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Directory         1.     Radek Simik , 19th Conference of Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe Message 1: 19th Conference of Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe Date: 17-Dec-2010 From: Radek Simik <r.simikrug.nl> Subject: 19th Conference of Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe E-mail this message to a friend 19th Conference of Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe Short Title: ConSOLE XIX Date: 05-Jan-2011 - 08-Jan-2011 Location: Groningen, Netherlands Contact: Ankelien Schippers Contact Email: consolexixgmail.com Meeting URL: http://www.let.rug.nl/console19 Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Other Specialty: Biolinguistics Meeting Description: We are proud to announce that the 19th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE XIX) will take place at the University of Groningen in January 5 - 8, 2010. Conference Program (including the Biolinguistics workshop) January 5 13:15 - 14:15 Invited speaker Jan-Wouter Zwart (University of Groningen) Recursion as derivation layering 14:15 - 14:55 Dennis Ott (Harvard University) Split Topicalization as symmetry-breaking predicate fronting 14:55 - 15:35 Julio Villa-Garcia (University of Connecticut) On recomplementation, the architecture of the left periphery, and Comp-t effects in Spanish 15:55 - 16:35 Andreas Blümel (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt) Was-für-split revisited 16:35 - 17:15 Ilona Spector (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) It's Hebrew clefts that this talk is about 17:15 - 17:55 Christos Vlachos (University of Patras) Sluicing: the view from anaphora January 6 09:00 - 10:00 Invited speaker Bruce Morén (University of Tromsø) Is linguistics an empirical science? 10:00 - 10:40 Johann-Mattis List (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) Multiple sequence alignments in historical linguistics 11:00 - 11:40 Constantijn Kaland, Emiel Krahmer, and Marc Swerts (Tilburg University) Prosody of privileged information 11:40 - 12:20 Violeta Martínez-Paricio (University of Tromsø) Coercive weight and diphthongs in Spanish 12:20 - 13:00 Eva Zimmermann (University of Leipzig) -umcimma vs. -umcimcimma: affix-copying in Kiranti 14:20 - 15:00 Yiying Ann Chang (National Chi Nan University) Pronominal ordering in Plngawan Atayal 15:00 - 15:40 Doreen Georgi (University of Leipzig) Chameleon probes in Mordvin 15:40 - 16:20 Daniela Henze and Eva Zimmermann (University of Leipzig) Collateral feature discharge 16:40 - 17:20 Karen De Clercq (University of Gent) Negative PP-adjuncts, scope and tense 17:20 - 18:00 Emilienne Ngangoum (Utrecht University) Rethinking Jespersen cycle from a Bantu perspective January 7 09:00 - 09:40 Anke Assmann, Doreen Georgi, and Philipp Weisser (University of Leipzig) A derivational account of possessor advancement 09:40 - 10:20 Annika Deichsel (University of Stuttgart) Demonstratives reloaded 10:40 - 11:20 Songül Gündo?du (Bo?aziçi University) Ergativity in Kurmanji 11:20 - 12:00 Mercedes Pujalte (CONICET/University of Groningen) (Non)added datives in Spanish Biolinguistics Workshop 13:10 - 13:50 Thomas Graf (University of California) Lost in translation: A formal model of merge-over-move and its implications for the language faculty 13:50 - 14:30 Jeff Hanna (University of Cambridge) Indices of morphosyntactic processing in bilinguals: evidence against an L2 critical period 14:30 - 15:10 Luke McCrohon (University of Tokyo) Biological evolution, multilingualism and the lexicon 15:30 - 16:10 Marília Costa (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) Theory of mind and other cognitive modules: a dynamic interaction 16:10 - 16:50 Lluís Barceló-Coblijn (University of the Balearic Islands) Alleged morpheme-based alarm calls in the light of biolinguistics: The role of duality of patterning 16:50 - 17:50 Invited speaker Simon Kirby (University of Edinburgh) Language as a culturally evolving system: from computer simulation to the experiment lab January 8 09:00 - 10:00 Invited speaker Hotze Rullmann (University of British Columbia) The semantics of person and number in bound-variable pronouns 10:00 - 10:40 Mailin Antomo (University of Göttingen) On the presupposition of temporal clauses 11:00 - 11:40 Daniel Lassiter (New York University) Alternative-sensitivity of likely and probable: Linguistic and psychological implications 11:40 - 12:20 Sophia Döring (Humboldt University Berlin) The focus sensitivity of sentence adverbs 12:20 - 13:00 Lavi Wolf (Ben-Gurion University) Epistemic ambiguity 14:20 - 15:00 Stefan Keine (University of Leipzig) Deconstructing switch reference 15:00 - 15:40 Marta Ruda (Jagiellonian University of Krakow) On coordinate subject-verb agreement in Polish 15:40 - 16:20 Will Harwood (University of Gent) There were several positions available: English intermediate subject positions 16:40 - 17:20 Eefje Boef (Meertens Institute) Doubling in Dutch restrictive relative clauses: rethinking the head external analysis 17:20 - 18:00 Oliver Boxell (University of Essex) Discourse-linking and long-distance wh-dependency formation Alternate Speakers Aysa Arylova (University of Groningen) Argument structure of the Russian be-possessive Anke Assmann (University of Leipzig) A new solution to the island paradox with parasitic gaps New! 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