LAGB Autumn Meeting 2003: University of Oxford (Somerville College)
The 2003 Autumn Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain
will be held at the University of Oxford, Somerville College, from
September 4 to 6. The local organiser is Gillian Ramchand
<gillian.ramchand@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk>. The conference website will appear
at http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/events/lagb.
Oxford is a unique and historic institution. As the oldest English-speaking
university in the world, it lays claim to eight centuries of continuous
existence. There is no clear date of foundation, but teaching existed at
Oxford in some form in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, when Henry II
banned English students from attending the University of Paris.
Somerville College was founded in 1879 as a women's college (boasting such
alumni as Indira Gandhi , Margaret Thatcher, Dorothy Hodgkin and Iris
Murdoch), but has been admitting men since 1994. Somerville is located
very centrally, within a 5-10 min walking distance of the town centre with
its bars and cafes, and is also a short 10min walk from the bus and rail
stations.
Accommodation
Accommodation will be provided on site at Somerville College, in single
rooms with shared bathroom facilities. The conference venues, the bar and
the dining facilities will all be located at Somerville College.
Registration: From noon on the Thursday, at Somerville College.
Bar: The college bar will be open every night until late.
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
London Heathrow and Gatwick airports are linked to Oxford by The Airline
coach service, which operate a direct frequent service twenty-four hours a
day.
A frequent direct rail service operates between Oxford and London
Paddington (approximately every 30 minutes), and between Oxford and
Birmingham New Street via Banbury and Coventry. Other services operate from
the north via Birmingham New Street; from the South via Reading; and from
the west via Didcot or Reading.
In addition, frequent 24-hour direct services connect Oxford with London
(peak times every 10-20 minutes). The Oxford Express X90 service includes
Victoria Coach Station, Grosvenor Gardens, Marble Arch, Baker
Street/Gloucester Place and Hillingdon.(tel: 01865 785410). The Oxford Tube
service includes Grosvenor Gardens, Marble Arch, Notting Hill Gate,
Shepherd's Bush, and Hillingdon (tel: 01865 772250).
Many Oxford streets are now closed to traffic and parking is severely
limited. Delegates are advised to arrive by public transport, but for those
planning to arrive by car the routes are as follows: London-Oxford
A40/M40/A40; Birmingham-Oxford M40/A34; Bristol-Oxford: M32/M4/A34.
Parking: there is no parking on site. The local website will give advice
to those travelling in by car. There are car parks in the city which tend
to be a bit expensive for longer stays, but which are at walking distance
away from the college. There are also Park and Ride facilities which are
cheaper, and then buses take you in to the city centre.
Events:
The Henry Sweet Lecture 2003 will be delivered by Professor Tanya Reinhart
(University of Utrecht and University of Tel Aviv).
Prof. Reinhart will also be participating in a Workshop on Tense and Aspect
(with special reference to Slavic Languages) organised by Gillian Ramchand,
with invited speakers including Dr Olga Borik (Utrecht), Prof. Hana Filip
(Stanford) and Prof. Peter Svenonius (Tromsø)
A Language Tutorial on Ma'di will be given by Dr Nigel Fabb (University of
Strathclyde).
There will be a Linguistics at School session on A-Level English language,
speakers: Tim Shortis (Chief Examiner, AQA English Language Board and
University of Bristol School of Education) and Andrew Moore (School
Improvement Service of the East Riding of Yorkshire Council). For more
information, check http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/ec/ecsessions.htm.
There will be a wine party on the evening of the first day, hosted by
Oxford University Press.
Bookings: Bookings should be sent to Kate Dobson, Centre for Linguistics
and Philology, Oxford University, Walton Street OX1 2HG. Bookings for
accommodation have to be in by 15th August. After this date accommodation
cannot be guaranteed.
Abstracts: are available to members who are unable to attend the meeting.
Please order using the booking form below.
Internet home page: The LAGB internet home page is now active at the
following address: http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LAGB/.
Electronic network: Please join the LAGB electronic network which is used
for disseminating LAGB information and for consulting members quickly. It
can be subscribed to by sending the message "add lagb" to:
listserv@postman.essex.ac.uk. Non-members are welcome to subscribe to the
email list.
