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PROGRAM GOING ROMANCE 1995 Ninth Symposium on Romance Linguistics Amsterdam, December 7-9 Organized by the Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics (HIL), the Research Institute for Language and Speech (OTS Utrecht) and the departments of French and Italian of the University of Amsterdam. Thursday, December 7 9.30 - 9.45 Opening of the conference by Aafke Hulk (University of Amsterdam/HIL) 9.45 - 10.45 Jacqueline Gueron, Paris X (Invited Speaker) Missing Tenses: Contrasts between French and English 10.45 - 11.05 Break 11.05 - 11.45 Alessandra Giorgi & Fabio Pianesi, University of Bergamo & IRST Definite Temporal Arguments: a Comparison between Italian and English 11.45 - 12.25 Manuel Espanol-Echevarria, UCLA Definiteness in A of a N contexts 12.25 - 14.25 Lunch 14.25 - 15.05 Gloria Cocchi, University of Firenze Two Cases of Split Ergativity in Italian Dialects 15.05 - 15.45 Caterina Donati, University of Firenze Comparative Clauses: a Raising Analysis 15.45 - 16.05 Break 16.05 - 16.45 Viviane Deprez, Rutgers University Negative Concord in French and Haitian Creole 16.45 - 17.45 James Harris, MIT (Invited Speaker) Spanish Imperatives: Syntax Meets Morphology 17.45 - ? Drink Friday, December 8 9.30 - 10.30 Alain Rouveret, Paris VIII (Invited Speaker) Clitics, Subjects and Tense in European Portuguese 10.30 - 10.50 Break 10.50 - 11.30 Anna Pettiward, SOAS Anti-Procrastinate Effects and Optional Agreement in French 11.30 - 12.10 Eduardo Raposo, UCSB Towards a Restrictive Theory of Clitic Placement in Romance 12.10 - 14.15 Lunch 14.15 - 15.15 Patrick Sauzet, Paris VIII (Invited Speaker) Affixation, Cliticization and Word Order 15.15 - 15.55 Mara Frascarelli, University of Rome III The Prosody of Focus in Italian 15.55 - 16.15 Break 16.15 - 16.55 Fernando Martinez-Gil, Ohio State University Consonant Vocalization in Chilean Spanish: a Constraint-Based Approach 16.55 - 17.35 Leo Wetzels, Free University of Amsterdam/HIL The Phonetics and Phonology of Nasality in Brazilian Portuguese 18.00 - ? Going Romance Dinner Saturday, December 9 9.30 - 10.10 Liliane Haegeman, University of Geneva Null Subjects in the non Pro-Drop Languages and the Structure of CP. 10.10 - 10.50 Carlo Cecchetto, Dipartimento di Scienze Cognitive, Milan Reconstruction and Clitic Left (Right) Dislocation 10.50 - 11.10 Break 11.10 - 11.50 Xavier Villalba, University of Barcelona Leftward Right Dislocation 11.50 - 12.30 Christine Tellier & Daniel Valois, University of Montreal Agreements and Extraction: a Representational View 12.30 - 14.30 Lunch 14.30 - 15.10 Andrea Moro, Dipartimento di Scienze Cognitive, Milan Case Theory and the Distribution of "ci" in Italian: Towards a Unified Theory of "essere" and "avere" 15.10 - 16.10 Luigi Rizzi, University of Geneva To Be Announced Alternates: 1. Ana Maria Martins, University of Lisbon Clitic Climbing and the Structure of Infinitival Complements 2. Teresa Satterfield, University of Iowa Null Subjects and the Extended Parametrization Hypothesis 3. Petra Sleeman, University of Amsterdam The licensing of Empty Noun Constructions PREREGISTRATION is possible by e-mail, regular mail or fax. Please indicate your name, affiliation, address, e-mail address, phone number and fax number. After your preregistration we will send further information about the conference, accomodation etc. The conference fee is f.35,-, on-site payment is possible. The Organizing Committee: J. Dekkers, D. Delfitto, A. Hulk, F. van der Leeuw, M. Nespor, M. de Wind. Address: Phone: Going Romance ++31-20-5253805 or Department of French ++31-20-5254635 University of Amsterdam Fax: Spuistraat 134 ++31-20-5254429 1012 VB Amsterdam E-mail: The Netherlands Going.RomanceMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuelet.uva.nl
ANNOUNCEMENT: Autumn Conference JASFL '95 The Autumn Conference of the Japan Association of Systemic Functional Linguistics will be held on November 25, at Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan. Programme of JASFL '95 Plenary Session (17:15 - 18:30) Speaker: Professor Christian Matthiessen (Macquarie University) "Systemic Cartography: deploying lexicogrammatical system network" Workshop (10:00 - 12:00) Speaker: Prof. Noboru Yamaguchi (Fukushima University) "An Invitation to Systemic Functional Linguistics" Paper Presentation (13:00 - 17:00) 1. Kusumoto, Tetsuya "Functional Changes of Japanese Case Marker 'Ga'" 2. Teruya, Kazuhiro "Verbal Processes in Japanese: a systemic-functional interpretation" 3. Iwamoto, Noriko "Systemic Analysis of Japanese Wartime Reporting in Newspaper" 4. Koyamada, Y. "Deletion Differences between Japanese and English Recipe" 5. Thomson Elizabeth "Constituents of Theme in Japanese" 6. LoCastoro, Virginia "Classroom Group Discussion as a Social Event" 7. Conduit, Anne M. "Culture Self-Awareness and the Social Semiotics of Language (A systemic functional view of the article system in a writing project)" 8. Peng, Virginia M. "Using Linguistics in Aphasiology" 9. Bowcher, Wendy L. "Context of Culture, Context of Situation and Radio Sports Commentating" 10. Harnett, Ian "Two Cases against Chomskyan Linguistics from a Base for Lexicogrammars" 11. Sakai, Takahiko "Translation of 'Japanese Kokoro (or Sentiment) - Poem'" 12. Honjo, Jiro "Four Approaches of the Prague School of FSP" 13. Qian, Jun "Synchrony and Diachrony -- On the Theory of the Prague School" 14. Cheng, Fangzhi "Survey the Realization of English Grammar from a Perspective of Systemic Linguistics" For Registration and Further Information, Contact the following: Professor Masaaki Tatsuki (Secretary-general, JASFL) Dept. of English, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan Fax: +81-75-251-3059 Phone: +81-75-251-3371 E-mail: mtatsukiMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issueduaic.doshisha.ac.jp Professor Magoji Tamazaki (Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan) Fax: +81-52-833-6985 Phone: +81-52-832-3111 (Switchboard) E-mail: tamazaki
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