LINGUIST List 15.1127

Tue Apr 6 2004

Confs: General Ling/Syntax/Detroit, MI USA

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Message 1: Small Utterances: Views on Syntax, Acquisition, Aphasia & Pidgins

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:21:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: progovac <progovacwayne.edu>
Subject: Small Utterances: Views on Syntax, Acquisition, Aphasia & Pidgins


Small Utterances: Views on Syntax, Acquisition, Aphasia & Pidgins

Date: 17-Apr-2004 - 17-Apr-2004 Location: Detroit, Michigan, United States of America Contact: Ellen Barton Contact Email: ellen.bartonwayne.edu Meeting URL:

Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics, Syntax, Language Acquisition Subject Language Family: Pidgin

Meeting Description:

Wayne State University's Humanities Center Working Groups in the Humanities and Arts, Program in Linguistics, Department of English, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, and College of Liberal Arts are proud to sponsor

SMALL UTTERANCES: VIEWS ON SYNTAX, ACQUISITION, APHASIA & PIDGINS

Saturday, April 17, 2004 1:00 - 6:00 p.m.

The Humanities Center, Seminar Room 2147 Old Main Wayne State University SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

1:00 - 2:00 Small Utterances, Nonsententials, and Small Clauses Ellen Barton, Eugenia Casielles-Su�rez, Walter Edwards, Kate Paesani, Ljiljana Progovac, Patricia Siple & Nicola Work, Wayne State University 1:00 - 1:07 Introduction & Definitions (Ellen Barton) 1:07 - 1:40 Formal Aspects (Ljiljana Progovac) 1:40 - 1:47 Extensions (Kate Paesani) 1:47 - 1:55 Discussion

2:00 - 3:00 Multiple Grammars and Small Clauses: Does the Absence of Functional Categories Invite New Meanings? Tom Roeper, University of Massachusetts - Amherst Response Eugenia Casielles-Su�rez, Wayne State University

3:00 - 4:00 How Language Adapts to the Brain: Agrammatic Speech, Child Language and Normal Ellipsis Herman Kolk, University of Nijmegen Response Patricia Siple, Wayne State University

4:00 - 5:00 Reduced Syntax in Pidgins Donald Winford, The Ohio State University Response Nicola Work, Wayne State University

5:00 - 6:00 Open Discussion

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