Celtic Linguistics Conference
                        University College Dublin
                           June 22nd-23rd 1995
 
 
 
Thursday 22nd June

9.00-9.40      Robin Schafer, University of California, San Diego
               What Breton reveals about the analysis of `long
               head movement' constructions

9.40-10.20     Maire Noonan, University College Dublin
               Licensing projections in Irish and Welsh


10.50-11.30    Anna Bosch, University of Kentucky
               A gestural analysis of epenthesis in Scottish
               Gaelic

11.30-12.10    Maire Ni Chiosain, University College Dublin
               Optimal forms of vowel stems in Irish

12.10-1.00     Invited speaker:  Jim McCloskey, University of
               California, Santa Cruz
               Case-marking and clause-type in Irish



2.20-3.10      Invited speaker: David Adger, University of York
               Do objects shift?

3.10-3.50      Gillian Ramchand, Oxford University
               Non-finite complementation in Modern Scottish
               Gaelic


4.20-5.00      Elizabeth Pyatt, Harvard University
               Optimality vs. repair rules: the case of the Welsh
               voiceless trills and nasals

5.00-5.40      Eugeniusz Cyran, Catholic University of Lublin
               Parametric occurrence of elements and the Munster
               Irish consonantal system
 
 

Friday 23rd June

9.00-9.40      Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley, MIT, Elizabeth Pyatt,
               Harvard University
               Old Irish: a double derivation of VSO

9.40-10.20     David Willis, Somerville College, Oxford
               Expletive subjects and clitic pronouns in the
               history of Welsh


10.50-11.30    Bob Borsley, University of Wales, Bangor
               On the non-nominal nature of Celtic verb-nouns

11.30-12.10    Maggie Tallerman, University of Durham
               Infinitival clauses and subject positions in
               Modern and Middle Welsh

12.10-1.00     Invited speaker: Ian Roberts, University of Wales,
               Bangor
               Word-order and mutations in Welsh



2.10-3.00      Invited speaker: Jim Scobbie, Queen Margaret
               College, with Christine MacKenzie, Daphne Waters,
               Queen Margaret College
               The acquisition of phonology with specific
               reference to Lewis Gaelic

3.00-3.40      Edmund Gussmann, Catholic University of Lublin
               Putting your best foot forward: stress in Munster Irish


4.00-4.40      Cathal Doherty, University College Dublin
               Identificational copular sentences in Irish

4.40-5.20      Nigel Duffield, McGill University
               Any objections to number projections?

5.20-6.00      Donall O Baoill, Institiuid Teangeolaiochta
               Eireann
               The Modern Irish reflexive form fein as a three-
               in-one anaphor