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mod-lang.salford.ac.uk>UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD, GREATER MANCHESTER, UK EUROPEAN STUDIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE NORTH WEST CENTRE FOR LINGUISTICS FIRST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE NEGATION: SYNTAX, SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS (Organiser: Paul Rowlett, Salford) Friday 30 October to Sunday 1 November 1998 Faraday House, Research & Graduate College, University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK Sponsored by: The British Academy, The Linguistics Association of Great Britain The French Embassy in London PROGRAM (Booking form at the end of this posting) FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER 1998 8.45-9.15am Registration and coffee 9.15-9.30am Introduction and welcome 9.30-10.0am Metalinguistic negation in focus, Suengho Ham, Seoul University, Korea 10.0-10.30am Focus-induced neg-concord failures, Vieri Samek-Lodovici, University College London, UK 10.30-11.00am The focusing negative 'mhaih' in Cantonese Chinese: a look at contrastive and metalinguistic negation, Juliet Wai Hong, University of Texas at Austin, USA 11.0-11.30am Coffee 11.30am-12noon Compositional, inherent and frozen negation: lexicalism versus functional categories, Kazuhiko Fukushima, Kansai Gaidai University, Japan 12noon-1pm KEYNOTE LECTURE Negation, saturation and predication, William Ladusaw, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA 1.0-2.0pm Lunch 2.0-2.30pm A minimalist approach to the syntax of multiple negation in French, Hugues M. Peters, University of the West Indies, Jamaica 2.30-3.0pm Negation and the diachrony of features, Anna Roussou, University of Wales, Bangor, UK and Ian Roberts, Stuttgart University, Germany 3.0-3.30pm A lexical-functional approach to the syntax of negation in French, Veronika Knueppel, Konstanz University, Germany 3.30-4.0pm Tea 4.0-4.30pm The riddle of n-words in Polish: quantificational versus non-quantificational, universal versus existential, Joanna Blaszczak, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany 4.30-5.0pm Negative polarity items in Russian, Asya Pereltsvaig, McGill University, Montreal, Canada 5.0-5.30pm Negation in Hungarian, John Payne and Erika Chisarik, University of Manchester, UK 6.0-7.0pm Reception at Blackwell's Campus Bookshop SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 1998 9.0-9.30am Coffee 9.30-10.0am On Romance sensitivity to non-veridicality, Joao Peres, University of Lisbon, Portugal 10.0-10.30am (Non-)occurrence of sentential 'no' in Spanish negative sentences, Javier Martin-Gonzalez, Harvard University, USA 10.30-11.0am Negation with [-Neg] features, Marie-Therese Vinet, Sherbrooke University, Quebec City, Canada 11.0-11.30am Coffee 11.30am-12noon Adverbial verb phrases and downwards monotonicity: negativity and the DeMorgan taxonomist's dilemma, Jay Atlas, Pomona College, California, USA 12noon-1.0pm KEYNOTE LECTURE Details to be confirmed 1.0-2.0pm Lunch 2.0-2.30pm Negative concord and the scope of universals, Anastasia Giannakidou, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2.30-3.0pm Procedural marking of propositional attitude in Norwegian sentences with a negative 'wh'-complement, Thorsten Fretheim, University of Trondheim, Norway 3.0-3.30pm Some problems with the semantics of negation with reference to English and Korean, Hye-Kung Lee, University of Cambridge, UK 3.30-4.0pm Tea 4.0-4.30pm Syntactic licensing of negative polarity, Patrick A Schindler, Tuebingen University, Germany 4.30-5.0pm The grammatical basis of polarity items, Ana Maria Martins, University of Lisbon, Portugal 5.0-5.30pm The bi-polarity of 'any', Lucia Tovena, Institute of Scientific & Technological Research, Trento, Italy and Jacques Jayez, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France 5.30-6.30pm European Studies Research Institute wine reception 8.0pm Conference dinner (Manchester) SUNDAY 1 NOVEMBER 1998 9.0-9.30am Coffee 9.30-10.0am Focus particles in negative polarity in Hindi, Sharavan Vasishth, Ohio State University, USA 10.0-10.30am Two types of negation in Bengali, Gillian Ramchand, Oxford University, UK 10.30-11.0am The syntax of negation and OV in Late Middle English, Richard Ingham, University of Reading, UK 11.0-11.30am Coffee 11.30-12noon Blocking effects in the expression of negation, Jacob Hoeksema, University of Groningen, The Netherlands 12noon-1pm KEYNOTE LECTURE Verb movement, tense and negation in West Flemish, Liliane Haegeman, University of Geneva, Switzerland 1.0-2.0pm Lunch 2.0-2.30pm Negative polarity, modality and the comparative: a parametric approach, Nathalie Schapansky, Simon Fraser University, British Colombia, Canada 2.30-3.0pm Negation and the acquisition of 'strong' indefinites, Irene Kraemer, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 3.0-3.30pm Head-movement in negation in English, Annabel Cormack and Neil Smith, University College London, UK 3.30-4.0pm Tea ALTERNATES How many types of NPI are there? Evidence from Korean and English, Chungmin Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Negative chains and operator movement, Rita Bhandari, SUNY, USA Grammaticalization in progress: the development of a negative focus particle, Ton van der Wouden, Universities of Groningen & Leiden, The Netherlands Negative constituent licensing in a negative concord language, Nedzad Leko, University of Oslo, Norway Welsh negation, Robert D Borsley, University of Wales, Bangor, UK and Bob Morris-Jones, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------ FOR BOOKINGS, PLEASE PRINT OUT THE REGISTRATION FORM BELOW, FILL IT IN AND RETURN IT WITH FULL CONFERENCE FEE TO THE ADDRESS GIVEN. PLEASE NOTE CLOSING DATE FOR BOOKINGS: 9 OCTOBER 1998. UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD, GREATER MANCHESTER, UK EUROPEAN STUDIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE NORTH WEST CENTRE FOR LINGUISTICS FIRST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE NEGATION: SYNTAX, SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS (Organiser: Paul Rowlett, Salford) Friday 30 October to Sunday 1 November 1998 Faraday House, Research & Graduate College, University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK Sponsored by: The British Academy, The Linguistics Association of Great Britain The French Embassy in London REGISTRATION FORM TO ARRIVE BEFORE FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER 1998 Title: __________________ Surname: ____________________________________________ First name(s): _________________________________________ Address: _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ Postcode/Zipcode: _____________________________________ Daytime telephone number: ______________________________ E-mail address: _____________________________________________________ Affiliation: _____________________________________________ Registration fee: GBP60.00 (GBP30.00 for students) includes all refreshments, buffet lunches and wine reception Subtotal: GBP ________________ Saturday 31 October 1998 Conference Dinner: GBP16.00 Subtotal: GBP ________________ Are you vegetarian? 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