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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***** ConSOLE 7 ***** The Seventh Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe will be held at the University of Bergen 9-11 December 1998 with registration and reception in the evening of Tuesday 8 December. In order to help us organize the conference, we will kindly ask participants to pre-register by November 15. Pre-registrations are welcomed either by e-mail, regular mail, or fax. Please use the form below the program, and please indicate whether you will attend the party Friday night. (The party is included in the conference fee!) E-mail: registrationMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issueling.uib.no Postal address: ConSOLE 7 Dept. of Linguistics and Comparative Literature Sydnesplass 7 N-5007 Bergen Norway Fax: +47-55 58 93 54 The conference fee is NOK 180,- for participants registered before November 15, and NOK 220,- for participants registered after November 15. The fee is to be paid upon arrival at the conference site, and covers the conference booklet and the conference proceedings as well as the reception Tuesday evening, coffee and snacks during the conference, and the party Friday night. Further information including paper abstracts can be found at the conference web site: http://www.ling.uib.no/ConSOLE-7/. Any inquiries concerning the conference may be directed either to the local organizing committee <mailto:console7
ling.uib.no> or to the SOLE board <mailto:SOLE
rullet.leidenuniv.nl>. Local organizers: SOLE board: =D8ystein Alexander Vangsnes Michael Redford Dagmar Bendt Tina Cambier-Langeveld Inger Marie Berntzen Anik=F3 Lipt=E1k Torodd Kinn Martha Thunes *** PRELIMINARY PROGRAM *** There may be changes! Tuesday 8 December At Villaveien 9 17.00 - 19.00 Registration and refreshments 19.00 Welcoming address by Vice Rector of the University of Bergen and Professor of General Linguistics Kirsti Koch Christensen Wednesday 9 December At Sydneshaugen skole, Auditorium A 9.00 - 9.15 Opening and information 9.15 - 10.00 Martyna Macgregor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada: Syntactic and semantic operations within the aspectual structure of Polish 10.00 - 10.45 Penka Stateva, University of Connecticut, USA: Focus Features and Movement in Bulgarian 10.45 - 11.15 Coffee 11.15 - 12.00 Cornelia Krause, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA: Reduplication in Bella Coola - A Base-ic Problem 12.00 - 12.45 Martin Kr=E4mer, University of D=FCsseldorf, Germany: A Correspondence Approach to Vowel Harmony and Disharmony 12.45 - 14.15 Lunch (not included) 14.15 - 15.00 Adolfo Aus=EDn, University of Connecticut, USA: Towards a Null Theory of A-Movement: The Inverse Case Filter 15.00 - 15.45 Bal=E1zs Sur=E1nyi, E=F6tv=F6s Lor=E1nd University, Budapest, Hungary: Bare Binding Theory 15.45 - 16.00 Break 16.00 - 16.45 Kerstin Hoge, St. Hilda's College, Oxford, United Kingdom: Functional WH, WH-Absorption, and Yiddish Superiority Effects 16.45 - 17.15 Coffee and snack 17.15 - 18.00 Kleanthes K. Grohmann, University of Maryland, USA: Left Dislocated Constructions and Wh-Extractions 18.00 - 18.45 Ileana Paul, McGill University, Montreal, Canada: Multiple movement in Malagasy Thursday 10 December At Sydneshaugen skole, Auditorium A 9.00 - 9.45 Mark de Vries, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands: Extraposition of Relative Clauses as Specifying Coordination 9.45 - 10.30 Ron Artstein, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA: Person, Animacy, and Null Subjects 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee 11.00 - 11.45 Ildik=F3 T=F3th, Tilburg University, Netherlands: Inflected Infinitives in Hungarian and the nature of AGR 11.45 - 12.30 Marit Julien, University of Troms=F8, Norway: The structure of complex words 12.30 - 14.00 Lunch (not included) 14.00 - 14.45 Marie-H=E9l=E8ne C=F4t=E9, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA: Syllable structure and domain-final strengthening: Evidence from Basque 14.45 - 15.30 Julio Cebrian, University of Toronto, Canada: Ambisyllabic Representation in a Constraint-Based Analysis of Catalan Voicing and Continuancy Alternations 15.30 - 15.45 Break 15.45 - 16.30 Susanne Gl=FCck and Roland Pfau, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M., Germany: A distributed morphology account of verbal inflection in German Sign Language 16.30 - 17.00 Coffee and snack 17.00 - 17.45 Naomi Harada, University of California, Irvine, USA: Where does a [+N, +V] Category Come from? A Note on the Categorial Feature Specification of the Lexical Items 17.45 - 18.30 Hiro Hosoi, McGill University, Montreal, Canada: Event-Binder in the AspP Friday 11 December At Sydneshaugen skole, Auditorium A 9.00 - 9.45 Ara Shah and Tanmoy Bhattacharya, University College London, United Kingdom: Weak Deixis and Possession inside the DP 9.45 - 10.30 Kalyanamalini Sahoo and Lars Hellan, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway: Multiple Co-Relativization in Oriya 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee 11.00 - 11.45 Rashmi Prasad, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA: Discourse Constraints on Zero Pronouns in Hindi 11.45 - 12.30 Tanmoy Bhattacharya, University College London, United Kingdom: In Search of the Vague 'One' 12.30 - 14.00 Lunch (not included) 14.00 - 14.45 Marjon Helmantel, University of Leiden / Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics, Netherlands: On the relation between structural position and morphological case; adpositions in German 14.45 - 15.30 Tanja Schmid, University of Stuttgart, Germany: West Germanic "Infinitivus Pro Participio" (IPP) Constructions in Optimality Theory 15.30 - 16.00 Coffee and snack 16.00 - 17.30 Invited speaker: Anders Holmberg, University of Troms=F8, Norway, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA: Basic Word Order At Christies gate 18 20.00 Conference party!! Alternate papers: Natalia S=E1nchez-Lefebvre, Ortega y Gasset University Institute, Madrid, Spain: French pure expletive constructions and Move-F Meltem Kelepir, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA: To Be or Not to Be Faithful Dina Brun, Yale University, New Haven, USA: The Role of Aspect in the Acquisition of Tense during the Optional Infinitive Stage in Russian - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRE-REGISTRATION FORM FOR ConSOLE 7 UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN December 9-11, 1998 Name: Affiliation: Postal address: E-mail address: Will attend the conference party Friday night December 11 ("yes" or "no"):