LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN

Spring Meeting 1997: University of Edinburgh

Second Circular

The 1997 Spring Meeting will be held from Monday 7 to Wednesday
9 April at the University of Edinburgh, where the Association will be
the guests of the Department of Linguistics. The Local Organiser is
Alice Turk (turk@ling.ed.ac.uk). Enquiries about the meeting should
be addressed to: Alice Turk, LAGB 1997, Department of Linguistics,
Adam Ferguson Building, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8
9LL.

The conference immediately follows the 1997 meeting of GALA
("Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition"), which takes place
at the University of Edinburgh from the 4th to 6th of April (further
information on: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/gala/), and a General
Meeting of the Foundation For Endangered Languages on April 6th
(more details below).

Accommodation: will be in Pollock Halls of Residence, within 5
minutes walking distance of the John McIntyre Centre where the talks
will take place. Standard rooms have basins in the rooms; toilets and
showers are located in each wing of bedrooms. A small number of en
suite bedrooms are also available. All bedrooms have 2 pin dual 
voltage shaver sockets and 13 amp square pin sockets. Rooms will 
be allocated strictly on a "first-come first-served" basis.

Registration: will begin at 12noon on Monday the 7th of April in the
conservatory on the upper floor of the John McIntyre Centre.

Bar: delegates are welcome to use the bar on the upper floor of the 
John McIntyre Centre, which will be open from 11 a.m. until 23:30 every
day  during the conference.

Food: please indicate vegetarian and any other dietary requirements 
on the booking form below.

Creche: Creche facilities are available, at a cost of 40.00 pounds sterling 
per child per day. Please indicate on the booking form if you wish to 
book a place.

Travel: Edinburgh is easily accessible by air (Edinburgh airport is 
to the north of the city centre with a frequent bus service) train 
(inter-city services connect with most other major cities) and car 
(roads leading to Edinburgh are the A90 from the North, the A8 from 
the West, and all of the A1, A7, A68 and A702 from the South). A taxi 
to the conference location takes approximately 10 minutes from the 
main train station (Waverley) and 30 minutes from the airport. Frequent 
buses run from both locations.

Parking: free parking is available.

Events: The Linguistics Association 1997 Lecture on the Monday
evening will be delivered by Joan Bresnan (Stanford) and is entitled
"Morphology competes with syntax: beyond the inflectional paradigm".

There will be a Workshop on "The role of morphology in current
syntactic theory" organised by Kersti Borjars and Nigel Vincent
(University of Manchester). In much recent work on syntactic theory,
analyses have made the tacit assumption that morphological and
syntactic elements obey the same principles (e.g. c-command) and can
be expressed in the same notation (i.e. trees). At the same time, a
number of influential morphologists (e.g. Anderson, Aronoff and
Beard) have argued for the separationist hypothesis according to 
which morphological constructs obey a set of independent principles 
which only partly, or not at all, overlap with the set of syntactic 
principles. In this workshop we will explore within a number of 
frameworks the consequences of this renewed interest in the 
interaction and integration of morphological and syntactic data. We 
will look particularly at Lexical-Functional Grammar, Head-driven 
Phrase Structure Grammar and the Minimalist Program. There will 
be talks by Joan Bresnan (Stanford), Elisabet Engdahl (Gotenburg), 
Gillian Ramchand (Oxford) and Greg Stump (Kentucky) and these 
will be followed by a general discussion.

The Language Tutorial, organised by Jane Simpson (Sydney) will be on
languages of Central Australia. The tutorials will be about four
neighbouring Pama-Nyungan languages (Warumungu, Warlpiri,
Warlmanpa and Gurindji) and a fifth neighbour, the non-Pama-Nyungan
Wambaya.  The phonologies and grammars of these languages share
many properties, including category-specific phonology, assimilation
and dissimilation processes, ERGATIVE-ABSOLUTIVE case-marking,
free word order, bound pronouns, switch reference systems, some of
which we hope to cover. We will describe the changing sociolinguistic
situation, considering land-language relations, multilingualism, 
language change, code-switching, as well as auxiliary languages such as sign
language. The speakers will be: Jane Simpson (Sydney), David Nash
(Australian National University), Patrick McConvell (Northern
Territory University), Rachel Nordlinger (Stanford) and possibly Mary
Laughren (Queensland).

