LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN
Spring Meeting 2003: University of Sheffield
Second Circular
The Linguistic Association of Great Britain Spring Meeting 2003 will take
place at the University of Sheffield from 14th - 16th April, 2003. The
local organisers are Claire Cowie (c.s.cowie@sheffield.ac.uk) and Therese
Lindström (t.lindstrom@sheffield.ac.uk).
The Meeting's website is at:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/english/language/conferences/lagb/
Sheffield is an old industrial city close to several of the other big
cities in the North of England. It is situated on the border to the
beautiful Peak District, and a day-trip away from the Yorkshire Dales. In
recent years the city centre has been greatly changed and 'rejuvenated',
the latest additions being a modern art gallery and a winter garden on the
site of the old town hall. Sheffield is beautiful around the middle of
April, and Halifax Hall of Residence, where the conference will take place,
has a wonderful garden where participants can have a stroll in the breaks,
and it is also just around the corner from the Botanical Gardens.
Presentations, the plenary lecture, the language tutorial, meetings, meals
and accommodation, as well as the book display will all be in Halifax Hall.
Accommodation: In Halifax Hall there will be standard single rooms
available at a low cost. If an en-suite room or a double room is required
there are several Bed and Breakfast places and some hotels within walking
distance from the conference venue. Please contact the local organisers for
further information. If delegates who are travelling from afar wish to
spend the night of Sunday the 13th at Halifax Hall they should contact the
local organisers.
Registration: will begin at 12 noon on Monday 14th of April in the lobby of
Halifax Hall.
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 organisers for further details.
Travel: The University of Sheffield is easy to reach by rail, air and road.
There are regular Intercity and cross-country trains and connections from
everywhere in Britain, and there are regular direct trains to/from
Manchester airport. The railway station is a 10 minute car journey and a 40
minute walk from Halifax Hall. Bus no. 50 leaves every half hour from the
Sheffield Interchange opposite the railway station and stops at the
Botanical Gardens (on Brocco Bank). From the Botanical Gardens cross the
road and walk up Endcliffe Vale Road to the Halifax (a 5 minute walk).
The M1 runs through Sheffield and provides people both from the north and
from the south of Britain with a convenient and relatively easy way to the
city. Please consult the website for directions to Halifax Hall by car. A
limited amount of parking will be available at Halifax Hall.
Events:
· The Linguistics Association 2003 Lecture on Monday evening on Kwakw'ala
Clitics will be delivered by Professor Stephen Anderson (Yale).
· There will be a Workshop on Clitics, organised by John Payne (University
of Manchester). Speakers include Peter Austin (SOAS), Dan Everett
(Manchester), Marian Klamer (Leiden) and John Payne (Manchester).
· A Language Tutorial on Inari Sami, will be given by Ida Toivonen
(University of Canterbury).
· There will be a Linguistics at School session on Community languages. The
speakers are Mahendra Verma (University of York), Mike Reynolds (University
of Sheffield and Sheffield Multilingual City Forum) and Arvind Bhatt (Crown
Hill Community College, Leicester). For more information, check
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/ec/ecsessions.htm.
· There will be a Wine Reception on Monday night, hosted by the Department
of English Language and Linguistics.
Bookings: Bookings should be sent to Claire Cowie, Department of English
Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield, Western bank, Sheffield
S10 2TN. Accommodation can only be guaranteed if booked before the 20th of
March. Cheques should be made payable to "University of Sheffield".
Abstracts: are available to delegates who are unable to attend the meeting.
Please order using the booking form below.
Internet home page: The LAGB internet home page can be found at the
following address: http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LAGB/
Future Meetings
4-6 September 2003 University of Oxford
Autumn 2004 (provisional) University of Surrey Roehampton
Committee members:
President
Professor April McMahon
Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield, 5
Shearwood Road, Sheffield S10 2TD
april.mcmahon@shef.ac.uk
http://www.shef.ac.uk/english/language/staff/april.html
Honorary Secretary
Dr Ad Neeleman
Dept. of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, Gower
Street, London
WC1E 6BT
ad@ling.ucl.ac.uk
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/ad/home.htm
Membership Secretary
Dr David Willis
Dept. of Linguistics, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
CB3 9DA
dwew2@cam.ac.uk
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/ling/staff.htm#willis
Meetings Secretary
Dr Marjolein Groefsema
Dept. of Linguistics, University of Hertfordshire, Watford Campus, Aldenham,
Herts. WD2 8AT
m.groefsema@herts.ac.uk
http://www.herts.ac.uk/fhle/faculty/humanities/web%20pages/linguistics/MGroe
fsema.htm
Treasurer
Dr Wiebke Brockhaus-Grand
Dept. of German, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL
wiebke.brockhaus-grand@man.ac.uk
http://www.art.man.ac.uk/german/brockhs.htm
Assistant Secretary
Dr Gillian Ramchand
Centre for Linguistics and Philology, Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HG
gillian.ramchand@ling-phil.oxford.ac.uk
PROGRAMME
Monday 14 April
1:00 LUNCH
2.00 Workshop on clitics, organised by John Payne (University of
Manchester)
John Payne (Manchester): "The clitic-affix boundary"
Dan Everett (Manchester): "Overlap between clitics and affixes: Montana
Salish -m and Romance se"
Marian Klamer (Leiden): "Kambera clitic clusters"
Peter Austin (SOAS) "Content questions in Sasak, an OT syntax account"
3.45 TEA
Workshop continued
6.45 DINNER
8.00 Linguistics Association 2002 Lecture:
Professor Stephen Anderson (Yale): 'Kwak'wala Clitics'
9.15 WINE PARTY (sponsored by the Department of English Language and
Linguistics, University of Sheffield)
Tuesday 15 April
Session A
9.00 Peter Sells (Stanford) 'Finiteness, tense, and recoverability in Swedish'
9.40 Lutz Marten (SOAS) 'Anaphoric locative and benefactive marking in Bemba'
10.20 Cecilia Goria (Nottingham) 'Agreement heads inside the T-model: an
account of Piedmontese Subject Clitics'.
Session B
9.00 Mark Jones (Cambridge) 'Polish nasal vowels and the reconstruction of
Common Slavic'
9.40 Thaïs Cristófaro-Silva (Minas Gerais / King's College London) 'Cluster
reduction in Brazilian Portuguese'
10.20 Nancy Kula (SOAS / Leiden) 'Reduplication in inflected verb stems'.
Session C
9.00 Dmitry Levinson (Tel Aviv) 'Probabilistic model-theoretic semantics
for want'
9.40 Jorunn Hetland (Trondheim) 'Problems of terminology and problems of
content: On topics, themes, and topic-prominent languages'
10.20 Melody Clarke (York) 'Aspectual and polarity constraints on since'.
11:00 COFFEE
Session A
11.30 Maria Pilar Larrañaga (UWE) 'The unaccusative verbs: acquisition of
the position of the subject by bilingual (Basque / Spanish) children'
12.10 Theresa Biberauer (Cambridge) 'Afrikaans doubling and omission
phenomena and the head movement debate'.
Session B
11.30 April McMahon and Rob McMahon (Sheffield) 'Mismatches between
linguistic and genetic family trees: the role of contact'.
12.10 Amel Kallel (Reading) 'The loss of negative concord and the rise of
polarity item any in Early Modern English'.
Session C
11.30 Ryo Otoguro (Essex) 'Nominal clitic ordering and recursive rule blocks'
12.10 Asimakis Fliatouras (Patras) 'A feature-based morphological analysis
of Greek adjectives'.
