SE-LFG06 (29/10/2011, SOAS)

6th South of England LFG meeting

We are planning the 6th South of England LFG meeting, a student-oriented meeting for presentations and discussion of various topics from an LFG perspective. It is planned for Saturday, 29h October 2011, at SOAS, London. Please feel free to attend if you are interested, or if you would like more information please get in touch with Mary Dalrymple.

Meeting details:

29th October 2011, Room 4418, SOAS main building, Russell Square.

For directions to SOAS see here: http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/ (also see map below). To view any planned engineering works affecting your journey within London, click here.

Sign in at the reception when you arrive to get a visitor sticker that allows you to enter the SOAS main building.

Meeting Agenda

11.00-12.00: What do action nominals mean? (Andrew Spencer, Essex)

12.00-12.30: Non-argument Datives in Maltese (Maris Camilleri, Essex/Surrey)

12.30-14.00: LUNCH

14.00-15.00: Negation as an exponent of negation in Eleme: an LFG analysis (Oliver Bond and Maria Flouraki, Salford & SOAS)

15.00-16.00: Focus in verbal conjugations: conjoint and disjoint verb forms in Bantu (Jenneke van der Wal, Cambridge)

16.00-16.15: BREAK

16.15-17.00: Experimenting with other grammar formalisms: the Grammatical Framework (Kakia Chatsiou, Essex)

17.00: Discussion, planning for next time (minutes)