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Tue Jun 11 1996

Confs: Bangor Conference on Syntactic Categories

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Message 1: Program for the Bangor Conference on Syntactic Categories

 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 15:36:20 BST
From: Ana von Klopp <a.von.kloppbangor.ac.uk>
Subject: Program for the Bangor Conference on Syntactic Categories

CONFERENCE ON SYNTACTIC CATEGORIES

University of Wales, Bangor from June 24th to June 26th

The Conference on Syntactic Categories will bring together
researchers working on the nature of syntactic categories from
a number of different theoretical perspectives.

The conference will include the following papers:

Anne Abeille and Daniele Godard (Paris), `French word order and
 lexicality'
David Adger (York), `Eliminating N-features by merger in
 morphology'
Robert Borsley (Bangor) and Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse), `Mixed
 extended projections'
Ronnie Cann (Edinburgh), `Categories, labels and types:
 functional versus lexical'
Jane Grimshaw (Rutgers), `Optimizing lexical choice: expletives
 and opaque clitics as cases of minimal violation'
Anders Holmberg (Tromso), `Scandinavian stylistic fronting:=20
 moving form without content',
Dick Hudson (UCL), `Syntax without functional projections'
Andreas Kathol (Groningen), `S-categories and P-categories'
Ruth Kempson (SOAS), `Syntactic computation as labelled natural
 deduction - WH a case study'
Fritz Newmeyer (Seattle), `Event structure, minimal projection,
 and the discrete nature of syntactic categories'
Carl Pollard (Ohio State), `Are syntactic categories necessary'
Ian Roberts (Bangor) and Juan Uriagereka (Maryland), to be
 announced
Anna Roussou (Bangor) and Rita Manzini (UCL), `On empty
 categories'
Jerry Sadock (Chicago), `Syntactic categories in polyhierarchical
 grammar'
Ivan Sag and Jong-Bok Kim (Stanford), `A lexicalist alternative
 to head-movement'

The exact details of the programme are not yet finalized. For details
on accommodation, fees, travelling to Bangor, etc. please see the
information on our World Wide Web site at URL

http://www.linguistics.bangor.ac.uk/dept/conf.html

or contact Bob Borsley <r.d.borsleybangor.ac.uk>.
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