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guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1996 Linguistics, language acquisition, and language variation: Current trends and future prospects March 14 - March 16, 1996 - ------------------------------------------------------------- This is a brief version intended to keep list messages short. To see the full program, visit this www-site: >> http://www.georgetown.edu/conferences/gurt96/gurt96.html ...or contact the GURT staff at the address given below. - ------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, March 14, 1996 Opening remarks James E. Alatis, Chair, Georgetown University Round Table 1996 Dedication of Conference to Earl Stevick, Independent Researcher Plenary Address David Crystal, Cambridge University Press "Playing with linguistic problems from Orwell to Plato and back again" ***** Friday, March 15 and Saturday, March 16, 1996 INVITED SPEAKERS: Michael Breen, Edith Cowan University, Australia Anna Uhl Chamot, The George Washington University Donna Christian, Center for Applied Linguistics Mary Ann Christison, Snow College Reinhold Freudenstein, IFS der Philipps-Universitaet, Marburg/Lahn, Germany Braj Kachru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Yamuna Kachru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Stephen Krashen, University of Southern California Donna Lardiere and Andrea Tyler, Georgetown University Ronald P. Leow, Georgetown University Joan Morley, University of Michigan Peter Patrick, Georgetown University Theodore Rodgers, University of Hawaii and Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Renzo Titone, University of Rome, Italy and University of Toronto, Ontario Walt Wolfram and Gail Hamilton, North Carolina State University and Ocracoke School, North Carolina ***** Tutorial with Stephen Krashen, School of Education, University of Southern California This workshop will cover, and attempt to integrate, material presented at Krashen's GURT presentations since 1989. It will review evidence for and against the input hypothesis, the reading hypothesis, applications of the input hypothesis to beginning and intermediate language and literacy development, the role of light reading, and applications to bilingual education. ===================================================================== For more information, please contact Carolyn A. Straehle, Coordinator * GURT 1996 * Georgetown University International Language Programs and Research * 306-U Intercultural Center * Washington, DC 20057-1045 e-mail: gurtMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
let.uva.nl>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. Details about preregistration follow the program. 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 Xavier Villalba, University of Barcelona Leftward Right Dislocation 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 Viviane Deprez, Rutgers University Negative Concord in French and Haitian Creole 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 The Fine Structure of the Left Periphery 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 issue