LINGUIST List 7.686

Sun May 12 1996

Confs: Formal Linguistics (FLSM VII), Finno-Ugric Conf

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  • Michael Calcagno, Conf: FLSM VII Formal Linguistics
  • McRobbie, Finno-Ugric Conference

    Message 1: Conf: FLSM VII Formal Linguistics

     Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 10:53:13 EDT
    From: Michael Calcagno <calcagnoling.ohio-state.edu>
    Subject: Conf: FLSM VII Formal Linguistics
    Formal Linguistics Society of Midamerica VII The Ohio State University, Columbus May 17-19, 1996

    LOCATION: Meiling Hall 370 W. Ninth Ave Across from the parking structure, on the OSU campus

    REGISTRATION: Begins at 1400h on Friday, in the Meiling Hall lobby $20/faculty; $10/students

    MORE INFO: flsm96ling.ohio-state.edu http://ling.ohio-state.edu/

    FRIDAY MAY 17 - -----------

    1430 Welcoming Remarks

    1435 The Nature of Spec Agr(S)P in French Barbara Vance, Indiana University

    1510 The Extended DP-hypothesis in Romance: Agreement and Word OrderJuan Martin, University of Toledo

    1545-1555 Break

    1555 Constraints on Reduplication in Kihehe David Odden and Mary Odden, The Ohio State University

    1630 Correspondence Effects in SiSwati Reduplication Laura Downing, University of Pennsylvania

    1705 The Subset Principle and The Acquisition of the Phonological Inventory Mark Hale and Charles Reiss, Concordia University

    1740-1750 Break

    1750 Sentence-final Particles in Japanese: An Alternative to Scalar Analyses Yuriko Suzuki Kose, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    1825 A Left-to-Right Approach in Discourse Representation Theory So-Woo Chung, Sungshin Women's University, Seoul

    1900-2000 Dinner

    2000 Invited Speaker: Brian Joseph, The Ohio State University Title: Where Can Grammatical Morphemes Come From? Greek Evidence Concerning the Nature of Grammaticalization

    SATURDAY MAY 18 - -------------

    0900-0915 Coffee

    0915 Why "laisser/faire" Leads to an Apparent Semantic Paradox Lisa Reed, Pennsylvania State University

    0950 Verb Second Licenses Operators Charlotte Reinholtz, University of Manitoba

    1025-1035 Break

    1035 Sesotho Height Harmony and Vowel Height Features Frederick Parkinson, The Ohio State University

    1110 The Role of Vowels in the Perception of the Three-way Contrastive Stops in Korean Mi-Ryoung Kim, University of Michigan

    1145 A Semantic Account of Superlatives Deryle Lonsdale, Carnegie Mellon University

    1220 Where's Transitivity? Mari Broman Olsen, Northwestern U. and U of Maryland IACS, and Talke Macfarland, Northwestern University

    1255-1400 Lunch

    1400 Invited Speaker: Donca Steriade, UCLA Title: Phonetics in Phonology: The Case of Laryngeal Neutralization

    1500 Matching Effects: Syntax or Morphology? Evidence from Hindi Correlatives Rajesh Bhatt, University of Pennsylvania

    1535 Structure of Madurese Sentences: Sorting Out Case and Movement William Davies, University of Iowa

    1610-1620 Break

    1620 Split Binding in French and Chinese J.-Marc Authier, University of Ottawa and Lisa Reed, Penn State

    1655 Identity in Chinese Reduplicative Morphology Jun Da, The University of Texas at Austin

    1730-1740 Break

    1740 Consonant Release and Place Assimilation: A Comparison Between Hindi and Korean Seok-Chae Rhee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    1815 Consonant Mutations and Autosegmental Phonology Janet Grijzenhout, University of Toronto

    1850-2000 Dinner

    2000 An Optimality-Theoretic Typology of Basic Word Order S.D. Clemons, University of Iowa

    2035 Verb-Coded Coordination and Mutation: Agreement as Pronominal Incorporation in a Generalized Categorial Framework Leo Obrst, Boeing Helicopters

    SUNDAY MAY 19 - -----------

    0900-0915 Coffee

    0915 Invited Speaker: Gregory Ward, Northwestern University Title: Those Generic Demonstratives!

    1015-1030 Break

    1030 Specific Situations Ginny Brennan, Vanderbilt University

    1105 Referential Indefinite Direct Objects in Turkish Leyla Zidari-Eroglu, University of Wisconsin, Madison

    1140 Temporal Interpretation of Internally-Headed Relative Clauses in Japanese Masaaki Fuji, Rutgers University

    1200 Business Meeting

    Message 2: Finno-Ugric Conference

     Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 15:52:45 PDT
    From: McRobbie <zita_mcrobbiesfu.ca>
    Subject: Finno-Ugric Conference
    THE ELEVENTH CONFERENCE OF THE FINNO-UGRIC STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF CANADA May 28-29, 1996. Learned Societies Congress. Brock University. 500 Glenridge Avenue. St.Catharines, Ontario. Canada. L2S 3A1.

