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1. Jules
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Workshop on Locating Variability: Formal Approaches
Message 1: Workshop on Locating Variability: Formal Approaches
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Date: 10-Dec-2007
From: Jules Terry <terryjmunc.edu>
Subject: Workshop on Locating Variability: Formal Approaches
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Workshop on Locating Variability: Formal Approaches
Short Title: WLV
Date: 24-Apr-2008 - 26-Apr-2008
Location: Amherst, MA, USA
Contact: Kathy Adamczyk
Contact Email: kaalinguist.umass.edu
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Meeting Description:
This workshop will bring together researchers from the US and abroad for a
discussion of the treatment of variation within current formal linguistic theory
Workshop on Locating Variability: Formal Approaches
Center for the Study of African American Language
College of Humanities and Fine Arts
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
April 24th -26th, 2008
Recent trends in linguistic theory have led to increased interest in the role of
features and formal grammar in language variation, its expression as dialectal
difference, and speakers' choices of forms within dialects. While it is true
that research on dialects of English has focused mainly on the impact that
social factors have on the use of linguistic constructions, variation in
dialects of languages such as Italian, German, Dutch, and Flemish have been
productively analyzed using variation models developed within theoretical
syntax. This workshop will bring together researchers from the US and abroad for
a discussion of the treatment of variation within current formal linguistic
theory. Participating researchers will address the following themes:
The status of linguistic features in grammar and their relation to the way
languages and dialects vary
Intra-speaker variability due to selection of multiple grammars or parameters
Patterns of variation in language acquisition
Speakers
David Adger
Jeffrey Parrott
Charles Yang
Sjef Barbiers
Tom Roeper
James Walker
Lisa Green
Cristina Schmitt
Tracey Weldon
Randall Hendrick
Elisabeth Selkirk
Alison Henry
William Snyder
Richard Kayne
Joe Stemberger
Andrew Nevins
J. Michael Terry
William Labov
Christina Tortora
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