Conference Information

Full Title:	Methods in Biolinguistics Workshop

Location:	Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Start Date:	12-Jul-2013 - 12-Jul-2013
Contact:	Bridget Samuels
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Meeting URL:	http://lsa2013.lsa.umich.edu/2012/09/14-methods-in-biolinguistics/
Meeting Description:	In conjunction with the LSA Special Interest Group on Biolinguistics, we are pleased to announce a workshop on methodology in biolinguistics, to be held on July 12, 2013 at the LSA Summer Institute at the University of Michigan. The goal of biolinguistics is to explore theories of language that are biologically plausible as part of an effort to explain how the faculty of language arises both ontogenetically (over the course of an individual’s lifetime) and phylogenetically (on an evolutionary timescale). The LSA Special Interest Group on Biolinguistics, founded in 2009, seeks to explore these questions as well as to help the field of biolinguistics define itself by, as stated in the SIG description, ‘helping to identify what makes biolinguistics ‘bio’ (and ‘linguistic’), initiate discussions on how it differs from previous models of generative grammar (and how it doesn’t), debate whether generative grammar is actually a prerequisite […] and so on.’ In this workshop, we will foster dialogue on biolinguistic methodology. This topic emerged as a topic of interest and concern during the roundtable discussion at the end of the Workshop on Biolinguistics Organized Session at the LSA Annual Meeting in Portland, January 2012. Specifically, we aim with this workshop to field presentations about how biolinguists (both practicing and aspiring ones) can contribute to interdisciplinary dialogue and be informed consumers of data and literature from fields such as genetics, archaeology, and evolutionary biology. We will also feature morning and afternoon roundtable discussions with the speakers. Invited Speakers: Noam Chomsky, MIT (T.B.C.) Norbert Hornstein, University of Maryland
Linguistic Subfield:	Discipline of Linguistics
LL Issue:	23.5382


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