Message 1: Michigan Linguistic SocietyDate: 24-Sep-2004From: Kazuko Hiramatsu <kazukohumflint.edu> Subject: Michigan Linguistic Society Michigan Linguistic Society Date: 16-Oct-2004 - 16-Oct-2004 Location: Flint, MI, United States of America Contact: Kazuko Hiramatsu Contact Email: linguisticsumflint.edu Meeting URL: http://spruce.flint.umich.edu/~kazukoh/mls Linguistic Sub-Fields(s): General Linguistics Meeting Description: Annual Meeting of the Michigan Linguistic Society Saturday, October 16, 2004 University of Michigan-Flint Keynote Speaker: Lisa Green, University of TX ''Theory and Practice: Research of African American English and Application in Educational Contexts'' The registration form is available from the conference website. There is no registration fee and lunch will be provided. Conference Program 8:45-9:15 Registration 9:15-9:30 Welcoming remarks Morning Sessions Phonology, Morphology, Semantics 9:30-10:00 On the exception to Sievers' Law in Gothic Marc Pierce, University of Michigan 10:00-10:30 Morpho-phonological information in the input: Evidence from English loanwords in Japanese Masahiko Mutsukawa, Michigan State University 10:30-11:00 What instantiates the nominal feature in attributive adjectives Masaaki Kamiya, Hamilton College 11:00-11:30 Formal features and parametric variation in nominal expressions Jaeshil Kim, University of California-Irvine 11:30-12:00 Are generics modal? Xiaofei Lu, Ohio State University Syntax 9:30-10:00 Auxiliary selection in Germanic: The importance of diachrony in synchronic description K. Aaron Smith, Illinois State University 10:00-10:30 The syntax of tense and aspect: The division of labor in Berber Hamid Ouali, Acrisio Pires, University of Michigan 10:30-11:00 Romanian clause structure and Icelandic object shift Simona Herdan, University of Connecticut 11:00-11:30 Negative Concord, Agreement and subject extraction Hamid Ouali, University of Michigan 11:30-12:00 The A-bar status of the EPP position in Russian Ilana Mezhevich, University of Calgary 12:00-1:00 Lunch and Business Meeting 1:00-2:00 Keynote Address Theory and Practice: Research on African American English and Application in Educational Contexts Lisa Green, University of Texas Afternoon Sessions Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition 2:15-2:45 Identity construction in a sociolinguistic interview Diana Marinova, Georgetown University 2:45-3:15 The pragmatics of code-switching: A Gricean approach Brianna Grohman Rauschuber, University of Texas 3:15-3:45 Arabic-based scripts in Senegalese Muslim communities: The case of Wolofal Fallou Ngom, Western Washington University 3:45-4:15 Musical training and L2 pronunciation Craig Callender, University of South Carolina 4:15-4:45 The early acquisition of pronominal clitics in Croatian Andrea Stiasny, University of Michigan 4:45-5:15 Tony Blair, Colin Powell and the case of the "sexed up" British intelligence dossier: A linguistic analysis John Lesko, Saginaw Valley State University Syntax 2:15-2:45 The PROs of a new theory of rationale clauses Christopher Hirsch, MIT 2:45-3:15 Interclausal (co)dependency: the case of the comparative correlative Heather Lee Taylor, University of Maryland 3:15-3:45 On the syntax of nonsententials Catherine Fortin, University of Michigan 3:45-4:15 Matching and raising unified Brent Henderson, University of Illinois 4:15-4:45 Deriving Successive Cyclicity Lydia Grebenyova, University of Maryland 4:45-5:15 Prosodic stress assignment in dynamic computations Kleanthes K. Grohman, University of Cyprus and Michael T. Putnam, University of Kansas Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue |