LINGUIST List 22.877 Tue Feb 22 2011 Confs: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Greek/USA Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Marina Terkourafi , Midwest Consortium on Greek Linguistics Message 1: Midwest Consortium on Greek Linguistics Date: 22-Feb-2011 From: Marina Terkourafi <mt217illinois.edu> Subject: Midwest Consortium on Greek Linguistics E-mail this message to a friend Midwest Consortium on Greek Linguistics Date: 04-Mar-2011 - 04-Mar-2011 Location: Chicago IL, USA Contact: Anastasia Giannakidou Contact Email: giannakiuchicago.edu Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics Subject Language(s): Greek (ell) Meeting Description: Midwest Consortium on Greek Linguistics - Inaugural Meeting Friday March 4, 2011 University of Chicago, Department of Linguistics Morning sessions: To be held at the Linguistics Lounge, Dept. of Linguistics 9:00-9:30: Nikos Vergis (UIUC): The rhotics of shame: Language, women and stereotypes 9:30-10:00: Marina Terkourafi (UIUC): On the intonation/pragmatics interface: a prohibitive construction in Cypriot Greek Break: 10-10:30 10:30-11:00: Anastasia Giannakidou (U Chicago), Despoina Papadopoulou (U Thessaloniki), and Melita Stavrou (U Thessaloniki): scope and epistemic judgment: evidence form Greek indefinites 11:00-11:30: Jason Merchant (U Chicago): A new argument for LF-copy? Evidence from ellipsis in the Greek NP Lunch break: 11:30-1:00 Afternoon sessions: To be held in Harper 130 1:00-2:00: Keynote Address: Ioanna Sitaridou (U Cambridge): The Last Greek Infinitive - Continuity, Contact, and Change in the Greek varieties of Pontus 2:00-2:30: Christopher Brown (OSU) and Brian D. Joseph (OSU): Greek of Southern Albania - Preliminary Observations Break: 2:30-3:00 3:00-3:30: Eleni Staraki (U Chicago): Greek modals interacting with tense and aspect 3:30-4:00: Katerina Chatzopoulou (U Chicago): Negation selection in Ancient Greek: the latest news 4:00-4:30: Anastasia Smirnova (OSU): Linguistic encoding of motion events in Greek in comparison to other Balkan languages New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 22-Feb-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.