1997 Colloquia

10 January
Anne Abeillé, IUF & University Paris 7 Denis Diderot
French Word Order and the Word Phrase Distinction (abstract)

24 January
David I. Beaver, University of Tilburg
A Century of Presupposition: Enough Already? (abstract)

7 February
Herman Hendriks, Institute for Language and Speech, Utrecht
On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Information Packaging (abstract)

14 February
Jaap M. van der Does, ILLC, University of Amsterdam
Direct Perception Reports (abstract)

21 February
Cleo Condoravdi, Cycorp, Austin TX
Polarity Reversal in Counterfactuals (abstract)

28 February
Steve Franks, Indiana University and University of Connecticut
Slavic Clitics in Search of a Host (abstract)

14 March
Miriam Butt, Universität Stuttgart
Disposition/Ability in Urdu Complex Predicates and Passives (abstract)

11 April
John Lipski, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Creole-to-creole contacts in the Spanish Caribbean (abstract)

18 April
Ron Kaplan, Xerox PARC and Stanford university
Rens Bod, University of Amsterdam
A Probabilistic Approach to Lexical Functional Analysis (abstract)

2 May
Geoff Nunberg, Xerox PARC and Stanford University
New Frontiers in Punctuation Research (abstract)

9 May
Michael Maratsos, University of Minnesota
Can Grammar Make You Feel Different? (abstract)

16 May
Jennifer Arnold, Stanford University
The Role of Frequency in Reference Processing (abstract)

23 May
Henriëtte de Swart, Stanford University
Negation and the Temporal Structure of Narrative Discourse (abstract)

30 May
Shuichi Yatabe, Stanford and Tokyo University
Particle ellipsis and focus projection in Japanese (abstract)

17 October
Derek Bickerton, University of Hawai'i (webpage)
The origins of linguistic universals: Darwin and Chomsky together again (abstract)

21 November
Ivan Sag, Stanford University (webpage)
Satisfying Constraints on Extraction and Adjunction (abstract)

5 December
Ray Jackendoff, Brandeis University (webpage)
What's in the Lexicon? (abstract)