LAGB Annual Meetings

• Workshop: Heritage languages in the UK
• Education Committee special session: Languages uptake in education, obstacles and interventions
• LT: Sinhala (Sujewaa Hettiarachchi) [Tutorial 1, Turorial 2]

• • Workshop: Contrastive focalisation, challenges and solutions

• Workshop: Sociolinguistic Typology, advances and challenges
• Education Committee special session: How linguistics can help schools
• LT: Uyghur (Yasutada Sudo, Tom Meadows, Pietro Baggio

• LT: Northern Irish English and Irish
• Workshop: Minoritized languages’ impact on linguistic theory
• Workshop: Advances and challenges in teaching linguistics at university
• Workshop: Syntax and language acquisition
• Education Committee special session: Language analysis in schools

• Workshops: New directions in Creole linguistics; Debates in the globalising of variationist sociolinguistics; Linguistics and community languages in schools; Particles in African languages
• LT: Louisiana Creole (Olivier Mayeux)

• Workshop: Formal Approaches to Variation
• Education Committee special session: The drop in uptake of English Language A-Level
• LT: Kiowa (Daniel Harbour)

• Workshop: Literary Linguistics
• Education Committee special session: UKLO and LASER
• Two poster sessions
• LT: Auslan (Adam Schembri)

• Workshop: Synthesising approaches to language learning and adaptation
• Themed session: Modelling language acquisition in diachrony
• Special session: Linguistics outreach
• Education Committee special session: Grammar teaching across the curriculum
• LT: Huave (Yuni Kim)

• Workshop: Advances in Linguistic Theory through Computation
• LT: Jaminjung/Ngaliwurru (Eva Schultze-Berndt)

• Workshop: The Current Status of Underlying Representations in Phonology
• Workshop: Morphological Complexity
• LT: Frisian (Jarich Hoekstra)

• Workshop: The Semantics of Embedding and the Syntax of the Left Periphery
• Workshop: Learning Biases in Natural and Artificial Language Acquisition
• LT: Armenian (Bert Vaux)

• Workshop: Primate Grammar (and beyond)
• Workshop: Comparative Morphology and Morphological Theory
• LT: Ritual Sumtu Chin (Justin Watkins)

• Workshop: Case
• Themed session: The syntax-phonology interface
• LT: Gayo (Domenyk Eades)

• Workshop: Using large-scale speech collections in phonetics and phonology research
• Themed session: The psycholinguistics of grammar
• LT: Tundra Nenets (Irina Nikolaeva)

• Workshop: Interactional Foundations for Language
• Themed session: Exemplar- and construction-based approaches to grammar
• Themed session: Disharmony in nominals
• LT: Herero (Lutz Marten)

• LT: Scottish Gaelic (David Adger)

• Workshop: New perspectives on the phonological cycle
• Themed session: Language Contact
• LT: Archi (Marina Chumakina, Dunstan Brown and Greville Corbett)

• Workshop: Issues in Dynamic Semantics
• Themed session: Contrast in Phonology
• LT: Slavey (Keren Rice)

• Themed session: Exponence in morphology and syntax
• Special session: Dynamic Syntax
• LT: Iwaidja (Nick Evans)

• Workshop: Pragmatics, Multidimensional Semantics, and Grammar
• Themed session: Complementation and Selection for Syntactic Categories
• LT: Pirahã (Daniel Everett)

• Workshop: Borrowability
• Workshop: Null subjects
• LT: Michif (Peter Bakker)

No more spring meetings!

• Workshop: Tense and aspect
• LT: Madi (Nigel Fabb)

• Workshop: Clitics
• LT: Inari Sami (Ida Toivonen)

• Workshop: Quantitative and corpus-based perspectives on the morpho-syntactic history of English.
• LT: Romani (Yaron Matras)

• Workshop: British Sign Language
• LT: British Sign Language (Bencie Woll)

• Workshop: Pragmatics and anaphora
• LT: Chamorro (Thomas Klein)

• Workshop: Construction grammar
• LT: Vietnamese (Victoria Rosen)

• Workshop: OT syntax
• LT: Akkadian (Guy Deutcher)

• Workshop: Intonation and grammar
• LT: Bengali (Gillian Ramchand)

• Workshop: Reference tracking
• LT: Lezgian (Martin Haspelmath)

• Workshop: OT phonology
• LT: Turkish (Jaklin Kornfilt)

• Workshop: Experimental pragmatics
• LT: Roshani (John Payne)

• Workshop: Functionalism vs formalism
• LT: Quechua (Pieter Muysken)

• Workshop: Celtic syntax
• LT: Welsh (Gwen Awbery & Bob Morris-Jones)

• Workshop: Inflectional morphology
• LT: Warlpiri etc. (Jane Simpson et al)

• Workshop: Learnability
• LT: Mohawk (Marianne Mithun)

• Workshop: Historical linguistics
• LT: Chechen & Ingush (Johanna Nichols)

• Workshop: Ellipsis, focus & anaphora
• LT: Kayardild (Nick Evans)

• Workshop: Grammar, discourse & information
• LT: Basque (Larry Trask)

