LINGUIST List 16.2420: General Linguistics/Oxford, United Kingdom

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Directory 1. Anna McNay, Oxford Linguistics Postgraduate Conference Message 1: Oxford Linguistics Postgraduate Conference
Date: 16-Aug-2005 From: Anna McNay <anna.mcnayst-hildas.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Oxford Linguistics Postgraduate Conference Oxford Linguistics Postgraduate Conference Short Title: LingO Date: 23-Sep-2005 - 24-Sep-2005 Location: Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Contact: Anna McNay Contact Email: anna.mcnayst-hildas.ox.ac.uk Meeting URL: http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/events/lingo Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Meeting Description: We are pleased to announce that the first ever Oxford Linguistics Postgraduate Conference - LingO - will take place at the University of Oxford, Mansfield College, on 23rd-24th September 2005. The purpose of the conference is to provide postgraduates with an opportunity to present their research. There will be 12 talks per day grouped into two parallel sessions. Each talk will be allocated 45 minutes: 30 minutes for the presentation, 10 minutes for the discussion and 5 minutes overruning/moving session. Coffee breaks are scheduled between the talks. Nigel Fabb is our invited guest speaker. The lecture (the topic is yet to be confirmed) will be given in the evening of the first conference day followed by a formal dinner in Mansfield college. SPEAKERS 1A Clitics, Parsing Strategies and the Left-Periphery: a Dynamic Syntax Account of Clitic Placement Miriam Bouzouita, King's College, London 2A Information Structure, Argument Structure and Non-Configurationality in Nuuchahnulth Ben Braithwaite, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 3A Information Structure at the Phase Level Anna McNay, University of Oxford 4A Problems in the Left Periphery of Hungarian Non-Finite Clauses Krisztina Szecsenyi, ELTE Budapest 5A Head Deletion and Ellipsis Kirsten Gengel, University of Stuttgart 6A Prepositional Numerals and Distance Distributivity Stella Gryllia, University of Leiden 7A On the Syntax-Semantics Interface in Romance LSP Passive V Carolin Patzelt, University of Siegen 8A Parenthetical and-Clauses Yordanka Kavalova, University College London 9A The Rise of Verb Initial Word Order in Old Irish: a Minimalist Account of the Development of Head Movement Glenda Newton, University of Cambridge 10A The Anaphor-Agreement Effect and Visibility Hitoshi Shiraki, University College London 11A On the Relevance of Unambiguous Argument Identification Judith M. Kainhofer, University of Salzburg 12A Sloppy Identity and VP-Ellipsis in English and Arabic Maha Kolko, Reading University *** 1B On the Phonetic Characteristics of Implosives in a Southern China Dialect Cun Xi, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 2B Where have the Japanese Velar Glides Gone? Gabor Pinter, Kobe University 3B Statistical versus Linguistic Automatic Segmentation: Confrontation and Compromise Christophe Pimm, Universite de Toulouse-le-Mirail 4B Not in Latine or French or any other Language than English? Michel Paradis, University of Oxford 5B The Regulation of Language in Call Centre Service Transactions Anna Kristina Hultgren, University of Oxford 6B Language Variation in North-East England : /h/-dropping in Sunderland Lourdes Burbano-Elizondo, University of Sheffield 7B The Empowered Emanuenses: A Computer-mediated Ethnography of two CMC Channels among Self-Appointed Editors of a Collaboratively-Authored English Slang Dictionary John A. Damaso, Queen Mary, University of London 8B Decline of Speech in Two Types of Dementia Christina Knels, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich 9B Japanese Discourse Markers and the Communication of Emotions - Linguistic Semantics and Pragmatic Inference Ryoko Sasamoto, University of Salford 10B The TIME PASSING IS MOTION Metaphor in Mandarin Chinese John C Y Chang, University of Cambridge 11B Developmental Differences in the Use of Deixis by Children from 3 to 9 plus 13-year olds Mehmet Ozcan, Middle East Technical University 12B Don't Panic! The Disfluency Guide to Gaze and Behaviour in the Map Task Galaxy Hannele Nicholson, University of Edinburgh POSTERS 1. Individual differences in second language acquisition Mohsen Mobaraki, Durham 2. The effects of the organization of vocabulary entries in Distributed Morphology as seen in terms of verb classification in Modern Greek Alexandra Galani, York 3. Non-native speakers proficiency of English intonation Yu Jiang, Durham 4. Vowel sandhi phenomena in North eastern Catalan Elisenda Campmany, Barcelona 5. What's in a case Pavel Grashchenkov, Moscow 6. Neighbourhood density and the phonetic realisation of English function words Rachel Baker, Cambridge 7. The Syntax of the Bi comparative Construction in Mandarin Hsiu-Ju Sally Chung 8. Questions and relevant Parameters in a Simulation of Recursive Grammars Joseph Eddy, Edinburgh 9. Discourse, Axiology and Anaphora Przemyslaw Zywiczynski and Tomasz Fojt, Torun, Poland 10. Americanisms in British English Oxford Group Respond to list\|Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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