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2019 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain |
Queen Mary University of London, 9-12 September 2019
Programme
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MONDAY 9th SEPTEMBER – LAGB SUMMER SCHOOL 2019 Location: Laws 100 Chair: E Jamieson |
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12.00 - 13.00 |
Registration in ArtsTwo Foyer (free) |
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13.00-14.00 |
Session 1: Devyani Sharma (QMUL) “Language contact and grammatical change” |
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14.00-14.20 |
Break |
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14.20-15.20 |
Session 2: Sandy Chung (UC Santa Cruz) “Sluicing from ground zero” |
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15.20-15.40 |
Break (tea/coffee provided) |
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15.40-16.40 |
Session 3: Chris Potts (Stanford) "An introduction to the rational speech acts model of pragmatics" |
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16.40-17.00 |
Break |
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17.00-18.00 |
Session 4: Fryni Panayidou (QMUL) “Keeping well as a researcher” |
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18.00- |
Social event organised by the LAGB student committee |
Registration from 8.30am in the ArtsTwo foyer, ground floor
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TUESDAY 10th SEPTEMBER – MORNING SESSION |
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Session 1: Syntax ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre Chair: Emily Hanink |
Session 2: Pragmatics Laws 100 Chair: Luisa Martí |
Session 3: Workshop on Variation Laws 102 Chair: Jonathan Kasstan |
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9.30-10.00 |
Kaori Miura (Kyushu Sangyo) |
Melvyn Cole (Manchester) Korean honorific system and null thematic subjects
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Evelina Leivada Putting parametric variation to the test: on computational and sociolinguistic considerations |
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10.00-10.30 |
Morgan Macleod (Ulster), Elena Anagnostopoulou (Crete), Dionysios Mertyris (Ulster), and Christina Sevdali (Ulster) On the lexical distribution of indirect passives in English and Greek |
Juliette Angot (Manchester) |
Danielle Turton (Lancaster) t-lenition processes in British English: differences in regional and contextual variability |
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10.30-11.00 |
Joanna Wall (Utrecht/Meertens Institute) |
Nadezda Christopher (SOAS) |
Heather Burnett (CNRS, Paris) |
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11.00-11.30 |
Break (tea/coffee served in ArtsTwo foyer, ground floor) |
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11.30-13.00 |
Language tutorial ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre
Chair: David Adger
Daniel Harbour (QMUL) on Kiowa
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13.00-14.00 |
Lunch (provided) ArtsTwo foyer, ground floor |
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TUESDAY 10th SEPTEMBER – AFTERNOON SESSION |
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Session 1: Syntax ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre Chair: Vieri Samek-Lodovici |
Session 2: Psycholinguistics Laws 100 Chair: Chris Cummins |
Session 3: Workshop on Variation Laws 102
Chair: Jonathan Kasstan
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14.00-14.30 |
Agnieszka Patejuk (Polish Academy of Sciences/Oxford) and Adam Przepiórkowski (Warsaw/Polish Academy of Sciences/Oxford) |
**ULAB best paper winner** Katie Gascoigne (Leeds) The Effects of accent familiarity on lexical processing |
David Hall, James Brookes, Jenny Cheshire, and David Adger (QMUL) Causal interrogative variation in multicultural and traditional varieties of London English |
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14.30-15.00 |
Liliane Haegeman (Ghent) Register- specific subject omission and the syntax of coordination |
Juliana Gerard (Ulster) Adjunct control and the poverty of the stimulus: availability vs evidence |
Betsy Sneller (Georgetown) |
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15.00-15.30 |
Víctor Acedo-Matellán (Oxford) |
Eszter Ronai and Ming Xiang (Chicago) The interplay of memory and expectation in Hungarian relative clause processing |
Lauren Fonteyn (Leiden) |
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15.30-16.00 |
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Sofja Volkova, Raffaella Folli, Christina Sevdali, and Juliana Gerard (Ulster) The task clears the path for comprehension: the acqusition of case in Russian |
Rebecca Woods (Newcastle) and Robyn Orfitelli (Sheffield) Is this a question? AuxS(VO) order in a monolingual English-acquiring child and the role of input |
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16.00-16.30 |
Break (tea/coffee served in ArtsTwo foyer, ground floor) |
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Henry Sweet lecture ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre Chair: David Adger |
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16.30-18.00 |
Sandy Chung (UC Santa Cruz) Freedom within Control |
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18.00- |
Wine reception Sponsored by Cambridge University Press ArtsTwo foyer, ground floor |
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Registration from 9.00am in the ArtsTwo foyer, ground floor
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WEDNESDAY 11th SEPTEMBER – MORNING SESSION |
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Session 1: Syntax ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre Chair: Marieke Meelen
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Session 2: Syntax Laws 100 Chair: Coppe van Urk |
Session 3: Psycholinguistics Laws 102 Chair: Rebecca Woods |
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9.30-10.00 |
Pietro Baggio (QMUL) |
**Best student paper winner** Eszter Ronai and Laura Stigliano (Chicago) Clausal ellipsis has an isomorphic source: Evidence from Hungarian adjectival sluicing |
Keisuke Kume (York) Quantitative evidence on the linguistic analysis of Japanese numeral classifier constructions |
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10.00-10.30 |
Vicki Carstens (Illinois) |
Ekab Al-Shawashreh (Yarmouk) and Marwan Jarrah (Jordan) A quantitative analysis of variation in verbal negation in Jordanian Arabic |
Alexander Martin (Edinburgh), Klaus Abels (UCL), David Adger (QMUL), and Jennifer Culbertson (Edinburgh) |
