LINGUIST List 26.3933
Fri Sep 04 2015
Confs: Lang Acquisition, Morphology, Psycholing, Semantics, Socioling, Syntax/Norway
Editor for this issue: Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 03-Sep-2015
From: Terje Lohndal <terje.lohndal
ntnu.no>
Subject: Linguistic Complexity in the Individual and Society
E-mail this message to a friend Linguistic Complexity in the Individual and Society
Short Title: LCIS
Date: 15-Oct-2015 - 16-Oct-2015
Location: Trondheim, Norway
Contact: Terje Lohndal
Contact Email:
< click here to access email > Meeting URL:
http://www.ntnu.edu/lcis
Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Morphology; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax
Meeting Description:
This conference is associated with the project Linguistic Complexity in the Individual and Society (LCIS;
http://www.ntnu.edu/lcis) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. The goal of LCIS is to study linguistic complexity in three different areas: formal grammar, language acquisition, and sociolinguistics. The groundbreaking part of this project is that it will attempt to combine these different sub-disciplines of modern linguistics. Different methodologies and theoretical perspectives will be useful in order to illuminate complementary aspects of language complexity and thus contribute to deepening our understanding of this phenomenon. A unifying aspect of the research is the use of multilingual data. These data have become increasingly important for linguistic methodologies and theories, but also for public policy makers in the sense that they address consequences of migration and children growing up acquiring parts of multiple languages.
The present two-day conference on October 15-16, 2015 will feature talks addressing linguistic complexity within the three areas mentioned above: formal grammar, language acquisition, and sociolinguistics. The following speakers have kindly agreed to provide plenary addresses:
Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Frans Gregersen (Copenhagen University, Lanchart)
Liliane Haegeman (Ghent University)
Marie Maegaard & Janus Spindler Møller (Copenhagen University, Lanchart)
Ianthi Tsimpli (University of Cambridge)
Registration:
Participants should register here:
https://www.ntnu.edu/web/lcis/registration by October 1.
Program:
The conference will take place at Campus Dragvoll at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.
Thursday October 15
09:00-12:00 DI42 (Idrettsbygningen)
09:00-09:15
Welcome by Dean Anne Kristine Børresen
09:15-10:15
Ianthi Maria Tsimpli (invited)
Faces of linguistic complexity in connected speech: Evidence from bilingualism and language impairment
10:15-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:00
Jeannique Darby
Coercion, Complexity, and the Exploration of Aspect in Object-Experiencer Psych Verbs
11:00-11:30
Øystein A. Vangsnes & Göran Söderlund
Bidialectal literacy and cognitive control
11:30-12:00
Kleanthes K. Grohmann & Maria Kambanaros
From Comparative Bilingualism to Comparative Biolinguistics
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-17:15 DI41 (Idrettsbygningen)
13:30-14:30
Liliane Haegeman (invited)
The syntactic complexity of yes and no in West Flemish
14:30-15:00
Unn Røyneland & Elizabeth Lanza
The dark sides of linguistic complexity
15:00-15:30
Merete Anderssen & Marit Westergaard
The Effects of complexity and CLI in HL: Subject Shift and Object Shift in Norwegian
15:30-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-1615
Mari Nygård, Brita Ramsevik Riksem, and Tor A. Åfarli
What language mixing can tell us about the syntax of gender
16:15-17:15
Marie Maegaard & Janus Spindler Møller (invited)
From multilingualism to languaging: Discussing the role of ''languages'' in 17 years of sociolinguistic development among Danes with a Turkish background
19:00-23:00
Conference dinner
Friday October 16
09:00-12:15 D8
09:00-10:00
Artemis Alexiadou (invited)
The category number: a case study in linguistic complexity
10:00-10:30
Isabelle Roy, Bridget Copley & McCune
A measure of syntactic complexity in early child productions: maximal syntactic depth
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:30
Theresa Biberauer & Ian Roberts
Emergent parameters and syntactic complexity: new perspectives
11:30-12:00
Inna Tolskaya
Syntax and semantics of the prefix-scale interplay
12:00-12:30
Katerina Zombolou & Artemis Alexiadou
The parallel development of Reflexives: A case study of an early bilingual German-Greek child
12:30-14:00 Lunch
13:30-16:00 D14
14:00-14:30
Nino Grillo, Artemis Alexiadou, Caterina Paolazzi & Andrea Santi
No evidence of higher complexity or agent-first strategy in German Passives
14:30-15:30
Frans Gregersen (invited)
Complexity – from the language user's point of view
15:30-15:45
Closure
Registration:
Participants should register here:
https://www.ntnu.edu/web/lcis/registration by October 1.
Page Updated: 04-Sep-2015