LINGUIST List 14.2079

Tue Aug 5 2003

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4th Celtic Linguistics Conference 

Date: 01-SEP-03 - 03-SEP-03
Location: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Contact: David Willis
Contact Email: dwew2cam.ac.uk 

Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics 
Subject Language Family: Celtic
Call Deadline: 01-APR-03

Meeting Description:

The invited speakers will be:
Maire Ni Chiosain (University College, Dublin),
Jim McCloskey (University of California, Santa Cruz),
Erich Poppe (Philipps University, Marburg),
Alain Rouveret (Universit� Paris VII) 

FOURTH CELTIC LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE - FINAL CALL FOR REGISTRATION

FINAL DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: 14 AUGUST 2003

FOURTH CELTIC LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE
Selwyn College
University of Cambridge, UK
1-3 September, 2003

The 4th Celtic Linguistics Conference will take place on 1-3 September
2003 at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, UK.

Full information on how to register is available on the following
web-page:

http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~louisa/celtic/clc4.html

The programme is as follows:


Monday 1st September 2003

13.55-14.00 Welcome

14.00--14.40 Maggie Tallerman (University of Durham) The syntax of
Welsh ''direct object mutation'' revisited

14.40-15.20 Margaret Deuchar (University of Wales Bangor) A
typological approach to Welsh-English code-switching

15.20--16.00 Gwen Awbery (Cardiff University) Clause-initial particles
in Spoken Welsh

16.00 -- 16.30 Tea

16.30--17.10 David Willis (University of Cambridge) Some implications
of Welsh noun phrases for parametric variation

17.10--17.50 Paolo Acquaviva (University College Dublin) Goidelic
inherent plurals and the morphosemantics of number

17.50-18.50 INVITED SPEAKER
Jim McCloskey (University of California, Santa Cruz) Agreement and
prominence in the syntax of Irish

19.30 Dinner followed by drinks


Tuesday 2nd September 2003

9.00--10.00 INVITED SPEAKER
Erich Poppe (Philipps-Universitaet Marburg) Have-lexicalisations in
Breton and Cornish: Some typological and methodological
considerations.

10.00--10.40 Anna Bondaruk (Catholic University Lublin) The licensing
of subjects and objects in Irish nonfinite clauses

10.40--11.10 Coffee

11.10--11.50 Melanie Jouitteau, (Universit� de Nantes/Naoned) The two
triggers for the Brythonic divorce

11.50--12.30 Anna Bosch (University of Kentucky) Scottish Gaelic
dialectology: A preliminary assessment of the Survey of the Gaelic
Dialects of Scotland

12.30--14.00 Lunch (at 13h)

14.00--14.40 Norval Smith (University of Amsterdam) Syllable
structures in Gaelic dialects compared: Applecross and East Perthshire
Gaelic unravelled?

14.40--15.20 Antony Green (Universitaet Potsdam) On the independence
of phonology and morphology: Two lenitions in Manx

15.20-16.00 Thorhallur Eythorsson (University of Manchester) The
interaction of clitics and stress assignment in Old Irish

16.00--16.30 Tea

16.30--17.10 Robert Borsley and Bob Morris Jones (University of Essex
and University of Wales Aberystwyth) The distribution and
interpretation of Welsh N-words

17.10--17.50 Ingo Mittendorf and David Willis (University of
Cambridge) Evidence for the development of Welsh negation from the
Historical Corpus of the Welsh Language

17.50--18.30 Business Meeting
19.30 Conference Dinner


Wednesday 3rd September 2003

9.00--10.00 INVITED SPEAKER
Alain Rouveret (Universit� Paris VII) Resumption vs.movement, binding
vs.scope, Welsh vs. Irish: some asymmetries in Celtic relativization.

10.00--10.40 Nicolas Guilliot (Universit de Nantes) Reconstruction and
resumption in relatives in Breton

10.40--11.10 Coffee

11.10--11.50 Louisa Sadler (University of Essex) Tense/subject-shared
Welsh coordination

11.50--12.30 Melanie Jouitteau and Milan Rezac (Universit� de
Nantes/Naoned and University of Toronto) Deriving the Complementarity
Principle

12.30--14.00 Lunch (at 13h)

 


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David Willis
University Lecturer and Fellow in Linguistics
Department of Linguistics Selwyn College
University of Cambridge Grange Road
Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DQ
Cambridge CB3 9DA

Tel: +44 1223 335652 Location: 23 West Road, Rm 14/15

Member of Council, The Philological Society
For information about the Philological Society, and information on how
to join, visit http://ling.man.ac.uk/more/philsoc/default.html
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