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LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN

Annual Meeting 2014: 1–5 September, Queen's College, University of Oxford

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2014

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , November 2014, pp. 773 - 777
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The Linguistics Association Lecture 2014

Adam Albright (MIT): Generalizing phonological patterns with phonetic and featural biases

Henry Sweet Lecture 2014

Angelika Kratzer (UMass Amherst): The semantics of embedding and the syntax of the left periphery

Language tutorial

Bert Vaux (University of Cambridge): Armenian

Workshops

The semantics of embedding and the syntax of the left periphery

Organisers: David Adger (Queen Mary, University of London) & Angelika Kratzer (Umass Amherst)

Speakers:

Enoch Aboh (Amsterdam): Relatives, eventives and clausal complements in Kwa

Adriana Belletti (Sienna): Syntactic structures and the functional ingredients of (some) clausal complements

Martina Faller (The University of Manchester): Do speech act evidentials embed after all?

Daniel Rothschild (University College London): Embedding epistemic modals

Learning biases in natural and artificial language acquisition

Organisers: Andrew Nevins (University College London) & Adam Albright (MIT)

Speakers:

Alejandrina Cristia (LSCP, Paris/CNRS): Linguistically relevant information in the implicit abstraction of sound patterns from speech: Infant and adult data

Sara Finley (Pacific Lutheran University): Shedding light on phonological representations through adult learning experiments

Elliott Moreton (The University of North Carolina): Phonological concept learning: Experiments and models

Ruben van de Vijver & Dinah Baer-Henney (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf): Learners' little helper

Posters:

Angela Carpenter (Wellesley College): Older children's acquisition of natural and unnatural phonological stress

Gunnar Ólafur Hansson & Kevin McMullin (University of British Columbia): Biased learning of long-distance assimilation and dissimilation

Yu-Leng Lin (University of Toronto): The ambiguous status of laryngeals in nasal consonant–vowel harmony

Elise Michon (LSCP), Emmanuel Dupoux (LSCP), Paula Fikkert (Radboud University) & Alejandrina Cristia (LSCP, Paris/CNRS): Adults' implicit learning of consonant–vowel and talker–vowel co-occurrences

Nick Neasom (University College London): Is there a preference for vowel raising in synchronic chain shifts?

Jennifer Smith (University of North Carolina): Prosody vs. segments in laboratory learning of category-specific phonology

James White (University College London), Megha Sundara (UCLA), Yun Kim (UCLA) & Adam Chong (UCLA): Infant learning of phonological alternations is biased by phonetic similarity

Linguistics at school (LAGB Education Committee)

Learning and teaching grammar across the curriculum (English and Foreign Languages)

Chair: Eva Duran Eppler (University of Roehampton)

Speakers:

Dick Hudson (University College London): Towards an LAGB glossary of grammatical terminology for schools

Ian Cushing (English teacher at Surbiton High School): Grammar teaching in English lessons

Sarah Campbell (formerly FL teacher at Leighton Park School, Reading): Collaborative grammar teaching in English and MFL

Eva Duran Eppler (University of Roehampton) & Jeanette Sakel (University of the West of England): The academic perspective

LAGB 2014 Summer School (LAGB Student Committee)

Chair: Rebecca Woods (University of York)

Masterclass 1

Adam Albright (MIT): Gradient phonotactics

Masterclass 2

Aditi Lahiri (University of Oxford): Phonology in the brain

Masterclass 3

Angelika Kratzer (Umass Amherst): Working at the syntax–semantics interface: The variety of embedded clauses

Professional development workshop: Publishing in academia

David Adger (Queen Mary, University of London) on preparing work for publication in journals

Kersti Börjars (The University of Manchester) on the Research Excellence Framework

Julia Steer (Oxford University Press) on book publishing, in particular preparing a dissertation for publication as a monograph

George Walkden (The University of Manchester) on Open Access publishing

Themed sessions

Predication, modification and word order in the DP

Convenor: David Hall (Queen Mary, University of London)

Speakers:

Tom Stanton (Queen Mary, University of London): Head-movement and reduced relative clauses in Spanish and English

Fryni Panayidou (Queen Mary, University of London): Polydefinites and the distribution of demonstratives in Modern Greek

Fangfang Niu (Queen Mary, University of London): Dimensions and relationality in Mandarin double nominal constructions

David Hall (Queen Mary, University of London): DP-internal modifier positions in Mandarin Chinese

Extreme agreement: Answers to the Archi challenge

Convenor: Marina Chumakina (University of Surrey)

Speakers:

Marina Chumakina & Greville G. Corbett (University of Surrey): Setting the scene: Agreement in Archi

Robert D. Borsley (University of Essex): HPSG and Archi agreement

Maria Polinsky (Harvard University), Nina Radkevich (University of York) & Marina Chumakina (University of Surrey): Agreement between arguments in Archi?

