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Dear LINGUIST subscribers

Re: 4th Manchester University Postgraduate Linguistics Conference
 Saturday 11th March 1995

The programme of events is as follows: (n.b. Parallel sessions)
9.30-9.55 Piklu Gupta (UMIST): The Generative Lexicon and Contrastive
 Verb Valency
9.30-9.55 Henrik Rosenkvist (Lund): Signs of Syntactive Change in
 and Ancient Swedish Dialect from a GB view
10.00-10.25 Sara Laviosa Braithwaite (UMIST): Comparable Corpora:Towards
 a corpus linguistic methodology for the empirical study of
 translation
10.00-10.25 Siobhan Cottell (Bangor): Tense, Complementizers and
 Copular constructions in Modern Irish
10.30-10.55 Tatyana Karpenko (Lancaster): Visual and Verbal Parody
10.30-10.55 Marga Petter (Vrije, Amsterdam): A quest for Control
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-11.55 Jaine Beswick (Bristol): The velar nasal consonant in
 Galician
11.30-11.55 David Willis (Somerville): Expletive Subjects and Clitic
 Pronouns in the History of Welsh
12.00-13.00 LILIANE HAEGEMAN (GENEVA): REGISTER VARIATION AND NULL
 SUBJECTS
13.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-14.25 Steve Nicolle (York): A Relevance Theoretic Account of WILL
 and GOING TO
14.00-14.25 Isabel Muxi (Durham): Optionality Agreement between the Past
 Participle and Direct Object Clitics in Catalan
14.30-14.55 Ute Bohnacker (Durham): Acquisition of DP: Evidence from
 Swedish Child Language
14.30-14.55 Susan Clack (Bangor): HAVE and BE in Brythonic Celtic
15.00-15.25 Caitlin Walker (SOAS): Why does the A-element behave differ-
 ently to the I or the U elements
15.00-15.25 Melanie Green (SOAS): Functional elements in Hausa - focus
 and copular constructions
15.30-16.00 TEA
16.00-16.25 Alvina Byrne (Oxford):Do Multiple Onsets and Codas exist?
16.00-16.25 Mohamed S. Al-Seghayar (Essex): Wh-movement, Topicalisation
 and Left dislocation in Arabic Exclamatives
16.30-16.55 Helen Grech (Malta): Maltese Child Phonology: Does
 Non-linear phonology offer a better explanation?
16.30-16.55 Siamak Rezaei (Edinburgh): Right Movement of Embedded
 Clauses in Persian
17.00-17.25 Cristina S.Banfi (UCL): Indigenous Languages in South
 America: an optimisitc prognosis?
17.00-17.25 Yeng-Seng Goh(SOAS): Phonology and Syntax Interface: The
 mechanism of Third Tone Sandhi in Mandarin Chinese
5.50 REFRESHMENTS

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IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND BUT HAVE NOT REGISTERED, YOU CAN REGISTER ON
THE DAY IF YOU ARRIVE AT 9.00 ON SATURDAY 11TH MARCH AT:
SOUTH ENTRANCE
ARTS BUILDING
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
OXFORD ROAD
MANCHESTER M13

The registration fee is five pounds sterling. Lunch is available for
three pounds sterling.

FOR FURTHER DETAILS CONTACT ME:
JULIA BARRON
Department of Linguistics
Manchester University
e-mail: mfuxp4jbfs1.art.man.ac.uk

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5 COLLOQUIUM ON GENERATIVE GRAMMAR
A Corunha, April 5-7, 1995
Universidade da Corunha

