The Linguistics Association Lecture 2015

Rachel Nordlinger (University of Melbourne): Mapping morphological complexity in Murrinhpatha

Henry Sweet Lecture 2015

Larry Hyman (University of California, Berkeley): Why underlying representations?

Language tutorial

Jarich Hoekstra (University of Kiel): Frisian

Workshops

The current status of underlying representations in phonology

Organisers: John Harris (University College London) & Larry Hyman (University of California, Berkeley)

Speakers:

Larry Hyman (University of California, Berkeley): The current state of underlying representations in phonology: Introduction

Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (University of Manchester): Surface forms cue shared input representations, not each other

Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University, Nijmegen): Word prosody is lexical, post-lexical or just absent

Brent de Chene (Waseda University): The centrality of underlying representations: Evidence from reanalysis

Andrew Nevins (University College London): Ineffability as unavailable allomorphy

Neil Smith (University College London): Levels of representation and metarepresentation: An acquisitional perspective

Bert Vaux (University of Cambridge): Why bother with Underlying Representations? Part I: Syllables and moras

Morphological complexity

Organisers: Peter Ackema (University of Edinburgh) & Rachel Nordlinger (University of Melbourne)

Speakers:

Matthew Baerman & Greville G. Corbett (University of Surrey): The internal and external typology of inflectional paradigms

Jochen Trommer (Leipzig University): Weight vs. weight, tone vs. tone: Affix blocking in featural affixation systems

Irina Nikolaeva (SOAS University of London): The focus feature in Tundra Nenets morphology and syntax

Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara): The flow and ebb of morphological complexity and what it might tell us

LAGB Education Committee session

Bilingualism and cognition

Chair: Eva Duran Eppler (University of Roehampton)

Speakers:

Hui Huang & Marisa Cordella (Monash University, Melbourne): Language encounters connecting cultures and generations: Bilingualism, language learning and social inclusion

Leah Roberts (University of York): Grammatical processing in real time: What second language learners know about the target language and how this impacts on education

Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh): Bridging the gap between the scientific and public understanding of bilingualism

LAGB 2014 Summer School (LAGB Student Committee)

Chair: Rebecca Woods (University of York)

Masterclass 1

Rachel Nordlinger (University of Melbourne): Ethics and methodologies in fieldwork

Masterclass 2

Larry Hyman (University of California, Berkeley): The value of fieldwork for doing linguistics

Masterclass 3

Jenneke van der Wal (University of Cambridge): How not to procrastinate: Understand your motivations for procrastination and effectively manage them

Masterclass 4

Klaus Abels (University College London): Prospects and problems of a general theory of word order

Themed session

Movement out of ditransitives

Convenors: Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University) & Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University)

Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University), Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University) & Jenneke van der Wal (University of Cambridge): Movement from the double object construction is not symmetrical

Dimitris Michelioudakis (University of York) & Nikos Angelopoulos (University of California, Los Angeles): Thematically conditioned asymmetries: Maragoli vs. Greek

Jenneke van der Wal (University of Cambridge): Structured asymmetries in Bantu double object constructions

Björn Lundquist (University of Tromsø): Movement through the edge of vP in double object passives in Swedish

Bill Haddican (City University of New York): Two constraints on theme passivisation in Swedish

Main session

Klaus Abels (University College London): On the structure of sluicing: Insights from Bulgarian P-stranding

Zaharani Ahmad (Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka): The phonology of Ludling in Malay: A constraint-based analysis

Laura Aldridge & Ad Neeleman (University College London): Quality and quantity readings with proportional modifiers

Seiki Ayano (Mie University): Possessive passive in Japanese: New evidence for possessor-raising

Fernanda Barrientos (University of Manchester): Effects of L2 knowledge into L1 speech perception: Boundary movement in the vowel perceptual space

Zoe Belk (University College London): Verbal bracketing paradoxes: What heavy drinkers can tell us about movement

Delia Bentley (University of Manchester): Agreement impoverishment in Gallo-Italian and the logical structure of VS constructions

Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge & University of Stellenbosch): Preserving ‘Germanic’ syntax via ‘exotic’ means: V2 in modern Afrikaans

Florian Breit (University College London): The phonological exponents of Welsh ICM: Subtraction by addition

Jessica Brown (University of Cambridge): Blackholes and subextraction from pseudocoordinate adjuncts

Matthew Carroll & T. Mark Ellison (Australia National University): A minimum-description length measure of exponence complexity

Alice Corr (University of Cambridge): Ibero-Romance above the CP: Evidence from complementizer distribution and the encoding of interlocutor-oriented elements

Ileana-Blanca Croitor (Institute of Linguistics, Bucharest): The grammaticalization of clitic doubling in Romanian

Chris Cummins (University of Edinburgh): Fractions, scales and granularity

Sam D’Elia (University of Kent): The effect of the perception of distance on complement order preference in two types of Double Complement Constructions: Evidence from a picture–sentence matching task.