There will be a Wine Party on the Monday evening, following
Professor Bresnan's lecture, sponsored by the Department of
Linguistics.

Bookings: should be sent to the Local Organiser, address above to
arrive by Friday 14th March. Cheques should be made payable to
"LAGB  97".

Guests: members may invite any number of guests to meetings of the
association, upon payment of a 5-00 pounds sterling guest invitation fee. 
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 using the booking form below.

Annual General Meeting: This is to be held on the afternoon of 
Tuesday 8 April. 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 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 B"rjars, 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 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.

British Linguistic Newsletter: Members are reminded that they can
subscribe to BLN (ISBN 0964-6574) 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:

4-6 September 1997                       University of Hertfordshire.
14-16 April 1998                           University of Lancaster.
10-12 September 1998 (dates provisional)     University of Luton.
Spring 1999 (provisional)                University of Manchester.
Autumn 1999 (provisional)              University of York.
Spring 2000 (provisional)                University College London.

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:

March 15th 1997:  On Saturday, March 15th 1997, the linguistics
postgraduates of the University of Manchester are organising the 6th
Annual Conference for Postgraduates in Linguistics. The key note
speaker will be Melissa Bowerman, Max Plank Institute for
Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. Abstracts are welcome until January 31st
1997. Deadline for registration: Febuary 14th 1997. For Registration
and more information contact Stephen Markve, University of
Manchester, Department of Linguistics, Oxford Road, Manchester M13
9PL. Fax: 0161-275 3187. Email: pgc@man.ac.uk.

April 6th 1997:  The Foundation for Endangered Languages will be
holding a General Meeting in Edinburgh on the afternoon of Sunday 6
April starting at 2 pm, in Adam Ferguson Building B9 (50 George
Square). Besides intending on this occasion to announce the
Foundation's first grants, we shall be setting policy for raising 
funds for, and awareness of, Endangered Languages.  The session will also
feature talks by Jane Simpson (Sydney) and David Nash (AIATSIS) on
the plights of the Warumungu and other language communities in
Central Australia. We also hope to hear statements on the situation 
of minority languages in Scotland, particularly Gaelic and/or Scots. 
(FEL President is Nicholas Ostler: nostler@chibcha.demon.co.uk).

March 26th-28th 1998:  'SS12' - the 12th UK Sociolinguistics
Symposium, will be held in London from March 26th -28th, 1998. The
Programme will combine invited speakers, half-day 'mini-seminars' on
special themes, 40-minute paper sessions, 20-minute 'work-in-progress'
sessions, posters, book exhibitions & social events. Contributions
across the whole range of sociolinguistics are invited, and the
Organising Committee would be especially glad to consider proposals
both for focused mini-seminars on particular topics, and ideas about
appropriate overall meeting themes: send details by March 14th 
please. Abstracts deadline will be 31st August, 1997, and details of 
refereeing procedures will be given in the May circular: Speakers will be told 
in early November whether their papers have been accepted. Further
Information: Conference Officer (SS12), Institute of Education, 20
Bedford Way, LONDON WC1H OAL, UK. email: c.bird@ioe.ac.uk

PROGRAMME:

Monday 7 April 1997

1.00 LUNCH

2.00      Workshop: The role of morphology in current syntactic theory
Organisers: Kersti Borjars and Nigel Vincent (Manchester)

4.00  TEA

4.30      Workshop continues

6.30  DINNER

7.45             Linguistics Association Lecture:
                   Joan Bresnan (Stanford)
Morphology competes with syntax: beyond the inflectional paradigm

Tuesday 8 April 1997

Session A
9.00      Laurence White & Alice Turk (Edinburgh) "The domain of the 
            durational effects of accent in Scottish English"
9.40     James Scobbie, William Hardcastle, Fiona Gibbon & Paul
            Fletcher (QMC Edinburgh) "Aspects of phonetic 
            and phonological acquisition in a child with developmental
            phonological disorder"
10.20   D R Ladd, Amalia Arvaniti & Ineke Mennen (Edinburgh)
           "Toward a typology of  phrase tones'"

