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1. Terry Langendoen, WECOL92 program, Oct 16-18, Tucson, AZ

 22ND WESTERN CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTICS (WECOL92)
 being held together with the annual meeting of the
 Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO)
 October 16-18, 1992
 Doubletree Hotel, 445 S. Alvernon Way, Tucson, Arizona
 PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. 16
8:00-10:00 LASSO/WECOL Registration, Bonsai-Boojum lobby
 Coffee, tea, soft drinks
9:20-11:00 WECOL SESSION A, Syntax 1, Bonsai-Boojum
9:20-9:45 Kuo-ming Sung (UCLA)
 A/A' Incorporation and Agreement
9:45-10:10 Elly Van Gelderen (U Groningen)
 Agreement features: Dutch and various stages of
 English vs modern English
10:10-10:35 Bernhard Rohrbacher (U Mass)
 English AUX^NEG, Mainland Scandinavian NEG^AUX, and
 the Theory of V to I Raising
10:35-11:00 Andrew Barss (U Arizona) Target Extension and Syntactic
 Derivations
11:15-12:15 WECOL Keynote address, Bonsai-Boojum
 David Perlmutter (UCSD) What is Foot Structure?
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCT. 16
12:30-2:15 LASSO/WECOL Registration, Bonsai-Boojum lobby
 Coffee, tea, soft drinks
1:30-3:10 WECOL SESSION B, Language Acquisition, Bonsai
1:30-1:55 Dale W. Russell & J. Michael Lake (U Illinois,
 Champaign-Urbana) Unification-Based Lexical
 Acquisition from Context
1:55-2:20 Paul Bloom (U Arizona) Theories of subject Omission in
 Language Development
2:20-2:45 Keiko Murasagi (Kinjo Gakuin U) The Route that
 Children Take to Retreat from Overgeneration
2:45-3:10 Andrew Barss, Paul Bloom, Janet Nicol & Laura Conway
 (U Arizona) The Development of The Disjoint Reference
 Condition: Formal and Experimental Considerations
1:30-2:55 LASSO SESSION 1, Studies in American Indian Languages,
 Boojum
3:25-4:40 WECOL SESSION C, Phonology 1, Bonsai
3:25-3:50 Raul Aranovich (UC San Diego) Tone Sandhi in
 Acatlan Mixtec
3:50-4:15 Dawn Bates (ASU) Prosodic Licensing in Salish:
 Diminutive Reduplication in Spokane and Lushootseed
4:15-4:40 Sharon Inkelas & Orhan Orgun (UC Berkeley)
 Extrametricality and Syllable Weight in Turkish
3:25-4:40 LASSO SESSION 2, Foreign and Second Language Pedagogy,
 Boojum
3:25-4:40 LASSO SESSION 3, Discourse Analysis, Ironwood
5:00-6:00 LASSO Keynote address, Bonsai-Boojum
 Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona U), Linguistic
 Correlates of the Transition to Literacy in Somalia
6:30-8:00 LASSO/WECOL Reception
SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 17.
8:00-10:00 LASSO/WECOL Registration, Bonsai-Boojum lobby
 Continental Breakfast
8:30-10:10 WECOL SESSION D, Phonology 2, Ironwood
8:30-8:55 Jan Mohammad (U Arizona) The Sonority Sequencing
 Principle Revisited
8:55-9:20 Sin-Sook Lee (U Wisconsin-Madison) Toward a Unified
 Articulator Theory
9:20-9:45 Willem J. DeReuse (U Arizona) Svarabhakti in Dutch:
 from Phonetic Non-Rule to Phonological Rule
9:45-10:10 Larry Hagberg (Summer Institute of Linguistics)
 The Residue as a Domain for Stress Assignment
8:30-10:10 WECOL SESSION E, Syntax 3, Bonsai
8:30-8:55 Tracy Holloway King (Stanford U) Russian Verbs and
 Refining the UTAH
8:55-9:20 Patrick Farrell (UC, Davis) Generalized Transformations
 and Verbs of Appearance in English
9:20-9:45 Farrell Ackerman & Phil LeSourd (UC, San Diego)
 Preverbs and Complex Predicates
9:45-10:10 Jan Mohammad & Simin Karimi (U Arizona) 'Light' Verbs
 Are Taking Over: Complex Verbs in Persian
8:30-10:10 LASSO SESSION 4, Morphology and Syntax, Boojum
10:25-12:05 WECOL SESSION F, Syntax 4, Bonsai
10:25-10:50 T. Daniel Seely (Eastern Michigan U) The Syntax of
 Plural Pronominals
10:50-11:15 Maria Polinsky (MIT) Locative Inversion and Subject
 Incorporation: Different Morphology, Same Syntax
11:15-11:40 Ezat Karimi (U Texas at Austin) A Functional Analysis
 of Pro with Arbitrary Interpretation
11:40-12:05 Keiko Murasagi & Mamoru Saito (Kinjo Gakuin U & U
 Connecticut) Quasi-Adjuncts as Sentential Arguments
10:25-12:05 LASSO SESSION 5, Sociolinguistics, Ironwood
10:25-12:05 LASSO SESSION 6, Linguistic Studies in Chinese,
 Japanese and Korean, Boojum
SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCT. 17.
