Spring Meeting, 2nd Circular

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    LAGB Spring Meeting 2001: Edge Hill College of Higher Education

            Second Circular

    The 2001 Spring Meeting will be held from 9th to 11th April at Edge Hill
    College of Higher Education, where the Association will be the guests of
    the Department of English Language and Literature. The local organisers are
    Patrick Honeybone (honeybop@edgehill.ac.uk) and Kevin Watson
    (watsonk@edgehill.ac.uk). Postal enquiries about the meeting should be
    addressed to: Patrick Honeybone, Department of English, Edge Hill College
    of Higher Education, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 4QP.

    Please check the Meeting's website for updates and further details:
    www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/lagb.htm

    Edge Hill College is situated just north of Liverpool, a vibrant city with
    a world-class reputation for its contributions to popular and classical
    culture. The Liverpool Tate gallery, the stunning architecture, famous
    football clubs and the several shrines to the Beatles are just a few of the
    reasons why visitors are drawn to the city from around the world. Edge Hill
    is in Ormskirk, an ancient Lancashire market town, which, though it now
    feels the urban draw of Liverpool, has a history and identity of its own
    and is within a short distance of the rural beauty of both the Lake
    District and the Peak District. Ormskirk is also close to the seaside towns
    of Blackpool and Southport and the vast urban centre of Greater Manchester.

    Accommodation: Edge Hill has a compact and easily accessible campus.
    Accommodation, talks, the book display and food will all be within easy
    walking distance of each other. All bedrooms are single, and there is a
    choice between rooms with en suite facilities and rooms with shared
    bathrooms/showers.

    Registration: will begin at 12 noon on Tuesday 9th of April in the Main
    Entrance Foyer at Edge Hill. This is the obvious entrance to the college's
    main building and will be clearly sign-posted.

    Bar: a bar will be available during the two evenings of the conference.

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

    Childcare: if you require childcare during the conference, please contact
    the Local Organiser for further details.

    Travel: Edge Hill College is situated in Ormskirk, just north of Liverpool.
    Liverpool Lime Street station is served by regular Intercity and
    cross-country trains and connections from everywhere in Britain, and there
    is a frequent connection to Ormskirk from Liverpool Central station, on the
    Northern Line of Liverpool's suburban railway network (the 'Merseyrail').
    Liverpool Central station can easily be reached by public transport from
    Liverpool John Lennon Airport and Manchester Airport. Ormskirk station also
    has a less frequent train service to Preston. Edge Hill can be reached by
    car off the A59 or A570; the A570 can be reached from the M6 by taking the
    M58 (towards Liverpool) at junction 26.
    Further details on how to reach Edge Hill will be posted on the website
    address given above. Please contact the Local Organiser with any queries.

    Parking: Free parking will be available on campus during the conference, as
    it is taking place during the Easter vacation.

    Events:
    The following events will form part of the meeting:
    · The Linguistics Association 2002 Lecture on Tuesday evening will be
    delivered by Professor Judy Kegl (University of Southern Maine); title
    "Serial Verbs in an Emergent Language"
    · There will be a Workshop on Sign Language Linguistics, organised by Dr
    Bencie Woll (City University).
    · There will be a Language Tutorial on British Sign Language, by Dr Bencie
    Woll (City University).
    A session of Linguistics at School will be held, organised by the LAGB
    Education
          Committee, entitled: "Linguistics in teacher education".

    There will be a Wine Party on Tuesday night, hosted by Edge Hill's Research
    Office.

    Bookings: should be sent to the Local Organisers, on the booking form at
    the end of this mailing. There is a 10% discount on bookings received by
    Friday 15th March and accommodation can only be guaranteed if it is booked
    before this date. Cheques should be made payable to "Edge Hill Enterprises
    Ltd".

    Internet home page: The LAGB internet home page is now active at the
    following address: http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LAGB.

