LINGUIST List 10.361

Mon Mar 8 1999

Confs: Adverbs Conference Program

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

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1. Peter Svenonius, ADVERBS CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Announcing a Conference on
ADVERBS AND ADJUNCTION
at the University of Tromsoe
April 17-18, 1999

This is a preliminary program. Check the website at
http://www2.isl.uit.no/svenonius/conferences/adverbs/adverbs.htm
for up to date information.

SATURDAY, April 17, 1999
09:00-10:00	Invited Speaker: ARTEMIS ALEXIADOU, Zentrum fur allgemeine
Sprachwissenschaft:
	''Low' adverbs across verbal and nominal clauses'
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-11:30	HUBERT HAIDER, University of Salzburg:
	'Adverb placement in VO and OV: Convergence between structure and
linking'
11:30-12:30	KRISTIN M. EIDE & INGHILD FLAATE, NTNU Trondheim &
University of Troms:
	'Adverbial small clauses in German and Norwegian'
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:30	Invited Speaker: THOMAS ERNST, Rutgers University:
	'Adjuncts and the structure of VP'
14:30-15:30	SATU MANNINEN, University of Edinburgh:
	'Why "adverb" is a lexical case'
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:00	ASYA PERELTSVAIG, McGill University:
	'On accusative adverbials in Russian and Finnish'
17:00-18:00	DAVID ADGER & GEORGE TSOULAS, University of York:
	'Case features and the licensing of circumstantial adverbials'

19:00-20:30	Dinner
20:30-21:30	Special event: Knut Bergsland Lecture: CHRISTER PLATZACK,
University of Lund

21:30-	Party

SUNDAY, April 18, 1999
09:00-10:00	Invited Speaker: JOAO COSTA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa:
	'Adverbs as adjuncts to non-universal functional categories:
evidence from Portuguese'
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:30	CHRISTOPHER LAENZLINGER, Universite de Geneve:
	'Adverb syntax and phrase structure'
11:30-12:30	JOEL HOFFMAN:
	'On adverb placement and adjunction sites'
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:30	Invited Speaker: HENRIETTE DE SWART:
	'Optimal interpretations: The case of temporal adjunct clauses'
14:30-15:30	MILENA VEGNADUZZO:
	'The Italian adverb ancora and additive words'
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:00	KERSTIN HANSSON, University of Lund:
	'The case of manner adverbials - a semantic and conceptual approach'
17:00-18:00	ADAM WYNER:
	'Against the neo-Davidsonian event argument: A neo-Kimian alternative'



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