The Linguistics Association Lecture 2011

Professor Colin Phillips (University of Maryland): What is a mental grammar?

Henry Sweet Lecture 2011

Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania): Towards the golden age of speech and language science

Language tutorial

Irina Nikolaeva (SOAS): Tundra Nenets

Workshop

Using large-scale speech collections in phonetics and phonology research

Organiser: John Coleman

Speakers:

John Coleman (University of Oxford): Introduction and workshop goals

Svenja Adolphs (University of Nottingham): Building spoken corpora

John Coleman (University of Oxford): A corpus-based view of variation in phonological categories

Felicitas Kleber (Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Munich): Maintenance and neutralization of phonological contrasts in regional varieties of German

Greg Kochanski (University of Oxford): Fitting functions to pitch contours

Panel session for summing-up and final Q&As

Linguistics in education (LAGB Education Committee)

UK Linguistics Olympiad

Postrgaduate training session (LAGB Student Committee)

On publishing

Led by Christopher Tancock, Publishing Editor, Elsevier

Special session: The psycholinguistics of grammar

Markus Bader & Jana Häussler (University of Konstanz): Graded acceptability in language comprehension and language production

Oliver Boxell (University of Essex): Islands in the (processing) stream: The real-time amelioration effects of lexical specificity on wh-island constraints

Vicky Chondrogianni, Theo Marinis & Susan Edwards (University of Reading): Production and processing of gender by sequential bilingual

Ian Cunnings & Patrick Sturt (University of Edinburgh): Coargumenthood and the processing of reflexives

Aditi Lahiri (University of Oxford): WORDS: Asymmetries and complexity in processing and change

Clare Patterson, Ian Cunnings & Claudia Felser (University of Edinburgh & University of Essex): Variable binding and coreference in sentence comprehension: Evidence from eye movements

Informal session: Blogging in the linguistic sciences

Organisers: Geoffrey K. Pullum & Mark Liberman

Main session

Leah S. Bauke (University of Frankfurt): A phase-theoretic analysis of root compounds from a cross-linguistic perspective

Mariachiara Berizzi (University of Padua): What as an underspecified wh-element in English: The historical and dialectal varieties

Melvyn Cole (University of Manchester): Null thematic subjects and honorific and Depreciatory Constructions in Japanese

Karen De Clercq, Liliane Haegeman & Terje Lohndal (Ghent University & University of Maryland): The English middle field: Intervention, clause internal scrambling in English and the distribution of PP and DP adjuncts

Elspeth Edelstein (University of Edinburgh): The syntax of verb-modifying adverbs in English

Claire Grant (University College London): Accounting for the semantic properties of optional infinitives in child English

Liliane Haegeman (Ghent University): The syntax of it clefts and of gapping: Information structure is also encoded TP internally

Pauline Harries & Kersti Börjars (University of Central Lancashire & University of Manchester): Growing nominal syntax in Germanic

Fredrik Heinat (Lund University): Swedish evaluative relative clauses

Alison Henry (University of Ulster at Jordanstown): Object shift in Belfast English

Glyn Hicks, Hee-Jeong Song & Laura Domínguez (Southampton University): The role of syntactic features in L2 acquisition: Korean L1/English L2 reflexives

Shinako Imaizumi (Ehime University): On affectedness and possession in the semantic structures of predicates in Japanese

Ángel Jiménez Fernández (University of Seville): Definiteness, subject islands and DP phases

Ángel Jiménez Fernández & Selçuk İşsever (University of Seville & Ankara University): A phase-based approach to A- and A′-effects in topic fronting

Steven Kaye (University of Oxford): Northern Talyshi verbs and the Iranian two-stem system: Synchrony and diachrony

James Kirby (University of Edinburgh): Transphonologization as probabilistic contrast maintenance

Eva Klingvall (Lund University): On the role of adjectives and verbs in property descriptions

Greg Kochanski, Anastassia Loukina, Chilin Shih, Elinor Keane & Burton Rosner (University of Oxford & University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): Poetic rhythm is a matter of predictability

Sandra Kotzor (University of Oxford): Antonymy: Associative or conceptual relation? Evidence from a cross-linguistic multi-method investigation

Luis López & María Carmen Parafita-Couto (University of Illinois at Chicago & University of Wales at Bangor): Code switching (CS) and constituent boundaries

Takafumi Maekawa (Hokusei Gakuen University Junior College): Emphatic interrogatives in Okinawan

Satu Manninen (Lund University): Agentivity, causation and passive participles in Finnish

Gladis Massini-Cagliari (São Paulo State University): On Portuguese rhythmic typology: A historical approach

Benjamin Molineaux (University of Oxford): Prosodically conditioned morphological change: Preservation vs. loss in Early English prefixes

Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin University): The phonological representation of NC sequences in Lungu

Ad Neeleman & Reiko Vermeulen (University College London & Ghent University): Interpreting focus under negation

Hitomi Onuma & Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin University): No resyllabification in morphological formation: The case of the English lateral

Matthew Reeve & Glyn Hicks (Southampton University): Adjunct extraposition and the wide/narrow focus distinction

Philip Roberts (University of Oxford): Latin rhotacism: A case study in the life cycle of phonological processes

Manuela Rocchi (University of Edinburgh): Irrealis nonconditional if-clauses in English

Yo Sato & Natsuko Nakagawa (University of Hertfordshire & SUNY Buffalo): Frequency effects on information structure difference: Evidence from dialectal difference in Japanese

Melanie Seiss (University of Konstanz): Classification in Murrinh-Patha

Michelle L. Sheehan (Durham University): Control inside DP: Evidence from English and European Portuguese

Kriszta Szendrői (University College London): Blocking quantifier raising with passives Patrycja Strycharczuk (University of Manchester): Diagnosing phonological categories

Pius ten Hacken & Jessica Forse (Swansea University): Competing word formation processes: The case of French a- and en-

Gary Thoms (University of Strathclyde): Roll up! PBC effects, anti-locality and Japanese scrambling

Ewa Trutkowski (University of Potsdam & ZAS Berlin): pro and PRO in Spec-CP of German V2 clauses

Stefano Versace (University of Strathclyde): A unified generative account of Italian endecasillabo

George Walkden (University of Cambridge): Null arguments in Old English

Philip Wallage (Northumbria University): Pragmatic changes and Jespersen's Cycle in Early English

Philip Wallage & Wim van der Wurff (Northumbria University & Newcastle University): On analysing fragments: The case of No?

Géraldine Walther (CNRS & Université Paris Diderot): Latin passive morphology revisited