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Tue Feb 3 2004

Confs: General Linguistics/Thessaloniki, Greece

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  • staurou, Generative Linguistics in the Old World

    Message 1: Generative Linguistics in the Old World

     Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 02:53:37 -0500 (EST)
    From: staurou <stauroulit.auth.gr>
    Subject: Generative Linguistics in the Old World


    Generative Linguistics in the Old World Short Title: GLOW

    Date: 18-Apr-2004 - 21-Apr-2004 Location: Thessaloniki, Greece Contact: Melita Stavrou Contact Email: stauroulit.auth.gr Meeting URL: http://glow.uvt.nl

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics

    Meeting Description:

    The GLOW Conference will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in April 2004. The The GLOW Colloquium will take place from April 19 to April 21, preceded by three workshops on April 18. The theme of the Colloquium is free. The three workshops will be on (1) Tense, Aspect, Modality, (2) Theoretical approaches to language contact and (3) Markedness in Phonology. Workshops Sunday 18 April

    Workshop I: Tense, Aspect, Modality: All we still need to know about Organisers: Athina Sioupi (Auth), Kaethi Dorfmueller-Karpusa (Auth) Room 112 (Old Building), Faculty of Arts

    10.00-11.00 Aniko Csirmaz (MIT/ Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Severely Constrained Aspect

    11.00-11.30 Break

    11.30-12.30 Gillian Ramchand (U. Tromsoe/ CASTL) Distinguishing Event Structure from Temporal Structure

    12.30-13.30 Jaume Mateu (U. Autonoma de Barcelona) The Aspectual Determinants of Auxiliary Selection Revisited: A Syntactic Approach

    13.30-15.00 Lunch Break

    15.00-16.00 Laura Siegel (U. Pennsylvania) Factivity, Causatives, and the Distribution of Subjunctive Mood

    16.00-16.30 Break

    16.30-17.30 Jacqueline Lecarme (CNRS-U. Paris 7) On three Interpretations of Past Determiners in Somali

    17.30-18.30 Roumyana Pancheva (U. Southern California) A Past Perfect Puzzle

    18.30-19.30 Invited speaker: Sabine Iatridou (MIT) tba

    Alternate Workshop I Bridget Copley (U. Southern California): Comparing Modal and Non-Modal Aspects

    Sunday 18 April WORKSHOP II THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE CONTACT

    ORGANISERS: MELITA STAVROU (AUTH), ATHINA SIOUPI (AUTH)

    Room 1 (Basement, Old Building Faculty of Arts-'Filosofiki')

    10.00-11.00 Mary Ann Walter (MIT) Vowel adaptation in Zazaki Kurdish

    11.00-11.30 Break

    11.30-12.30 Tonjes Veenstra (John F. Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin) On (dis)-continuities in language contact: head ordering in synthetic compounds

    12.30-13.30 Ester Rinke & Ioanna Sitaridou (Hamburg) (Im)possible language contact-induced syntactic change: case studies from Romance

    13.30-15.00 Lunch

    15.00-16.00 Verner Egerland (Lund) Standardisation, dialectal variation and L2: The infinitive in a South Italian dialect

    16.00-16.30 Break

    16.30-17.30 Corinne Helland (Barcelona) The interpretable/uninterpretable feature distinction and attrition in Catalan

    17.30-18.30 Anna Cardinaletti (Venice) Language contact in translations: Attrition and language change Alternate: Vassilis Spyropoulos-Maria Anna Tiliopoulou (Rhodes) Greek and Turkish in contact in Asia Minor: Definiteness and Case in Cappadocian Greek WORKSHOP III: MARKEDNESS IN PHONOLOGY Organisers: Marc van Oostendorp (Amsterdam), Anthi Revithiadou (Rhodes), Ioanna Kappa (Crete)

    Sunday April 18, 2004 Room 113 (Old Building), Faculty of Arts

    9.00-10.00 Invited Speaker Donca Steriade (MIT) t.b.a.

    10.00-11.00 Paula Fikkert (University of Nijmegen), Maria Jo�o Freitas (University of Lissabon), Janet Grijzenhout (University of Utrecht), Clara Levelt (University of Leiden), Sophie Wauquier (University of Nantes) Syllabic markedness, segmental markedness, rhythm and acquisition

    11.00-11.30 Coffee break

    11.30-12.30 Eul�lia Bonet (Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona), Maria-Rosa Lloret (Universitat de Barcelona), Joan Mascar� (Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona) Crazy rules and markedness in Optimality Theory

    12.30-13.30 Andries W. Coetzee (University of Massachusetts, and Potchefstroom University (South Africa)) Markedness from the grammar, not the lexicon

    13.30-15.00 Lunch break

    15.00-16.00 Adam Werle (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Enclisis and proclisis in Serbian/Croatian

    16.00-16.30 Coffee break

    16.30-17.30 Jennifer L. Smith (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Functional grounding inside the phonology: Evidence from positional augmentation

    17.30-18.30 Keren Rice (University of Toronto) Neutralization and epenthesis: Is there markedness in the absence of contrast?

    ALTERNATE: Frans Hinskens (Meertens Instituut & Free University, Amsterdam), Jeroen van de Weijer (Leiden University) Segmental markedness and complexity. A cross-linguistic study of consonantal inventories Speakers of the workshops will not be reimbursed. For information visit: http://www.auth.gr/del/GLOW2004