Louisa Sadler (University of Essex): Agreement in Archi: An LFG perspective

Dunstan Brown & Peter Sells (University of York): The correlation of agreement domains and phrase structure: The Archi perspective on different frameworks

Incomplete utterances and the syntax/pragmatics interface

Convenors: Eleni Savva & Chi-Hé Elder (University of Cambridge)

Speakers:

Dimitris Michelioudakis (University of York): Incompleteness in argument structure: Diagnosing implicit arguments

Eleni Gregoromichelaki (King's College London) & Ruth Kempson (King's College London & SOAS University of London): Language as mechanisms for interaction: The case of ‘compound utterances’

Eleni Savva (University of Cambridge), Kasia M. Jaszczolt (University of Cambridge) & Michael Haugh (Griffith University): A pragmatic approach to subsentential speech: The case of disjunctive questions

Chi-Hé Elder (University of Cambridge): Incomplete conditionals: A pragmatic analysis

Christina Kim (University of Kent): Predictability and implicit communicative content

Main session

Klaus Abels (University College London) & Gary Thoms (The University of Edinburgh): Resumption and island repair under sluicing

Laura Arman (The University of Manchester): Unaccusativity in Welsh verbs

Doug Arnold & Louisa Sadler (University of Essex): The big mess: An LFG Analysis

Laura Bailey (University of Kent): ‘Because X’: Syntactic restructuring, ellipsis, or ‘internetese’?

Pilar Barbosa (Universidade do Minho) & Cécile De Cat (University of Leeds): Subject–object asymmetries in Clitic Left Dislocation

Melanie Bell (Anglia Ruskin University) & Martin Schäfer (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena): Semantic transparency and constituent informativity in English compound nouns

Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge): The universal component of emergent categories

Theresa Biberauer & Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge): Conditional inversion and types of parametric change

Alison Biggs (University of Cambridge): Assertion and Speech Acts in embedded clauses: Evidence from Mandarin syntax

Evan-Gary Cohen (Tel-Aviv University): Phonetically-based biases in the acquisition of Hebrew rhotics

Jennifer Culbertson (George Mason University) & David Adger (Queen Mary, University of London): Scope-to-surface isomorphism and Greenberg's Universal 20

Grete Anna Dalmi (Jan Kochanowski University): Ad hoc properties and locations as alternative states: A case study in Maltese

Jeannique Darby (University of Oxford): Directionality and underspecification: The processing of zero-derivation

Nicole Dehé (Universität Konstanz): The syntax–prosody and prosody–meaning interfaces: The case of the Icelandic comment clause held ég

Nadiia Denhovska (The University of Manchester): The role of frequency and animacy in the implicit learning of a noun–adjective agreement rule in L2

Márcia Cristina do Carmo (University College London): Word-initial pretonic mid-vowels in Brazilian Portuguese

Maia Duguine (University of Cambridge & University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU): Pro-drop without a parameter

Lara Ehrenhofer (University of Maryland, College Park), Adam C. Roberts (University of Oxford), Allison Wetterlin (University of Oxford), Sandra Kotzor (University of Oxford) & Aditi Lahiri (University of Oxford): When less is not enough: Processing variation in geminate duration in Swiss German

Patrick Elliott & Yasutada Sudo (University College London): E-type readings of quantifiers under ellipsis

Sebastian Fedden (University of Surrey): Emergence of tonal inflection in Mian

Robert Fittler (Freie Universität Berlin): On exhaustive and non-exhaustive embedded wh-questions in German

Edward Flemming (MIT): Deriving long-distance coarticulation from local constraints

Hans-Martin Gaertner (Szeged University): Truncating away (on the thin ice of the new day): Evidence from modal particles in German adult root infinitives

Laure Gardelle (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon): Gender variations in Early Modern English: He vs. she for animals of unspecified sex

Beata Gyuris (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Dimensions of bias in polar questions: Evidence from Hungarian

Caroline Heycock & Gary Thoms (The University of Edinburgh): Reconstruction and modification in relative clauses

Kerstin Hoge (University of Oxford): Linking lexical and syntactic wh-acquisition: Evidence from Child German

Georg Höhn (University of Cambridge): Unagreement ≠ imposters

Uri Horesh (Northwestern University): A sociohistorical analysis of a unique genitive exponent in Palestinian Arabic

Yan Huang (The University of Auckland): Unarticulated constituents (UCs) and neo-Gricean pragmatics

Richard Ingham (Birmingham City University) & Susagna Tubau (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): Some diachronic notes on the distribution of negated adjuncts in English

Aritz Irurtzun (IKER-CNRS (UMR 5478)): Split wh-questions in Basque: Sluicing vs. multidominance

Koji Kawahara (Nagoya University of Foreign Studies): A scalar analysis of motion events