    PROGRAMME: FUSAC/ACEFO 11th CONFERENCE 1996 Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada/ Association Canadienne des tudes Finno-Ougriennes

    TUESDAY, May 28 Room: ED 202

    Session 1 JOINT SESSION OF FUSAC/HSAC (Hungarian Studies Association of Canada) "Millicentennial Celebrations of the Hungarian Settlement"

    Chairs: Andor Tari (University of Guelph), HSAC President Zita McRobbie (Simon Fraser University), FUSAC President

    9:00 - 9:15 Official Address

    9:15 - 10:30 Mria Horvth-Krisztinkovich (U of British Columbia): "The Genesis of Panorama Painting: The so-called Fesztyrkp of the Millenium Celebration of 1896"

    10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

    11:00 - 11:30 Kroly Dombi (Ottawa): "The Controversy over Hungarian Prehistory" 11:30 - 12:00 Lsz Szab (University of New Brunswick): "On Hungarian and Maliseet Vocabulary: Observations and Comments"

    12:00 - 2:00 LUNCH

    Session 2 "The Teaching and Learning of Finno-Ugric Languages and Cultures Beyond the First Generation"

    Chair: Harri MCrk (University of Toronto)

    2:00 - 2:30 Melvin J. Luthy (Brigham Young University): "Computer Interactive Reading of Seitsemn veljest" 2:30 - 3:00 Maisa Martin (University of Jyvskyl, Finland): "Language Processing Mechanisms and Morphology" 3:00 - 3:30 Anna Fenyvesi (University of Pittsburgh): "The Hungarian of Second Generation Speakers: What Can the Linguist Tell the Language Teacher?"

    3:30 - 4:00 COFFEE BREAK

    Session 3 Chair: Monica Sanchez (Brock University)

    4:00 - 4:30 Timo Haukioja (University of Turku, Finland): "Finnish Existentials in Cognitive Grammar" 4:30 - 5:00 Alan Libert (University of Newcastle, Australia): "On the Role of Lexical Factors in the Well-Formedness of Secondary Predicates in Uralic Languages"

    5:30 - 7:00 PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION (Residence Dining Hall)

    8:00 JOINT FUSAC/HSAC SOCIAL EVENING (location TBA)

    WEDNESDAY, MAY 29 Room: ED 202

    Session 4 Presentation by FUSAC'S Keynote Speaker

    8:30 - 9:30 Chair: Ilse Lehiste (Ohio State University)

    Marianne Bakr-Nagy (Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Finno-Ugric Dept, Budapest): "Meaning, Concept and Definition"

    9:30 - 9:45 COFFEE

    Session 5 Chair: Maisa Martin (University of Jyvskyl)

    9:45 - 10:15 Svetlana Panchenko (Ural State University, Russia): "A Dictionary of Khanty Toponyms for the Basin of the Kazym River" 10:15 - 10:45 Natalia Glukhova (Mari State University, Russia): "Numerical Method of Mari Folklore Style Analysis"

    10:45 - 11:00 COFFEE

    Session 6 Chair: Sheila Embleton (York University)

    11:00 - 11:30 Harri MCrk (University of Toronto): "Attitudes and Motivation Toward Language and Culture Retention Among Some Finno-Ugric Peoples" 11:30 - 12:00 Mika Roinila (University of Saskatchewan): "The Historic Finnish Community of Finn Slough, Richmond, B.C."

    12:00 - 2:00 LUNCH

    Session 7 Chair: Marianne Bakr-Nagy (Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Finno-Ugric Department, Budapest)

    2:00 - 2:30 Ilse Lehiste (Ohio State University): "Ambiguously Long Plosives in Estonian" 2:30 - 3:00 Zita McRobbie (Simon Fraser University): "Skolt Saami Long Obstruents of Different Duration: An Unusual Alternation" 3:00 - 3:30 Gyula Dcsy (Indiana University, Bloomington): "Metaphoric Origins of the Finno-Ugric Numerals from1 - 6"

    3:30 - 3:45 COFFEE

    Session 8 Chair: Mika Roinila (University of Saskatchewan)

    3:45 - 4:15 Kaarina Kailo (Concordia University, Montreal): "Finnish Bear Rituals and the Representation of the Feminine in Nature -- The Return of Mielikki and Hongatar" 4:15 - 4:45 Minna Riikka J=E4rvinen (University of Helsinki): "Surprising Organisation in Improvisation. An Analysis of the Kildin Saami luuvt-Song" 4:45 - 5:15 Minna Toikka (University of Turku): "Women and National Identity in Finland at the Turn of the Century: A Case Study"

    5:15 -5:30 COFFEE

    5:30 - 6:30 GENERAL MEETING

    8:00 SOCIAL EVENING (location TBA)



    For further information contact

    Zita McRobbie (Department of Linguistics,Simon Fraser U, Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6. Canada). e-mail: zita_mcrobbiesfu.ca

    or

    Sheila Embleton (Department of Languages, literature & Linguistics, York University, 4700 Keele Street. North York. Ontario. M3J 1PM. Canada).

    e-mail: embletonYorkU.CA

    or

    1996 Learned Societies Congress Secretariat e-mail: learnedsspartan.ac.brocku.ca