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Wed Feb 25 1998

Confs: 31st Poznan Linguistic Meeting

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1. Poznan Lingustics Meeting, 31st Poznan Linguistic Meeting 2nd Circular

31st Poznan Linguistic Meeting: Recent Developments in Linguistic 
Theory
1-3 May 1998, Poznan, Poland 

International Meeting of the Cross-Linguistic Project on Pre- and 
Protomorphology in Language Acquisition 
1-4 May 1998, Poznan, Poland 

SECOND CIRCULAR 
 
Dear Colleague, 
This is to provide you with some further information concerning the 
31st PLM and Project Meeting. 
 
Arrival and Departure 
The PLM will take full three days (Friday to Sunday) while the 
Project Meeting will start on Friday evening and continue until 
Monday. Therefore, rooms for the participants will be booked for four 
nights (so that you can arrive on Thursday and leave on Monday), 
unless differently requested. 
 
Please let us know of the dates and times of your arrival and 
departure as soon as possible. 
 
 
A TENTATIVE OUTLINE OF THE PROGRAMME 
with preliminary lists of participants 
 
THURSDAY April 30 
Registration; informal welcoming reception (beer, snacks etc.) 
 
FRIDAY May 1 
 
8:00-9:00 
Breakfast 
 
9:00 
Official opening of the 31st PLM 
 
9:30-10:15 
Plenary: Ian Maddieson (UCLA) 
 
10:20-11:20 
 
Section A: 
Optimality and Naturalness 
convener: K. Dziubalska-Kolaczyk 
participants: W. U. Dressler, H. C. Luschutzky, P. Gasiorowski, M. 
Onederra, R. Rhodes, C. Ringen, J. Rubach, M. Rochon, R. Singh, J. 
Weckwerth* 
 
Section B: 
Cognitive Linguistics 
convener: B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk 
participants: L. Berezowski, P. Chruszczewski, H. Cuyckens, M. 
Kozlowska, P. Lozowski, K. Panther, G. Radden, D. Sipka, W. 
Skrzypczak, L. Thornburg, K. Wengorek* 
 
Workshop I: 
Comparative Theoretical Syntax: GB & Minimalism 
convener: J. Witkos
participants: R. Borsley, D. Cavar, B. Cetnarowska, W. Chuming, C. 
Czingler, A. Doyle, G. Fanselow, T. H. Lee, F. Neubarth, M. 
Prinzhorn, P. Stalmaszczyk, P. Tajsner, H. van Riemsdijk, V. Yip and 
others* 

11:20-11:50 
Coffee break 
 
11:50-13:20 
Sections & workshop continued 
 
13:30-15:00 
Lunch break 
 
15:00-16:30 
 
Section A: 
SLA & Psycholinguistic Studies 
convener: O.-S. Bohn 
participants: 
P. Bodor, E. Jacewicz, N. Kerschhoffer, R. Lew, D. Ravid, E. 
Ronowicz, T. Salasoo, T. Siek-Piskozub, H. Wode* 
 
Section B: 
Cognitive Linguistics continued 
 
Workshop I continued 
 
16:30-17:00 
Coffee break 
 
17:30-18:45 
Natural Morphology teach-in: W. U. Dressler 
 
19:00 
Dinner 
 
SATURDAY May 2 
 
9:00-9:45 
Plenary: Henk van Riemsdijk (Tilburg): "Endocentricity" 
 
9:50-10:50 
 
Section: 
Cognitive Linguistics continued 
 
Workshop I continued 
 
Project Meeting 
convener: W. U. Dressler 
participants: among others A. Aksu-Koc, S. Ceytlin, N. Gagarina, S. 
Gillis, M. Kilani-Schoch, S. Klampfer, K. Laalo, S. Nocetti, D. 
Ravid, I. Savickiene, S. Sbai, U. Stephany, B. Pfeiler, M. Voeikova* 
 
10:50-11:20 
Coffee break 
 
11:20-12:50 
 
Section: 
SLA & Psycholinguistic Studies continued 
 
Workshop I continued 
 
Project Meeting continued 
 
13:00-14:30 
Lunch break 
 
14:30-15:15 
Plenary: E. Gussmann (Catholic University of Lublin) 
 
15:20-16:20 
 
Section: 
Historical, Sociohistorical & Sociolinguistic Studies 
convener: J. Fisiak 
participants: S. Ash, O. Buniyatova, A. Dorodnych, A. Kielkiewicz-
Janowiak, P. Kwiecinski, M. Krygier, U. Okulska, P. Osiadacz, M. 
Pawlowska* 
 
Workshop II: Government Phonology 
conveners: E. Cyran, J. Rennison 
participants: A. Bloch-Rozmej, A. Buczek, Z. Barkanyi, M. Charette, 
P. Dienes, E. Gussmann, K. Jaskula, Z. Kiss, A. Kurti, S. Ploch, P. 
Rebrus, G. Rowicka, T. Scheer, P. Segeral, P. Szigetvari, J. Wojcik 
 
Project Meeting continued 
 
16:20-16:50 
Coffee break 
 
16:50-17:50 
Section, Workshop & Meeting continued 
 
19:00 
CONCERT & BANQUET 
 
SUNDAY May 3 
 
9:00-9:45 
Plenary: P. Trudgill (Lausanne): "Language Contact and the Function 
of Linguistic Gender" 
 
9:50-10:50 
 
Section: 
Historical, Sociohistorical & Sociolinguistic Studies continued 
 
Workshop II continued 
 
Project Meeting continued 
 
10:50-11:20 
Coffee break 
 
11:20-12:50 
 
Section: 
Computational Phonology 
convener: J. Carson-Berndsen 
participants: D. Gibbon, J. Weckwerth and others* 
 
Workshop II continued 
 
Project Meeting continued 
 
13:00-14:30 
Lunch break 
 
14:30-15:15 
Plenary: Ocke-Schwen Bohn (Aarhus) 
 
15:20-16:20 
Section, Workshop & Meeting continued 
 
16:20-16:50 
Coffee break 
 
16:50-17:50 
Workshop & Meeting continued 
 
17:50-18:20 
Closing session of the 31st PLM 
 
18:30 
Dinner 
 
MONDAY May 4 
 
9:00 
Project Meeting continued 
*) The final sequence of papers to be announced at a later date. 
 
One section paper will be assigned 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for the 
discussion; one plenary will take up 45 minutes including discussion. 
 
ABSOLUTE ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 22, 1998. 
 
Publication of the proceedings 
There will be a possibility of publishing a selection of the papers 
presented in PSiCL (Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics). 
 
A book exhibition will be organized by the Omnibus Bookshop offering 
attractive prices! 
 
Final details concerning the Conference will reach you in April in 
the form of the 3rd Circular. 
 
WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN POZNAN! 
 
Address for Correspondence 
 
School of English 
Adam Mickiewicz University 
al. Niepodleglosci 4 
61-874 Poznan 
Poland 
telephone: +48 61 852 88 20 
facsimile: +48 61 852 31 03 
electronic mail: plmifa.amu.edu.pl 
World Wide Web: http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~ifauam/meeting.htm