Addresses: GLOW NEWSLETTER GLOW BUREAU Marc Richards Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Institut für Linguistik Utrecht University University of Leipzig PO Box 85253 Beethovenstr. 15 3508 AG Utrecht D‐04107 Leipzig The Netherlands Germany Phone + 31 30 253 9163 richards@uni‐leipzig.de Fax + 31 30 253 6406 [email protected] http://glow.uit.no GLOW Newsletter & Conference Handbook CONTENTS Introduction...................................................................................................................... 2 Changes to the Board ....................................................................................................... 3 GLOW 32, Nantes: Practical information ......................................................................... 4 Registration .................................................................................................................. 4 Registration fees........................................................................................................... 4 Travel information ........................................................................................................ 4 Accommodation............................................................................................................ 5 Venues and maps.......................................................................................................... 6 Contacts........................................................................................................................ 7 Selection Procedure.......................................................................................................... 8 Reimbursement ................................................................................................................ 8 GLOW 32 Programme..................................................................................................... 10 Colloquium, April 16-18 .............................................................................................. 10 Workshops, April 15.................................................................................................... 13 Alternates ................................................................................................................... 16 Abstracts in alphabetical order (unnumbered pages) ………………………………………………. 17 1 INTRODUCTION Welcome to the 62nd GLOW Newsletter, and to the 32nd GLOW Conference. The former, in keeping with Spring newsletter tradition, is designed to accompany the latter, and constitutes a comprehensive guide to attending this year’s conference in Nantes from April 15th to 18th. Practical information can be found at the start of the newsletter, from page 4 onwards. This is then followed, from page 10, by the programmes for the main colloquium and all three workshops. Finally, beginning on page 17, the abstracts for all the non-invited talks are included, in strictly alphabetical order. The invited talks this year are being given by Danny Fox, Gillian Ramchand and Paul Smolensky (main colloquium), Colin Phillips (acquisition workshop), and Thomas Ede Zimmermann (semantics workshop). Two differences from recent years might strike you in perusing the programmes and abstracts contained herein. The first is that the main colloquium is themed, with all the talks relating to the topic “On the architecture of the grammar: Y, if and how”. This means that there are no parallel sessions for syntax and phonology this year; instead, we have a single three-day session on a common topic which will hopefully promote the interface between syntacticians and phonologists, and everyone else besides. The second difference is that, as proposed and approved at last year’s business meeting, the colloquium abstracts now appear unshorn of their references, with third pages intact (workshop abstracts, however, remain truncated). We hope that the inclusion of reference pages will add to the handiness of the newsletter; your feedback on this would be welcome, of course, as would be any other suggestions you might have regarding format or content. The next newsletter, being a Fall edition, will be purely electronic, so check your spam folders around September time. Marc Richards 2 CHANGES TO THE BOARD The current composition of the GLOW Board is given in the table below. The complete GLOW Board for 2008-2009 Congress President Hamida Demirdache 2008-2009 Chairperson Artemis Alexiadou 2007-2009 Secretary Uli Sauerland 2007-2009 Treasurer Maaike Schoorlemmer 2007-2009 Newsletter Editor Marc Richards 2008-2010 Journal Editor Harry van der Hulst Website Manager Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson 2008-2010 Member A Anna Cardinaletti 2008-2010 Member B Lida Veselovska 2007-2009 Member C Viola Schmitt 2007-2009 Member D Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero 