LINGUIST List 22.510 Sat Jan 29 2011 Confs: Syntax/USA Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.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.     Michelle Johnson , CUNY Linguistics Colloquium - Noam Chomsky Message 1: CUNY Linguistics Colloquium - Noam Chomsky Date: 28-Jan-2011 From: Michelle Johnson <mjohnson2gc.cuny.edu> Subject: CUNY Linguistics Colloquium - Noam Chomsky E-mail this message to a friend CUNY Linguistics Colloquium - Noam Chomsky Date: 17-Feb-2011 - 17-Feb-2011 Location: New York City, NY, USA Contact: Jeremy Rafal Contact Email: JRafalgc.cuny.edu Meeting URL: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/lingu/ Linguistic Field(s): Syntax Meeting Description: Problems of Projection 'From its modern origins, generative grammar has been concerned with several fundamental features of language: compositionality, non-contiguous relations (including primarily displacement), ordering, and projection. Over time it was found that compositionality and displacement could be unified under the simplest computational operation (Merge), and that other non- contiguous relations might fall under a general principle of minimal search. On conceptual grounds, one might expect ordering to be a reflex of the sensory-motor system, hence to fall under the externalization of language, though there are empirical arguments to the contrary. That leaves projection, which differs from the others in that it is not virtually a description of the observed facts but is theory-internal. There have been various approaches to projection, from sheer stipulation in phrase structure grammar, to X-bar theory and its descendants, to labeling algorithms. There are other closely related issues, among them the status of specifiers and factors that enter into movement. The optimal approach would be to reduce labeling to minimal search as a necessary part of the computational system itself. That is the possibility I will explore, along with consequences to which it leads and problems to which it gives rise.' Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 29-Jan-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.