Cobalise 2009

Constraint Based Linguistics in the South East of England
December 2009 Meeting
University of Essex
Time: 11:00–4:15 Tuesday Dec 1, 2009
Location: 5S.4.4


Programme

  • 11:00 Arrival, Coffee, Opening remarks.
  • 11.30 Andy Spencer (Essex) An argument-structure account of transposition-to-adjective
  • 12.15 Bob Levine (Ohio State) Polarity and auxiliaryhood (pseudo)entanglement:the ellipsis pattern of modal need
  • 1.00 Lunch
  • 2.00 Shalom Lappin (Kings, London) Parameters in Linguistic Theory and in Probabilistic Language Models
  • 2.45 Mary Dalrymple and Bozhil Hristov (Oxford) Agreement patterns and coordination in Lexical Functional Grammar
  • 3.30 Brett Baker, Rachel Nordlinger (U of Melbourne) and Louisa Sadler (Essex) Body Part Incorporation and External Possession in Wubuy

Directions

Instructions for getting to the University, see: http://www.essex.ac.uk/about/find.html

To find the room:

  • arrive (by bus or taxi) and get `under the podium', go to the information office, and ask for directions; or
  • arrive early, and find one of the organizers (find the information desk, and get them to phone one of us, we'll come and get you); or
  • find the Dept of Language and Linguistics office, and ask for directions; or
  • Find the entrance to the Law Dept, go in, and go down the first set of stairs you can find (they will be on your right, round the first corner) (there will be signs of some kind).

Other Information

For more information, contact the organizers, Doug Arnold (doug -at- essex.ac.uk) and Bob Borsley (rborsley -at- essex.ac.uk)

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