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Directory         1.     Anna Maria Di Sciullo , New Perspectives on Language Creativity Message 1: New Perspectives on Language Creativity Date: 25-Jul-2011 From: Anna Maria Di Sciullo <di_sciullo.anne-marieuqam.ca> Subject: New Perspectives on Language Creativity E-mail this message to a friend New Perspectives on Language Creativity Date: 25-Sep-2011 - 27-Sep-2011 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Contact: Anna Maria Di Sciullo Contact Email: < click here to access email > Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Neurolinguistics Other Specialty: Biolinguistics Meeting Description: New Perspectives on Language Creativity: Composition and Recursion This conference addresses central issues on the computational procedure that gives rise to the discrete infinity of language from a biolinguistic perspective (Lenneberg 1967; Chomsky 1995, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2011; Chierchia 1995, 2004, 2006; Wexler 1996, 2003; Riemsdijk 1998, 2004; Jenkins 2000, 2004, 2011; Pica 2001, 2008; Yang 2002, 2011; Di Sciullo 2005; Pesetsky 2007, 2009; Piattelli-Palmarini & Uriagereka 2008; Friederici 2009; Friedrich & Friederici 2009; Hinzen 2009, 2011; Longobardi & Guardiano 2009, 2011; Di Sciullo et al. 2010; Larson, Déprez & Yamakido 2010; Mukherj 2010; Stabler 2010, 2011; Berwick & Larson 2011; Chomsky 2011; Di Sciullo & Boeckx 2011; Kosta 2011; Lasnik 2011, among other works). It aims to bring long lasting questions on language creativity into new light. It invites contributions on the properties of the composition operation and of the recursive procedure that might very well account for much of the progress made by the human species. It also invites contributions on the neuronal substrate of this computational procedure and raises the question whether this neuronal faculty sub serves grammar as well as other recursive systems, including mathematics and music. Finally, it invites contributions that deepen our understanding of the relations between biology and language impairments. The questions raised thus include, without being limited to, the following: What is the computational procedure giving rise to the discrete infinity of language? What do we know about its neuronal substrate? Why does this procedure seems to be limited in some cases, e.g. complements, and unbounded in other cases, e.g. adjuncts? Does this computational procedure also sub serves mathematics and music? How do interfaces propagate language creativity? How does language creativity relate to the genetically attested language disorders and speech impairments? This conference is part of the cycle of conferences organized by the Biolinguistic Network (www.biolinguistics.uqam.ca) and will be held at the Université du Québec à Montreal on September 25-27, 2011. The Conferences organized by the International Biolinguistic Network are supported by the Major Collaborative Research on Interface Asymmetries funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and by the Dynamic Interfaces project funded by the Government of Quebec Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture. Invited Speakers: Roland Friedrich (Department of Mathematics, Humboldt University in Berlin & Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig) Peter Kosta (Department of Slavic Linguistics, University of Potsdam) Nirmalangshu Mukherj (Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi) David Pesetsky (Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT) Pierre Pica (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris) Henk C. van Riemsdijk (Founder of GLOW, Tilburg University) Edward Stabler (Department of linguistics, UCLA) Selection Committee: Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard University) Roberto De Almeida (Concordia University) Anna Maria Di Sciullo (UQAM) Wolfram Hinzen (Durham University) Richard Larson (Stony Brook University) Howard Lasnik (University of Maryland) Giuseppe Longobardi (University of Trieste) Ken Wexler (MIT) Organizing Committee: Anna Maria Di Sciullo (UQAM) Calin Batori (UQAM) Stanca Somesfalean (UQAM) Program: Sunday 25 September 9: 00- 10:00 Registration 10:15-10:30 Anne Rochette, Dean, UQAM Welcome Creativity 10:30-11:15 Henk van Reimsdick, Tilburg University, Invited speaker Title: An Element-Theoretical Approach to Cohesion and Repulsion in Syntax 11:15- 12:00 Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Université du Québec a Montréal Language Creativity in numerals 12:00- 13:30 Lunch 13:30 – 14:15 Roland Friedrich, Humboldt University Berlin and Max Planck Institute Leipzig, Invited speaker Neural Correlates of the Semantics of Mathematical Logic 14:15- 14:30 Break 14:30-15:15 David Pesetsky, MIT, Invited speaker TBA 15:15-15:30 Break 15:30- 16:30 Panel 19:00 Social Event Monday 26 September Composition 9:15- 10:00 Pierre Pica, CNRS Paris, Invited speaker TBA 10:00-10:30 Wayne Cowart, Dana McDaniel, K. Heather Thompson, Tatiana Romanchishina, University of Southern Maine Title: How to Merge Abruptly, Silently, and Successfully Break 10:45-11:15 Monica Irimia, Univeristy of Toronto Title : Parallel Merge. Multiple Agree, and Complex Event formation 11:15- 11:45 Dennis Ott, University of Groningen Title: Creative Silence: Ellipsis in Dislocation Constructions 12:00 -13:30 Lunch Recursion 13:30-14:15 Nirmalangshu Mukherji, Department of Philosophy University of Delhi, Invited speaker Title: Human Reference 14:15- 14:45 Joana Rosselló, Universitat de Barcelona, Txuss Martin, New York University, and Celia Alba, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Title: No Words Without Syntax, No Syntax Without Words 14:45-15:00 Break 15:00-15:30 Manuel Español-Echevarría, Université Laval Title: On the Recursive Properties of Adjunction 15:30- 16:00 Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, University of Toronto, Anny P. Castilla, SUNY/Fredonia, Susana Bejar, University of Toronto/Scarborough Diane Massam, University of Toronto Title: The Acquisition of NP Recursion in English-speaking Children 16:00-17:00 Panel 19:00 Social Event Tuesday 27 September Formal Grammar 9:00-9:45 Edward Stabler, UCLA, Invited speaker Title: Creativity at the Interfaces 9:45-10:15 Andreas Trotzke, Universität Konstanz Title: The Non Centrality of Recursive Self-Embedding: Convergent Evidence From Grammar and Performance 10:15 -10:30 Break 10:30-11:00 Scott Carlton Thomas, Alexandria, Virginia Title: We Have a Simple Memory System (In At Least One Way) and Our Language Is Limited Accordingly (In at Least a Couple of Ways) 11:00- 12:00 International Network in Biolinguistics Annual Meeting 12:15-13:30 Lunch Language impairment 13 :30 -14:15 Peter Kosta, University of Potsdam, and Hartmut Peters, Charité, Berlin, Invited speaker Title: Delayed Merge in L1 acquisition as a Problem of Biolinguistic and Molecular Genetics 14:15-14:45 Arhonto Terzi, Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Theodoros Marinis, University of Reading, Konstantinos Francis, University of Athens, and Angeliki Kotsopoulou, Technological Educational Institute of Patras Title: A Phenotype for Autism And Its Contribution to Linguistic Theory 14:45-15:00 Break 15: 00-15:30 Mahmoud Reza Azarpazhooh, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Nader Jahangiri, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, and Maryam Ghaleh, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Title: Cortical and Subcortical Bilingual Aphasia 15:30- 16:00 Mahmoud Reza Azarpazhooh, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Shahla Sharifi, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Ali Reza Alehashemi, Mashhad Islamic Azad University, Milad Ghaleh, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Title: Foreign Accent Syndrome: A Rare Case of Altered Accent 16:00 -16:30 Zahra Fotovatnia and Ferdos Taleb, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Zahra Fotovatnia, and Ferdos Taleb, Najafabad University Title: Manipulating Shared Semantic Features across Noncognates: an Empirical Approach to Examine Distributed Feature Model 16:30-17:30 Panel and concluding remarks 19:00 Social event Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 25-Jul-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.