LINGUIST List 23.4512: Confs: Syntax, Socioling, Neuroling, Psycholing, Computational Ling/Netherlands

LINGUIST List 23.4512
Mon Oct 29 2012 Confs: Syntax, Socioling, Neuroling, Psycholing, Computational Ling/Netherlands Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang <xiyanlinguistlist.org>
Date: 28-Oct-2012 From: Stefan Grondelaers <S.Grondelaerslet.ru.nl> Subject: New Ways of Analyzing Syntactic Variation E-mail this message to a friend New Ways of Analyzing Syntactic Variation Short Title: NWASV Date: 15-Nov-2012 - 17-Nov-2012 Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands Contact: Stefan Grondelaers Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.ru.nl/nwasv Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax Meeting Description: The website of the international symposium New Ways of Analyzing Syntactic Variation (15 to 17 November 2012, Nijmegen) is now online on: http://www.ru.nl/nwasv/ Please visit the website for the full program and for registration details. Since the number of delegates is strictly limited to 70, it is advisable to register early if you want to attend. Syntactic variation concerns the alternation between constructional alternatives such as He gave the boy the book and He gave the book to the boy. Syntactic variation research investigates the factors which determine why one of these alternatives is preferred over the other in specific linguistic and situational contexts. Syntactic variation is investigated in very different schools of linguistics, psychology, and computer science, which each produce valuable results and predictions. Many of these findings, however, are unknown to colleagues in other fields, because they are deemed theoretically uninteresting, or because they are based on evidence which is inaccessible to non-initiated colleagues. Also, the best models and the most accurate predictions so far have been the result of a methodological interdisciplinarity which does not widely exist yet. The international symposium New Ways of Analyzing Syntactic Variation (NWASV) convenes the best researchers in the field to collaborate across disciplinary borders. It focuses on new theoretical insights (from Construction Grammar, Exemplar Theory, Optimality Theory, Memory-Based Learning, psycholinguistics, …), but also on the newest corpus and laboratory methods to analyze syntactic variation. For more information, please visit the website, or send an email to Stefan Grondelaers, Radboud University Nijmegen: S.Grondelaerslet.ru.nl New Ways of Analyzing Syntactic Variation Thursday 15.11 14.00-14.15 Welcome & intro 14.15-15.15 Plenary 1: Helen de Hoop Radboud University Nijmegen Analyzing syntactic variation in Dutch partitive constructions 15.15-15.45 Gerlof Bouma University of Göteborg Something old, something new: Informativity and argument fronting in Spoken Dutch 15.45-16.15 Annelore Willems & Gert de Sutter University College Ghent Where shall I put this? Distance-to-V, length and verb disposition effects on PP placement in Belgian Dutch 16.15-16.45 Coffee & tea 16.45-17.15 Antti Arppe, Patrick Bolger, Dagmara Dowbor University of Alberta The more evidential diversity, the merrier - contrasting linguistic data on frequency, selection, acceptability and processing 17.15-17.45 Markus Bader Goethe-Universtität Frankfurt Verb-cluster variations: A Harmonic Grammar analysis 17.45-21.00 Walking diner & posters Jeroen Claes University of Antwerp Variationist sociolinguistics and cognitive construction grammar. A case study of the variable agreement of presentational haber in Dominican Spanish Diana Dimitrova, Donders Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen Laurie Stowe, University of Groningen Gisela Redeker, University of Groningen John Hoeks, University of Groningen Neural processing of prosody and information structure in context Adriaan Hogervorst University of Utrecht Changes in the benefactive double object construction in Dutch: A consequence of language contact Greg Johnson Michigan State University Micro-variation as restructuring in infinitival perfect contractions Taeho Kim & Han-gyu Lee Pusan National University An empirical analysis of postposing constructions in conversational Korean Natalia Levshina University of Marburg Associations between syntactic constructions and collexemes: Is there one universal frequency measure? Sören Schalowski University of Potsdam Syntactic variation in spoken German: Multiple XPs in the left periphery of declarative main clauses Geertje van Bergen, Sander Lestrade & Peter de Swart Radboud University Nijmegen Differential Case Marking: From bidirectionality to unidirectionality Eva van Lier, University of Amsterdam Geertje van Bergen, Radboud University Nijmegen Peter de Swart, Radboud University Nijmegen Lexical preferences in Dutch ditransitives: From corpus frequencies to controlled production Friday 16.11 09.00-10.00 Plenary 2: Adele Goldberg Princeton University Exemplars and generalizations 10.00-10.30 Natalia Levshina, University of Marburg Kris Heylen, University of Leuven Construction Grammar meets semantic vector spaces: A radically data-driven approach to semantic classification of slot fillers 10.30-11.00 Lilla Magyari Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen Predictability and timing in conversations 11.00-11.30 Coffee & tea 11.30-12.00 Katrien Segaert Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen & Donders Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen A paradox of syntactic priming 12.00-12.30 Florent Perek Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg & Université Lille 3 Productivity asymmetries in argument structure alternations 12.30-14.00 Lunch 14.00-15.00 Plenary 3: Joan Bresnan Stanford University Frequency and variation in spoken syntax 15.00-15.30 Joanna Nykiel University of Silesia, Poland Syntactic alternatives under sluicing 15.30-16.00 Coffee & tea 16.00-16.30 Torben Juel Jensen & Tanya Karoli Christensen University of Copenhagen The challenges of spoken syntax data. On the quantitative operationalisation of a semantic hypothesis 16.30-17.00 Gosse Bouma University of Groningen Om-omission in Dutch verbal complements 17.00-18.00 Plenary 4: Antal van den Bosch Radboud University Nijmegen Example-based modeling of syntactic alternations Saturday 17.11 09.00-10.00 Plenary 5: Sali Tagliamonte University of Toronto Constraints and weights in syntactic variation 10.00-10.30 Laura Staum Casasanto Stony Brook University Processing difficulty and the envelope of variation 10.30-11.00 Diana Dimitrova, Donders Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen Laurie Stowe, University of Groningen John Hoeks, University of Groningen Pitch accent and the particle ''only'' modulate the processing of information structure in isolated sentences 11.00-11.30 Coffee & tea 11.30-12.00 Sjef Barbiers Meertens Institute Amsterdam & University of Utrecht Where's syntactic variation? 12.00-13.00 Wrap-up & discussion 13.00 Lunch Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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