LINGUIST List 25.4120
Fri Oct 17 2014
Confs: Philosophy of Lang, General Ling, Ling Theories, Discipline of Ling/Germany
Editor for this issue: Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 16-Oct-2014
From: Martin Neef <Martin.Neef
tu-bs.de>
Subject: Foundations of Linguistics: Languages as Abstract Objects
E-mail this message to a friend Foundations of Linguistics: Languages as Abstract Objects
Date: 26-Jun-2015 - 27-Jun-2015
Location: Braunschweig, Germany
Contact: Martin Neef
Contact Email:
< click here to access email > Meeting URL:
https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/germanistik/abt/spr/tagung
Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics; General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Philosophy of Language
Meeting Description:
The workshop aims at bringing together linguists and philosophers to discuss a conception of linguistics that conceptualizes languages as abstract objects. Adopting this framework provides two advantages: It allows linguists (1) to separate the study of language from the study of linguistic knowledge and (2) to overcome the limitations of nominalism and conceptualism.
Confirmed Speakers:
Andras Kornai, Budapest Institute of Technology and Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Terrence Langendoen, University of Arizona and National Science Foundation
Robert Levine, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University
Hans-Heinrich Lieb, FB Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin
David Pitt, Department of Philosophy, California State University
Geoffrey Pullum, School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh
Scott Soames, Director of the School of Philosophy, University of Southern California
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