Fourth Celtic Linguistics Conference 2003 Programme
All talks take place in the Chadwick Room, Selwyn College
Monday 1st September 2003
13.00-13.55 Registration
Foyer of the Chadwick Room, Selwyn College
13.55-14.00 Welcome
14.00--14.40   Maggie Tallerman (University of Durham)
The syntax of Welsh "direct object mutation" revisited
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14.40-15.20  Margaret Deuchar (University of Wales Bangor)
A typological approach to Welsh-English code-switching
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15.20--16.00  Gwen Awbery (Cardiff University)
Clause-initial particles in Spoken Welsh
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16.00 -- 16.30 Tea
16.30--17.10 David Willis (University of Cambridge)
Some implications of Welsh noun phrases for parametric variation
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17.10--17.50  Paolo Acquaviva (University College Dublin)
Goidelic inherent plurals and the morphosemantics of number
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17.50-18.50  INVITED SPEAKER
Jim McCloskey (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Agreement and prominence in the syntax of Irish
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19.30 Dinner followed by drinks


Tuesday 2nd September 2003
9.00--10.00 INVITED SPEAKER
Erich Poppe (Philipps-Universitaet Marburg)

Have-lexicalisations in Breton and Cornish: Some typological and methodological considerations.
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10.00--10.40 Anna Bondaruk (Catholic University Lublin)
The licensing of subjects and objects in Irish nonfinite clauses
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10.40--11.10 Coffee
11.10--11.50 Mélanie Jouitteau, (Université de Nantes/Naoned)
The two triggers for the Brythonic divorce
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11.50--12.30 Anna Bosch (University of Kentucky)
Scottish Gaelic dialectology: A preliminary assessment of the Survey of the Gaelic Dialects of Scotland
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12.30--14.00 Lunch (at 13h)
14.00--14.40 Norval Smith (University of Amsterdam)
Syllable structures in Gaelic dialects compared: Applecross and East Perthshire Gaelic unravelled?
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14.40--15.20 Antony Green (Universitaet Potsdam)
On the independence of phonology and morphology: Two lenitions in Manx
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15.20-16.00 Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Manchester)
The interaction of clitics and stress assignment in Old Irish
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16.00--16.30 Tea
16.30--17.10 Robert Borsley and Bob Morris Jones (University of Essex and University of Wales Aberystwyth)
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The distribution and interpretation of Welsh N-words
17.10--17.50 Ingo Mittendorf and David Willis (University of Cambridge)
Evidence for the development of Welsh negation from the Historical Corpus of the Welsh Language
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17.50--18.30 Business Meeting
19.30 Conference Dinner


Wednesday 3rd September 2003
9.00--10.00 INVITED SPEAKER
Alain Rouveret (Université Paris VII)

Resumption vs. movement, binding vs. scope, Welsh vs. Irish: some asymmetries in Celtic relativization
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10.00--10.40 Nicolas Guilliot (Université de Nantes)
Reconstruction and resumption in relatives in Breton
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10.40--11.10 Coffee
11.10--11.50 Louisa Sadler (University of Essex)
Tense/subject-shared Welsh coordination
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11.50--12.30 Mélanie Jouitteau and Milan Rezac (Université de Nantes/Naoned and University of Toronto)
Deriving the Complementarity Principle
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12.30--14.00 Close and Lunch (at 13h)




Main Conference Page


Call for Abstracts. Registration and Accommodation


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

Last Updated 14/05/03 by Louisa Sadler