Session B
9.00     Elly van Gelderen (Arizona State University) "To have and to
           be: Old English as a partially ergative language"
9.40     Dick Hudson    (UCL) "How did we manage not to learn *I   
           aren't/amn't? "
10.20   Ute Bohnacker (Durham) "The acquisition of DO-support in
           child L2 English"

Session C
9.00     Ian Roberts & Anna Roussou (Bangor) "Interpretability vs
           feature-checking"
9.40     Kerstin Hoge (St Hilda's College, Oxford) "Embedded
           topicalization in the symmetric verb-second languages"
10.20    Annabel Cormack & Neil Smith (UCL) "Checking features and 
           the organisation of the lexicon"

Session D
9.00    Steve Nicolle & Billy Clark   (Middlesex) "Experimental
          pragmatics and  what is said'"
9.40      Robyn Carston (UCL) "Pragmatic processes of enrichment and
           loosening of lexically encoded meaning"
10.20   Theodora Alexopoulou (Edinburgh) "On the recursiveness of
           ground-focus partition"

11.00  COFFEE

11.30    Language Tutorial: Central Australian languages
            Organised by Jane Simpson (Sydney)

1.00  LUNCH

Session A
2.00    Bruce Connell (ISCA Oxford) "Mambila fricative vowels (close
         vowels in Bang)"
2.40    Olanike-Ola Orie and Victoria R. Bricker (Tulane) "Laryngeal
          contrasts in Yucatec Maya"
3.20     Paula Fikkert (Konstanz) "Trisyllabic shortening: a 
            synchronic  and diachronic analysis"

Session B
2.00    Nomi Erteschik-Shir (Ben Gurion) "Reflexivity and focus
           structure"
2.40    Istv n Kenesei (Jczsef Attila University) "Adjuncts and
           arguments in ex-situ focus"
3.20   Richard Breheny (UCL) "Ordered concept routines for
           non-conceptual meaning: the case of hi"

Session C
2.00    Aubrey Nunes (Durham) "A uniform parameter setting
           function"
2.40   Chia-yi Tony Pi, Roumyana Slabakova & Miwako Uesaka
          (McGill University) "Evidence for telicity and boundedness 
           in syntax"
3.20  Geoffrey Poole (Newcastle) "Prosodic X -movement in Icelandic:
          the case of stylistic fronting"

Session D
2.00    Josep Quer (Utrecht) "A cause for subjunctive"
2.40     Melvyn Cole (Manchester) "Pro drop: a reanalysis of the 
            data"
3.20    Jose Camacho (Carnegie Mellon) "Do PP's agree?"

4.00  TEA

4.30  LAGB Annual General Meeting

Session A
5.30   J.C. Catford (Michigan) "Some misconceptions in diachronic
         phonetics"
[60-minute session: 40 minutes for talk, 20 minutes for questions]

Session B
5.30      Ruth Kempson (SOAS) "WH - a dynamic perspective"
[60-minute session: 40 minutes for talk, 20 minutes for questions]

Session C
5.30      Andrew Spencer (Essex) "Who needs nouns and verbs (or
            adjectives, or prepositions)?"
[40-minute session]

Session D
5.30      Russell Norton (Essex) "Specification of optimality theory
            without Gen"
[40-minute session]

6.30  DINNER

7.45      Language Tutorial
            Jane Simpson (Sydney)

Wednesday 9 April 1997

Session A
9.00     Margaret Cobb (SOAS) "Some parameters of 'ATR' harmony"
9.40    Dr Hong Peng (Hong Kong) "On the status of [-nasal]"
10.20  Mercedes Cabrera-Abreu (Las Palmas) "A single tone
          phonological model for pitch phenomena"

Session B
9.00    Dunstan Brown (Surrey) "Yup'ik verbal morphology and the
            animacy hierarchy"
9.40     Steve Nicolle  (Middlesex) "Morphology and the determination
            of grammatical relations: the case of the Swahili object 
            marker"
10.20  Peter Sells (Stanford) "The expression of the Japanese copula:
          the survival of the weakest"