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10.30-11.00 |
Suzana Fong (MIT) The syntax of plural marking: the view from bare nouns in Wolof |
Eugenia Mangialaviori Rasia (CONICET) and Josep Ausensi (Pompeu Fabra) Intransitivity and stativity in English causative verbs. Nothing has to (really) change here |
Susan Logue, Christina Sevdali, Raffaella Folli, and Juliana Gerard (Ulster) Age and linguistic complexity in child second language acquisition |
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11.00-11.30 |
Break (tea/coffee served in ArtsTwo foyer, ground floor) |
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11.30-13.00 |
Language tutorial ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre Chair: David Adger Daniel Harbour (QMUL) on Kiowa |
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13.00-14.00 |
Lunch (provided) ArtsTwo foyer, ground floor |
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WEDNESDAY 11th SEPTEMBER – AFTERNOON SESSION |
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Session 1: Syntax ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre Chair: Laura Bailey |
Session 2: Semantics Laws 100 Chair: Juliana Gerard |
Session 3: Phonology Laws 102
Chair: James White
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14.00-14.30 |
Vicki Carstens (Southern Illinois) and Loyiso Mletshe (Western Cape) (In)definiteness without articles in two Bantu languages & the NP/DP hypothesis |
Jeremy Pasquereau (Surrey) |
Stephen Nichols and Henri Kauhanen (Manchester) Vowel-pair rank- frequency distributions are polylogarithmic |
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14.30-15.00 |
Kajsa Djarv (Pennsylvania) Propositional attitude reports: the syntax of presupposition and assertion |
Pietro Baggio and Tom Trigg (QMUL) Pluralia Tantum: Their morpho- semantics and what they tell us about plurality |
Stefano Coretta (Manchester) |
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15.00-15.30 |
Josep Ausensi (Pompeu Fabra) and Eugenia Mangialaviori Rasia (CONICET) Challenging traditional assumptions on the Conative Alternation |
Takanobu Nakamura (Edinburgh) Definiteness Theory of distributivity: Non-local floating quantifiers |
Kaiyue Xing (Manchester) |
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15.30-16.00 |
Liliane Haegeman (Ghent) and Andreas Trotzke (Konstanz & Barcelona) |
Rodanthi Christofaki and Yasutada Sudo (UCL) |
Betsy Sneller and Elissa Newport (Georgetown) |
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16.00-16.30 |
Break (tea/coffee served in ArtsTwo foyer, ground floor) |
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Session 1: Syntax ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre Chair: Vicki Carstens |
Session 2: Sino-Tibetan Laws 100 Chair: Victor Acedo-Matellan |
Session 3: Education Committee Laws 102
Chair: Eva Eppler
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16.30-17.00 |
Marwan Jarrah (Jordan) and Ekab Al- Shawashreh (Yarmouk) In favour of microparameterization of the activity condition: evidence from Arabic varieties |
Daniel Harbour (QMUL) Morphology-phonology mismatches predict the limits of logography in Sumerian v Chinese and their descendant systems |
Discussion about the fall in A-level English Language entries with discussion from: Dick Hudson (UCL/UKLO) Willem Hollmann (Lancaster) Diane Leedham (National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum) David Duff (QMUL/Common English Forum) Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin) Devyani Sharma (QMUL) |
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17.00-17.30 |
Coppe van Urk (QMUL) Transitivity in Fijian: All arguments are severed from the root |
Qi Wang (Wuhan) Bound words and the structure of Chinese proper names |
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17.30-18.00 |
Emily Hanink (Manchester) |
Kara Rancourt (York) |
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18.00-18.30 |
Pavel Rudnev (National Research University Higher School of Economics) Dynamic locality, split ergativity and adposition agreement in Avar |
Ruoying Zhao (UCL) Presuppositional aspects in Mandarin Chinese |
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19.30 - |
Conference dinner Darkhorse Restaurant
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Registration from 9.00am in the ArtsTwo foyer, ground floor
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THURSDAY 12th SEPTEMBER – MORNING SESSION |
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Session 1: Syntax ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre Chair: Robyn Orfitelli |
Session 2: Dialects Laws 100 Chair: Michelle Sheehan |
Session 3: Historical linguistics Laws 102
Chair: Laura Bailey
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9.30-10.00 |
Isabel Crespí (UAB) When passive becomes active: on some past participles with motion verbs in Romance |
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Marieke Meelen (Cambridge) |
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10.00-10.30 |
Vieri Samek-Lodovici (UCL) |
Maria Chioti (Manchester) The effect of priming on accent-attitudes: an investigation of their affective and cognitive bases |
Victoria Beatrix Fendel (Cambridge) |
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10.30-11.00 |
Laura González López (Madrid) and Andreas Trotzke (Konstanz & Barcelona) ¡Mira! The grammar-attention interface in the Spanish left periphery |
Anders Holmberg (Newcastle) and Murdhy Alshamari (Hail) Topic particles, agreement and movement in an Arabic dialect |
Robin Meyer (Oxford) Distinguishing multiple sources of syntactic interference: the case of classical Armenian |
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11.00-11.30 |
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E Jamieson (Glasgow)
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Tine Breban (Manchester) |
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11.30-12.00 |
Break (tea/coffee served in ArtsTwo foyer, ground floor) |
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Linguistics Association Lecture 2019 ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre Chair: David Adger |
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12.00-13.00 |
Christopher Potts (Stanford University) |
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13.00-14.00 |
Lunch (provided) ArtsTwo foyer, ground floor |
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14.00-16.00 |
LAGB Annual General Meeting ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre Chair: David Adger Agenda will be posted here before the meeting. |
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