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Message 1: Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America conference: program &
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1994 04:42:27 Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America conference: program &
From: FLSM 5 <flsm5lees.cogsci.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America conference: program &
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** Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America V **
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The FLSM 5 conference will be held at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from Friday May 20 to Sunday May 22.
Participants from North America and Europe will present thirty
five papers in all fields of theoretical linguistics. Three
invited speakers will address the conference: Angelika Kratzer
(U Massachusetts, Amherst), James McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz) and
Donca Steriade (UC Los Angeles). Full details of the program,
accommodation, food and transport information will be mailed
this week to all reviewers, submitters of abstracts and those
who have inquired. Others may contact us at the addresses below.
1. Preliminary Program:
All sessions will take place at 1320 Digital Computer Laboratory
(there are a couple of titles which at present overlap with other current
conference programs)
Friday May 20
8.00 Registration
8.45 Welcome: Head, Department of Linguistics
Elmer Antonsen
9.00 Infinitival Complements in a Minimalist Theory of Grammar
David Kathman (University of Chicago)
9.30 Selection Properties of Raising Verbs: Not What They "Seem"
Janine Graziano-King (CUNY Graduate School)
10.00 The Resurrection: Raising to Comp
Andrew Carnie (MIT)
Heidi Harley (MIT)
Elizabeth Pyatt (MIT)
10.30 Break
10.40 Clitics and Object Drop in Greek and the Romance Languages
Alexis Dimitriadis (University of Pennsylvania)
11.10 Romance and Germanic Clitics: a Parametric Difference
Marco Haverkort (UC Berkeley)
11.40 Serbo-Croatian Second Position Clitic Placement
Carson Schutze (MIT)
12.10 Checking Interrogative Subject Pronouns in Romance
Maarten de Wind (University of Groningen)
12.40 Lunch break
2.00 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Lexical Aspect Features
Mari Broman Olsen (Northwestern University)
2.30 The Structure of CONTEXT: the Representation of Pragmatic
Restrictions in HPSG
Georgia Green (U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
3.00 Idioms and Structured Entailment Pools
Gert Webelhuth (University of North Carolina)
3.30 Break
3.40 Verbal Prefixes in Slavic as Functional Heads
George Fowler (Indiana University)
4.10 Lithuanian Participle Agreement and the Shortest Move Condition
Jairo Nunes (University of Maryland)
4.40 Expletive Subjects in West Slavic
Martina Lindseth (Indiana University)
5.10 Are you Right?
Nigel Duffield (McGill University)
5.40 Dinner break
7.00 The Morphology-Syntax Interface in Creolization (& Diachrony)
Michel DeGraff (University of Michigan)
7.30 The Change in Negation in Middle English
Stefan Frisch (Northwestern University)
8.00 On Experiencers and Subjects of Perfect Predicates
Rakesh Bhatt (University of Tennessee at Knoxville)
8.30 ***Invited speaker: James McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz) ***
Title: to be announced
Saturday May 21
9.00 Demonstratives, Focus, and the Interpretation of Complex NPs in
Mandarin Chinese
Mary Wu (U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
9.30 Tense Structure and the Syntax of Temporal Adverbs
Ellen Thompson (University of Maryland)
10.00 Intervention Phenomena: Towards an Extended Monotonicity Calculus
Michael Kas (University of Groningen)
Frans Zwarts (University of Groningen)
10.30 Break
10.40 Alignment Constraints in ATR Harmony
Akinbiyi Akinlabi (Rutgers University)
11.10 A Domain Based Theory of Harmony
Jennifer Cole (U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Charles Kisseberth (U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
11.40 A Constraint-Based Analysis of Place Assimilation Typology
Jongho Jun (UC Los Angeles)
12.10 The OCP and Gradient Data
Deborah Milam Berkeley (Northwestern University)
12.40 Lunch break
2.00 ***Invited speaker: Donca Steriade, UC Los Angeles***
Title: to be announced
3.10 Iambicity in Southeast Asia
Fraser Bennett (U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
3.40 Contra Consonantal
Elizabeth Hume (Ohio State University)
David Odden (Ohio State University)
4.10 "La Double Vie de W" or The Status of [w] in Karuk
Rebecca Herman (Ohio State University)
4.40 On the Direct Mapping between Syntax and PF
Gorka Elordieta (University of Southern California)
5.10 Business meeting
5.30 Dinner break
7.00 ***Invited speaker: Angelika Kratzer, UC***
Title: to be announced
8.20 Reception / Banquet (Illini Union, 1401 W. Green, Urbana)
Sunday May 22
9.00 A Negation Typology and NPI Licensing
Daeho Chung (University of Southern California)
Abdessalam Elomari (University of Southern California)
9.30 Binding at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Jean-Marc Authier (University of Ottawa)
10.00 A Typological Study of NP Extraction from Quantifier Phrases
Kuo-ming Sung (UC Los Angeles)
10.30 Break
10.40 Resultatives and Motion Verbs in Japanese
Natsuko Tsujimura (Indiana University)
11.10 Derivations and Reconstruction
Andrew Barss (University of Arizona)
11.40 VP-Internal Subject Hypothesis and ATB Gap Parallelism
Byong-Kwon Kim (U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
12.10 Factive Complements and Wh-Extraction
Spyridoula Varlokosta (University of Maryland)
Lunch and departure
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Alternates:
-- DP and Reflexives
David Gohre and Ljiljana Progovac (Wayne State University)
-- Another Look at "Parasitic Gaps" in German
Andreas Kathol (Ohio State University)
-- Complexity Limitations on Parsers and Grammars
Janina Rado (University of Massachusetts)
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2. Registration:
Please send the following information to FLSM: name,
affiliation, snail mail and email addresses, telephone and fax
numbers. Fees are as follows:
students non-students
a. up to April 30: $10 $15
b. at the conference: $15 $20
Personal checks (USA only), money orders and cashier's checks
can be made to: University of Illinois.
3. Accommodation:
There are 5 other conferences in town the weekend of FLSM 5 and
unfortunately campus accommodation is pretty much booked out. We
have, however, reserved -- at considerable discount -- 40 rooms
in the following motel:
Best Western Lincoln Lodge, 403 W. University, Urbana, Illinois
61801, USA
phone: (217) 367 1111
rates: single person $40.95 + 11% motel tax;
double $47.95 + 11% tax
IMPORTANT: tell them that you are from the (FLSM)
linguistics conference
The Lincoln Lodge is located nine blocks east and four blocks
north of the conference building, and is a five minute bus ride
(on the Orange #6) or 20 minute walk to the conference site.
In addition, a limited amount of "crash space" will be available
with students at the University of Illinois. Please send
inquiries about this directly to FLSM 5. Further information on
other motels and hotels is included in the registration package
to be mailed, including bus and local city maps.
3. Directions to get to FLSM:
The conference site is at: 1320 Digital Computer Laboratory,
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana
a. by CAR:
coming SOUTH from Chicago: take I-57 south; turn onto I-74 east
at exit 237 east; take exit 182A to Neil Street South.
- for the Lincoln Lodge motel, turn east on University for
about 18 blocks; the motel is approximately opposite the Carle Clinic.
- for the conference venue, turn east on Springfield (one south of
University) for about eleven blocks; the Digital Computer Lab
is on the left, on the corner of Springfield and Mathews.
coming NORTH from St Louis: take I-57 north; proceed to I-74 as
above.
coming WEST from Indianpolis or EAST from the Quad Cities:
take I-74 west or east, and proceed as above.
b. by AIR: a number of airlines service Champaign's Willard
Airport, at least the following:
Trans World Express, from St Louis: 1 800 221 2000
American Eagle, from Nashville or Chicago (O'Hare): 1 800 433 7300
Northwest Airlink, from Detroit or Minneapolis: 1 800 225 2525
Midway Express, from Chicago (Midway): 1 800 866 9359
c. by RAIL: coming NORTH or SOUTH on the New Orleans-Chicago
line: AMTRAK arrives and departs twice daily.
d. by BUS: Greyhound buses run several times a day between
downtown Chicago and downtown Champaign.
e. from the airport, train and bus stations, Corky's Cab (217)
892 4401 and other cabs serve the city and campus.
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Direct all inquiries to:
a. email: flsm5cogsci.uiuc.edu
b. fax: (217) 333-3466
c. phone: (217) 333-3563
d. snail mail: FLSM V Committee
Department of Linguistics
University of Illinois
4088 Foreign Languages Building
707 South Mathews
Urbana, IL 61820
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