10 am to 12.30 pm on the morning of 11 April, immediately before the formal start of the LAGB Meeting. It is planned that this meeting should mark its formal incorporation as a Company Limited by Guarantee. All LAGB participants are welcome to attend the meeting, to find out about membership and the Foundation's plans. Anyone wishing to receive a copy of Iatiku, the Foundation's newsletter, should contact Nicholas Ostler at Batheaston Villa, 172 Bailbrook Lane, Bath BA1 7AA. Tel: 01225-852865. Fax: 01225-859258, email: nostler@chibcha.demon.co.uk
There will be a Wine Party on the Thursday evening, following Professor Nichols's lecture. The wine party is sponsored by the Linguistics Subject Group and the School of Cognitive and Computing Science.
Bookings: should be sent to the Local Organiser, address above, to arrive by Friday 8 March. Cheques should be made payable to "University of Sussex".
Guests: Members may invite any number of guests to meetings of the association, upon payment of a guest invitation fee of 5 pounds sterling. Members wishing to invite guests should photocopy the booking form below.
Abstracts: are available to members who are unable to attend the meeting. Please order from the Local Organiser on the booking form below.
Annual General Meeting: This is to be held on the afternoon of Friday 12 April. Items for the agenda should be sent to the Honorary Secretary.
LAGB Employment Exchange: A volunteer is sought to take over the running of the LAGB employment exchange from Siew-Yue Killingley. If you are interested, contact 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 Greville 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
Paul Rowlett, Dept. of Modern Languages, University of Salford,
Salford M5 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@hermes.cam.ac.uk
BLN Editor
Dr. Siew-Yue 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 can subscribe to BLN (ISBN 0964-6574) by contacting the Editor, Dr. S-Y. Killingley. Please do not send subscriptions for BLN to the LAGB Treasurer.
The LAGB internet home page is 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:
7-9 September 1996 Cardiff Institute of Higher Education. 7-9 April 1997 (dates provisional) University of Edinburgh. 9-11 September 1997 (dates provisional)University of Hertfordshire. 14-16 April 1998 (dates provisional) University of Lancaster. Autumn 1998 (provisional) University of Luton.
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.
Spring Meeting: University of Sussex
Thursday 11 April 1996
1.00 LUNCH
2.00 Workshop: "New Cognates for Historical Linguistics"
Organisers: April McMahon (Cambridge), Kersti Borjars (Manchester).
2.00 Introduction by the organisers.
2.10 Professor Anna Siewierska (Lancaster) "Historical Linguistics
and Typology"
3.00 Dr. Paul Foulkes (Newcastle) "Historical Linguistics and
Experimental Phonetics"
4.00 TEA
4.30 Workshop continues
4.30 Dr. Rob McMahon and Dr. April McMahon (Cambridge)
"Historical Linguistics and Genetics"
5.30 Panel discussion between the workshop speakers,
Professor Nichols and the audience.
6.30 DINNER
7.45 Linguistics Association 1996 Lecture:
"Where on earth is Indo-European?"
Professor Johanna Nichols (Berkeley)
Friday 12 April 1996
Session A
9.00 Pat Poussa (Helsinki) "Drifting Northward: Implicational Scales
in Syntactic Levelling"
9.40 Richard Coates (Sussex) "On a Recent View of the Linguistic
Prehistory of Europe"
10.20 Jane Stuart-Smith (Oxford/Birmingham) "What Role Should
Phonetics Play in Historical Phonological Reconstruction?"
