SE-LFG21 (29/10/2016, SOAS)
21st South of England LFG Meeting
The 21st South of England LFG meeting, a student-oriented meeting for presentations and discussion of various topics from an LFG perspective, will be held on Saturday, 29 October 2016, 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:
Saturday, 29 October 2016, Room 4426 (4th floor), SOAS main building, Russell Square.
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Meeting agenda:
11:00-12:00: Nigel Vincent, Manchester: Thoughts on the representation of non-finite forms
Abstract available here.
12:00-12:30: Khawla Ghadgoud, Manchester: Metalinguistic Negation in Libyan Arabic [cancelled due to illness]
The talk is about a special negative marker miŝ in Libyan Arabic, that distinguishes metalinguistic negation from standard negation.
12:30-2:00: Lunch
2:00-3:00: Andrew Spencer, Essex: Russian participles - a lexicalist account
Abstract available here.
3:00-4:00: Mary Dalrymple, Oxford: Unlike phrase structure category coordination
I will propose an analysis of the c-structure category of unlike coordinations like "a Republican and proud of it".
4:00: Planning for next time