Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium

Ruth Kempson (authored with Ronnie Cann) (King's College London): Fifty years in the past and future: Semantics and pragmatics

Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh): Fifty years in the past and future: Syntax and morphology

John Harris (University College London): Fifty years in the past and future: Phonetics and phonology

Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester): Linguistics in the UK: Past, present and future

Language tutorial

David Adger (Queen Mary, University of London): Scottish Gaelic

Linguistics in education (LAGB Education Committee)

Typology for schools: Topics and materials that might be used in schools

Speakers:

Anna Siewierska (Lancaster University) & Dik Bakker (University of Amsterdam): Syntax

Greville G. Corbett (University of Surrey): Inflectional categories

Postrgaduate session (LAGB Student Committee)

Teaching in linguistics

Speakers: Klaus Abels (University College London), Kersti Börjars (University of Manchester), Patrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh) and Willem Hollmann (Lancaster University)

Main session

Dora Alexopoulou (University of Cambridge) & Raffaella Folli (University of Ulster): Indefinite topics in Italian and Greek

Andrei Antonenko (Stony Brook University, NY): Binding by phases

Doug Arnold & Robert D. Borsley (University of Essex): Non-nominal which-relatives

Matthew Baerman (University of Surrey): Inflection classes without allomorphy

Laura Bailey (Newcastle University): Sentence-final question particles as apparent FOFC-violators

Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge & Stellenbosch University): Predicate-doubling in Afrikaans: Facts and comparisons

Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge & Stellenbosch University) & Roberta D'Alessandro (Leiden University): Grammaticalization in progress: Insights from the case of angore

Oliver Bond (SOAS): Selectional restrictions on cognate objects in Eleme

Robert D. Borsley (University of Essex): Constructions, functional heads, and comparative correlatives

Anne Breitbarth (University of Cambridge): Indefinites and negation in the history of Low German

Kakia Chatsiou (University of Essex): An LFG analysis of case attraction in modern Greek free relative clauses

Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (King's College London): A Dynamic Syntax approach to clitic climbing

Kearsy Cormier (University College London) & Sandra Smith (University of Bristol): Pragmatics of reference in British Sign Language narratives

Mary Dalrymple & Suriel Mofu (University of Oxford): Plural semantics, classifiers, and reduplication in Indonesian

Nigel Duffield (University of Sheffield) & Yayoi Tajima (Keio University): It matters what language you speak: (Why?) East Asians do not all think alike!

Magda Dumitru (Macquarie University): Simultaneous activation of discrete and dense semantic scales when interpreting logical connectives

Sonja Eisenbeiss (University of Essex) & Ingrid Sonnenstuhl (Düsseldorfer Akademie): The acquisition of German adnominal possessive constructions

Kazuhiko Fukushima (Kansai Gaidai University): Fabrication of quantification domains

Yasuyuki Fukutomi (Fukushima University): Wh-elements in right periphery and alternative semantics

Eric Fuß (University of Frankfurt), Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge) & Carola Trips (University of Mannheim): Language change and language acquisition: The actuation problem revisited

Hans-Martin Gärtner (ZAS Berlin): Embedded infinitival interrogatives in the historical development of English

Asli Göksel (Bogaziçi University), Baris Kabak (Konstanz University) & Anthi Revithiadou (University of the Aegean): Copying and iteration at the morphology–syntax interface

Beata Gyuris (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): ‘Tagging’ Hungarian

Liliane Haegeman (University of Ghent): Three positions for prenominal possessors

Liliane Haegeman (University of Ghent) & Terje Lohndal (University of Maryland): Negative concord is simply Agree

Jutta Hartmann (University of Tübingen) & Veronika Hegedus (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Equation is predication: Evidence from Hungarian

Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh), Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh) & Zakaris Svabo Hansen (University of the Faroe Islands): On the acquisition (or not) of verb movement to Inflection

Andrew Hippisley (University of Kentucky): Prolegomena to a defaults-based theory of word-formation: Derivation in Network Morphology

