LINGUIST List 8.402

Thu Mar 20 1997

Calls: Lang acq, Student conference

Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar <annlinguistlist.org>

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1. holleb, Call for Papers: Language Acquisition
2. Darin Howe, Please announce to graduate students!

 CALL FOR PAPERS

 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT


 New Perspectives on Language Acquisition:

 Minimalism and Pragmatics

 University of Massachusetts, Amherst

 June 2,3 and 4 1997

This conference creates a stage for a discussion on new perspectives
on Minimalism and its relation to other areas in linguistics. The
emphasis of the conference will be on the contribution of acquisition
research to theoretical linguistics.

The conference has the intention to explore the following three
(sub-)fields and their interfaces:

-syntax, for instance issues dealing with Merger Theory, the
exploration of formal features and functional categories, as well as
issues involving complementation.

-pragmatics, for instance on Theory of Mind (mental representations of
the world), binding interfaces.

-semantics, for instance phenemena involving aspect and events.

The relations between the pragmatic, the syntactic and the semantic
components, as well as their internal development is the focus of this
conference. For instance, the opacity of complements plays a major
role in the study of long distance Wh-movement (see work by Roeper and
De Villiers). Other topics that involve these subfields could be
negative polarity (e.g. John denied that anything happened), sequence
of tense constructions (e.g. John said he was happy = John said he is
happy) and various issues in the acquisition of binding.

The conference pays special attention to Afro American English and
SLI. Papers will be selected on quality of the content and according
to the coherence of the conference.

invited speakers: David Lebeaux (N.E.C.), Michelle de Graff (M.I.T.),
		Frans Zwarts (University of Groningen)

participants: Angelika Kratzer (UMass), Thomas Roeper (UMass), Jill de
 Villiers (Smith College)

Proceedings will be published in a volume of the University of
Massachusetts Occasional Papers (G.L.S.A., Amherst).

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: April 11, 1997.
Notification of acceptance by April 25, 1997.

Talks are 20 minutes, 10 minutes discussion. Send 4 hard copies of a one page
abstract to the following address (no e-mail submissions):

 New Perspective on Language Acquisition
 Linguistics Department
 University of Massachusetts
 South College
 Amherst, MA 01003


Bart Hollebrandse
holleblinguist.umass.edu

 NORTHWEST LINGUISTIC CONFERENCE 1997
				(NWLC 97)

 UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA 
				VANCOUVER, B.C.
 
 MAY 24 - 25, 1997
 

Papers are invited for NWLC 97, a student conference. Papers are
welcome on topics from all areas of linguistics, including papers
which describe work in progress. Please submit 3 anonymous copies of a
one page abstract with an additional page for references. Please also
send a separate sheet identifying the title of the paper, author's
name, affiliation, regular mailing address, email address, phone
number, and fax number.

Each paper will be assigned 30 minutes: 20 minutes for presentation
followed by a 10 minute question/discussion period.

Deadline for receipt of abstracts is April 21, 1997. Emailed
abstracts are welcomed. Receipt of abstracts will be acknowledged via
email within 48 hours.

Preference will be given to student papers, although faculty papers
will also be considered. In keeping with NWLC tradition, preference
will be given to submissions from local people.

Crash space will be available.

Abstracts and any inquiries should be sent to:

	Darin Howe
	Department of Linguistics
	University of British Columbia
	Buchanan Building C369
	1866 Main Mall
	Vancouver, B.C.
	Canada V6T 1Z1

	email: dhoweunixg.ubc.ca

	phone: (604) 822-4256; fax: (604) 822-9687.