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Fri 28 Aug 1992

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 Meeting to be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands - 10-11 June 1993

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The Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages will meet in Amsterdam on June 10-11
1993 at the University of Amsterdam.

Abstracts on phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, social aspects
of language, or any pertinent issue involving pidgin and creole languages, are
invited for anonymous review by a five-member panel.

ABSTRACTS: Two abstracts of different length should be submitted:
 (1) a short, PUBLISHABLE abstract for the Meeting Handbook.
 (2) a longer, single-spaced, one- to two-paged version of the
 abstract (the panel of reviewers will use this abstract for
 evaluating your submission).

FORMAT: Your name, address, affiliation, status (student/faculty),
 e-mail address, FAX, and phone number should appear ABOVE
 the SHORT abstract. Please put the full title of the paper
 on BOTH abstracts. A form to fill out appears at the end of
 the message.

Membership in SPCL includes a subscription to the Journal of Pidgin & Creole
Languages (only one member within the same household need subscribe to the
journal). The cost for both membership and the journal is $42. Student
memberships are $42 for both journal and membership, or $4 for the membership
only. Dues may accompany the abstracts. If possible membership dues and
subscriptions should, however, be sent to John Benjamins Publishing Company.

DEADLINE -- JANUARY 25, 1993

Form:

The Syntax Reading Group at Indiana University,
bringing together linguists of seven departments

presents a Multidisciplinary Seminar
sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs
and Dean of the Faculties

The Indiana Lecture Series in Formal Syntax:
Phrase structure and the Lexicon

The list of invited speakers include:


Beth Levin (Northwestern University)
Stephen Anderson (Johns Hopkins)
Mark Baker (McGill University)
William Croft (University of Michigan)
Anne-Marie di Sciullio (Universite du Quebec a Montreal)
David Dowty (Ohio State University)
Ray Jackendoff (Brandeis)
Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Richard Larson (SUNY at Stony Brook)
David Lebeaux (University of Maryland)
Jerry Sadock (University of Chicago)
Peggy Speas (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Dominique Sportiche (UCLA)
Tim Stowell (UCLA)

For a tentative Fall schedule and more information,
please contact one of the following:

Phil Connell, Speech & Hearing Sciences,
(pconnellucs.indiana.edu / iubacs.bitnet)

Johan Rooryck, Dept. of French & Italian,
(jrooryckucs.indiana.edu / iubacs.bitnet)

Linda Schwartz, Dept. of Linguistics,
(schwartucs.indiana.edu / iubacs.bitnet)

Laurie Zaring, Dept. of French & Italian,
(zaringucs.indiana.edu / iubacs.bitnet)

The Syntax Reading Group at Indiana University presents a lecture by

Jerry Sadock (University of Chicago)

'THE LEXICON AS BRIDGE BETWEEN
PHRASE STRUCTURE COMPONENTS'

Wednesday, September 9, 1992
Ballantine Hall 219, at 7.30 p.m.

Abstract
 Autolexical Syntax assumes that the grammatical components
responsible for syntactic, morphological, and semantic structure are
independent phrase structure grammars. The lexicon in this theory
is a list of the terminal vocabularies of all of these components
such that a lexical item has certain combinatoric properties in the
syntax, others, in the morphology, and others in the semantics.
This view will be illustrated with a discussion of the
reflexive in West Greenlandic Eskimo. Otherwise puzzling and
complex data receive an elegant account if, among other things, a
causative affix is viewed as syntactically inert, but as a semantic
predicate "CAUSE" that operates on propositions. Among other things
the theory directly accounts for the difference in interpretation
of the reflexive possessor morphology in (a) and (b).
 (a) John(i) Mary(j) house-own(i)-in see
 (b) John(i) Mary(j) house-own(i/j)-from sleep-cause

This lecture is part of the Multidisciplinary Seminar

The Indiana Lecture Series in Formal Syntax:
Phrase structure and the Lexicon

sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs
and Dean of the Faculties

All faculty and students are invited to attend
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