LINGUIST List 8.1591

Thu Nov 6 1997

Confs: Chinese Lang, Slavic Lang

Editor for this issue: Elaine Halleck <elainelinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Irvine Linguistics Students Association, On the Formal Way to Chinese Languages
2. Peter Kosta, Formal Description of Slavic Languages

On the Formal Way to Chinese Languages 
December 12-14, 1997, University of California, Irvine

(preliminary program)

December 12, 1997 (Friday)
8:30-8:45	Moira Yip (Acting Chair)
		Opening Remarks
8:45-9:20	Shan-Shan Wang (U Haiwaii, Manoa)
		On some properties of Taiwanese prefixed reciprocal
9:20-9:55	Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu (USC)
		The classifier ge: an aspectual marker that licenses an extra argument
break		
10:05-10:40	Andrew Simpson (Frankfurt U)
		On the status of 'modifying' DE in the Chinese DP
10:40-11:15	Alexander Williams (U Penn)
		Predemonstrative modifiers as restrictions on the input context
break		
11:25-12:25 	Y.-H. Audrey Li (USC)
		TBA (Invited Talk)
lunch		
14:00-15:00	Raung-fu Chung (National Kaohsiung Normal U)
		TBA (Invited Talk)
break		
15:10-15:45	Shu-Ming Chen (U Essex)
		Stress in Mandarin reduplication
15:45-16:20	Jie Zhang (UCLA)
		A phonetically-based OT account for the /n/-/ng/ asymmetry upon
		/r/-suffixation in northern Chinese dialects
break		
16:30-17:30	Moira Yip (UCI)
		TBA (Invited Talk)
		

December 13, 1997 (Saturday)
8:30-9:05	Nai-Fai Wong (CUHK)
		Multiple modals in Chinese
9:05-9:40	Miao-Ling Hsieh (USC/UCSD)
		Tense interpretations in Chinese and the related issues
break		
9:50-10:25	Ning Zhang (U Toronto)
		Checking variations in Mandarin yes/no questions
10:25-11:00	Chin-man Kuo (USC)
		The interaction between Daodi and Wh-phrases in Mandarin Chinese
break		
11:10-11:45	Sze-Wing Tang (UCI)
		Some consequences of the parametric theory of verb raising
11:45-12:20	Xiaolu Yang (Chinese U Hong Kong)
		L1 acquisition of focus adverbs CAI and JIU in Mandarin Chinese
lunch		
13:30-14:05	Xiaoguang Li (UCI)
		More than a coincidence: on the correlation between tense and
		distributivity
14:05-14:40	Haiyong Liu (Wayne State U)
		Dou-doubling in Chinese
break		
14:50-15:25	Jonah Tzong-Hong Lin (UCI)	
		The WH/QP interaction in Chinese and distributivity
15:25-16:00	Jianxin Wu (U Maryland, College Park)
		A feature analysis of quantification: evidence from Dou
16:00-16:35	Luther Chen-Sheng Liu (UCI)
		Parallelism and economy: a note on Chinese predicate anaphora
break		
16:45-17:45	Lisa L.-S. Cheng (UCI)
		TBA (Invited Talk)
dinner		
December 14, 1997 (Sunday)
8:30-9:05	Jen-I Jelina Li (National Central U)
		Topicalization in Mandarin and weak crossover
9:05-9:40	Ching-Huei Teresa Wu (McGill U)
		Serial verb constructions and verbal compounding
break		
9:50-10:25	Sui-Sang Mok (UCSD)
		What are Cantonese exceed comparatives? 
10:25-11:00	Haihua Pan (City U Hong Kong)
		Generalized passivization and related issues
break		
11:10-12:10	C.-T. James Huang (UCI)
		TBA (Invited Talk)
Closing Remarks	C.-T. James Huang


REGISTRATION

On the Formal Way to Chinese Languages is being held at Room 2112, Social
Science Plaza A, University of California, Irvine, December 12-14, 1997. A
registration fee of US$30 has been set for the conference. A special
pre-registration fee of US$20 is available through November 29, 1997. If
you wish to take advantage of the special US$20 fee, please send a check
to: 

	On the Formal Way to Chinese Languages
	c/o Irvine Linguistics Students Associations (ILSA)
	School of Social Sciences
	University of California, Irvine
	Irvine, CA 92697, U.S.A.

Please make checks or money orders payable to 'ILSA-ASUCI'. We cannot
accept credit card payment. Payment must be in US funds, drawn on a US
bank. On-site registration fees: US$30. On-site registration will begin at
8:15am on Friday, December 12, 1997 outside Room 2112, Social Science
Plaza A. 

For further inquiries or updated information, please visit our website:

http://www.socsci.uci.edu/ling/ilsa/ilsahp.html

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ON THE FORMAL WAY TO CHINESE LANGUAGES
RESGISTRATION FORM

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***Note: Please print this form out and return it by post. No registration
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We would like to announce the Second European Conference on 


"Formal Description of Slavic Languages" (FDSL2)


hosted by the

University of Potsdam, Department of Slavic Languages in Cooperation

with the General Linguistics Department Potsdam. 


20 - 22 November 1997


We would like to make a link to the homepage under

www.uni-potsdam.de/u/slavistik/formalde.htm



where the programme of the conference and all conditions on
participation are included.


Please, contact also

Prof. Dr. Peter Kosta
pkostarz.uni-potsdam.