1.00 LUNCH
Session A
2.00 Language Tutorial
Dr Ida Toivonen (Canterbury, New Zealand): Inari Sami
Session B
2.00 Community languages
A session on Linguistics in Education organised by the LAGB's Education
Committee. Speakers:
Mahendra Verma (University of York)
Mike Reynolds (University of Sheffield and Sheffield Multilingual City Forum)
Arvind Bhatt (Crown Hill Community College, Leicester)
4.00 TEA
4.30 Annual General Meeting
6.30 DINNER
8.00-9.00 Language Tutorial continues
9.00 Wine party (sponsored by Oxford University Press)
Wednesday 16 April
Session A
9.00 Joanne Close (York) 'The syntactic position of contracted auxiliaries
in English'
9.40 Bob Borsley (Essex) 'Some implications of English comparative
correlatives'
10.20 Benjamin Shaer (Berlin) '(Anti-)reconstruction effects among English
fronted adjuncts'.
Session B
9.00 Mike Davenport (Durham) 'Old English Breaking and syllable structure'
9.40 Martin Krämer (Ulster) 'The last consonant'
10.20 Rachael-Anne Knight (Cambridge) 'Nuclear accent shape and the
perception of syllable pitch'.
Session C
9.00 Sophia Skoufaki (Cambridge) 'The source of idiom-transparency intuitions'
9.40 Aleth Bolt (Amsterdam) 'The complexity of grammatical metaphors'
10.20 Claire Cowie (Sheffield) '"Uncommon terminations": Proscribed words
as evidence for morphological productivity'.
11.00 COFFEE
Session A
11.30 Andrew Spencer (Essex) 'Negation in Japanese'
12.10 Dick Hudson (UCL) 'An alternative to rules of referral'.
Session B
11.30 Sam Featherston (Tübingen) 'On the nature of island constraints:
Experimental data from German and English'
12.10 Theodora Alexopoulou and Frank Keller (Edinburgh) 'Quantifying
linguistic intuitions and crosslinguistic research: evidence from
resumption in islands'.
Session C
11.30 Therese Lindström (Sheffield) 'Grammaticalisation in Britain
(1870-1970)?'
12.10 Kersti Börjars, Tolli Eythòrsson and Nigel Vincent (Manchester) 'On
defining degrammaticalisation'
1.00 LUNCH
Session A
2.00 Patrizia Pacioni (Melbourne) 'The internal structure of Cantonese NPs'
2.40 Reiko Vermeulen (UCL) 'Ga Ga construction'.
Session B
2.00 Yoryia Agouraki (Cyprus) 'Future Wh-clauses in DP-positions'
2.40 Sun-Ho Hong (Essex) 'On successive cyclicity in Wh-questions'.
Session C
2.00 Bill Palmer (New South Wales / Leeds) 'Shifting stress: synchronic
variation as a manifestation of diachronic change in Kokota (Oceanic)
prosody.'
2.40 Vina Tsakali (UCL / MIT) 'A different type of clitic doubling
construction'.
3.20 TEA AND CLOSE
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BOOKING FORM
LAGB Spring Meeting 2003, University of Sheffield 14th -16th April 2003
Please return this form to Claire Cowie by fax (0114 276 8251) or by post
at Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield,
Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom.
Last name ___________________________________
First name ___________________________________ Title _______________
Institution __________________________________________________________
Address __________________________________________________________
e-mail address__________________________________________________________
1. Complete package
including lunch on Monday 14th £133.35 ___________________
excluding lunch on Monday 14th £124.10 ___________________
Surcharge for non-members £5.00 ___________________
Total: ___________________
2. Selected items:
Registration fee £35 (obligatory -
to cover costs of speakers,
room hire, equipment) £35.00
Surcharge for non-members £5.00 ___________________
B&B in Halifax Hall at £23.25 per night
Monday 14th ___________________
Tuesday 15th ___________________
Buffet Lunch at £9.25 each
Monday 14th ___________________
Tuesday 15th ___________________
Wednesday 16th ___________________
Dinner at £12.05 each
Monday 14th ___________________
Tuesday 15th ___________________
Total: ___________________
Please tick:
male female (accommodation is standard)
Vegetarian
Please inform the organisers of other special requirements.
If you wish to receive the book of abstracts with your booking receipt
Payments can be made by cheque (please make out to University of Sheffield
and enclose with the form) or by credit card:
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To secure accommodation and meals please return the booking form no later
than 20 March 2003.
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