[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]

Sesquipedalian #24

The SESQUIPEDALIAN WEEKLY HERALD		       Volume IV, Number 24
\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-
						        April 14, 1994


		    -\-\-\ LOOK WHO'S TALKING /-/-/-

                        "Nonconfigurationality"
                         Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT
                       Thursday April 14, 5.15pm
                              Ventura 17

In the 1970's, Ken Hale and others proposed that flexible-word order
languages such as Japanese have a nonconfigurational structure.
However, Saito and Hoji and others showed that Japanese phrase
structure is configurational, using now-familiar arguments such as
weak crossover.  This paper argues that the intuition behind Hale's
propoosal is essentially correct, and it is possible to capture it
within a configurational structure.  The nonconfigurational property
is located in the way Case features are checked: in languagess such as
Japanese, accusative Case may be checked in the Spec of AGRoP, which
gives the SOV order, or in the IP-adjoined (scrambled) position, which
results in the OSV order.

  *************************************************************************


		  -\-\-\ LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM /-/-/-

THERE WILL BE NO LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM TOMORROW, APRIL 15TH. THIS IS
BECAUSE OF THE CHILD LANGUAGE RESEARCH FORUM WHICH IS TAKING PLACE
THIS WEEKEND, IN JORDAN HALL - FRIDAY EVENING, SATURDAY & SUNDAY.

  =========================================================================

                     UC DAVIS LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM
                              Myrna Gopnik
                           McGill University
                            912 Sproul Hall
                        Friday, April 15, 3:30pm


The next talk in the UCDavis Linguistics Colloquium will be given by
Myrna Gopnik (McGill University) on "Familial Language Impairment: A Review",
on Friday, April 15, 3:30pm, in 912 Sproul Hall (Davis campus). 

  ***********************************************************************


                       -\-\-\ JOB OPENINGS /-/-/-

                      Modern Languages Department
                            Ohio University
                        Athens, Ohio 45701-2979

POSITION: Visiting Instructor or Assistant Professor of German
          (One-year term position renewable for up to three years)

AVAILABLE: September 1, 1994

SALARY: Competitive (minimum of $23000, salary contingent on number of
        courses taught).

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Generalist with strong interests in teaching
undergraduate language courses. Excellent proficiency in German. ABD
or PhD degree. Evidence of successful teaching, including first-year
level.

RESPONSIBILITIES: Teach seven to nine German courses per year on
quarter system.

INTERVIEWER: Maureen Weissenrieder, Chair, Modern Languages, Ohio
University, Athens, Ohio 45701-2979. Send vita, transcripts, and three
recent letters of recommendation.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 16, 1994

Ohio University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

  **********************************************************************
  
                       -\-\-\ CALL FOR PAPERS /-/-/-

                                 NELS 25
                           October 14-16, 1994
                       University of Pennsylvania

            Deadline for submission of abstracts: July 26, 1994

Abstracts should be anonymous, up to TWO pages (8-1/2" by 11"),
single-spaced, in 12 point type with 1" margins.  The second page need
not be limited to data and/or references.  Send ten copies of the
abstract together with a 3" x 5" card showing the title of the paper,
the author's address and affiliation, phone number, and e-mail address
to:

                  NELS 25
                  Linguistics Department
                  Room 619 Williams Hall
                  University of Pennsylvania
                  Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Questions can be directed to Gene Buckley and Sabine Iatridou at
nels25@ling.upenn.edu.

On the day preceding the conference (Oct 13), there will be two
workshops: one on Language Change, another on Language Acquisition.
Both workshops will be funded by the Institute for Research in
Cognitive Science. A call for papers for these workshops (separate
>From the present call) will appear soon.

  ====================================================================

                             W E C O L   '9 4

                   (Western Conference on Linguistics)

                           21-23 OCTOBER, 1994
                  UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES


                  DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS:  1 JUNE, 1994


Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks in all areas of linguistic
theory.  Abstracts should be anonymous, and should be no longer than
one page, with one inch margins, in typeface no smaller than 12
characters per inch.  An additional page with examples and references
may be included.  Please provide 10 copies of the abstract.  Authors
should identify themselves on a separate 3"x5" index card, and should
include the title and author's address, affiliation, telephone number,
and e-mail address.

In addition, papers are invited for two workshops to be held in
conjunction with WECOL, entitled:

=================================================================

            THEORETICAL ISSUES IN THE ACQUISITION OF PHONOLOGY
                                    and
                  FORMAL ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF NEGATION

=======================================================

Invited Speaker:  B. Alan Dresher, University of Toronto

Abstracts should be sent to the following address:

                    Chair, Abstracts Committee
                    WECOL '94
                    Department of Linguistics
                    University of California, Los Angeles
                    405 Hilgard Avenue
                    Los Angeles, CA 90024

                    email:  wecol@cognet.ucla.edu

  ************************************************************************


  		   -\-\-\ CONSERVE DISK SPACE /-/-/-

So you may delete your copy after you've read it (or better yet,
before you've read it), the Sesquipedalian Weekly Herald is stored
online both at Stanford (in directory /user/linguistics/Sesquip), and
at Berkeley (in the directory /usr/pub.)  The most current issue of
the Herald can be found by typing 'help quip'.

Neither Stanford University nor the Linguistics Department, nor any of
their employees, makes any warranty, whatsoever, implied, or assumes
any legal liability or responsibility regarding any information
disclosed in this publication, or represents that its use would not
infringe privately owned rights.  No specific reference constitutes or
implies endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by Stanford
University or the Linguistics Department, or their employees.  The
views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those
of Stanford University or the Linguistics Department, or their
employees, and shall not be used for advertising or product
endorsement purposes.

This journal printed on 100% recycled electrons


*******************************************************************************