Tomáš Duběda (Charles University in Prague): The ‘shadow phonology’ of Anglicisms in Czech

Yasuyuki Fukutomi (Fukushima University): Reversed Coordinated Multiple Wh-questions in Japanese: Another argument for ‘concealed clefts’

Hannah Gibson, Rozenn Guérois & Lutz Marten (SOAS University of London): A typology of copulas and non-verbal predication in Bantu

Nikolas Gisborne & Robert Truswell (University of Edinburgh): The source of English headed wh-relative clauses

Matthew Gotham (University College London): Glue Semantics for Minimalist syntax

Rozenn Guérois (SOAS University of London): Tonological evidence of the augment in Cuwabo (Mozambique, Bantu P34)

Liliane Haegeman & Andrew Weir (Ghent University): The cartography of ‘yes’ and ‘no’ in West Flemish

Fredrik Heinat (Linnaeus University): Tense and finiteness in Swedish

Míša Hejná (University of Manchester): Does English pre-aspiration matter?

Kerstin Hoge (University of Oxford): On the syntax of Yiddish adnominal possession

Elyse Jamieson (University of Edinburgh): Feature-based variation and change: Imperatives in Shetland dialect

Vikki Janke (University of Kent): Effects of topic on children’s interpretations of control

Angel Luis Jiménez-Fernández (University of Seville): & Bożena Rozwadowska (University of Wrocław): On the (non-)subjecthood of dative experiencers in Polish and Spanish

Frances Kane, Rafaella Folli and Christina Sevdali (University of Ulster): Irish genitive possessors: The ‘pseudo-construct state’

Henri Kauhanen (University of Manchester): Neutral change is a characteristic property of clusterized language communities

Lynda Kennedy (University of Ulster), Jacopo Romoli (University of Ulster), Lyn Tieu (École Normale Supérieure) & Raffaella Folli (University of Ulster): Scope ambiguity and Broca’s aphasia: Evidence for a grammar-specific impairment?

Eva Klingvall (Lund University): Tough-constructions, reconstruction and agreement in Swedish

Eva Klingvall (Lund University), Fredrik Heinat (Linnaeus University), Damon Tutunjian (Lund University) & Anna-Lena Wiklund (Lund University): The island status of Swedish relative clauses: Evidence from processing

Nancy C. Kula (University of Essex): Intonational cues for subjects and topics in Bantu

Liina Lindström (University of Tartu) & Virve Vihman (University of Manchester): Who needs it? Variation in experiencer marking in Estonian ‘need’-constructions

Christopher Lucas (SOAS University of London): One of those things that’s obvious once you see it: On an English agreement mismatch

Takafumi Maekawa (Ryukoku University): Prepositional Numeral Constructions in HPSG

Chloe Marshall (University College London Institute of Education) & Joanna Atkinson (University College London Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre): The role of iconicity in lexical retrieval in British Sign Language

Luisa Martí (Queen Mary University of London): Approximative number in the Spanish determiner system

Joanna Nolan (SOAS Queen Mary, University of London): Lingua Franca: Written evidence?

Ryo Otoguro (Waseda University): Tense morphology and argument structure alternations: An analysis of prenominal modifiers in Japanese

Ezekiel Panitz (University College London): Strong islands as absolute barriers to movement: Evidence from reconstruction

John Joseph Perry (University of Cambridge) & Xuhui Hu (Peking University): Non-canonical objects in Yixing Chinese

Trang Phan & Eric Lander (Ghent University): Plural markers in a classifier language: A view from Vietnamese

Nausicaa Pouscoulous & Alexandra Perovic (University College London): Comprehension of novel metaphor in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge) & Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University): A parameter hierarchy for passives

Erich Round (University of Queensland) & Greville G. Corbett (University of Surrey): Kayardild TAM and the typology of feature systems

Craig Sailor & James Griffiths (University of Groningen): PPs with gaps in

Vieri Samek-Lodovici (University College London): Italian pied-piping asymmetries as a prosody–syntax interface phenomenon

Zheng Shen (University of Connecticut): Fragment answers and movement – a superlative argument

Andrew Spencer (University of Essex): Participial relatives in LFG

Sam Steddy (University College London): Uniform and non-uniform analysis of bracketing paradoxes

Laura-Andreea Sterian (University of Edinburgh): Obligatory pronominal A- and A$^{\prime }$- binding

Benjamin Storme (MIT): Modeling aspectual asymmetries in the past and in the present

Yanyan Sui (Nankai University): Phonological and phonetic evidence for trochaic metrical structure in Standard Chinese

Kriszta Szendroi (University College London): The syntax of information structure and the PF interface

Yukiyo Takimoto (Bangor University): Rethinking the semantics of English verb–particle constructions: The approach from the Theory of Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models

Carola Trips (University of Mannheim), Richard Ingham (City University Birmingham) & Achim Stein (University of Stuttgart): The form of argument structure under contact influence

Coppe van Urk (Queen Mary University of London): Pronoun copying and the copy theory of movement: Evidence from Dinka

Virve Vihman, Elena Lieven & Anna Theakston (University of Manchester): Practice with pronouns: Acquisition of differential object case-marking in Estonian

Andrew Weir (Ghent University): Unaccusativity and low imperative subjects: The view from Scots

Sam Wolfe (University of Cambridge): On the history of V-to-C in Romance

Hilary Wynne (University of Oxford), Linda Wheeldon (University of Birmingham) & Aditi Lahiri (University of Oxford): Phonological representations of compounds in non-native speech production

Yimei Xiang (Harvard University): Mandarin dou as a pre-exhaustification operator: Quantification and free choice

Keisuke Yoshimoto (Kansai Gaidai University): On the classification of Japanese head-internal relative clauses