LINGUIST List 6.1505

Thu Oct 26 1995

Confs: Workshop on Final Heads,BU Language Development

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2. BU Conference on Language Development, BU Conference on Lang. Dev. Reminder

F I N A L H E A D S
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A Workshop jointly organized by:

The Models of Grammar Group The Department of Linguistics
Tilburg University / CLS University of Stuttgart
Henk van Riemsdijk Hubert Haider

Place: Tilburg University, Building A, Room A 186
Time: Friday November 24 and Saturday November 25
Price: There will be a nominal charge for coffee, tea and the buffet
	 lunch on Saturday
Registr: For this we need to know who will be participating in the
	 workshop, so please preregister at the e-mail address below.
Info: CONCHITAKUB.NL


The Program:

Friday November 24

10.30 - 12.00 Norbert Corver & Henk van Riemsdijk (Tilburg):
 The Position of the Head and the Domain of Scrambling

Lunch Break (in the University Cafetaria)

13.00 - 14.30 Josef Bayer (Jena):
 Final Complementizers in Hybrid Languages

Coffee Break

15.00 - 16.30 Martin Prinzhorn (Vienna):
 t.b.a.

Tea Break

17.00 - 18.30 Shigeo Tonoike (Tokyo):
 Japanese as an OVS Language

Drinks

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Saturday, November 25

09.30 - 11.00 Masayuki Oishi (Sendai):
 Where does Linear Ordering Come From?

Coffee Break

11.30 - 13.00 Jan Koster (Groningen):
 Extraposition as Coordination

Lunch Break (buffet)

14.00 - 15.30 Joost Zwarts (Utrecht):
 Final Prepositions and the Syntax of Direction

Tea Break

16.00 - 17.30 Hubert Haider:
 Lest Best -- And the Last Shall Be the First
		 [Marc IX:35]

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 20th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development

 November 3, 4, 5, 1995


 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Lila Gleitman
		"When Prophecy Fails: How do We Discard Our Theories
		 of Learning?"
			

 PLENARY SPEAKER: Lydia White
	 "The Tale of the Ugly Duckling (or The Coming of Age
		 of Second Language Acquisition Research)"

Sessions include first and second language acquisition of syntax,
morphology, phonology, lexical and conceptual knowledge, discourse,
narrative and literacy, social and cultural aspects of language use, as
well as exceptional language, language processing, and bilingualism.
Ninety papers are scheduled to be presented.

All conference sessions will be held on the Boston University campus
in the George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.

The Conference program, hotel and travel information, and the
registration form, may be obtained by sending a blank e-mail message
to infolouis-xiv.bu.edu

Note that although the preregistration deadline has passed, it is
still possible to register.

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If you have any questions, or if you would like to add your address to
our regular mailing list or inform us of a change in address, or if
you have any difficulties, please send e-mail to
langconflouis-xiv.bu.edu, phone 617-353-3085, or write to:

 Boston University Conference on Language Development
 138 Mountfort Street
 Brookline, MA 02146-4083

As we are a volunteer-run Conference, we ask your patience in that
it may take us a day or two to respond to a phone call or e-mail.