Lynda Kennedy (University of Ulster), Jacopo Romoli (University of Ulster), Lyn Tieu (LSCP, Paris), Cory Bill (Macquarie University), Christina Sevdali (University of Ulster), Stephen Crain (Macquarie University) & Raffaella Folli (University of Ulster): Broca's aphasia and plurality inferences

Jane Kühn (University of Potsdam): L2-acqusition of complex sentence level prosody

Maria Kunevich & Theodora Alexopoulou (University of Cambridge): Acquisition at interfaces: The case of focus marking

Dong-Yi Lin (Ghent University): A cartographic approach to adverbials in Kavalan: Adverbial verbs and restructuring

John Lowe & Louise Mycock (University of Oxford): The representation of Information Structure

Tao Ma (University of Birmingham): Formal patterns to semantic features of compound members: A quantitative model

Maria-Margarita Makri (University of York): Expletive negation as an epistemic modal

Thomas McFadden (ZAS, Berlin): Noun stem alternations, the structure of case and the locality of allomorphy

Robin Meyer (University of Oxford): Borrowed time: Iranian superstratum influence on the Armenian periphrastic perfect

Misnadin, James P. Kirby & Bert Remijsen (The University of Edinburgh): Temporal and spectral properties of the three-way laryngeal contrast of Madurese

Kaori Miura (Kyushu Sangyo University): Toward a classification of adjuncts in Japanese

Louise Mycock & John Lowe (University of Oxford): Prosodic marking of focus: A Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) analysis

Diane Nelson & Melinda Whong (University of Leeds): Against non-convergence: The same at the core

Irina Nikolaeva (SOAS University of London) & Andrew Spencer (University of Essex): Adjective/noun mixed categories in SBCG

Geoffrey Poole (Newcastle University): Feature inheritance in Old Spanish: (Re)visiting V2

Philomen Probert (University of Oxford): On today's morphology not always being yesterday's syntax: Ancient Greek hoúneka ‘because’ (and similar items)

Gillian Ramchand (University of Tromsø), Bjorn Lundquist (University of Tromsø), Martin Corley (The University of Edinburgh), Mai Tungseth (University of Tromsø) & Antonella Sorace (The University of Edinburgh): Transitivity alternations in English: Processing subcategorization frames

Rickard Ramhöj (University of Gothenburg): Whether-clauses and it-extraposition: The influence of complexity, weight, givenness and contrast

Philip Roberts (University of Oxford), Henning Reetz (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) & Aditi Lahiri (University of Oxford): Corpus-testing a fricative discriminator; or, just how invariant is this invariant?

David Rubio Vallejo (University of Delaware): Actuality effects in Spanish

Craig Sailor (University of Groningen): ‘Fuck’ inversion in British English

Vieri Samek-Lodovici (University College London): Understanding Right Dislocation

Kerstin Schwabe (ZAS, Berlin): Non-canonical realization of complement clauses

Michelle Sheehan & Jenneke van der Wal (University of Cambridge): The worst Case scenario

Masaharu Shimada (University of Tsukuba) & Akiko Nagano (Tohoku University): Borrowing of English adpositions in Japanese

Roberto B. Sileo (University of Cambridge): Slurs and truth-conditional content

Andrew Spencer (University of Essex): Adjectives functioning as nouns: An SBCG analysis

Juliet Stanton (MIT): Varieties of A′-extractions: Evidence from preposition stranding

Sam Steddy & Iain Giblin (MIT): Where's wh-? Prosodic disambiguation of in-situ wh-phrases

Sandhya Sundaresan (University of Leipzig) & Hazel Pearson (ZAS, Berlin): Towards a syntax and semantics of linguistic perspective

Kevin Tang & John Harris (University College London): A functional account of geminate contrastiveness: Evidence from Cypriot Greek

Andreas Trotzke & Yvonne Viesel (Universität Konstanz): DP-internal discourse particles, illocutionary force, and specificity

George Tsoulas & Maria-Margarita Makri (University of York): Modality, negation, and patterns of complementation in Greek

Maria Varkanitsa (University College London), Dimitrios Kasselimis (University of Crete), Constantin Potagas (University of Athens), Judit Druks (University College London) & Hans van de Koot (University College London): Scope preferences revisited

Anna-Lena Wiklund (Lund University) & Fredrik Heinat (Linnæus University): Unbounded dependencies in Swedish: Apparent restrictions

Rebecca Woods (University of York): The syntax of embedded speech acts: A theoretical investigation with consequences for acquisition

Yusuke Yoda (Kinki University): Visibility in lexical selection

Keisuke Yoshimoto (Kansai Gaidai University) & Norio Nasu (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies): Factives in a crosslinguistic perspective

Joanna Zaleska (University of Leipzig) & Andrew Nevins (University College London): Polish nasal vowels are autosegmental: Word game evidence