Session B
9.00 Hans van de Koot (UCL) "Strong Features and (Multiple)
Specifiers"
9.40 Rhang K. Lee (Edinburgh) "A Typology of the Directionality of
Checking and its Implications"
10.20 George Tsoulas (York) "Empty Categories in the Minimalist
Program"
Session C
9.00 Vesselin Vatchkov (Oxford) "Word Order and Relevance: From
Prague to London or to London from Prague"
9.40 Marco Rocha (Sussex) "Discourse Processing and Anaphora"
10.20 Dick Hudson (UCL) "Some Sentences That Students I Teach Can
Remember Are Multiply Self-Embedded"
11.00 COFFEE
Session A
11.30 Ellen Thompson (Maryland) "The Syntax of Presentational and
Predicational Sentences"
12.10 James Higginbotham and Gillian Ramchand (Oxford) "The
Stage-Level/Individual-Level Distinction and the Mapping
Hypothesis"
[50-minute session]
Session B
11.30 Bruce Connell (Oxford) "Four Tones and Downtrend"
12.10 Margaret Cobb (SOAS) "Vowel Harmony in Natal Brazilian
Portuguese"
Session C
11.30 Yaron Matras (Manchester) "Grammatical Re-Cycling and
Language Contact in Romani"
12.10 Anna Siewierska (Lancaster) "Constituent Order in the
Languages of Europe"
1.00 LUNCH
Session A
2.00 Robert D. Borsley (Bangor) and Andreas Kathol (Groningen)
"Breton as a V2 Language"
2.40 M. Siobh n Cottell (Bangor) "Verb-Movement, the Copula and
Verb-Second Phenomena in Irish"
3.20 David Willis (Oxford) "Clausal Coordination and the Loss of
Verb-Second in Welsh"
Session B
2.00 Corinne Cortes (Barcelona) "Structural Asymmetries, Agency and
the Feature [+animate]"
2.40 Heloisa Salles (Bangor/Bras!lia) "Preposition Pied-Piping and
Preposition Stranding: A Minimalist Approach"
3.20 Jamal Ouhalla (QMW) and Malcolm Edwards (Birkbeck) "Questions,
Pronouns and Operators in Spoken Arabic"
Session C
2.00 Ute Bohnacker (Durham) "The Acquisition of Determiner Phrases in
Early Child Language"
2.40 William McClure (Durham) "The Realisation of Tense in Japanese"
3.20 Andrew Spencer and Marina Zaretskaya (Essex) "Russian
Resultatives"
4.00 TEA
4.30 Annual General Meeting
5.30 Language Tutorial: Chechen and Ingush
Johnanna Nichols (Berkeley)
6.30 DINNER
7.45-8.45 Language Tutorial continues
Johanna Nichols (Berkeley)
Saturday 13 April 1996
Session A
9.00 Najib Jarad (Aleppo/Bangor) "The Origin and Reanalysis of "for"
as a Complementiser"
9.40 Isabel Mux! (Durham) "Catalan is Not VOS: Evidence from Old
Catalan"
10.20 Kersti Borjars (Manchester) and Carol Chapman (Newcastle)
"Agreement and Pro-Drop in Some Dialects of English"
Session B
9.00 Julia Barron (Manchester) "Circumstantial Complements in
Romance: A Gerdts' Mapping Theory Account"
9.40 Nigel Vincent and Cecilia Goria (Manchester) "Psych-Adjectives"
10.20 Arancha Mateos (Durham) "Case, Agreement and Romance DPs"
Session C
9.00 Elizabeth McCoy (York) "Absolutives, Aspect and Prepositions"
9.40 David Adger and Bernadette Plunkett (York) "Clauses and Case"
10.20 Kerstin Hoge (Oxford) "The Yiddish Double Verb Construction"
11.00 COFFEE
Session A
11.30 Paul Rowlett (Salford) "Negative Pronouns in French"
12.10 Peter Kahrel (Lancaster) "Areal Features of Negative Indefinites"
Session B
11.30 Gerald Gazdar (Sussex) "Gikuyu Preprefixation"
12.10 Zaharani Ahmad (Essex) "Correspondence Theory and Verbal
Reduplication in Malay"
Session C
11.30 Melanie Green (SOAS) "A Minimalist Approach to the Theory
of Focus in Hausa"
12.10 Richard Breheny (UCL) "Pro-active Focus"
1.00 LUNCH
2.00 Language Tutorial: Chechen/Ingush
Johanna Nichols (Berkeley)
4.00 TEA AND CLOSE
BOOKING FORM:
Please return this form, with your remittance, by 8 March to: LAGB
Spring Meeting 1996, Nicola Woods, School of Cognitive and Computing
Science, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH.
Please make cheques payable to "University of Sussex".
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