2008-2010 Advisory member 1 Henk van Riemsdijk Advisory member 2 Martin Everaert Co-opted member Marc van Oostendorp 2007-2009 (Phonology) Every year, several positions come up for renewal. Nominations are normally sent directly to the Chair, who accepts until January 1st. The GLOW Board wishes to remind GLOW members to be thinking about who they would like to represent them on the board in the future, and to nominate those people in good time. For the coming year, the Board has made or received the following nominations: • Bozena Rozwadowska (Congress President) • Sjef Barbiers (Chairperson) • Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (Secretary) • Maaike Schoorlemmer (re-election for Treasurer) • Lida Veselovska (re-election for Member B) • Viola Schmitt (re-election for Member C) • Tobias Scheer (Co-opted Member for Phonology) 3 WELCOME TO GLOW 32, NANTES! PRACTICAL INFORMATION REGISTRATION Registration for the workshops on April 15 will open at 8h30 in the Censive building, on the Tertre Campus. Registration for the (workshop +) main colloquium will start on Wednesday 15th April during the Reception (18h00-21h00) at the Cité des Congrès (Foyer Haut 200). Registration will also be available on April 16 at the Cité des Congrès, from 8h30. The registration desk will be located in the Foyer Haut 200. GLOW membership, which is necessary for registration, can also be purchased at the registration desk. Please note that after April 3rd, late registration fees apply. REGISTRATION FEES REGULAR REGISTRATION LATE REGISTRATION (BEFORE APRIL 3RD) (AFTER APRIL 3RD) Faculty Student Faculty Student Workshops free free Workshops 10€ 10€ Main session 70€ 30€ Main session 80€ 40€ Main session + 70€ 30€ Main session + 80€ 40€ workshops workshops For more information and online registration (starting March 1st), please consult the conference website: http://www.lettres.univ-nantes.fr/lling/glow32/ TRAVEL INFORMATION Nantes is a national and international destination at the heart of a highly efficient transportation network, with excellent train and airplane connections. By plane Nantes-Atlantique airport (NTE), the first air travel hub in Western France with 2 million passengers per year, offers 67 domestic and international destinations. For flight information, including a map of cities air-connected to nantes, please check the English version of the Nantes-Atlantique Airport website at http://www.nantes.aeroport.fr/ANA-English/Page/Default.aspx It takes 30 minutes to get from the airport to the centre of Nantes by the shuttle bus TAN Air. The shuttle has a timetable adapted to scheduled flights (available on the TAN website http://www.tan.fr/), with no extra charge for luggage, and stops at the city's main points: the city centre (Place du Commerce), the Cité des Congrès, and 4 the SNCF railway station, South Entrance. You can buy your ticket (6.20 euros) from the shuttle driver or online on the TAN website. The Tan Air ticket is valid throughout the TAN network for one hour from the moment you stamp it (in the tram). By train Nantes has excellent railway connections with the rest of France. Every day, 21 TGV high-speed trains (every half hour during peak hours) connect Nantes with Paris in 2 hours, and with Lyon and Lille in 4 hours. There are also several daily TGV connections (2h50) with Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport. Tickets can be booked and purchased online at http://www.tgv- europe.com/en/home/. You can print your ticket yourself or you can retrieve it in a French railway station with the credit card that was used to pay for it. If you are younger than 26 or older than 60 years, you are entitled to a reduced fare. Please note that Nantes railway station has 2 exits: * Exit North: tramway to the city centre. * Exit South: pedestrian access to Cité des Congrès Nantes (Nantes International Convention Centre), the conference venue. ACCOMMODATION It is easy to find accommodation in Nantes, as the city has a vast choice of hotels. For a full overview of possible accommodation arrangements, you can check the Nantes Métropole Tourist Office website http://www.nantes-tourisme.com/en/accommodation/accommodation/ We recommend picking a hotel that is in the city center. A list of hotels is given on the conference website (http://www.lettres.univ-nantes.fr/lling/glow32/; alternatively: http://glow.uit.no/index.php?page=GLOW32), with information on the prices and locations relative to the conference venue (Cité des Congrès), as well as websites for online booking (either directly through the hotel website or via the Tourist Office). 5 VENUES AND MAPS Workshops – Université de Nantes, Campus Tertre, Bâtiment de la Censive The GLOW 32 workshops (April 15) will be held at the University of Nantes, Campus Tertre, Bâtiment de la Censive. From the