Opening address
John Coleman, Oxford

Session 1

Silvio Cruschina: Focalisation and degrees of contrast in Italo-Romance

Mariko Honda: The role of prosody in Japanese: the use of accentual information in spoken word recognition by L1 and L2

Lahcen Alami: Focus, move and resumption

Thomas Culetto: Prediction of liaison in French by measures of Information Theory

Session 2

Fereshteh Modarresi & Alexandra Simonenko: Persian bare nouns: a case of noun incorporation

Ranjan Sen: Vocalic epenthesis in Early Latin: syllable structure and frequency effects

Lindsay Weichel: Grammatical radial categories in the languages of the Northwest Coast

Nick Zair: Sound change in Proto-Celtic: laryngeals before *w

Session 3

Eleni Staraki: The subjunctive marker na in Greek: temporal anchoring in the DP domain

Ho Leung Chan: Reduplication with phonological fixed segmentism -- the emergence of the unmarked tone in Cantonese

Miltiadis Kokkonidis: A first-order type-logical reconstruction of HPSG

Shanti Ulfsbjorninn: Floating consonants in French: the need for (at least) the skeleton at input

Anicka Fast: Managing linguistic diversity in the church: Ideological contestation within a shared moral framework in south-western Burkina Faso

Koji Kawahara: Indefinite null argument and its interaction with negation

Naomi Yamaguchi: Markedness, frequency: can we predict the order of acquisition of consonantal contrasts?

Keynote talk 1 - Mary Ogilvie LT
David Crystal, Wales (Bangor)
The future of language

Session 4

Catherine Taylor: Maximising stems

Susanna Lyne: "There’s no point in our wasting any more time" – or "us wasting"? Variation between genitive and non-genitive subjects of verbal gerunds in Present-Day English.

Barbara Tomaszewicz: Subjunctive mood in Polish and the Clause Typing Hypothesis

Brook Bolander: Power in blogs

Adriana Hanulikova: The role of possible words in speech comprehension

Session 5

Susanne Lohrmann: The role of adjectival inflection in Scandinavian

Elena Xeni: Revealing considerations encountered in humour translation: an empirical study

Mathias Schenner & Fabienne Salfner: Semantic effects of focus on modifiers in complement clauses

Sandra Kotzor: Lexical opposition: "canonical" and "peripheral" antonymy

Stephen Leonard: Spatial references in Icelandic: the issue of identity

Session 6

John Vanderelst: Degrees in the lexicon

Kentei Takaya: Knowledge and performance of small talk by Japanese users of English

James Webb: An analysis of Japanese indirect passives in the argument-structure of LFG

Alison Hall: Subsentential utterances and pragmatic enrichment

Zaira Khalilova: Complementation in Khwarshi

Saidi Darine: Typology of motion event in Tunisian Arabic

Angelika Kochan & Caroline Rossi: Children’s early prepositions in English and French: a social-interactional device