lagb autumn meeting linguistics association of great britain autumn meeting 1998 : university of luton second circular the 1998 autumn meeting will be held from thursday 10 to saturday 12 september at the university of luton , at its park square campus , where the association will be the guests of the department of linguistics . the local organiser is vlad zegarac ( vladimir . zegarac @ luton . ac . uk ) . enquiries about the meeting should be addressed to : vlad zegarac , lagb 1998 , dept . of linguistics , university of luton , 75 castle street , luton , bedfordshire , lu1 3aj . the conference immediately follows the relevance theory workshop , which takes place at the university of luton from 8th to 10th of september ( for further information contact : s . nicolle @ mdx . ac . uk ) . accommodation : will be in the university halls of residence , within 5 - 7 minutes walking distance from the park square building where the talks will take place . all bedrooms are single . each bedroom is part of a flat , which consists of a bathroom , kitchen and five bedrooms . rooms will be allocated strictly on a " first-come first-served " basis . registration : will begin at 12 noon on thursday the 10th of september in the park square building . bar : a bar will be available every day during the conference . food : please indicate vegetarian and any other dietary requirements on the booking form below . childcare : if you require childcare during the conference , please contact the local organiser for further details . travel by train : there are direct trains to luton from london kings cross station and from gatwick airport . it takes five minutes to walk from the rail station to park square campus ( a map will be sent with your booking receipt ) . travel by car : if driving , take junction 10 off the m1 ; initially follow the sign for the a1081 ; from the next roundabout follow signs for town centre ; once you are near the town centre follow signs for park square / university of luton . parking : free parking will be available for all delegates . events : the henry sweet lecture 1998 on the thursday evening will be delivered by dan sperber ( cnrs , and crea , ecole polytechnique paris ) and is entitled relevance in an evolutionary perspective . dan sperber will also be participating in a workshop on experimental pragmatics on thursday afternoon and evening . the workshop is organised by billy clark ( middlesex university ) . other contributors are anne bezuidenhout ( south carolina ) , stephen newstead ( plymouth ) , steve nicolle ( middlesex ) , and ira noveck ( ecole polytechnique paris ) . there will be a language tutorial on roshani , a pamir language of the eastern iranian group of indo - european , given by john payne ( university of manchester ) . there will be a wine party on the thursday evening , following dan sperber 's lecture . bookings : should be sent to the local organiser , address above . there is a 10 % discount on bookings received by friday 21 august . cheques should be made payable to " university of luton " . programme thursday 10 september 1998 1 . 00 lunch 2 . 00 workshop on experimental pragmatics organiser : billy clark ( middlesex university ) with anne bezuidenhout ( south carolina ) , stephen newstead ( plymouth ) , steve nicolle ( middlesex ) , ira noveck ( ecole polytechnique paris ) , dan sperber ( cnrs , and crea , ecole polytechnique paris ) 3 . 30 tea 4 . 00 workshop continues 6 . 30 dinner 7 . 45 henry sweet lecture 1998 dan sperber ( cnrs , and crea , ecole polytechnique paris ) relevance in an evolutionary perspective friday 11 september 1998 session a 9 . 00 masako ohara ( essex ) " mixed characteristics of verbal nouns in japanese " 9 . 40 kensei sugayama ( kobe city ) " japanese nqs and unaccusativity : from a wg point of view " 10 . 20 jasper holmes ( ucl ) " causing , changing and acting " session b 9 . 00 a . sophia s . marmaridou ( athens ) " conceptual metaphor and the relativity issue : the case of m . greek financial discourse " 9 . 40 nathalie franken ( ulb ) " towards a new definition of the act of communication " 10 . 20 isao higashimori ( kobe college ) " metaphor and metonymy in loanwords : relevance theory vs . lakovian cognitive semantics " session c 9 . 00 kuniya nasukawa ( tohoku gakuin and ucl ) " prenasalisation as a case of lenition " 9 . 40 cecile de cat and bernadette plunkett ( york ) " on the status of peripheral strong pronouns in early french " 10 . 20 harald clahsen and sam featherston ( essex ) " four accounts of ` trace reactivation ' : evidence from german scrambling " 11 . 00 coffee 11 . 30 language tutorial : roshani john payne ( university of manchester ) 1 . 00 lunch session a 2 . 00 norio nasu ( ucl ) " attract f and the status of spec - ip in infinitival clauses " 2 . 40 seiki ayano ( durham ) " multiple feature-checking and a double object construction in japanese " 3 . 20 laura rupp ( essex ) " ` inverted ' negative imperatives in english " session b 2 . 00 christoph unger ( sli ) " causality and relevance " 2 . 40 anne furlong ( newfoundland ) " the soul of wit : a relevance-theoretic approach " 3 . 20 anna papafragou ( ucl ) " possibility and concession " session c 2 . 00 dick hudson ( ucl ) " syncretism and the x - form " 2 . 40 chet creider ( western ontario ) " swahili verbal inflectional morphology in theoretical perspective " 3 . 20 anne zribi - hertz ( paris-8 ) " number specification and referentiality : a contrast between french and malagasy " 4 . 00 tea 4 . 30 lagb business meeting 5 . 30 language tutorial continues 6 . 30 dinner 7 . 45 language tutorial continues saturday 12 september 1998 session a 9 . 00 shen yuan ( hong kong ) " sentences with indefinite subjects and their information structures " 9 . 40 mayumi masuko ( waseda ) " valence reduction and lexical meaning " 10 . 20 valia kordoni ( tbingen ) " agentivity , causation , cliticization and psych verb constructions : at the syntax-lexical semantics interface " session b 9 . 00 s j hannahs & maggie tallerman ( durham ) " on getting ` the ' right in welsh " 9 . 40 nedzad leko ( oslo ) " syntactic versus semantic agreement in the oslo corpus of bosnian texts " 10 . 20 john payne and erika chisarik ( manchester ) " case - markers and postpositions : the hungarian problem " session c 9 . 40 sam featherston , harald clahsen , thomas muente and matthias grosz ( essex ) " raising and equi structures in hpsg and ppt : psycholinguistic evidence " 10 . 20 chieko kuribara ( reading ) " resetting or tactics ? : acquisition of functional category c by japanese learners of english " 11 . 00 coffee session a 11 . 30 delia bentley and thrhallur eythrsson ( manchester ) " ` have ' is not be " 12 . 10 bernadette plunkett ( york ) " locutionary inversion in modern french " session b 11 . 30 s j hannahs ( durham ) " unexceptional exceptions and french glides " 1 . 00 lunch session a 2 . 00 roger maylor ( durham ) " the german be - prefix : a case of incorporation " 2 . 40 jim miller ( edinburgh ) " what is a non-configurational language ? 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