 Preliminary Programme

 Wednesday, April 5

9:00 9:45: Registration
9:45 10:00 Welcome
10:00 10:40 Eduardo Raposo (UCSB) "Clitic Position and Verb Movement
in European Portuguese"
10:40 11:20 Francisco Ordonnez (CUNY) y Esthela Trevinno (UAM-Iztapalapa)
"El sujeto y los objetos preverbales en espannol"
11:20 11:50 Coffee break
11:50 12:30 Artemis Alexiadou (FAS Berlin) "Word Order Alternations in
Modern Greek: Subject Positions".
12:30 13:10 Reineke Bok-Bennema (RUG) "On Floating Singular 'Todo'".
13:10 13:50 Luis Lopez (Cornell U) "Case parameters and Split Ergativity"
Lunch
16:00 16:40 Hiroto Hoshi (SOAS) "Incorporation in Light Verb=20
Constructions and Temporal Affix Constructions, and the Minimalist Program"
16:40 17:20 Jose=82 Lema (UAM- Iztapalapa) "Asimetrias temporo-aspectuales
en ingles y en espannol".
17:20 18.00 Madelyn Kissock (Harvard U) "Evidence for T Raising to AgrS"
18:00 18:30 coffee break
18:30 19:10 Luis Garcia Fernandez (UCM) "Sobre la estructura temporal
de las formas compuestas del verbo".
19:10 19:50 Igone Zabala (UPV) "Infinitivos, tiempo y ergatividad"
19:50 20:30 Ed Zoerner (UC Irvine) "Gapping and RNR: Directionality
Through Base-Generation".

 Thursday, April 6

9:00 9:40 Elena Benedicto (UMass- Amherst) "(Relativized) Modality:=20
Datives and Reflexive Suffixes in 'mne ne citaetsja'".
9:40 10:20 Pascual Jose Masullo (UNComahue; UW Seattle): "Lexical=20
Relational Structures in the Minimalist Program"
10:20 11:00 Cristina Sanchez Lopez (UAM) "Movimiento en Forma Logica
y cuantificadores flotantes".
11:00 11:30 coffee break
11:30 12:10 Guido Mensching (U Koln) "Observaciones sobre los
sintagmas iniciales (CP / AgrP) de la oracion en el espannol antiguo".
12:10 12:50 Manuel Espannol Echevarria (UCLA) "Inalienable Possession
and DP Structure".
12:50 13:30 Kwangho Lee (U Minnesota) "Subject Raising in Excecptional
Case Marking Constructions: Evidence from Korean".
Lunch
16:00 16:40 Fernando Martinez-Gil (OSU) "Sonoridad, estructura silabica
y vocalizacion consonantica en el espannol dialectal chileno"
16:40 17:20 Georges Rebuschi (U Paris III & CNRS) "On the Evolution of
the Genitive Pronouns in Northern Basque".
17:20 17:50 coffee break
17:50 18:30 Adam Szczegielniak (U Warsaw) "Cliticization in Polish,=20
the case of Polish Preterit Endings"
18:30 19:10 Pablo Albizu (USC) "A Distributed Morphology-based analysis
for Ergative Displacement in Basque"
19:15 preparatory meeting for the 6 CGG

 Friday, April 7

9:00 9:40 Frances Roca (U Girona) "Los cliticos pronominales como=20
determinantes".
9:40 10:20 Victor M. Longa (USCompostela) y Guillermo Lorenzo (UOviedo)
"Movimiento Nuclear y Economia: Valor de la Concordancia y Movilidad
de los Cliticos en los Romances Occidentales".
10:20 11:00 Ines Duarte & Gabriela Matos (U Lisboa) "Romance clitics
and the Minimalist Program"
11:00 11:20 coffe break
11:20 12:00 Joao Costa & Johan Rooryck (Leiden U) "Pseudo-raising in
English and Portuguese".
12:00 12:40 Itziar Laka & Montserrat Sanz (URochester) "Cliticos y telicida=
d"
12:40 13:00 coffe break
13:00 13:40 Xavier Villalba (UB) "Bare Clitics"
13:40 14:20 Vidal Valmala Elguea (UBC) "VP Ellipsis in Infinitives Revisite=
d"

ALTERNATES:

Marta Lujan (UTAustin) "Case Assignment, Head Movement, and Clausal=20
Complements"
Dalina Kallulli (U Trondheim) "Clitic Constructions with Imperatives=20
in Albanian"
Mark Newson (Eotvos Lorand U, Budapest) "The Syntax of Negation and
Optimality Theory"
Claudia Borgonovo (U Laval) "Gerunds and Perception Verbs"
Jon Franco (U Deusto) and Alazne Landa (U Deusto) "Why does not clitic
climbing feed the Logical Form?