LINGUIST List 11.1581

Wed Jul 19 2000

Confs: Alternatives to Chomsky

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

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1. bruce richman, Alternatives to Chomsky

 The following is the schedule for the Alternatives to Chomsky meeting on 
Sept.4th. The meeting should have a lively discussion of some controversial 
topics. Everyone is invited to attend and to join in the discussion. 
Bruce Richman

ALTERNATIVES TO CHOMSKY: A NEW PARADIGM FOR LANGUAGE STUDIES FOR A
 NEW MILLENNIUM. A meeting that will be held on Monday Sept. 4
 at the University Inn and Conference Center of Rutgers University
 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in association with the Language
 Origins Society 2000 annual`meeting.

 The fee for the one-day meeting will be $20. Registration fee for the 
 LOS 2000 is $75.

9 AM to 12 Noon --
 Earl Anderson "Native-speaker Intuition and Folk-linguistics:
 'Cratyline Fantasies' as Allegories of the Nature of Language"
 Bruce Richman "Chomsky's Theory of Innate Language Structure:
 The Theory Has No Clothes!"
 Talbot Taylor "The Reflexive Character of Language"

1 PM to 5:30 PM --
 Par Segerdahl "On the Distinction Between Language and Its Formal
 Representation"
 Jeff Wollock "Language as Animate Motion: on the History of an 
 Idea"
 Victor Yngve "The Hard Science Alternative"
 R. Narasinhan "A Suggested New Paradigm for Studying
 Language Behaviour"
 Paul Cant "Guidelines for Post-Chomskyan Linguistic Theory"