• Workshop: Semantics in linguistics
• Parasession: Social functions of language
• Non-section papers – 51 in 3 streams

• Workshop: Lexical semantics
• Parasession: Sign Languages
• Parasession: Topics in phonological theory – 4
• Non-section papers – 39 in 3 streams

• Workshop: Endangered languages
• Parasession: Theory of language change – 2
• Non-section papers – 48, 3 streams

• Workshop: Disjoint indexing
• Non-section papers – 31, 2 or 3 streams
• Paresessions:
  • Educational linguistics (‘CLIE session’): Description and prescription in L1 and FL – 3
  • Linguistics and cognitive science – 3

• Workshop: Deductive systems & NLP
• Non-section papers – 35 in 2 streams

• Workshop: HPSG
• Parasession on Educational linguistics sponsored jointly by CLIE and the LSA – 4
• Non-section papers – 43 in 3 or 2 streams

• Workshop: Functional categories
• Non-section papers – 45 in 3 streams
• Linked ‘parasession’ by ESPRIT-DANDI group on acquisition of functional categories

• Workshop: Morphology-syntax interface
• Seminar: spoken language corpora

• Workshop: Binding theory and long distance anaphora

• Workshop: Empty categories in psycholinguistics

• Workshop: computational linguistics
• Non-section papers – 33
• Linked colloquium on NP structure 18-19/9

• ‘Section’ on Hiberno-English jointly organised with Irish Assn for Applied Linguistics – 12
• Non-section papers – 16

• Papers: 42 in 2 or 3 streams
• No sections, but overlap meeting with BAAL (about the Kingman Committee) – 6

• Papers: 35 in 2 streams
• Teach-in: Romance syntax.
• Section: Educational Linguistics, ‘The linguistic profile of a typical 5-year old’

• Papers – 33
• Workshop: Categorial Grammar – 4

• Papers – 29
• Teach-in: Situation Semantics
• Section: Educational Linguistics: Syntactic categories in linguistic description

• Papers – 35
• Teach-in: Discourse Representation Theory

• Papers – 35
• Teach-in: Parsing – 2

• Papers – 16
• Colloquium: Non-linear phonology – 5

• Papers – 22
• Teach-in: Linguistics and visionary science

• Papers – 25 in 2 streams
• Teach-in: GB theory – 2
• Section: Educational linguistics (panel discussion): Higher-level differences between speech and writing
• Workshop: Alternatives to unemployment

• Papers – 25
• New section: Educational linguistics (panel discussion on linguistic equality)

• Papers – 16
• Workshop: Linguistics and AI – 4

• Papers – 11 (4 in 2 streams with workshop)
• Workshop: Stylistics

• Papers – 13
• Workshop: Naturalness & abstractness in phonology

• Papers – 13
• Workshop: The English modals

• Papers – 17
• Workshop: Grammatical relations and the status of complement clauses -2

• `Theme’: The data of linguistics
• Proceedings to be published in York Papers in Linguistics. edited by John Green
• Non-section papers – 13

• Held jointly with Societas Linguistica Europaea
• Non-section papers – 22
• Sections (* = named convenor):
  • Historical linguistics* – 2
  • LTLL(SL)* – 2
  • Extraordinary semantics – 3

• Non-section papers – 12
• Sections:
  • LTLL(NL) – 1 paper
  • Language and literature – 1

• Non-section papers – 10
• Sections:
  • DCL – 2 papers
  • LTLL(NL/SL) – 4

• Non-section papers -9
• Sections (for abbreviations see 4/72):
  • DCL – 3 papers
  • Historical – 1
  • LTLL(NL) – 3
  • LTLL(SL) – 2
  • Semantics – 2

• Non-section papers – 12
• Sections (just one paper each):
  • Developmental and Clinical Linguistics
  • Historical
  • Language Teaching and Language Learning (Native Language)
  • Language Teaching and Language Learning (Second Language)
  • Semantics
• Stylistics Panel Discussion

• Non-section papers – 10
• Section:
  • LTLL(L1) – 1

• Non-section papers – 10

• Non-section papers – 11
• Sections:
  • LTLL(L1) – 2
  • LTLL(L2) – 1

• Non-section papers – 7
• Sections:
  • Clinical and Developmental Linguistics (CDL) – 1
  • LTLL(L1) -2
  • LTLL(L2) – 1
  • Literature – 1
  • Semantics – 2

• Non-section papers – 8
• Sections:
  • LTLL (Native Language – L1) – 1
  • LTLL (Second Language – L2) – 2
  • (Linguistics and) literature – 1

• Non-section papers – 7
• Sections:
  • Historical – 2
  • LTLL – 3

• Non-section papers – 8
• Sections:
  • Semantics – 1
  • Developmental and clinical – 1
  • LTLL – 2
  • Psycholinguistic – 1

• Non-section papers – 6
• Congress reports – 2
• Sections:
  • Semantics – 1
  • Developmental and Clinical Linguistics – 2
  • Phonological Theory – 1
  • Language Teaching and Language Learning (LTLL)- 2

• Non-section papers – 9
• Sections:
  • Semantics – 1
  • Historical – 1
• Elementary ‘seminar’ on generative grammar