Future Meetings
Autumn 2004 University of Surrey Roehampton
Autumn 2005 University of Cambridge
The LAGB committee
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 Diane Nelson
Dept. of Linguistics & Phonetics, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS6 9JT
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/linguistics/staff/diane/Welcome.html
d.c.nelson@leeds.ac.uk
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 Dunstan Brown
Department of Linguistic, Cultural & International Studies, University of
Surrey, Guildford,
GU2 7XH d.brown@surrey.ac.uk
Assistant Secretary
Dr Eric Haeberli
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, University of Reading,
Reading RG6 6AA
e.haeberli@reading.ac.uk
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 4 September 2003
1.00 LUNCH
2.00 Workshop on Tense and Aspect
Speakers: Tanya Reinhart (Tel Aviv/Utrecht)
Olga Borik (Utrecht)
Hana Filip (Stanford)
Peter Svenonius (Tromsc)
4.15 TEA
4.45 Workshop continues.
6.30 DINNER
7.45 Henry Sweet Lecture 2003
Professor Tanya Reinhart (Tel Aviv/Utrecht)
Wine Party
Hosted by Oxford University Press
Friday, 5 September 2003
Session A
9.00 Marc Richards (Cambridge) 'Parametrizing the LCA: How PF keeps Syntax
in Shape.'
9.40 Asya Pereltsvaig (Indiana) 'Syntax of denominal and ditransitive verbs
reconsidered.'
10.20 Ian Roberts (Cambridge) 'Bare head movement.'
Session B
9.00 Patrick Honeybone (Edge Hill / Edinburgh) 'Markedness and
directionality in change: Old English fricatives and Inner-German stops.'
9.40 Laurence White and Alice Turk (Edinburgh) 'Polysyllabic shortening
revisited: word length and the attenuation of accentual lengthening.'
10.20 Rachael-Anne Knight (Cambridge) 'Perceived prominence and nuclear
accent shape.'
Session C
9.00 Wilhelm Geuder (Konstanz) 'Depictives and transparent adverbs.'
9.40 Kasia Jaszczolt (Cambridge) 'The modality of will: A
default-semantics account.'
10.20 Virve-Anneli Vihman (Edinburgh) 'Whodunnit? The case of the implicit
agent.'
Session D
9.00 Marina Chumakina, Andrew Hippisley and Greville Corbett (Surrey)
'Alternating suppletion'
9.40 Dunstan Brown, Greville Corbett and Carole Tiberius (Surrey) 'The
asymmetry of syncretism: how theory plays out in a corpus.'
10.20 Bill Palmer (Leeds) 'Owners into actors: how possessive morphology
became subject agreement in the languages of Bougainville.'
11.00 COFFEE
Session A
11.30 Liliane Haegeman (Lille) 'Issues on the left periphery: from
adjuncts to topics and back again.'
12.10.1 Benjamin Shaer and Werner Frey (Berlin) 'Towards an account of
English and German left-peripheral adverbials.'
Session B
11.30 Kersti Börjars (Manchester) 'The Swedish possessive: not a case of
degrammaticalisation.'
12.10 April McMahon and Robert McMahon (Sheffield) 'Climbing down from the
trees: Network representations for language families.'
Session C
11.30 Irina Nikolaeva (Konstanz) 'Modifier-head person agreement.'
12.10 John Payne and Katrin Hiietam (Manchester) 'The headedness of the
numeral plus noun construction in Baltic-Finnic.'
Session D
11.30 Hans-Martin Gärtner (Berlin) 'Naming and economy.'
12.10 Alastair Butler (Amsterdam) 'Binding variation.'
1.00 LUNCH
2.00 Language Tutorial on Ma'di - Nigel Fabb (Strathclyde)
2.00 Special session on Linguistics in Schools: A-Level English language
Speakers: Tim Shortis (Chief Examiner, AQA English Language Board and
University of Bristol School of Education) and Andrew Moore (School
Improvement Service of the East Riding of Yorkshire Council).
4.00 TEA
Session A
4.30 Maggie Tallerman (Durham) 'The syntax of Welsh "direct object
mutation" revisited.'
Session B
4.30 Helen East (Cambridge) 'The parser - a word-level thief?'
Session C
4.30 Dick Hudson (UCL) 'Wanna revisited.'
5.15 LAGB Business Meeting
6.30 DINNER
8.00 Language Tutorial continued
Saturday, 6 September 2003
Session A
9.00 Zeljka Paunovic (Essex) 'Perfectives and objects.'
9.40 Peter Svenonius (Tromsø) 'On the placement of Russian prefixes.'
10.20 Anders Holmberg (Durham) and David Odden (Ohio) 'The Ezafe in Hawrami.'
Session B
9.00 Xosé Rosales Sequeiros (Greenwich) 'Pragmatic maxims and anaphoric
interpretation in Galician.'
9.40 Nicholas Allott (UCL) 'Can game theory do pragmatics?'
10.20 Thorstein Fretheim (Trondheim) 'Predicating a difference: How much
is semantics, how much pragmatics?'
Session C
9.00 Alan Yu (Chicago) 'On the influence of syllable weight in Washo
infixing reduplication.'
9.40 S.J. Hannahs (Durham) 'Malagasy reduplication: bisyllabic copying and
infixation.'
10.20 Konstantina Haidou (SOAS) 'The syntax-prosody mapping of focus in
Greek word order variation.
Session D
9.00 Anette Rosenbach (Düsseldorf) 'Comparing animacy vs. weight as
determinants of grammatical variation in English.'
9.40 Joanne Close (York) 'Double modals in American Southern English.'
10.20 Tanja Schmid (Konstanz) and Carola Trips (Stuttgart) 'New insights
into Verb Projection Raising.'
11.00 COFFEE
Session A
11.30 Theresa Biberauer and Marc Richards (Cambridge) 'A parametric
approach to EPP-satisfaction in Germanic.'
12.10 Jonny Butler (York) 'On having arguments and agreeing: Semantic EPP.'
Session B
11.30 Richard Ingham (Reading) 'Negative concord in Middle English: a
canonical agreement relation?'
12.10 Carola Trips (Stuttgart) and Eric Fuss (Frankfurt) 'þa, þonne, and V2
in Old English.
Session C
11.30 Laura Rupp (Amsterdam) 'Concord variation in negative there
sentences: a generative-sociolinguistic perspective.'
12.10 Patrick McConvell (AIATSIS) and Nicholas Thieberger (Melbourne)
'Three windows on language endangerment: Aboriginal languages of Australia
in the national census, a regional survey, and a language acquisition
study.'
Session D
11.30 Mehran Taghvaipour (Essex) 'Persian relative clauses in HPSG.'
12.10 Maria Flouraki (Essex) 'Aspect shifts in Modern Greek.'
1.00 LUNCH
Session A
2.00 Daniel Wedgwood (Edinburgh) 'Hungarian word order: shifting the focus
away from the syntax.'
2.40 Jieun Kiaer (King's College London) 'Dynamics of focus interpretation:
focus as update of context.'
3.20 Elena Gregoromichelaki (King's College London) 'A DS analysis of the
interaction of anaphora and quantification in conditional sentences.'
Session B
2.00 Victoria Janke (UCL) 'Control without PRO.'
2.40 Sophie Heyd (Nancy / Strasbourg) and Eric Mathieu (UCL) 'On the role
of "de" in French.'
3.20 Norio Nasu (Kobe) 'Correlations between reconstruction and clause
structure.'
Session C
2.00 Stavroula-Thaleia Kousta (Cambridge) 'Structural parallelism effects
on the inter-pretation of weak object pronouns in Greek.'
2.40 Hyun Kyung (Cambridge) 'Learnability of uninterpretable features in
complementizers.'
3.20 Hye-Kyung Kang (Seoul) 'Children's interpretation of stress-shift
constructions.'
4.00 TEA and CLOSE
LAGB Autumn Meeting 2003, University of Oxford 4th -6th September 2003,
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Philology, Oxford University,
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