Session C
9.00   Villy Rouchota (UCL) "Semantic varieties of parenthetical
          expressions"
9.40   Katarzyna Jaszczolt (Cambridge) "Propositional attitude
          sentences in Discourse Representation Theory"
10.20  Orin Percus (MIT) "Indefinites and quantificational 
            variability"

Session D
9.00    L M Tovena & J. Jayez (Geneva & Paris) "The issue of
           irreference through French tout"                       
9.40    Heloise Moreira-Lima Salles (Bangor) "On the correlation
           between P(reposition)-stranding and D(ouble) O(bject)
           C(onstructions)"
10.20   Odile E Cyrille (Salford) "The demonstrative determiner lasa 
            in  Guadeloupe Creole"

11.00  COFFEE

11.30  Language Tutorial
          Jane Simpson (Sydney)

1.00  LUNCH

Session A
2.00   Pam Macdonald (Bangor) "Welsh without phrases: Welsh
         without tears?   "
2.40   Elizabeth McCoy (York) "Agus (and), AspP
         and feature-checking in Irish adjunct small clauses"
3.20   Mairi Blackings & Nigel Fabb (Strathclyde) "Negation and the
         structure of the sentence in Madi and other Central Sudanic
          languages"

Session B
2.00   Rachel Nordlinger (Stanford) "A new approach to case
          marking in nonconfigurational languages of Australia"
2.40   Sergey Avrutin (Yale) "On the relationship between case and
           reference"
3.20    Robert D Borsley (Bangor) "Some implications of 
           coordination"

Session C
2.00     Miriam Butt (Stuttgart) "Aspect, passives, and individual 
             level predication"
2.40      Marjon Helmantel (Leiden) "Aspect and adpositions: the 
              point of view of Dutch and German"
3.20     Kleanthes K Grohmann (Maryland) "German superiority: a
            discussion of the cross-linguistic phenomenon and an 
            approach  to solve the German paradox"

4.00  TEA AND CLOSE

BOOKING FORM

(PLEASE COMPLETE BOTH SIDES OF THIS FORM)

Please return this form, with your remittance, by 14 March to: Alice
Turk, LAGB 1997, Department of Linguistics, Adam Ferguson
Building, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9LL. Please make
cheques payable to "LAGB  97".
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1. Complete conference package in en suite bedrooms:
(n.b. limited number of rooms available, to be allocated 
on a "first-come first-served" basis)

(a) including Monday lunch preceding workshop
(i)  if sent to arrive before 14 March    128-78 pounds sterling _____
(ii) if sent to arrive after 14 March      143-09 sterling _____

(b) excluding Monday lunch
 (i)  if sent to arrive before 14 March      121-59 sterling _____
(ii) if sent to arrive after 14 March         135-10 sterling _____

(c) Surcharge for non-members, 5-00 sterling              _____
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2. Complete conference package in standard bedrooms:
(n.b. limited number of rooms available, to be allocated
on a "first-come first-served" basis)

(a) including Monday lunch preceding workshop
(i)  if sent to arrive before 14 March      97-84 sterling _____
(ii) if sent to arrive after 14 March           108-71 sterling _____

(b) excluding Monday lunch
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(c) Surcharge for non-members, 5-00 sterling ______
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3.   Selected items:

(a)  conference fee (OBLIGATORY)   15-00sterling      15-00 sterling
(b)  Monday lunch (resident)              7-99 sterling       _____
(c)  Monday lunch (non-resident)              8-52 sterling _____
(d)  Monday dinner (resident)                   8-93 sterling _____
(e)  Monday dinner (non-resident)             9-46 sterling _____
(f)  B&B Monday/Tuesday  (en suite)       43-13 sterling _____
(g)  B&B Monday/Tuesday  (standard)     25-94 sterling _____
(h)  Tuesday lunch (resident)                    7-99 sterling _____
(i)  Tuesday lunch (non-resident)               8-52 sterling _____
(j)  Tuesday dinner (resident)                    8-93 sterling _____
(k)  Tuesday dinner (non-resident)             9-46 sterling _____
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(m)  B&B Tuesday/Wednesday (standard) 25-94 sterling _____
(n)  Lunch Wednesday (resident)               7-99 sterling _____
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4.   Abstracts only, for those not attending:
          5-00 sterling (UK).......................................
          6-00 sterling (overseas).................................

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