LINGUIST List 8.273

Tue Feb 25 1997

Confs: LAGB Spring Meeting, MunDial '97

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1. billy clark, LAGB Spring Meeting 1997: University of Edinburgh
2. Jaeger Gerhard, Confs: MunDial '97 (Final Announcement)

LAGB Spring Meeting 1997: University of Edinburgh

The 1997 Spring Meeting will be held from Monday 7 to Wednesday
9 April at the University of Edinburgh, where the Association will be
guests of the Department of Linguistics. The Local Organiser is Alice
Turk (turkling.ed.ac.uk). Enquiries about the meeting should be
addressed to: Alice Turk, LAGB 1997, Department of Linguistics, Adam
Ferguson Building, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9LL.

Events: The Linguistics Association 1997 Lecture on the Monday
evening will be delivered by Joan Bresnan (Stanford) and is entitled
"Morphology competes with syntax: beyond the inflectional paradigm".

There will be a Workshop on "The role of morphology in current
syntactic theory" organised by Kersti Borjars and Nigel Vincent
(University of Manchester). In much recent work on syntactic theory,
analyses have made the tacit assumption that morphological and
syntactic elements obey the same principles (e.g. c-command) and can
be expressed in the same notation (i.e. trees). At the same time, a
number of influential morphologists (e.g. Anderson, Aronoff and
Beard) have argued for the separationist hypothesis according to
which morphological constructs obey a set of independent principles
which only partly, or not at all, overlap with the set of syntactic
principles. In this workshop we will explore within a number of
frameworks the consequences of this renewed interest in the
interaction and integration of morphological and syntactic data. We
will look particularly at Lexical-Functional Grammar, Head-driven
Phrase Structure Grammar and the Minimalist Program. There will
be talks by Joan Bresnan (Stanford), Elisabet Engdahl (Gotenburg),
Gillian Ramchand (Oxford) and Greg Stump (Kentucky) and these
will be followed by a general discussion.

The Language Tutorial, organised by Jane Simpson (Sydney) will be on
languages of Central Australia. The tutorials will be about four
neighbouring Pama-Nyungan languages (Warumungu, Warlpiri,
Warlmanpa and Gurindji) and a fifth neighbour, the non-Pama-Nyungan
Wambaya. The phonologies and grammars of these languages share
many properties, including category-specific phonology, assimilation
and dissimilation processes, ERGATIVE-ABSOLUTIVE case-marking,
free word order, bound pronouns, switch reference systems, some of
which we hope to cover. We will describe the changing sociolinguistic
situation, considering land-language relations, multilingualism,
language change, code-switching, as well as auxiliary languages such as sign
language. The speakers will be: Jane Simpson (Sydney), David Nash
(Australian National University), Patrick McConvell (Northern
Territory University), Rachel Nordlinger (Stanford) and possibly Mary
Laughren (Queensland).

Bookings: should be sent to the Local Organiser to arrive by Friday
14th March. Cheques should be made payable to "LAGB 97".

Guests: members may invite any number of guests to meetings of the
association, upon payment of a 5-00 pounds sterling guest invitation fee.
Members wishing to invite guests should photocopy the booking form below.

Committee members:

President: Professor Greville Corbett (g.corbettsurrey.ac.uk)

Honorary Secretary: Dr. David Adger (da4tower.york.ac.uk)

Membership Sec.: Dr. Kersti Borjars (k.e.borjarsmanchester.ac.uk)

Meetings Secretary: Dr. Billy Clark (billy1mdx.ac.uk)

Treasurer: Dr. Paul Rowlett (p.a.rowlettmod-lang.salford.ac.uk)

Assistant Secretary: Dr. April McMahon (AMM11hermes.cam.ac.uk)

BLN Editor: Dr. Siew-Yue Killingley, Grevatt and Grevatt, 9 Rectory
Drive, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE NE13 1XT.

Internet home page: The LAGB internet home page is now active at the
following address: http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LAGB.

BOOKING FORM:

Please return this form, with your remittance, by 14 March to: Alice
Turk, LAGB 1997, Department of Linguistics, Adam Ferguson
Building, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9LL. Please make
cheques payable to "LAGB 97".

NAME.................................INSTITUTION.........................
ADDRESS FOR THIS MAILING.............................................
E-MAIL ADDRESS......................

