LINGUIST List 7.1712

Thu Dec 5 1996

Confs: Morphology-Workshop/University of Potsdam

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1. Jens Michaelis, Morphology-Workshop/University of Potsdam

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 Announcement and Invitation:

 Innovationskolleg ``Formale Modelle kognitiver Komplexit"at''
 Universit"at Potsdam
 (funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG))
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 Workshop "Morphology and the Complexity of Language"
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Time: 14th/15th of December 1996 (Saturday/Sunday)

Place: Universit"at Potsdam
 Institut f"ur Linguistik
 Komplex Golm
 Haus 24
 R. 178


How to get there:
 there is a train from Potsdam Stadt (trainstation). The
 timetable for Saturday and Sunday is as follows

 Potsdam-Stadt (dep) Golm (arr)
 8:53 9:03
 10:53 11:03
 12:53 13:03

 Golm (dep) Potsdam-Stadt (arr)
 14:21 14:31

 [and further every hour until 21:21]

>From the station "Golm" it is five minutes. The campus is
immediately visible from the station. Once on the campus
you simply have to find Haus 24.
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(Preliminary) Program:

Saturday
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10:00 -- 11:00 Konstantin Kazenin (State University of Moscow):
	"Suffixaufnahme and Focussing in the
	Languages of the Eastern Caucasus"

11:30 -- 12:30 Frans Plank (University of Konstanz):
	"Complexity in Attributive Constructions"


Lunch

14:30 -- 15:30 Winfried Boeder (University of Oldenburg):
 "Simplicity and Complexity in the History of Kartvelian"

16:00 -- 17:00 Jens Michaelis (University of Potsdam):
	"On the Formal Complexity of Possessive Constructions in
	Old Georgian"

Sunday
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 9:30 -- 10:30 Uwe Moennich (University of Tuebingen):
	"On Cloning Context--Freeness"

11:00 -- 12:00 Marcus Kracht (Free University of Berlin):
	"On the Role of Case and Agreement in Syntax"

Lunch

14:00 -- 15:00 Ed Keenan (University of California, Los Angeles):
 "The Semantics of Voicing Systems of the Philippine Type:
	the Case of Malagasy"

15:30 -- 16:30 David Perlmutter (University of California, San Diego):
	"How Simple Constraints Make Morphology Appear More Complex"

17:00 -- 18:00 Alan Dench University of Western Australia):
	"Multiple Case Marking in the Pilbara Languages:
	A Comparative Study"


 +======================== Jens Michaelis ========================+
 | |
 | Universit"at Potsdam |
 | Institut f"ur Linguistik |
 | Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Phone: +49 - +331 - 977 2051 |
 | Postfach 60 15 53 (P.O.B.) Fax: +49 - +331 - 977 2761 |
 | 14415 Potsdam |
 | Germany e-mail: michaelling.uni-potsdam.de |
 | |
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