12:15-2:00 Joint WECOL/LASSO Luncheon and Keynote Address
 Eloise Jelinek (U Arizona) Distributing Arguments
2:00-3:30 LASSO/WECOL Registration, Bonsai-Boojum lobby
 Coffee, tea, soft drinks
2:15-4:20 WECOL SESSION G, Semantics, Bonsai
2:15-2:40 Meng Yeh (U Texas, Austin) Experiential Markers and
 Quantification
2:40-3:05 Soonhyung Park (U Wisconsin-Madison) The Locality
 Condition and Binding at LF
3:05-3:30 Petra Hendriks (U Groningen) Multiple Head Comparison
 and Infinite Regress
3:30-3:55 Mark Kas & Eric Hoekstra (U Groningen, P.J.
 Meertens-Instituut) Negative Polarity and Conditions
 on Typelifting
3:55-4:20 Mario Montalbetti (U Texas, El Paso) Material
 Antecedents
2:15-4:20 LASSO SESSION 7, Psycholinguistics and First Language
 Acquisition, Ironwood
2:15-4:20 LASSO SESSION 8, Indigenous Languages of Mexico, Boojum
4:30-5:30 LASSO Presidential Address, Bonsai-Boojum
 Jon Jonz (East Texas State U) Language, Text and CLOZE
Evening out on the town!
SUNDAY MORNING, OCT. 18
8:00-10:00 Continental Breakfast, Bonsai-Boojum lobby
8:30-9:55 WECOL SESSION H Syntax 5, Bonsai
8:30-8:55 Dingxu Shi (USC & UC, Irvine) The Specificity
 Requirement and the Structure of Predication
8:55-9:20 Naoko Nemoto (U Connecticut) A note on Case Positions
 in Japanese
9:20-9:55 Kazuhiko Fukushima (Michigan State U) Subcategorization,
 Feature Structures, and Honorification in Japanese
8:30-9:55 WECOL SESSION I, Lexicon and Morphology, Ironwood
8:30-8:55 Hana Filip (UC, Berkeley) Verbal Aspect and Object
 Case Marking: A Comparison between Czech and Finnish
8:55-9:20 Shobhana Chelliah (U Texas, Austin) Case and Pragmatic
 Marking in Manupuri
9:20-9:55 Adrienne Lehrer (U Arizona) Blocking and the Principle
 of Conventionality
8:30-9:55 LASSO SESSION 9, Linguistic Analysis of Literature,
 Boojum
10:10-11:25 WECOL SESSION J, Syntax 6, Bonsai
10:10-10:35 Kumiko Murusugi (MIT) NP Movement in Ergative Languages
10:35-11:00 Ke Zou (USC & Cal State U, Dominguez Hills)
 Specificity Effects in the Chinese NP Movement and
 WH-Extraction Locality
11:00-11:25 Grant Goodall (U Texas, El Paso) Spec-Head Agreement
 as the Motivation for NP-Movement
10:10-11:00 WECOL SESSION K, Syntax 7, Ironwood
10:10-10:35 Carl Alphonce & Henry Davis (UBC) Multiple Dependencies
 and Centre-Embedding
10:35-11:00 Laurent P. Dekydspotter (Cornell U) Reconstruction of
 Nested Variables and Locality
10:10-11:25 LASSO SESSION 10, Text Theory and Analysis, Boojum
11:30-12:00 WECOL Business Meeting, Bonsai
11:30-12:00 LASSO Business Meeting, Boojum
CONFERENCE INFORMATION: The registration area will open at 8:00 a.m.
on Friday, October 16, and the first WECOL session will convene at 9:20
a.m. The WECOL keynote address will be given by David Perlmutter at
11:15 a.m. The first LASSO session will convene at 1:30 p.m. No more
than three sessions (two WECOL and one LASSO or two LASSO and one
WECOL) will be held concurrently. All sessions will be completed by
11:25 a.m. on Sunday; both the LASSO and the WECOL business meetings
are scheduled from 11:30 to noon on Sunday.
