LINGUIST List 13.281

Sun Feb 3 2002

Calls: Dialogic Interaction, Generative Grammar

Editor for this issue: Renee Galvis <reneelinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Cigada Sara, Lugano Conference July 1st-4th, 2002
2. snippets, NEW CALL FOR PAPERS (SNIPPETS)

Lugano Conference "Argumentation in dialogic interaction" is online at
http://www.lu.unisi.ch/argumentation
Deadline for the submission of papers has been postponed to 1st March!

Best,
Sara Cigada

Issue 5 of the syntax-semantics newsletter _Snippets_ is now out.
It is accessible at the web site

 http://www.ledonline.it/snippets/

and hard copies are on their way to those institutions that requested
hard copies.

The contents of Issue 5 are:

1. R. Amritavalli and Partha Protim Sarma. A case distinction 
 between unaccusative and unergative subjects in Assamese.
2. Paolo Acquaviva and Mark Volpe. Open-class roots in closed-
 class contexts: a question for lexical insertion.
3. Andrew Kehler. Another problem for syntactic (and semantic) 
 theories of VP-ellipsis.
4. Winfried Lechner. Negative islands in comparatives.
5. Sky Lee. Telicity and VN-LV vs. VN-Acc-LV.
6. Hans-Christian Schmitz and Bernhard Schr�der. On focus and 
 VP-deletion.
7. Ed Zoerner and Brian Agbayani. A pseudogapping asymmetry.

The deadline for submissions to Issue 6 is

 * April 15, 2002 *

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 with in order to make desired predictions; 
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 or language processing that directly bears on theoretical 
 issues; 
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 which issues of immediate relevance are discussed.

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