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Full Title: Manchester Symposium on Existentials

      
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Start Date: 28-Jun-2012 - 29-Jun-2012
Contact: Silvio Cruschina
Meeting Email: click here to access email
Meeting URL: http://existentials.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/news_events/symposium.htm
Meeting Description: The research team of the AHRC-funded project Existential constructions: An investigation into the Italo-Romance dialects is pleased to announce the Manchester Symposium on Existentials, which will take place at the University of Manchester on 28-29 June 2012.

Despite receiving a great deal of attention in the specialist literature, existential constructions still raise a number of important questions. The Symposium aims to create a platform for discussion of existential constructions in a cross-linguistic perspective. All theoretical approaches are welcome. The keynote speakers will be:

Itamar Francez, University of Chicago
Andrew Koontz-Garboden, University of Manchester

Registration is free, but those wishing to attend, whether presenting or not, should send an email to silvio.cruschina@manchester.ac.uk as soon as possible.

Organisers:

Delia Bentley
Francesco Maria Ciconte
Silvio Cruschina
Linguistic Subfield: General Linguistics
LL Issue: 23.785


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