Event

The 2008 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB)

Dates

September 10 — 13, 2008

Venue

University of Essex, UK

Organizer

Linguistics Association of Great Britain

Keynote speakers

* Paul Kiparsky, professor of linguistics, Stanford University, US

* Bernard Comrie, director, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

* Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, lecturer in linguistics and English language, The University of Manchester, UK

* Geert Booij, professor of linguistics, Leiden University, The Netherlands

* Sarah Collie, professor, Department of Linguistics and English Language, The University of Edinburgh, UK

Themed session

Language Contact

Workshop

New Perspectives on the Phonological Cycle

Papers

* Long Object Shift and Agreement

* The Phonological Representation of Syllabic Nasals

* Pragmatic Enrichment and Non-restrictive Relatives

* Predictable Change in Pronunciation

* Copy Modification and the Architecture of the Grammar

* Lexical Semantics of Nouns and Prepositional Complements

* Long Distance Binding between Syntax and Discourse

* The Role of Different Acquisition Processes in Language Contact

* Grammars for the Modeling of Dialogue

Registration fees

* Before August 8: ￡290 （about $578）

* After August 8: ￡310 （about $618）

An additional fee of ￡10 (about $20) is payable for non-members in addition to the standard fees.

Registration deadline

August 8, 2008

Contact

E-mail: lagb2008@essex.ac.uk

For more information, go to www.lagb.org.uk