LINGUIST List 10.719

Tue May 11 1999

FYI: Cognitive Analysis, Morphology Mayfest

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  • Liliana Albertazzi, BISCA 1999
  • Caro Struijke, Maryland Morphology Mayfest, final schedule

    Message 1: BISCA 1999

     Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:56:22 +0200
    From: Liliana Albertazzi <liliana.albertazzigemini.soc.unitn.it>
    Subject: BISCA 1999


    BISCA-99 BOLZANO INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS IN COGNITIVE ANALYSIS

    ===================== ADVANCES IN COGNITIVE SEMANTICS ===================== BOLZANO, 6-10 September 1999

    Speakers:

    D. ALAN CRUSE, Word-meanings and Concepts: Some Problems

    GEORGE LAKOFF, Philosophy in the Flesh

    RON LANGACKER, Directions of Research in Conceptual Semantics and Cognitive Grammar

    LEN TALMY, Relating Language to Other Cognitive Systems

    ------------------------------------------------------- General information:

    1. Attendance to the school will be limited to about 30 participants. 2. A hotel list will be sent upon notification of acceptance. Hotel costs in Bolzano range between 70,000 and 250,000 Italian Liras per day, full board. 3. Each speaker will give 4 lectures, with ample time for discussion. 4. All lectures will be in English. 5. The lectures will be given at Castel Maretsch, downtown, starting September 6, at 9 a.m. 6. A small number of boursaries are available to qualified students to meet the costs of participation.

    People wishing to participate should write to Liliana Albertazzi, Department of Sociology and Social Research, 26 Verdi st., 38100 Trento, Italy (call: (++39) 461 881 403; fax: (++39) 461 881 348), or send an e-mail message to: liliana.albertazzisoc.unitn.it _________________________________________________________ For information on the initiatives of the Istituto Mitteleuropeo di Cultura Mitteleurop\228isches Kulturinstitut see

    http://www.soc.unitn.it/dsrs/IMC/IMC.htm _________________________________________________________ BISCA's board of directors includes: L. Albertazzi (Trento), R. Langacker (La Jolla), J. Petitot (Paris), R. Poli (Trento) and L. Talmy (Buffalo) _________________________________________________________

    ************************************* Liliana Albertazzi Department of Sociology and Social Research 26, Verdi street 38100 Trento -- Italy Tel. ++39-461-881-403 Fax: ++39-461-881-348 e-mail: liliana.albertazzisoc.unitn.it Axiomathes: http://www.soc.unitn.it/dsrs/Axiomathes/Axiomathes.htm IMC: http://www.soc.unitn.it/dsrs/IMC/IMC.htm

    Message 2: Maryland Morphology Mayfest, final schedule

     Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 12:36:03 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Caro Struijke <cstruykewam.umd.edu>
    Subject: Maryland Morphology Mayfest, final schedule


    Maryland Morphology Mayfest May 19-21 Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall

    SCHEDULE (revised)

    WEDNESSDAY, May 19

    9:00 registration coffee, breakfast 9:45 Opening remarks

    10:00 - 11:00 Mark Baker (Rutgers University) "New Reflections of Syntax in Morphology: Varieties of Applicatives" 11:00 - 12:00 Stephen Anderson (Yale University) TBA

    12:00 - 1:30 lunch break 1:30 - 2:30 Ellen Woolford (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) "Ergative Agreement Systems" 2:30 - 3:30 Michael Ullman (Georgetown University) "Psychological and Neural Bases of Morphology" 3:30 - 4:00 coffee break 4:00 - 5:00 Luigi Burzio (Johns Hopkins University) "Surface-to-Surface Morphology: When Your Representations Turn into Constraints"

    THURSDAY, May 20 9:30 Coffee, breakfast 10:00 - 11:00 Mark Aronoff (SUNY Stonybrook) "Universal and Particular Aspects of Sign Language Morphology" 11:00 - 12:00 Rolf Noyer (University of Pennsylvania) "Species of Gaps" Noon - 3:00 POSTER SESSION Marie Mount Hall, Rm. 1108B Laura Benua (University of Maryland) "Javanese Ablaut"

    Lisa Davidson (Johns Hopkins University) "Correspondence Relations in Verbal Paradigms: Evidence from the Second Conjugation of Catalan"

    Matt Goldrick (Johns Hopkins University) "The <Covert> Unity of Over- and Underapplication in German"

    Kleanthes K. Grohmann (University of Maryland) "A Modal Morpheme: The Case of Infinitival Exclamatives"

    Julien Musolino (University of Pennsylvania) "How Morphology Can Help Children Get Their Semantics Right"

    Caro Struijke (University of Maryland) "Multiple Correspondence and the Absence of Optionality in Reduplication"

    FRIDAY, May 21 9:30 coffee, breakfast 10:00 - 11:00 Alec Marantz (MIT) "Derivational Morphology in an Anti-Lexicalist Grammar" 11:00 - 12:00 Geraldine Legendre (Johns Hopkins University) "On the Status and Positioning of Clausal Clitics: Evidence from Romanian and Other Balkan Languages" 12:00 - 2:00 lunch break 2:00 - 3:00 Jonathan Bobaljik (McGill University) "The Ins and Outs of Contextual Allomorphy" 3:00 - 4:00 Alana Johns (University of Toronto) "Movement and Languages with Complex Morphology"



    REGISTRATION

    Registration fees are $10, to be paid at the conference site. Pre-registration is highly encouraged. Please email to Caro Struijke (cstruykewam.umd.edu), stating your name and affiliation.

    MORE INFORMATION (schedule, directions, accomodation, etc.):

    http://www.umd.edu/Ling

    Laura Benua (lbenuadeans.umd.edu) Caro Struijke (cstruykewam.umd.edu)

    voicemail: 301-405-4930 snailmail: Mayfest '99 Department of Linguistics 1401 Marie Mount Hall University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742