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1. Anna Maria
Di Sciullo,
Language Design
Message 1: Language Design
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Date: 20-Apr-2010
From: Anna Maria Di Sciullo <di_sciullo.anne-marieuqam.ca>
Subject: Language Design
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Language Design
Date: 27-May-2010 - 29-May-2010
Location: Montreal (Quebec), Canada
Contact: Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Contact Email: di_sciullo.anne-marieuqam.ca
Meeting URL: http://www.biolinguistics.uqam.ca
Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
Other Specialty: Biolinguistics
Meeting Description:
The last decade has seen advances in our understanding of the factors entering
into the human language design stemming from linguistic theory, biolinguistics,
and biophysics. This workshop brings together participants from a broad array of
disciplines to discuss topics that include the connection between linguistic
theory and genetics, evolutionary developmental biology and language variation,
computer science/information theory and the reduction of uncertainty/complexity.
Thursday May 27
The Language Design
The Biolinguistics Network
UQAM, May 27-29, 2010
9:00-9:30
Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Welcome
Language Evolution and Variation:
9:30-10:15
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, University of Arizona at Tucson: Language Design
and Evolution in a New Perspective
10:15-11:00
Giuseppe Longobardi, University of Trieste: How to Probe History with Grammar
11:00-11:15
Break
Phylogeny, Patterns of Variance in the Natural World:
11:15-12 :00
Richard Palmer, University of Alberta: Learning, Developmental Plasticity and
the Evolution of Morphological Asymmetries in Animals
12:00-14:00
Lunch
Language Design, Patterns and Complexity:
14:00-14:45
Lyle Jenkins, Boston Biolinguistics Institute: Emergence of Complexity in Design
the Case of Symmetry
14:45-15 :30
Anna Maria Di Sciullo, UQAM: Asymmetry in Language Design, a Biolinguistic
Perspective
15:30-15:45
Break
15:45-16:30
Boris Steipe, University of Toronto: Distribution and Role of Patterns in
Protein Structure
16:30-17:00
Meeting of the Biolinguistics Network
Friday May 28
Faculty of Language in the Narrow Sense:
9:00-9:45
Cedric Boeckx, ICREA/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: How the Language Organ
Self-organizes
9:45-10:30
Dana Isac, Concordia University: An Exercise in Syntactic (De)composition
10:30-11:00
Hisatsugu Kitahara, Keio University: On the Labeling Algorithm and its Alleged
Exceptions
11:00-11:15
Break
11:15-11:45
Christiana Christodoulou & Martina Wiltschko, UBC: Function without Content.
Evidence from Greek Subjunctive na
11:45-12:15
John Lumsden, UQAM: Binary Branching
12:15-14 :00
Lunch
Faculty of Language in the Broad Sense:
14:00-14:45
Howard Lasnik, University of Maryland, College Park: A Surprising Consequence of
Single Cycle Syntax
14:45-15:30
Peggy Speas, UMASS Amherst: The Minimal Structure of the Left Periphery
15:30-15:45
Break
15:45-16:30
James Higginbotham, USC: Pronominal Perspectives
16:30-17:15
Wolfram Hinzen, University of Durham: Parts and Wholes in Syntax
17:15-18:30
Poster Session
18:30-19:15
Paul Pietroski, University of Maryland, College Park: I-Languages and Conceptual
Reanalysis
19:15-20:00
Roberto De Almeida, Concordia University: Where do Coercion Effects Come from?
Saturday May 29
9:00-9:45
William Idsardi, University of Maryland, College Park: Language Design and the
Syntax-phonology Interface
9:45-10:30
Charles Reiss, Concordia University: Phonology is as Recursive as Syntax
10: 30-10: 45
Break
Processing, Computation:
10:45-11:15
Evie Malaia & Ronnie B.Wilbur, Purdue University: Experimental Evidence from
Sign Language for a Phonology-syntax-semantic Interface
11:15-12:00
Sandiway Fong, University of Arizona at Tucson & Jason Ginsburg, Aizu
University: Doubling Constituents: Pronouns and Antecedents in Phase Theory
12:00-13:30
Lunch
Development and Variation:
13:30-14:15
Partha Mitra, Cold Spring Harbor Institute: Culture in the Zebrafinch as a
Multigenerational Phenotype
14:15-15:00
Kleanthes Grohmann, University of Cyprus: The Dialect Design: Socio-syntax of
Development and the Grammar of Cypriot Greek
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-16:00
Tom Roeper, UMASS Amherst: Innate Grammar and Efficient Acquisition
16:00-16:30
Calixto Aguero Bautista, Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo: Non-native
Acquisition from a Biolinguistic Perspective
16:30-17:15
Ken Wexler, MIT: Linguistic Design and Development
17:30
Concluding remarks
Posters:
Sergio Balari, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Antonio Benítez-Burraco,
Universidad de Huelva, Víctor M. Longa, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela &
Guillermo Lorenzo, Universidad de Oviedo: Fossils of Language: What if We were
Looking in the Wrong Places?
Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Universidad de Huelva: 'Language Genes': They Exist and
We Have Them, but What do We Really Use Them for?
Shishir Bhattacharja, University of Dhaka: On the So-called Post-syntactic
Compounds in Japanese
Alex Drummond, University of Maryland, College Park: Constraints on Sideward
Movement
Atsushi Fujimori, UBC: The Patterns of Associating Sounds with Meanings: the
Case of Telicity
Thomas Graf, University of California, Los Angeles: Concealed Reference-set
Computation or How Syntax Escapes the Parser's Clutches
Tim Hunter, University of Maryland, College Park: Syntactic Effects of
Conjunctivist Interpretation
Monica Irimia, University of Toronto: Explaining Variation in Resultative
Secondary Predicates
Stefanie Röhrig, University of Mainz: The Acquisition of Scalar Implicatures
Bridget Samuels, University of Maryland, College Park: Phonological Forms: from
Ferrets to Fingers
Miyuki Sawada, National Kaohsiung Normal University: The Syntax and Semantics of
Compound Sentences
Jeffrey Watumull, University of Cambridge: Merge as a Minimax Solution to the
Optimization Problem of Generality
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