The Linguistics Association Lecture 2010
Joan L. Bybee (New Mexico): Exemplar semantics: Implications for grammatical meaning
Henry Sweet Lecture 2010
Stephen Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics): Linguistic diversity and the ‘interaction engine’
Language tutorial
Lutz Marten (SOAS): Herero
Workshop (linked to the Henry Sweet Lecture): Interactional foundations for language
Organisers: Kasia Jaszczolt (Cambridge) & Stephen Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
Speakers:
Kasia Jaszczolt (Cambridge): On pragmatic compositionality
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (Helsinki): Recognizing actions in interaction
Ulf Liszkowski (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics): Prelinguistic foundations of human communication
Nick Enfield (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics & Radboud University): Sources of asymmetry in human interaction
Stephen Levinson's comments and general discussion
Linguistics in education (LAGB Education Committee)
Corpora in teaching (at school and university level)
Speakers:
Dan Clayton (St Francis Xavier College & Survey of English Usage, UCL): Corpora in English teaching
Vivienne Rogers & Zoe Handley (Dept of Education, Oxford): Corpora in foreign language teaching
Postrgaduate training session (LAGB Student Committee)
Job applications and interviews: Lecturer in Linguistics mock interview
Participants:
Prof. Kersti Börjars (Manchester), Dr David Willis (Cambridge) & Dr Hans van de Koot (UCL); Agnieszka Kulacka, George Walkden, Ruba Khamam & Laura Bailey
Themed session: Disharmony in nominals
Invited speaker – Wim van der Wurff (Newcastle): (Dis)harmony in nominals: FOFC as a probe into adjectival structure
Norbert Corver & Marjo van Koppen (Utrecht): (Dis)harmonic variation, the definite article and NPE in the Dutch dialects
Jennifer Culbertson & Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins): Disharmony in the nominal domain: an Artificial Language Learning approach
Cristina Guardiano (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia): Demonstratives and word orders within the DP: a crosslinguistic inspection
Liliane Haegeman (Ghent): Particles and the internal syntax of the West Flemish DP
Steve Nicolle (SIL): Explaining Demonstrative–Noun word order variation in Digo
Joy Philip (UCL): Harmony, head proximity, and the near parallels between nominal and clausal linkers
Hisao Tokizaki (Sapporo): The morpho-phonological nature of the generalized Final-Over-Final Constraint
Special session: Exemplar- and construction-based approaches to grammar
Ben Ambridge (Liverpool): Testing a new account of the acquisition of linguistic constructions
Thaïs Crisófaro-Silva, Sandro Campos & Maria Cantoni (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais): Phonetic gradualness and phonological generalization
Grzegorz Krajewski (Manchester): Contextual diversity of a Polish child's use of noun inflections Irina Nikolaeva (SOAS): The narrative infinitive construction in French and Latin
Caroline Rowland (Liverpool): Competing cues in the acquisition of semantic roles: New evidence from English and Welsh datives
Anna Theakston & Minna Kirjavainen (Manchester): Infinitival-to omission errors in child language
Main session
Patrícia Amaral (Liverpool): Degree modification, aspectual structure and scalar change: The case of mal
Laura Bailey, Malgorzata Krzek, Anders Holmberg, Michelle Sheehan & Mais Sulaiman (Newcastle): Intonation questions
Theresa Biberauer (Cambridge & Stellenbosch): MAN is that weird! Exclamative V2 in Modern English and beyond
Theresa Biberauer, Anders Holmberg, Ian Roberts & Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle & Cambridge): Reconciling formalism and functionalism: A minimalist perspective
Theresa Biberauer & George Walkden (Cambridge): 231 from A(frikaans) to Z(ürichGerman): A challenge to the Final-over-Final Constraint?
Kersti Börjars & Nigel Vincent (Manchester): Complements of adjectives: A diachronic approach
Miriam Bouzouita (Universitat de les Illes Balears): Back to the future
Dunstan Brown & Sebastian Fedden (Surrey): Pronominal marking in Alor-Pantar languages
Emanuela Buizza & Leendert Plug (Leeds): Synchronic lenition: The case of RP English /t/
Lieven Danckaert (Ghent): Feature smuggling and island pied-piping
Elspeth Edelstein (Edinburgh): Adverb Climbing as an indicator of restructuring
Sonja Eisenbeiss, Michael Bass, Wendy Bevan & Veronika Hubickova (Essex): Adnominal possessive constructions in German and English child language
Vyv Evans (Bangor): Temporal frames of reference
Yasuyuki Fukutomi (Fukushima): Wh-scope marking and argument/predicate distinction
Hannah Gibson (SOAS): Back to the future: Disharmonic syntax in Langi
Nik Gisborne & Dick Hudson (Edinburgh & UCL): Idioms and exceptionality
Liliane Haegeman & Mario van Koppen (Ghent): Complementizer agreement and the relation between T and C
Fredrik Heinat & Satu Manninen (Stockholm & Lund): Evidence for a Finnish personal passive
Alison Henry (Ulster at Jordanstown): Demonstratives in Belfast English: Microvariation and externalization
Barry Heselwood & Leendert Plug (Leeds): Non-prevocalic [r] sounds more rhotic without F3: Evidence from listening experiments
Katrin Hiietam & Satu Manninen (Lund): Passives or impersonals? Evidence from Finnish and Estonian Impersonal Passive and Zero Person constructions
Sun-Ho Hong (Seoul National University of Education): On the lack of Agree in Korean multiple wh-questions
Bozhil Hristov (Oxford): Agreement with conjoined nouns in Bulgarian
Ángel Jiménez & Vassilios Spyropoulos (Sevilla & Athens): Feature inheritance, vP phases and the information structure of small clauses
Jieun Kiaer (Oxford): A corpus-based investigation on multiple subject constructions in Korean: Incremental clustering approach
Shin-Sook Kim & Peter Sells (SOAS): Scoping in relation to base order in Japanese and Korean
Andrew Koontz-Garboden (Manchester): Only some lexical semantic roots are morphological roots
Pierre Larrivée & Estelle Moline (Aston & Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale): Activated propositions escape intervention effects
Christopher Lucas (Cambridge): A Dynamic Syntax account of n-words and negative concord
Ad Neeleman & Hans van de Koot (UCL): Scope inversion
Ryo Otoguro (Waseda): Word-based inflectional system in Japanese
Katia Paykin, Fayssal Tayalati & Danièle Van de Velde (Lille 3): When être ‘to be’ is agentive: A case of behavior evaluation adjectives
Bruna Karla Pereira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais & Cambridge): Brazilian Portuguese lá: Mapping the left periphery
Max Phillips (SOAS): Agreement with obliques in Central Indo-Aryan?
Laura Rimell (Cambridge): Denominal verbs and canonical events
Ranjan Sen (Oxford): Synchrony, diachrony and early Latin feet
Ryosuke Shibagaki (SOAS): Causation in Mandarin secondary predicates
Pius ten Hacken & Claire Hopkin (Swansea): Why word-formation and syntax are different
George Walkden (Cambridge): Verb-third in early West Germanic: A comparative perspective
Richard Waltereit & Wim van der Wurff (Newcastle): Changing reflexive systems: The role of ambiguity reassessed
David Willis (Cambridge): Reconstructing last week's weather: Syntactic reconstruction and Brythonic free relatives
