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