    Future Meetings:

    17-19 September 2002 UMIST
    14-16 April 2003 University of Sheffield
    4-6 September 2003 University of Sussex
    Spring 2004 (provisional) University of Surrey Roehampton

    PROGRAMME

    Tuesday 9 April

    LUNCH

    2.00 Workshop on Sign Language Linguistics
    Organised by Dr Bencie Woll (City University)

    2.00 - 2.30 Introduction:
    Judy Kegl, University of Southern Maine; Gary Morgan, City University
    Researching signed languages: coding and transcription issues

    2.30 - 3.15 First talk
    Gary Morgan, City University London
    Current issues in sign language acquisition

    3.15 - 3.45 Second Talk
    Bencie Woll, City University London
    Sign Language and the Brain: a review of current research on functional
    imaging studies and implications for understanding the relationship of
    modality and linguistic structure

    3.45 TEA

    4.15 - 4.45 Research in progress: brief reports by research students

    4.45 - 5.30 Third talk
    Diane Brentari, Purdue University; Wendy Sandler, University of Haifa; Adam
    Schembri, University of Bristol; Bencie Woll, City University; Gary Morgan,
    City University; Judy Kegl, University of Southern Maine
    Discussion panel: Cross-linguistic research on sign languages: issues and
    problems

    5.30 - 6.00 General discussion

    6.45 DINNER

    8.00 Linguistics Association 2002 Lecture

    Professor Judy Kegl (University of Southern Maine)

    "Serial Verbs in an Emergent Language"

    9.15 WINE PARTY
    hosted by Edge Hill's Research Office
     

    Wednesday 10 April

    Session A
    9.00 Joanne Close (York) 'Double aspectuals in English dialects: a
    multiple spell-out approach'
    9.40 Amela Camdzic and Dick Hudson (UCL) 'Serbo-Croat clitics in Word
    Grammar'
    10.20 Delia Bentley (Manchester) 'On ne-cliticisation'

    Session B
    9.00 Christian Rathmann (University of Texas at Austin) 'Re-visiting
    topic constructions in signed languages'
    9.40 Gaurav Mathur (University of Connecticut) 'On number and agreement
    in signed languages'
    10.20 Inge Zwitserlood and Ingeborg van Gijn (UiL OTS / Utrecht
    University and City University / University of Amsterdam) 'On the relation
    between agreement and pro-drop in signed languages'

    Session C
    9.00 Shih-Ping Wang (Ming Chuan University / Nottingham) 'Corpus-based
    approaches to ablaut reduplication and frozen word order'
    9.40 Ana Luís (Essex) 'The morphophonology of pronominal affixes in
    European Portuguese'
    10.20 Jacques Durand (Toulouse) 'The PFC project: overview and first
    results'

    11.00 COFFEE

    11.30 Language Tutorial on British Sign Language
                             Bencie Woll (City University)

    1.00 LUNCH

    Session A
    2.00 Linguistics at school: "Linguistics in teacher education". Chair:
    Sue Barry (Manchester)

    Kate Ruttle (Ditton Lodge First School, Newmarket) Linguistics and
    assessment in primary literacy.
    Keith Brown (Centre for Research in English and Applied Linguistics,
    Cambridge) What, why and how?
    John Keen (University of Manchester School of Education) Language and
    assessment for writing development.

    For more information, see:
    http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/ec/edgehill.htm

    Session B
    2.00 Corinne Iten (UCL) 'Even if: a pragmatic perspective on the
    'consequent-entailment' problem'
    2.40 Rosa Vega-Moreno (UCL) 'Ad hoc concepts as constituents of the
    proposition expressed: evidence from idioms'
            
    Session C
    2.00 Melinda Whong-Barr (Durham) 'Valency-changing functional morphology
    and L2 acquisition'
    2.40 Cécile van der Weert (Reading) 'Nature or nurture: structured
    information knowledge'

    3.30 TEA

    Session A
    4.00 M. Ward (Dublin City University) 'Linguistics, CALL and endangered
    languages: a Nawat perspective'

    Session B
    4.00 Yukiko Morimoto (Düsseldorf) 'Grammatical coding of non-prototypical
    objects in Bantu'

    Session C
    4.00 Emma Thomas (Essex) 'On the status of 'in' and 'on' in directional
    expressions'

    4.45 LAGB Annual General Meeting

    6.30 DINNER

    Thursday 11 April

    Session A
    9.00 Matthew Baerman (Sussex) 'Against ordered morphological rules'
    9.40 Laurie Bauer (Victoria University of Wellington) 'Where did you get
    those As?'
    10.20 Yuki-Shige Tamura (Osaka) 'Relative viewing arrangement and English
    tenses in complement clauses'

    Session B
    9.00 Willem Hollmann (Manchester) 'The rise of causative get with an
    infinitive: a usage-based account'
    9.40 Richard Ingham (Reading) 'Diachronic change in Middle English
    negated arguments'
    10.20 David Willis (Cambridge) 'Headedness in Welsh numeral phrases and
    its implications for theories of language change'

