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MIT.EDU>LANGUAGE ACQUISITION WORKSHOP CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Title: "The interpretation of root infinitives and bare nouns in child language" Time: Monday, January 13, and Tuesday, January 14, 1997 Place: MIT - E25-401 Description: "In this workshop, we intend to investigate the interpretation of so-called "Root Infinitives" and bare nouns (nouns without a determiner) in child language. "Root - Infinitives" are infinitival clauses that occur as matrix clauses. Both root infinitives and bare nouns are prohibited in adult language (except for under special circumstances). The question is how children provide these 'ungrammatical' utterances with an interpretation. We will have various speakers (including Frank Wijnen, Sergey Avrutin, Ken Wexler, Ingeborg Lasser, Jeannette Schaeffer) present their views on these issues, followed by a discussion. Furthermore, we plan to design experiments for various languages to test the predictions that follow from the presented theories." If you are interested to participate, please contact Jeannette Schaeffer (see below). A more detailed announcement, including the schedule, the exact format etc. of the workshop will follow soon. Jeannette C. Schaeffer MIT - Department of Linguistics and Philosophy 18 Vassar Street 20C-228 Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: (617) 253-2559 Fax: (617) 253-5017 E-mail: schaeffeMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de>A special session on Literacy, Media, and Language Change is planned as a part of the XIII International Conference on Historical Linguistics. This session will deal with all media-induced linguistic change. The more traditional literacy debate is included, as well as computer (email, etc.) induced language change. If you wish to contribute a paper to this special event, please contact the organizers at: ichl1997Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
let.uva.nl>*** GOING ROMANCE 1996 *** TENTH CONFERENCE ON ROMANCE LANGUAGES Research Institute for Language and Speech (OTS Utrecht) Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics (HIL) Sponsored by NWO & KNAW Utrecht, December 12 - 14 PROGRAM: ***December 12, morning session: 8.50 - 9.20:Registration 9.20 - 9.30:Wiecher Zwanenburg (Dean, Faculty of Arts, Utrecht University) 9.30 - 10.30:Ian Roberts (invited speaker, Univ. of Stuttgart): Old French V2 revisited 10-30 - 11.10:Heloisa Salles (Bangor): On the correlation between Preposition Stranding and Double Object Constructions in Romance 11.30 - 12.10: Gabriela Ardisson Matos (Univ. de Lisboa): ATB Clitic Placement in European Portuguese: A comparative approach 12.10 - 12.50: Luis Silva-Villar (UCLA): Morphology and syntax of Romance imperatives: an incomplete history ***December 12, afternoon session: 14.20 - 15.00: Geraldine Legendre (John Hopkins, Baltimore): Optimal clitics and verb movement in Romanian 15.00 - 15.40: Yves d' Hulst, Martine Coene, Liliane Tasmowski (UIA, Antwerpen): Case Checking and Romanian Possessive Article Incorporation 16.00 - 16.40: Pino Longobardi (Univ. di Venezia): Generative syntax and etymology: UG and the history of French /CHEZ/ 16.40 - 17.40: Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (invited speaker, Univ. de Paris-VII): Types of predicates and the interpretation of bare NPs ***December 13, morning session: 9.30 - 10.30: Gennaro Chierchia (invited speaker, Univ. di Milano): Reference to kinds and bare partitives 10.30 - 11.10: Paul Rowlett (Salford): A non-overt negative operator in French 11.30 - 12.10: Jeanne Cornillon (SOAS London): Negative Concord Terms vs. Expletives in Negative Chains and the Principle of FI 12.10 - 12.50: Dimitra Kolliakou (Univ. of Groningen): DE-phrase extraction and nominal denotation type ***December 13, afternoon session: 14.20 - 15.00: Randall Gess (Univ. of Utah): Why NOCODA is not vowel-to-syllable alignment 15.00 - 15.40: Anna Gavarr# (UAB Barcelona): Word order alternations and feature assignment in bilingual Catalan acquisition 16.00 - 16.40: Gerhard Brugger (UCLA / Univ. of Vienna): Present Perfect Types and the theory of expletive auxiliary 16.40 - 17.20: Alessandra Giorgi & Fabio Pianesi (IRST / Trento): The syntactic properties of temporal expressions ***December 14, morning session 9.30 - 10.30: Viviane D#prez (invited speaker, Rutgers): Parallel asymmetries and indefinite licensing 10.30 - 11.10: Denis Bouchard (UQAM): The distribution and interpretation of adjectives in French BREAK 11.30 - 12.10: Joao Costa (Univ. of Leiden): Focus in situ: Evidence from Portuguese 12.10 - 12.50: Rita Manzini & LJUBA.M. Savoia (Univ. di Firenze / UC London): Null subjects without pro: A Merge vs. Move parameter ***December 14, afternoon session 14.20 - 15.00: M. Carme Picallo (UAB Barcelona): Economy principles and pleonastic subjects in pro-drop languages 15.00 - 15.40: Ricardo Echepare (Univ. of Maryland): Speech Act Modifiers and the syntax of propositional attitudes BREAK 16.00 - 17.00: Esther Torrego (invited speaker, Univ. of Massachusetts): Minimalist solutions to old problems Alternates: George Tsoulas & Thierry Etchegoyhen (Univ. of York): Theticity, definite descriptions and some apparent definiteness violations in French unaccusative impersonal constructions Valerie Amary (Univ. de Paris-III): The French specific null object Location: Room 0.06 at Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, Utrecht Registration: The registration fee will be HFL 50.-- Registration at the conference site The Organizing Committee: Frank Drijkoningen (OTS/Department of Romance) Brigitte Kampers-Manhe (Univ. of Groningen) Josep Quer (OTS) Jan Schroten (OTS/Department of Romance) Maarten de Wind (HIL/University of Amsterdam) Phone: ++31-30-2536006 Fax: ++31-30-2536000 Email: GOING.ROMANCEMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue