The Linguistics Association Lecture 2012

Mark Baker (Rutgers): Parameters of Case marking

Henry Sweet Lecture 2012

Lisa Cheng (Leiden): Spelling out syntax

Language tutorial

Domenyk Eades (University of Salford): Gayo

Workshop

Case

Organisers: Alison Biggs (University of Cambridge), Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University) & Michelle Sheehan (University of Cambridge)

Speakers:

Vicki Carstens (University of Missouri) & Loyiso Mletshe (University of the Western Cape): What Xhosa expletive constructions reveal about Case

Theodore Levin & Omer Preminger (MIT): Case in Sakha: Are two modalities really necessary?

Christina Sevdali (University of Ulster): Case transmission beyond control

Phil Branigan (Memorial University of Newfoundland): What Algonquian agreement teaches us about dative Case

Linguistics in education (LAGB Education Committee)

John Payne & Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester): Is a unified terminology possible for grammar?

Postrgaduate training session (LAGB Student Committee)

On publishing

Led by Christopher Tancock, Publishing Editor, Elsevier

Themed session: The syntax–phonology interface

John Lowe (University of Oxford): Clitics inside constituents: A non-transformational account

Norbert Corver (Utrecht University): Affective information at the syntax–PF interface

Main session

Laura Bailey, Joel Wallenberg & Wim van der Wurff (Newcastle University): Embedded yes/no questions: Reanalysis and replacement

Wafaa Batran (Ain Shams University, Cairo): Clausal case marking in Fadikki

Timothy Bazalgette (University of Cambridge): Contrastive reduplication as extensional focus

Mariachiara Berizzi (University of Padua): The preposition ma in central Italian dialects

Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge & Stellenbosch University): One peculiarity leads to another: On embedded WH-V2 in Afrikaans

Alison Biggs (University of Cambridge): Restructuring the ‘tough’ approach to the Mandarin long bei passive

Sylvia Blaho (Hungarian Academy of Science) & Danial Széredi (New York University): A microcomparison of antiharmonic and vacillating stems in two dialects of Hungarian

Fabio Bonfim Duarte (Federal University of Minas Gerias): Unaccusatives that do assign accusative case

Phil Branigan & Douglas Wharram (Memorial University of Newfoundland): The syntactic basis for semantic incorporation

Dunstan Brown (University of York) & Sebastian Fedde (University of Surrey): Pronominal marking: Multidimensional variation between closely related languages

Vicky Carstens (University of Missouri): Delayed valuation: A reanalysis of goal features and the mechanics of case

Harris Constantinou (UCL): The distribution of intensifiers

Chris Cummins (Bielefeld University): Predicting non-projecting presuppositions

Megan Devlin, Rafaella Folli, Alison Henry & Christina Sevdali (University of Ulster): Cross-linguistic influence in the DP: A study in trilingual acquisition

Antonia Fábregas (University of Tromsø) & Angle Jiménez-Fernández (University of Seville): A syntactic account of subextraction from fake adjuncts

Yasuyuki Fukutomi (Fukushima University): Light noun-in-situ in Japanese

Liliane Haegeman & Jean-Marc Authier (Ghent University): An intervention account for the distribution of MCP: Evidence from ellipsis

Xuhui Hu (University of Cambridge): Chinese resultative compounds in the context of parameter hierarchy

Ruth Kempson (King's College London), Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (Royal Holloway University of London) & Martin Orwin (SOAS): Language, music and interaction

Kwangsup Kim (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies): Case as a probe and thematic role as its goal

Małgorzata Krzek (Newcastle University): Properties of structural dative case in Polish

Lutz Marten (SOAS): Conjunctions, pronouns and additive focus marking in Swahili

Thomas McFadden (University of Tromsø): Deriving the distinction between structural and inherent case

Roksolana Mykhaylyk (University of Tromsø): Syntactic variability and selective spell-out

Roksolana Mykhaylyk, Yulia Rodina & Merete Anderson (University of Tromsø): Slavic ditransitives: Theory and acquisition

Badruza Nasrin & Wim van der Wurff (Newcastle University): Morphology, polarity and language change: The case of Bengali ache

Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin University), Yoshito Yasugi (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan) & Masatoshi Koizumi (Tohoku Gakuin University): Aspiration and prosodic structure in Kaqchikel

Takeshi Oguro (Chiba University of Commerce): On a certain complementizer phrase in Japanese

Maxwell Phillips (University of Turku): Multifunctional case markers in Indo-Aryan

Geoffrey Poole (Newcastle University): Interpolation and feature-driven movement in Old Spanish

Sonia Pritchard (University of Ottawa): A cross-language study of the production and perception of palatalized consonants

Manuela Schönenberger (University of Oldenburg): Case errors in language-impaired children

Michelle Sheehan (University of Cambridge): Syntactic ergativity beyond Dyirbal

Katsumasa Shimizu (Nagoya Gakuin University): A study on phonetic characteristics of English and Japanese stops produced by Thai learners

Hyon Sook Choe (Yeungnam University): A pragmatically-sensitive null operator in Korean comparatives

George Tsoulas (University of York): Number marking, plurals and the syntax of quantification in Korean

Jenneke van der Wal (University of Cambridge): Paramterising case: Other evidence from Bantu

George Walkden (University of Manchester): English VP preposing as resumption

Rebecca Woods (University of York): Indirect object doubling and the applicative head

Norman Yeo (University of York): Deriving adjunction

Keisuke Yoshimoto (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies): Dissociating Japanese scrambling from controller movement