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We are happy to announce the program of the 6th issue of the Conference of SOLE (Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe). The conference will take place at the University of Lisbon (Faculty of Arts) from the 15th until the 17th of December. Registration fees, which include a volume of the proceedings, are: Students: PTE 4000 Seniors: PTE 7000 Further information may be obtained at the following email addresses: soleMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuerullet.leidenuniv.nl, a.j.costa
mail.telepac.pt The SOLE board, Joao Costa, Rob Goedemans, Ruben van de Vijver and Tina Cambier-Langeveld ConSOLE 6 15-17/12/97 University of Lisbon Invited Speaker: Eduardo Raposo (UC,Santa Barbara) December 15 9.30-10.15- Transitive Expletive Constructions (Olaf Koeneman & Ad Neeleman/ Utrecht University and UCL) 10.15-11.00- Word Order Variation in Irish Non-finite Clauses and the Visibility of Functional Heads (Elizabeth McCoy/U. of York) Coffee 11.30-12.15- Focus and ECM (Aniko Liptak/ HIL-Leiden) 12.15-13.00- Karitiana: a Verb-Second language from Amazonia (Luciana Storto/MIT) Lunch 15.00-15.45- Syllable Structure and Consonant Durations in Dutch (Julitte Waals /Utrecht U) 15.45-16.30- On the Prosodic Status of Stressless functional Words in European Portuguese (Marina Vigario / U. of Minho) Coffee 17.00-17.45- Infl as AGR or T, but not both (Laurel la Porte-Grimes, UConn) 17.45-18.30- On Restructuring Constructions in European Portuguese (Anabela Goncalves/ U.of Lisbon) December 16 9.30-10.15- Actuality Entailments of Ability Modals (Rajesh Bhatt /UPenn and MIT) 10.15-11.00- Verbal Small Clauses (Joan Rafel/ U.of Girona) Coffee 11.30-12.15- On classifying classification as a class of inflection in German Sign Language (Susanne Gluck and Roland Pfau/ Goethe-Univ) 12.15-13.00- Prosodic and Syntactic Interaction: the acquisition of NP functional projections in European Portuguese (Maria Joao Freitas & Matilde Miguel /U. of Lisbon) Lunch 15.00-15.45- Non Predicative Particles in Swedish (Mikael Vinka/McGill) 15.45-16.30- The Lexical Extension Control Verb Hypothesis (Hironobu Hosoi / McGill) Coffee 17.00-17.45- A formal approach to Dialectology: Vowel Reduction in Romance (Viola Miglio /U. of Maryland) 17.45-18.30- Positional Faithfulness and Truncation in child speech: What gets kept and why? (Susan Garrett/ UPenn) 19.00- INVITED SPEAKER - Eduardo P. Raposo (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) - Title TBA PARTY in the Evening! December 17 9.30-10.15- The Acquisition of Expletive Definite articles in Modern Greek (Theodore Marinis/ U. of Potsdam) 10.15-11.00- English Verbal Morphology and Feature Movement (Adolfo Ausin /UConn) Coffee 11.30-12.15- Gerundive Nominals and the Role of Aspect (Laura Siegel/UPenn) 12.15-13.00- The Common Basis of Clitic Doubling and Scrambling (Dalina Kallulli/U. of Durham) Lunch 15.00-15.45- A morphosyntactic based analysis for nominal compounds in Spanish (Jose Luis Mendez/ U.Autonoma de Madrid & IUOrtega y Gasset) 15.45-16.30- Nominal Projection in a case of Agrammatic Aphasia in Dutch (Esterella de Roo/ HIL-Leiden U) Coffee 17.00-17.45- En-cliticization, Raising to Subject and Case (Marie Claude Boivin/MIT) 17.45-18.30- Economy, asymmetries and the Ellipsis Scope Generalization (Danny Fox, MIT) Alternates: Phonology: Evidence for <m> in Sudanese Colloquial Arabic (Michael Redford/ HIL- Leiden) An Optimality-approach to Dual-Edge Dependency in Malay dialects (Sung- A Kim/ U. of Texas,Austin)