ACCOMMODATIONS: The conference is being held at the Doubletree Hotel
Tucson, located at 445 S. Alvernon Way, Tucson. A block of rooms has
been secured for conference participants. Please use the hotel room
reservation form below and return it directly to the hotel. Be sure
that your affiliation with the LASSO-WECOL conference is clearly
indicated. Do not return this form to the conference address. A
number of the rooms available are non-smoking rooms. If you would
prefer a non-smoking room, write this on your room reservation form.
We have been told that these rooms will be assigned until they run out.
The conference rates are guaranteed through September 21.
Some student "crash-space" is available. Please provide the requested
information on the registration form to take advantage of this
alternative, or send the information electronically to wecol92arizvms
(bitnet) or wecol92ccit.arizona.edu (internet). We must have this
information together with your registration by October 1 at the latest.
TRANSPORTATION: The Doubletree Hotel is conveniently located about
three miles east of the University of Arizona campus and about eight
miles north of the Tucson airport. You may find better air fares by
flying into Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix and then taking one of the
shuttles to Tucson. Round trip shuttle fare is about $36, and it may
be possible to arrange to be dropped off at the hotel. Further
information about transportation arrangements will be provided in
advance of the meeting to all pre-registrants.
REGISTRATION: The registration fees are $20 (regular) and $10
(student). You are strongly urged to pre-register, though you will not
be charged extra to register at the conference. Persons who register
by October 1 will receive an additional package of information about
conference arrangements.
LASSO/WECOL LUNCHEON: On Saturday there will be a luncheon held at the
hotel, at which Eloise Jelinek will be making a joint LASSO/WECOL
keynote presentation. The cost is $13 including tax and gratuity. You
can sign up for this event on the registration form or at the conference
registration desk when you arrive.
 WECOL92 REGISTRATION FORM
Registration Fees ____ $20 Regular
 ____ $10 Student
Name ______________________________
Address ______________________________
 ______________________________
 ______________________________
 ______________________________
Phone (___) ________________________
E-mail ______________________________
Please check here if you would like to attend the lunch on Saturday and
indicate your choice of meal.
___ $13 Lunch
My lunch selection is: ___ Southwest Chicken Primavera
 ___ Enchilada Casserole
 ___ Beef ___ Chicken ___ Vegetarian
Total enclosed: $_______
Make checks payable to: University of Arizona
For students requesting crash space, please answer the following:
Will you bring own sleeping bag and towel? _____________________
Do you smoke?______
Any allergies to dogs, cats, smoke, etc.?_______________________
________________________________________________________________
Please return completed form with appropriate payment to:
 WECOL92
 Department of Linguistics
 Douglass 200E
 University of Arizona
 Tucson, Arizona 85721
For more information write to this address or send e-mail to
WECOL92ccit.arizona.edu or WECOL92arizvms (bitnet).
 LASSO-WECOL October 16-18, 1992
 CONFERENCE HOTEL REGISTRATION FORM
Return completed form to:
 DOUBLETREE HOTEL TUCSON
 445 S. Alvernon Way
 Tucson, AZ 85711
 (602) 881-4200
Name: ______________________________________
Name(s) of Additional Person(s) sharing room:
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
Mailing Address:
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
Phone: (___)________________________________
Date of Arrival: ____________ Time of Arrival:_______________
Departure Date: ____________
Credit Card AMEX VISA MASTER DISC DINERS/CB
Credit Card #: _____________________________ Exp: __________
Name on Card: _____________________________
Deposit enclosed: $ ________________________
# of People: _____________ # of Rooms: _____
RATES
____ Single $71 ____ Double $71
____ Triple $81 ____ Quad. $81
Additional Person/Rollaway Bed: $10 ____
Suite: 1 Bedroom: _____
 2 Bedrooms: _____
____ Non-smoking room preferred
THE ABOVE SPECIAL GROUP RATES WILL APPLY 3 DAYS BEFORE AND 3
DAYS AFTER THE OFFICIAL CONFERENCE DATES FOR ALL CONFERENCE ATTENDEES.
Rates subject to applicable taxes. Reservations must be received by
9/21/92.
RESERVATIONS ACCEPTED AFTER THIS DATE BASED ON SPACE AVAILABILITY.
TO SECURE YOUR ROOM RESERVATION YOU MUST INCLUDE FIRST NIGHT'S
ROOM DEPOSIT OR COMPLETE CREDIT CARD INFORMATION.
Deposit refundable if cancellation notice received 48 hours prior to
arrival date. (Check-in time is after 3 pm. Check-out time is 12 Noon).