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HPSG99 6th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar University of Edinburgh August 4-6, 1999 REGISTRATION: We are taking registrations now. The deadline for early registration is June 23rd. If you need our help finding accommodation, early registration is advised. PROGRAMME: The conference programme is appended below. Please note that the timings for Friday 6th August have been altered so that the conference will now finish one hour earlier. FURTHER INFORMATION: Further information about the conference, including registration and accommodation information can be found at the conference website at http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~hpsg99/. Abstracts of the talks can be found via links from the programme at the website. ********************************************************************** HPSG99 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Wednesday, August 4, 1999 Special Session on Grammatical Interfaces 09:00-10:00 Registration 10:00-11:00 Invited Speaker Ewan Klein (Edinburgh) Interfaces, Intrafaces and Outerfaces: the Case of Prosody 11:00-11:30 BREAK 11:30-12:00 Valia Kordoni (Tuebingen) Agentivity vs. Causation: at the Syntax-Semantics Interface 12:00-12:30 Dimitra Kolliakou (Newcastle and Jerusalem) and Theodora Alexopoulou (Edinburgh) On Linkhood and Clitic Left Dislocation 12:30-13:00 Jong-Bok Kim and Byung-Soo Park (Kyung Hee University) Grammatical Interfaces in Korean Relatives 13:00-14:30 LUNCH 14:30-15:30 Invited Speaker Georgia Green (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) The Nature of Pragmatic Information 15:30-16:00 Ash Asudeh (Stanford) and Line Hove Mikkelsen (Santa Cruz) Danish Syntactic Noun Incorporation: A Case Study in Grammatical Interfaces 16:00-16:30 BREAK 16:30-17:30 Invited Speaker Gosse Bouma (Groningen) TBA Thursday, August 5, 1999 09:30-10:00 Andreas Kathol (UC Berkeley) Internally and Externally Headed Relative Clauses: The Case of Lai 10:00-10:30 Robert Levine (OSU), Tom Hukari (University of Victoria) and Mike Calcagno (Tuebingen) Parasitic Gaps in English: non-nominal, non-pronominal and case-consistent 10:30-11:00 Kordula De Kuthy (Saarbruecken) and Detmar Meurers (Tuebingen) Argument raising meets adjuncts-as-dependents and traceless extraction 11:00-11:30 BREAK 11:30-12:30 Invited Speakers Anne Abeille (Paris) and Daniele Godard (Lille) Some Remarks on French Interrogatives 12:30-14:00 LUNCH 14:00-14:30 Bob Borsley (Bangor) and Bob Morris Jones (Aberystwyth) Negation in Welsh 14:30-15:00 Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer (Tuebingen) Sentential Negation in French and Conditions on Logical Form in HPSG 15:00-15:30 Kook-Hee Gill (Edinburgh) Topicalisation, Scrambling and Anaphor Binding 15:30-16:00 BREAK 16:00-17:00 Invited Speaker Jonathan Ginzburg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Describing Conversational Interaction: Some Implications for HPSG 20:00-00:00 Conference Party Friday, August 6, 1999 09:00-09:30 Theodora Alexopoulou (Edinburgh) A unified treatment of A/A-bar dependencies 09:30-10:00 Anna Kupsc (Polish Academy of Sciences and Universite Paris7) Syntactic Analysis of Clitic Climbing in Polish 10:00-10:30 Stefan Mueller (Saarbruecken) Separable Prefix Verbs in German 10:30-11:00 BREAK 11:00-11:30 Robert Malouf (Stanford and UC Berkeley) A head-driven account of long-distance case assignment 11:30-12:00 Cathryn Donohue and Ivan Sag (Stanford) Domains in Warlpiri 12:00-13:00 LUNCH 13:00-13:30 Frank Van Eynde (Leuven) On the semantics of the auxiliaries 13:30-14:00 Emily Bender and Ivan A. Sag (Stanford) Incorporating Contracted Auxiliaries in English 14:00-14:30 BREAK 14:30-15:30 Invited Speaker Stephen Wechsler (Texas) Four Agreement Puzzles Alternates: Berthold Crysmann (Saarbruecken) Clitics and Coordination in Phenogrammatical Structure Jesse Tseng (Edinburgh) A Three-Way Classification of Prepositions Shalom Lappin (King's College London) and David Johnson (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Wh-questions in a multiple inheritance constructional type hierarchyMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue