......LINGUISTIC ASSOCIATION OF CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

............................THE TWENTY-SIXTH LACUS FORUM


....................................THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA

...................................EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA

...............................................AUGUST 3 - 7, 1999


Conference Theme:

THE LEXICON

Featured lecturers:

Joan Bybee, University of New Mexico
Wallace Chafe, UC Santa Barbara

Prizes and Commendations

The annual Presidents' Predoctoral Prize was awarded to Maite Taboada, Univ. of Alberta, for her paper 'Lexical cohesion as a measure in generic analysis'. Commendation in this competition was awarded to Toshiko Yamaguchi, Univ. of Essex, for 'Icelandic auxiliaries Hafa and Vera'.

The annual Presidents' Postdoctoral Prize (for young untenured scholars) was awarded to Carita Paradis, Univ. of Lund, for her paper 'Adjectives and boundaries', with commendations to Stefan Engelberg, Bergische Univ., for 'Verb meaning as event structure' and Regina Pustet, Univ. of Munich & Univ. of Colorado, for 'Split intransitivity in Lakota'.

• Final program

• Report of the Resolutions Committee

• Snapshots from the 26th LACUS Forum

Notice of the 27th Annual LACUS Forum

Dates: 25-29 July 2000
Place: Rice University, Houston TX
Local Host: Sydney Lamb
Theme: "Speaking and Comprehending"

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