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The SESQUIPEDALIAN WEEKLY HERALD		       Volume IV, Number 30
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						          May 26, 1994


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

                            Friday, May 27th
			         3:30pm
			      Cordura 100

		          Happy Hour to Follow



	            ON ADJUNCT EXTRACTION IN CHAMORRO
			       Sandy Chung
                   University of California, Santa Cruz


For several years now I have been attempting to use the morphology of
extraction in Chamorro as a window into the question of whether
Wh-Movement observes a strict locality requirement.  This talk reports
the results of my (ongoing) work on the extraction of adverbial
adjuncts.

Curiously, adjunct extraction is an area where the various sorts of
evidence for locality appear to diverge.  Evidence from weak islands,
first observed by Huang (1982) and invoked by many others since,
argues that extraction of adjuncts observes a stricter locality than
does extraction of (referential) arguments.  This evidence, which can
be replicated in Chamorro, is usually accounted for within GB by the
claim that traces of adjuncts must be antecedent-governed.  In
contrast, evidence from the morphology of extraction suggests that
there are senses in which adjunct extraction in Chamorro is less local
than extraction of (referential) arguments.  I explore this second
type of evidence and then attempt to craft an account consistent with
all the facts.

The view of locality and adjunct extraction I will ultimately defend
is a relativized version of the conjunctive ECP which has perhaps most
in common with Lasnik & Saito (1984).  It relies, first, on the
contrast between VP-adjoined and IP-adjoined adverbials and, second,
on the assumption (contra Hegarty 1991) that most adjunct extraction
involves syntactic Wh-movement.

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                             CONFERENCE

                 University of California, San Diego
                        November 11-13, 1994

Deadline for receipt of abstracts is JUNE 10, 1994

We will be hosting a conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse and
Language here at UCSD November 11-13, 1994.  The Organizing Committee
welcomes abstracts for papers on conceptual structure, discourse,
metaphor, lexical semantics, pragmatics, theoretical foundations,
grammaticalization, constructions, psycholinguistics, and acquisition.

Abstract submissions should include:

Seven (7) copies of a ONE-page abstract of the paper, in 12 point
font, with a title.  Longer abstracts will NOT be accepted.  Specify,
in the upper right hand corner of the abstract, one or two primary
topics (from the list in the paragraph above). If none of the topics
applies, please specify "other", and provide a different suggested
category.  OMIT name and affiliation.

A 3" by 5" card with the title of the paper and the name(s) of the
author(s), affiliation, address and e-mail address.

Only original, unpublished research will be accepted.  No more than
one abstract as single author and one abstract as co-author may be
submitted.

A selection of the papers from the conference will be published by
CSLI.

PREREGISTRATION: Please send name, e-mail address, and affiliation on
a 3" by 5" card, with a check (payable to CSDL) postmarked no later
than Sept 30, 1994:

$10 student (walk-in registration $15)
$20 non-student (walk-in registration $30)

Send abstracts and/or preregistration to:

           CSDL
           Department of Linguistics 0108
           9500 Gilman Drive
           UCSD
           La Jolla, CA 92093

E-mail correspondence:  csdl@bend.ucsd.edu

Steering Committee:
 Gilles Fauconnier
 Adele Goldberg
 Ron Langacker

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      THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
                            will be held at
                  Hulme Hall, University of Manchester, UK
                           13-18 August 1995

Plenary speakers include:

Ian Roberts
Barry Blake
Aditi Lahiri
Alice Harris
Susan Herring
Paul Kiparsky
Anthony Kroch
Theo Vennemann
Elizabeth Traugott

Workshops include:

Changes in numeral systems
The lexicon and semantic change
Cross-linguistic evidence for syntactic change
The influence of the Hansa and Low German on European languages

ABSTRACTS (max 200 words) should be submitted by mail or e-mail, to
arrive no later than 15 October 1994.

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fill in the following details and return to the address below:

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ICHL                            e-mail: ichl1995@man.ac.uk
Department of Linguistics       tel: +44 (0)61-275 3187/3042
University of Manchester        fax: +44 (0)61-275 3187
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 0XS
UK

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The post is open to a young scientist working on any aspect of
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someone with a background in computer simulation of cognitive
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into the field of cognitive development as a means for exploring
issues in cognitive science.  The post is open either to a scientist
sufficiently advanced to work independently or to someone who would
work in close collaboration on experiments and theory development with
one of our existing scientists: Uta Frith, Mark Johnson, Annette
Karmiloff-Smith and John Morton.

The CDU offers a stimulating research environment, maintains close
contact with the Centre for Cognitive Science at University College
London, has excellent experimental facilities, no teaching and the
possibility of contributing to our book series.  Previous holders of
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Further information may be obtained from The Director, Professor John
Morton, 4 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BT (fax: 071 383 0398; email:
john@cdu.ucl.ac.uk) with whom applications including a full CV, a
statement of research plans and interests and the names of two
professional referees should be lodged by 14 June 1994.

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