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CASTL Kick-off Conference
Start date:
02.10.2003
End date:
04.10.2003
Venue:
University of Tromsø
The Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL) at the University of Tromsø is hosting a conference in linguistics on October 2-4 to mark the first year of its operation.
The program is now available by following the "program" link in the gray field to the right of this page.
The confirmed speakers are:
Invited speakers
Mark BAKER (Rutgers)
Hagit BORER (USC)
Joan BRESNAN (Stanford)
Sandra CHUNG (USC)
Guglielmo CINQUE (Venice)
George N. CLEMENTS (CNRS)
Katherine CROSSWHITE (Rochester)
Stuart DAVIS (Indiana)
Richard KAYNE (NYU)
Hilda KOOPMAN (UCLA)
Paul de LACY (Cambridge)
Armin MESTER (UCSC)
Norvin RICHARDS (MIT)
Tobias SCHEER (Nice)
Michal STARKE (NYU)
Donca STERIADE (MIT)
Moira YIP (UCL)
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Local speakers
Patrik BYE
Marit JULIEN
Gjert KRISTOFFERSEN (Bergen)
Ove LORENTZ
Chantal LYCHE
Bruce MORÉN
Øystein NILSEN
Curt RICE
Peter SVENONIUS
Knut Tarald TARALDSEN
Øystein VANGSNES
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The themes of the conference are central issues that CASTL aims to investigate, namely formal analyses of natural language phenomena in a broad cross-linguistic perspective. These include:
PHONOLOGY
universal scales in phonology
segment strength and positional neutralization
the nature of prosodic representations
interactions between phonology and morphology
SYNTAX:
the status of parameters in linguistic theory and their relevance to acquisition
the nature of displacement and locality
the architecture of clause structure and extended projections
the representation of argument structure and other lexical semantic properties of words
the properties of categories such as noun and verb cross-linguistically
Inquiries may be directed to Senior Executive Officer Asbjørn Bartnes.
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