Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2007, March 8-11. "Little Words"

The GURT 2007 conference will focus on research on the role of "little words"- items such as clitics, pronouns, determiners, conjunctions, discourse particles, auxiliary/light verbs, prepositions, etc.- that make up the skeletal "glue that modulates the semantic and syntactic relations between more lexical items.  Research in all aspects of "little words" that include their phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse function, historical development, variation, and acquisition (by children or adults) is welcomed.  The keynote speakers include Professors Jonathan David Bobaljik (UConn), Thomas Cravens (University of Wisconsin-Madison(), Katherine Demuth (Brown University), Kai von Fintel (MIT), and Claire Lefebvre (Universite du Quebec a Montreal).  The co-organizers are Professors Ronald P. Leow and Hector Campos (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) and Donna Lardiere (Department of Linguistics).  Monitor GULINGUIST for the announcement of the 2007 conference website and to learn about opportunities to participate.