LINGUIST List 3.683

Fri 11 Sep 1992

Confs: Great Britain, Language and Communication

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1. norman fraser, LAGB programme
2. Kerry Kilborn, Glasgow Language and Communication Conference

As requested, here is the programme of the imminent meeting
of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain.

Linguistics Association of Great Britain
Autumn Meeting
University of Surrey
14-16 September 1992
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Monday September 14th 1992

 1.00	*** LUNCH ***

 Teach-in: Deductive Systems and Natural Language Processing
 2.00	Dov Gabbay (Imperial College) 'Why go procedural in logic'
 3.00	Ruth Kempson (SOAS) 'Why go procedural in syntax'
 4.00	*** TEA ***
 4.30	Martin Emms (Edinburgh & Munich) 'On logic and syntax in
 categorial grammar'
 5.15	Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College) 'Deductive systems and parsers'

 6.30 	*** DINNER ***

 Henry Sweet Lecture
 7.45	 Ruth Kempson (SOAS) 'Reasoning and the language faculty:
 why go procedural?'

Tuesday September 15th 1992

 Session A
 9.00	Yan Jiang (UCL) 'Understanding quantification in Chinese'
 9.40	Asli Goksel (SOAS) 'Morphological causatives in Turkish'
 10.20 Julia Capritsa (SOAS) 'On the nature of information projected
 by the verb complex'

 Session B
 9.00	April McMahon (Cambridge) 'Rule inversion and English /r/'
 9.40	Judith Broadbent (UCL) 'Coronality'
 10.20	Adrian Simpson (Tubingen) 'Accounting for the phonetics of this
 and that'

 11.00 *** COFFEE ***

 Session A
 11.30	Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli & Neil Smith (UCL) 'Operator movement,
 focussing and dislocation constructions in Christopher's grammars'
 12.10	Richard Shillcock & Mary Tait (Edinburgh) 'The impairment of
 functional projection in agrammatic speech'

 Session B
 11.30	Iggy Roca (Essex) 'On (the grid's) line 0'
 12.10	Jim Scobbie (CSLI, Stanford) 'A declarative approach to
 'inalterability' in spirantisation'

 1.00 	*** LUNCH ***

 Session A
 2.00	Villy Rouchota (UCL) 'Referential-attributive, specific-nonspecific:
 the case of restrictive relatives in Modern Greek'
 2.40	Reiko Itani (UCL) 'Japanese conjunction kedo (=but) in utterance
 final use: a relevance based analysis'
 3.20	Catriona McPherson (Edinburgh) 'Q: What's red and invisible?
 A:No tomatoes. Problems with presuppositions and non-existence'

 Session B
 2.00	Diane Nelson (Edinburgh) 'Object case in Finnish'
 2.40	- withdrawn -
 3.20	Dick Hudson (UCL) 'Competence without Comp'

 4.00	*** TEA ***

 4.30	LAGB Business Meeting

 Session A
 5.30	 Greg Myers (Lancaster) 'Linguists and others: boundaries and
 centres in disciplinary discourse'

 Session B
 5.30	Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli & Anna Roussou (UCL) 'On negation in Modern Greek'

 6.30	*** DINNER ***

 7.45	Hans van de Koot (UCL) 'On the computational complexity of natural
 language recognition'

Wednesday September 16th 1992

 Session A
 9.00	Yongkyoon No (Sheffield) 'Refining a word and paradigm morphology
 for Korean verbs'
 9.40	Richard Ogden (York) 'A linguistic analysis of the phonology and
 morphology of Latinate words for computation'
 10.20	Grev Corbett & Norman Fraser (Surrey) 'Russian inflectional
 morphology: a DATR account'

 Session B
 9.00	Mary Tait & Ronnie Cann (Edinburgh) 'A historical and comparative
 consideration of the double object construction in Germanic'
 9.40	Bernadette Plunkett (Bangor) 'The verb 'be' and the lexical
 functional distinction'
 10.20	Bob Borsley (Bangor) 'Long head movement in Breton'

 11.00 *** COFFEE ***

 Session A
 11.30	Peter Peterson (Newcastle, New South Wales) 'A non syntagmatic
 analysis of apposition and related structures'
 12.10	Janne Bondi Johannessen (Oslo) 'Constraints on co-ordination'

 Session B
 11.30	Stephanie Anyadi (UCL) 'Topicalisation in German'
 12.10	Ana Maria Madeira (UCL) 'On clitic placement in European Portuguese'

 1.00 *** LUNCH ***
 *** CLOSE ***

 International Conference on

 The Psychology of Language and Communication

Sponsored by the Cognitive Section of the British Psychological
Society, and the ESRC Human Communication Research Centre

at the

University of Glasgow
 Scotland

August 31st to September 3rd 1993


 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Invitations are extended for individual papers or proposals for
symposia. Deadline for submissions, Feb 1st, 1993.

Titles and abstracts ( 2 pages, 2 copies) to:

Language Conference Team FAX: 041-339-8889
Department of psychology TEL: 041-330-4058
University of Glasgow email: susanpsy.glasgow.ac.uk
Glasgow G12 8RT
Scotland, UK.

Organising Committee:
	Prof Tony Sanford	Dr Anne Anderson
	Dr Linda Moxey		Dr Ken Gilhooly (Univ. of Aberdeen).


Speakers currently include: Liz Bates, Herb Clark, Loraine Tyler,
William Marslen-Wilson, Uli Frauenfelder, Geoff Beattie, Anne
Cutler, Charles Antaki, Christine Howe.

Symposia currently include:	 Language disorders, on-line speech
processing, on-line studies of reading, dialogue, psychological
semantics.