LINGUIST List 22.3487 Tue Sep 06 2011 Confs: Socioling, Syntax/Germany Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Aria Adli , Workshop on Grammar, Usage, and Society Message 1: Workshop on Grammar, Usage, and Society Date: 04-Sep-2011 From: Aria Adli <aria.adliromanistik.uni-freiburg.de> Subject: Workshop on Grammar, Usage, and Society E-mail this message to a friend Workshop on Grammar, Usage, and Society Date: 11-Nov-2011 - 12-Nov-2011 Location: University of Freiburg, Germany Contact: Gesa von Essen Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/lang_and_lit/veranstaltungen/workshop-system-usage-and-society Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics; Syntax Meeting Description: The idea to this workshop is primarily based on the debate in a series of 'Letters to Language' that followed Newmeyer's (2003) article 'Grammar is Grammar and Usage is Usage.' This debate showed two things: firstly, that the system-usage issue remains controversial in modern linguistics, and secondly, that a single axis with the endpoints system-based and usage-based does not do justice to the complexity of linguistic reality. Therefore, in this workshop, we would like to go beyond this dichotomic view and include issues connected with language as a social practice. Quantitative sociolinguists, for example, focus on systematic variation found in language use. By adding this dimension, two widely discussed but still unresolved points turn up again, namely the questions how to deal with variation in grammar and how to define the place of empirical evidence in modern linguistics. The second question is central both to Labov's (1996) article 'When Intuitions Fail' and to the discussion following Featherston's (2007) article 'Data in Generative Grammar.' In order to readdress these points, the workshop will bring together scholars with different positions on the relation between system, usage, and society. Friday, November 11th, 2011 in the Senatssaal of the Rektorat 9.00-9.15 Welcome 9.15-10.00 Frederick J. Newmeyer: Grammar and Usage: Clearing Up Some Misunderstandings 10.00-10.45 Gregory Guy: The Grammar of Use and the Use of Grammar: Without Society there is no Language Coffee break 11.15-12.00 Heike Behrens: Building a System Through Input and Interaction in Language Development 12.00-12.45 Mary Kato: Variation and optionality in syntax Lunch break 14.30-15.15 Hubert Haider: Cognitive Evolution: Why Language Systems are Society-based and Usage-friendly Adaptations 15.15-16.00 Daniel Jacob: Autonomy Revisited: a Sociological Point of View Coffee break 16.30-18.00 General Discussion Saturday, November 12th, 2011 in the Senatssaal of the Rektorat 9.00-10.30 Aria Adli, Marco García García, Göz Kaufmann Grammar, Usage, and Linguistic Variation Coffee break 11.00-11.45 David Lightfoot: What we've learned from diachronic syntax 11.45-12.30 Malte Rosemeyer: Persistence and analogy in the history of auxiliary selection in Spanish Lunch break 14.30-15.15 Leonie Cornips: The no man's land between Syntax and Sociolinguistics 15.15-16.00 Richard Cameron: Variationist Constraint Ranking as Evidence of Linguistic Knowledge Coffee break 16.30-17.15 Rena Torres Cacoullos: Reanalysis is Gradual, Constituent Structure is Gradient 17.15-18.00 Guido Seiler: Syntactization, Analogy, and the Distinction between Proximate and Ultimate Causations 18.00-18.15 Closing remarks Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 06-Sep-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.