    Session C
    9.00 Roland Pfau (Amsterdam) and Markus Steinbach (Mainz) 'Optimal
    reciprocals in German Sign Language'
    9.40 Wendy Sandler (Haifa / Nijmegen) 'From phonetics to discourse: the
    nondominant hand and the grammar of sign language'
    10.20 Onno Crasborn (Nijmegen) 'Phonetic variation in the handshape
    parameter of Sign Language of the Netherlands'

    11.00 COFFEE

    11.30 Language Tutorial continues

    1.00 LUNCH

    Session A
    2.00 Thórhallur Eythórsson (Manchester) 'Changes in case marking in
    Faroese: a cue-based account'
    2.40 Maria Lekakou (UCL) 'Why there is no middle construction'

    Session B
    2.00 Gaëtanelle Gilquin (Louvain) 'Syntactic structure and corpus
    linguistics: the case of English causative constructions'
    2.40 Sun-Ho Hong (Essex) 'A paradigm in A-movement and A'-Movement'

    Session C
    2.00 Jose Maria Garcia Nunez (Cadiz) 'Focusability, quantification and
    distribution in English higher adverbs'
    2.40 Jonny Butler (York) 'What 'mustn't' and 'can't' mustn't and can't
    mean: propositions, propositional operators, and vP'

    3.20 TEA AND CLOSE

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    BOOKING FORM
    

    Please return this form to: Patrick Honeybone, Department of English, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 4QP.

    Payment can be made by a cheque drawn on a Sterling bank account or by credit card. The easiest way is by cheque - these should simply be sent with the booking form (please make cheques payable to " Edge Hill Enterprises Ltd"). If you wish to pay by credit card, send your filled-in booking form to Patrick Honeybone at the above address. You will then be contacted and asked to telephone Edge Hill with your credit card details several weeks before the event. If you have any queries about this, please contact Patrick Honeybone (honeybop@edgehill.ac.uk).

    All prices are in pounds sterling. Please indicate if you require a receipt to be sent to you before your arrival at Edge Hill. ________________________________________________________________________

    NAME:

    INSTITUTION:

    MAILING ADDRESS:

    E-MAIL ADDRESS:

    I would like to book the following (select appropriate package):

    1. Complete conference package in en suite bedroom: (a) including Tuesday lunch preceding workshop (i) if sent to arrive before 15 March £105.75 .......... (ii) if sent to arrive after 15 March £117.50 ..........

    (b) excluding Tuesday lunch (i) if sent to arrive before 15 March £98.10 .......... (ii) if sent to arrive after 15 March £109.00 ..........

    (c) Surcharge for non-members £5.00 ..........

    TOTAL ..........

    2. Complete conference package in standard bedroom: (a) including Tuesday lunch preceding workshop (i) if sent to arrive before 15 March £101.25 .......... (ii) if sent to arrive after 15 March £112.50 ..........

    (b) excluding Tuesday lunch (i) if sent to arrive before 15 March £93.60 .......... (ii) if sent to arrive after 15 March £104.00 ..........

    (c) Surcharge for non-members £5.00 ..........

    TOTAL ..........

    3. Selected items: (a) Registration fee (OBLIGATORY) to cover cost of abstracts, tea and coffee, room bookings, speakers' expenses etc £35.00 £35.00 (b) Tuesday lunch £8.50 .......... (c) Tuesday dinner £9.50 .......... (d) B&B Tuesday/Wednesday (en suite) £19.00 .......... (e) B&B Tuesday/Wednesday (standard) £16.50 .......... (f) Wednesday lunch £8.50 .......... (g) Wednesday dinner £9.50 .......... (h) B&B Wednesday/Thursday (en suite) £19.00 .......... (i) B&B Wednesday/Thursday (standard) £16.50 .......... (j) Thursday lunch £8.50 ..........

    SUB-TOTAL: ..........

    Deduct 10% if sent to arrive before 15 March .......... (j) Surcharge for non-members £5.00 ..........

    TOTAL: ..........

    4. Abstracts booklet only: £5.00 UK......... £6.00 overseas...........

    HOW WILL YOU BE PAYING? (a) By sterling cheque (enclosed with this form) .......... (b) By credit card (to be paid later) ..........

    TICK TO RECEIVE RECEIPT BEFORE ARRIVAL: .......... TICK TO RECEIVE ABSTRACTS BEFORE ARRIVAL: .......... TICK IF YOU WOULD LIKE VEGETARIAN FOOD: ..........

    OTHER SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (e.g. DIET, ACCOMMODATION): ................. ............................................................................ ...........................................................



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