I enclose remittance as indicated (select appropriate package):

1. Complete conference package in en suite bedrooms:
(n.b. limited number of rooms available, to be allocated
on a "first-come first-served" basis)

(a) including Monday lunch preceding workshop
(i) if sent to arrive before 14 March 128-78 pounds sterling _____
(ii) if sent to arrive after 14 March 143-09 sterling _____

(b) excluding Monday lunch
 (i) if sent to arrive before 14 March 121-59 sterling _____
(ii) if sent to arrive after 14 March 135-10 sterling _____

(c) Surcharge for non-members, 5-00 sterling _____
 TOTAL: _____

2. Complete conference package in standard bedrooms:
(n.b. limited number of rooms available, to be allocated
on a "first-come first-served" basis)

(a) including Monday lunch preceding workshop
(i) if sent to arrive before 14 March 97-84 sterling _____
(ii) if sent to arrive after 14 March 108-71 sterling _____

(b) excluding Monday lunch
 (i) if sent to arrive before 14 March 90-65 sterling _____
 (ii) if sent to arrive after 14 March 100-72 sterling _____

(c) Surcharge for non-members, 5-00 sterling ______

 TOTAL: ______
3. Selected items:

(a) conference fee (OBLIGATORY) 15-00sterling 15-00 sterling
(b) Monday lunch (resident) 7-99 sterling _____
(c) Monday lunch (non-resident) 8-52 sterling _____
(d) Monday dinner (resident) 8-93 sterling _____
(e) Monday dinner (non-resident) 9-46 sterling _____
(f) B&B Monday/Tuesday (en suite) 43-13 sterling _____
(g) B&B Monday/Tuesday (standard) 25-94 sterling _____
(h) Tuesday lunch (resident) 7-99 sterling _____
(i) Tuesday lunch (non-resident) 8-52 sterling _____
(j) Tuesday dinner (resident) 8-93 sterling _____
(k) Tuesday dinner (non-resident) 9-46 sterling _____
(l) B&B Tuesday/Wednesday (en suite) 43-13 sterling _____
(m) B&B Tuesday/Wednesday (standard) 25-94 sterling _____
(n) Lunch Wednesday (resident) 7-99 sterling _____
(o) Lunch Wednesday (non-resident) 8-52 sterling _____
 SUB-TOTAL: _____
 Deduct 10% if sent to arrive before 14 March _____
(p) Surcharge for non-members, 5-00 sterling _____
 TOTAL: _____

4. Abstracts only, for those not attending: 5-00 sterling (UK)..........6-00
 sterling (overseas).............

PLEASE TICK IF YOU WOULD LIKE VEGETARIAN FOOD.......

CRECHE: Please indicate requirements here and add 40.00 sterling
per child per day to your payment: a) dates required........b) child's
 age(s)......

OTHER REQUIREMENTS (e.g. DIET, ACCOMMODATION)...............

 FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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 MunDial'97

 Munich Workshop on

 Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

 March 10-12, 1997, Munich, Germany

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The workshop program, accomodation and travel information can be obtained from the MunDial webpage http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html


To register, fill out the Registration form below and send it to the
workshop office *until March 1, 1997*.

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MunDial'97 REGISTRATION FORM

Last Name:...................................

First Name:..................................

Affiliation:.................................

Street Address:..............................

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City:........................................

State/Zip:...................................

Country:.....................................

Phone(s):....................................

Fax:.........................................

E-mail:......................................



Registration rates:
The registration fee is DM 40.- for speakers and students and DM 60.- else.
All fees are in German currency.


	Payment (tick one):
			o Eurocheque (enclosed)
			o Bank transfer (include copy)


For participants from non-EU countries it is possible to pay the fee
at the day of registration. 

Payment must be in German currency, and can be made by crossed
Eurocheque payable to "Anton Benz", or by bank transfer to:

Bank: Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank
 80 799 Muenchen
 Schellingstrasse 29-31
Bank code: 70020001
Acount no: 6890288438
Accound holder: Anton Benz
Intended use: MunDial'97

Bank transfers should specify registrant's name. Please make sure that
the transfer is arranged free of charges to the beneficiary!

Please address registration form and inquiries to

Anton Benz & Gerhard Jaeger
CIS/SIL
Universitaet Muenchen
Oettingestrasse 67
80538 Muenchen
Germany

Email: jaegercis.uni-muenchen.de
http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html
Tel: +49 89 2178-2708
Fax: +49 89 2178-2701