LINGUIST List 10.312

Fri Feb 26 1999

Confs: Semi-Lexical Heads

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1. Henk van Riemsdijk, Semi-Lexical Heads

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Workshop
on
SEMI-LEXICAL HEADS

Partially sponsored by the 
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
and the BSGM Foundation

May 20 and 21 1999

Tilburg University -- exact location to be announced
Grammatical Models Group / CLS

Workshop website: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/gm/program2.htm


Thursday, May 20
10.00 - 11.00	Hubert Haider (Salzburg): 
Heads and Selection (invited lecture) 
11.00 - 11.15	coffee break 
11.15 - 12.00	Kristin Eide & Tor farli (Trondheim): Semi-lexical
heads in a semantically charged syntax 
12.00 - 12.45 Joan Rafel (Girona): As for as / for, they are
semi-lexical heads
12.45 -14.00	lunch break 
14.00 - 14.45	Carson Schtze (MIT/UCLA): Empty
lexical heads as last resorts 
14.45 -15.30 Tjerk Hagemeijer (Lisboa): On hybridisation in
So-Tomense
15.30- 16.00	tea break 
16.00 -16.45	Miriam Butt & Wilhelm Geuder (Konstanz): On the lexical status
of light verbs 
16.45 - 17.30	Anna Cardinaletti & Giuliana Giusti
(Venezia): Motion verbs as semi-lexical heads

Friday, May 21

10.00 - 11.00	Elisabeth Lbel (Kln): Classifiers and the notion
'semi-lexical head' (invited lecture) 
11.00 - 11.15	coffee break 
11.15 - 12.00	Tanmoy Bhattacharya (UC London): 
Numeral/Quantifier-Classifier as a complex head 
12.00 - 12.45	Ludmila 
Veselovsk (Olomouc): Group nouns, quantifiers and cardinals in Czech
12.45 - 14.00	lunch break 
14.00 - 14.45 Jesse Tseng (Edinburgh): A semantic account of lexical
and functional prepositions
14.45 -15.30 Jochen Zeller (Frankfurt): Lexical particles and
semi-lexical postpositions
15.30 - 16.00	tea break 16.00 - 16.45	Susan Powers
(Potsdam): Children's semi-lexical heads 
16.45 - 17.45 Joseph Emonds (Durham): The flat structure expression of
semi-lexical heads (invited lecture)

Information:	

Information can be obtained via the following address: 
Ms. Linda Bal, secretary GM-Group, 
Tilburg University PO Box 90153, 
NL - 5000 LE -Tilburg, The Netherlands 
tel. +31 13 4662773, fax: +31 13 4663110 
e-mail: J.R.Balkub.nl		 

Preregistration:	 

In order to help us manage the logistics, you are kindly requested to
preregister if you wish to attend the workshop. Simply write to Linda
Bal (see above) that you will attend.

Fee:	 

We have to charge a modest participation fee, largely to cover costs
for coffee and tea, as well as the booklet with abstracts, which you
will receive when you register. The amounts, payable when you register
in Tilburg, are as follows:		 

preregistered: regular: NLG 20 / E 9 students: NLG 15 / E 7
unannounced: regular: NLG 30 / E 14 students: NLG 25 / E 11

Here are some useful resources on the internet (from the GLOW 1998
website)	 

How to travel to Tilburg:	
http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/gm/glow/GLOW98/travel.htm 

Hotels in Tilburg:	
http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/gm/glow/GLOW98/hotels.htm 

Getting to the university:	
http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/gm/glow/GLOW98/to_kub.htm 

Other useful information:	
http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/gm/glow/GLOW98/useful.htm




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Henk van Riemsdijk e-mail: RIEMSDYKKUB.NL
office: Tilburg Univ./Ling/GM/CLS - B108, PO Box 90153
NL-5000 LE-TILBURG The Netherlands
home: Tilburgseweg 154A, NL-5051 AL-GOIRLE 
phone: office: +31 13 4662642/2773, home:+31 13 5442838 
fax: office: +31 13 4663110, home:+31 13 5444843 
web: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/riemsdh/index.htm
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