Andrew Hippisley & Gregory Stump (University of Kentucky): Realization without exponence: The Shughni past tense

Kerstin Hoge (University of Oxford): On adjectival complements of perception verbs in English and German

Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University): Rich agreement really is a parameter with a wide range of effects

Dick Hudson (University College London): Welsh soft mutation and Word Grammar

Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (University of Cambridge): Cancellability criterion for the primary/secondary and explicit/implicit meaning distinctions

Ángel Jiménez Fernández (University of Seville): On the order of multiple topics and discourse-feature inheritance

Tom Juzek (University of Oxford): On the concept of grammaticality

Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge & University of Oxford) & Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford): Informativeness from a speaker's and a comprehender's perspective

Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge & University of Oxford), Nafsika Smith (University of Cambridge), Aneta Miekisz (University of Warsaw), Ewa Haman (University of Warsaw), Katerina Kostantzou (University of Athens), Spyridoula Varlokosta (University of Athens), Athina Skordi (University of Cyprus) & Kristine Jensen de Lopez (University of Aalborg): Crosslinguistic investigations in the acquisition of quantification

Koji Kawahara (University of York): Attributive comparatives and logical form

Shin-Sook Kim & Peter Sells (SOAS): Structures of modality in Korean

Andrew Koontz-Garboden (University of Manchester) & John Beavers (University of Texas at Austin): Manner and result verbs

Anu Koskela (Sussex University): Vertical polysemy: Word senses and their boundaries

Christopher Lucas (University of Cambridge): English weak definites: Towards a diachronic account

Dejan Matic (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology) & Irina Nikolaeva (SOAS): Predicate focus in Tundra Yukaghir

Wilfried Meyer Viol & Howard Jones (King's College London): A unified account of the English perfect and past tenses

Ingo Mittendorf & Louisa Sadler (University of Essex): Welsh prenominals and the syntax–morphology interface

Louise Mycock (University of Oxford): Prosody and the typology of ‘multiple-fronting’ languages

Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin University): A disparity between lexical and non-lexical representations in Japanese

Diane Nelson (University of Leeds), Vesna Stojanovik (University of Reading) & Theo Marinis (University of Reading): Williams Syndrome, wh-syntax and the modularity debate

Tom Rainsford (University of Cambridge): Changing rhythmic patterns in the Medieval French octosyllable

Martha G. Robinson (University of Edinburgh): SER/ESTAR the view from the left, a change of focus

Serge Sagna (University of Manchester): Noun class semantics in Gújjolaay Eegimaa

Adam Schembri, Jordan Fenlon & Ramas Rentelis (University College London): British Sign Language Corpus Project: Sociolinguistic variation in the 1 handshape in BSL conversations

Adam Schembri (University College London), Eleni Orfanidou (University College London) & Kearsy Cormier (City University, London): British Sign Language Grammaticality Judgement Task: Exploring age-of-acquisition effects in British deaf adults

Barbara C. Scholz & Geoffrey K. Pullum (University of Edinburgh): Language and thought: What should we tell the children?

Minjeong Son & Peter Svenonius (Tromsø University): Measurement and paths

Marleen Spaargaren (University of Edinburgh): Historical asymmetric assimilations as evidence for privative |spread| in English

Gregory Stump (University of Kentucky): The compositional dimension of derivation

Claire K. Turner (University of Surrey): Neutral aspect: Another optional feature in the SENĆOŦEN temporal domain

Jenneke van der Wal (Leiden University): Subject inversion in Bantu languages

Wim van der Wurff & Ian Mackenzie (Newcastle University): Relics in word order change

Marie-Elaine Van Egmond (University of Sydney): The coverb construction in Anindilyakwa: Various cycles of complex verb formation

Virve Vihman & Petar Kehayov (University of Tartu): System versus syncretism: Verbal derivation and lability in Estonian

Keisuke Yoshimoto & Andrew Radford (University of Essex): On the nature of clausal phases: A minimalist-cartographic perspective

Akiko Yoshimura (Nara Women's University): Descriptive/metalinguistic dichotomy? New taxonomy of negation