LAGB 2016 first circular
The Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) will be held at the University of York 6-9 September 2016.
In addition to the general session, the following invited talks and associated workshops will take place:
HENRY SWEET LECTURE 2016
Bernard Comrie (University of California Santa Barbara)
'Verb Root Ellipsis'
Workshop on Morphological Zeroes(organised by Matthew Baerman and Bernard Comrie)
This workshop will be held in conjunction with Bernard Comrie's Henry Sweet Lecture on Weds 7 September 2016. This workshop will feature papers selected by peer review as well as an invited lecture by Sharon Inkelas.
LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION LECTURE 2016
Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins University)
'Non-discrete Structures in Grammar'
Workshop on Advances in Linguistic Theory Through Computation (organised by Jennifer Culbertson and Paul Smolensky)
This workshop will be held in conjunction with Paul Smolensky's Linguistics Association Lecture on Friday 9 September 2016. This workshop will feature only invited presentations.
There will also be a Language Tutorial on Jaminjung/Ngaliwurru, given by Eva Schultze-Berndt (Manchester University) on Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 September 2016 and a special session led by the LAGB Education Committee on Communicating with Other Worlds: Formal Linguistic Second Language Acquisition and Language Teaching.
For further information, including the call for papers for both the main session and the workshop on Morphological Zeroes, see http://www.lagb.org.uk/lagb2016/home. Please note the deadline for submissions is 1st April 2016.
In addition to individual abstracts, the LAGB main session welcomes proposals for themed sessions (more details are available in the call for papers).
