5th Celtic Linguistics Conference Programme

    The final programme is displayed below, and is available here as a PDF file. Unfortunately, the invited speaker Jim McCloskey has had to cancel his participation.

    Fifth Celtic Linguistics Conference 2007 Programme
    All talks take place at Plas Gregynog
    Friday 7th September 2007
    14.00-14.40 Registration
     Front Desk and Bob Borsley/David Willis
    14.40-14.50 Welcome
    14.50--15.30   Gwen Awbery (Cardiff University)
    Reduplicated Responses in Southern Welsh Dialect
    Abstract
    15.30-16.10  Peredur Davies and Margaret Deuchar (University of Wales Bangor)
    How English is Welsh? Identifying linguistic convergence in the speech of Welsh-English bilinguals
    Abstract
    16.10 -- 16.40 Tea
    16.40--17.20  Elen Robert (University of Wales, Bangor)
    Accommodating new speakers? An attitudinal investigation of L2 speakers of Welsh in south-east Wales.
    Abstract
    17.20--18.00  Alain Rouveret (Université Paris VII)
    A Derivational Approach to Welsh VP Ellipsis
    Abstract

    18.00--19.00  Virginia Gathercole (University of Wales, Bangor)
    Input, Language Dominance, Semantic, Syntactic, and Cognitive Effects: Evidence from Welsh Bilinguals
    Abstract
    19.00 -- 20.00 Dinner
    20.00   Free Time

    Saturday 8th September 2007
    9.00--9.40 Bob Borsley (University of Essex)
    On some Welsh Unbounded Dependency Constructions
    Abstract
    9.40--10.20 Ingo Mittendorf and Louisa Sadler (University of Essex)
    Difficult Its Analysis: The Welsh in-respect-of AP Construction
    Abstract
    10.20--11.00 David Willis (Cambridge)
    English-Welsh language contact in the realm of negation
    Abstract
    11.00 -- 11.30 Coffee
    11.30--12.10   S. J Hannahs (University of Newcastle)
    Welsh vowel mutation: stratal OT and (the absence of) morphological motivation
    Abstract
    12.10--13.10   Tonio Green (University of Potsdam)
    How many short vowel phonemes are there in Irish?
    Abstract
    13.10 -- 14.10 Lunch
    14.10--14.50   Maggie Tallerman (University of Newcastle)
    Overt and Unrealised Elements: Evaluating a dependency distance account of Welsh syntactic soft mutation
    Abstract
    14.50--15.30   Pavel Iosad (Moscow State University) (TBC)
    AllWordsLeft: the development of Welsh mutation
    Abstract
    15.30--16.10   Milan Rezac (Université de Nantes)
    The Breton broad subject construction
    Abstract
    16.10 -- 16.40 Tea
    16.40--17.20   Dónall Ó Baill (Queen's University Belfast) and Hideki Maki (Gifu University, Japan)
    A Paradox in Interaction of A and A' Chain Formation in Modern Irish
    Abstract
    17.20--18.00   Kenji Oda (University of Toronto)
    Irish (headed) headless relatives: some descriptions and their theoretical implications
    Abstract
    18.00--18.40   Glenda Newton (University of Cambridge)
    Changes in the C system: the development of absolute inflection and verb intiial word order in Irish
    Abstract
    19.00 -- 20.00 Dinner
    20.00   Free Time

    Sunday 9th September 2007
    9.00--9.40 Diarmuid Ó Sé (University College Dublin)
    The Colour Terms of Irish
    Abstract
    9.40--10.20 Mélanie Jouitteau (University of Leiden) and Milan Rezac (Université de Nantes)
    Phi Interveners in Breton
    Abstract
    10.20--11.00 Alessio Frenda (Trinity College, Dublin)
    Notes on the Evolution of Grammatical Gender in the languages of the Insular Celtic group
    Abstract

    11.00 -- 11.30 Coffee
    11.30--12.10 Aidan Doyle (NUI, Cork)
    The Irish Progressive Passive: a historical perspective
    Abstract

    12.10--12.50 Ash Asudeh (Carleton University, Ottawa)
    Resumptive Fake Indexicals in Irish
    Abstract
    13.00 -- 14.00 Lunch

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      The organisers gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain and the British Academy .

      Last Updated 12/7/07 by Louisa Sadler