Interaction between Syntax and Pragmatics
Unversity College London=20
April 5-6, 2000
Organizing committee:
Dirk Bury, Karen Froud, Richard Horsey, Kriszta Szendroi
The conference precedes this year's LAGB Spring Meeting=20
(also at UCL). It is sponsored by UCL and the LAGB.=20
This message contains the preliminary programme and=20
details on accommodation and registration.
--Early registration deadline: 1 March
--Deadline for guaranteed accommodation: 24 February=20
Preliminary programme:
Day 1 (April 5)
9.00 Registration and Coffee
10.30 Relative clauses, left-periphery effects, and the=20
dynamics of language processing
Ruth Kempson, King's College (Invited speaker)=20
11.30 Fronting: The syntax and pragmatics of Topic and Focus
Annabel Cormack, UCL=20
Neil Smith, UCL
12.10 English as a discourse configurational language:=20
The syntactic incorporation of focus structure
Carsten Breul, Universitaet Duisburg
12.50 Lunch
2.00 Focus Structure Architecture and P-syntax
Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Natalia Strahov, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2.40 Focus, obviation, and word order in East Cree
Marie-Odile Junker, Carleton University
3.20 Manifestation of Informational Focus
Xu Liejiong, City University of Hong Kong
4.00 Coffee
4.20 Evidentiality, Logophoricity and the Syntactic=20
Representation of Pragmatic Features
Peggy Speas, University of Massachusetts
5.00 Focusing in Italian copular constructions
Asya Pereltsvayg, McGill
5.40 Discourse and syntactic factors in Bare Ellipsis=20
Resolution=20
Jonathan Ginzburg, King's College
Howard Gregory, King's College
Shalom Lappin, King's College
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6.20 End=20
Day 2 (April 6)
9.45 Locality and Left Periphery
Luigi Rizzi, University of Siena (Invited speaker)
10.45 Coffee
11.00 Reconfiguring syntax, or some good reasons why we
shouldn't
Kieran Snyder, University of Pennsylvania
11.40 Contrastive Focus Reduplication in English
Jila Ghomeshi, University of Manitoba
Ray Jackendoff, Brandeis/Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin
Nicole Rosen, University of Toronto
Kevin Russell, University of Manitoba
12.20 Closing off
12.35 End.
Alternate
Focus and quantification
Sarah D. Kennelly, University of Utrecht
(further alternates tbc)
The abstracts will be available shortly on our website=
http://pitch.phon.ucl.ac.uk/conference
For further information please contact:
Syntax/Pragmatics Conference Committee, Department of
Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, Gower
Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom,
or d.bury@ucl.ac.uk (Dirk Bury),or visit our website.=20
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Registration and Accommodation
Please also note that our early registration deadline
is 1 March, and that we can only guarantee
accommodation if it is booked by 24 February (see
below for more details on accommodation and the form
for registration and accommodation).
Accommodation can be made available for conference
participants in two locations, both within five
minutes' walk from the conference location.
Accommodation in Ramsay Hall, one of UCL's halls of
residence, consists of single bedrooms, with hand wash
basins and shared bathroom facilities, offered on a
half-board basis (i.e. breakfast and dinner provided)
at bargain price of =A328.00 per person per night. To
reserve accommodation in Ramsay Hall, contact Karen
Froud karen@ling.ucl.ac.uk for further details as soon
as possible.
Accommodation in the Tavistock Hotel consists of
either single or twin bedrooms with ensuite
facilities, television and radio, and the price
includes full breakfast. The Tavistock also has a
wine-bar and restaurant, and a pay garage is available
for guests. Prices are =A365.00 per night for a single
room and =A383.60 for a twin room. To reserve
accommodation at the Tavistock Hotel, please contact
them directly on +44 (0)20 7636 8383, asking for
reservations and mentioning the UCL conference (as we
have a certain number of rooms set aside for
conference delegates).
Please note that accommodation in Central London in
the spring is at a premium, and the rooms reserved for
conference delegates will be allocated on a first-come
first-served basis. Accommodation cannot be guaranteed
unless it is booked and paid for by February 24th 2000
at the latest.=20
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Booking Form
Conference on the Interaction Between Syntax and
Pragmatics
UCL, April 5-6 2000
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Use this form to register for the conference, and for
accommodation in Ramsay Hall.
Please send this form and your payment to Karen Froud.
You may pay by credit card (unfortunately we can only=20
accept Visa or Mastercard),
so you can use either paper (Department of Phonetics
and Linguistics, UCL,
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT) or email
Karen@linguistics.ucl.ac.uk. Please note
that we do not use a secure link for credit card
payments.
Name: ____________________
Email: ____________________
Address: _______________________
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Accommodation
If you require hotel accommodation, please refer to
the details on the main conference
page. I require accommodation in Ramsay Hall (single
rooms half-board only) at =A328 per
night, for the nights of:
April 4 ____
April 5 ____
April 6 ____
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Conference Fee
Registration for the conference is =A320. Early
registrations (before 1 March) are =A315.
Students and other concessions are also =A315 (any time
before the conference). University
of London staff and students receive a discounted rate
of =A310.
___ Full (=A320)=20
___ Early (=A315)
___ Concession (=A315)
___ University of London (=A310)
If you have selected 'Concession', please enter the
type (e.g. student, retired)
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Payment
If you do not wish so submit your credit card details
over the web, please print this
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also pay by cheque (made payable to UCL).
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