18.2926, Confs: General Linguistics/USA

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Date: 07-Oct-2007
From: Naonori Nagaya < nagaya at rice.edu >
Subject: 12th Biennial Rice University Symposium on Language

 

	
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Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:28:02
From: Naonori Nagaya [nagaya at rice.edu]
Subject: 12th Biennial Rice University Symposium on Language 
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12th Biennial Rice University Symposium on Language 

Date: 27-Mar-2008 - 29-Mar-2008 
Location: Houston, TX, USA 
Contact: Matt Shibatani 
Meeting URL: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~eivs/sympo/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The 12th Biennial Rice University Symposium on Language, co-organized 
by Matt Shibatani (Rice University) and T. Givón (University of Oregon), 
will be held in the Farnsworth Pavilion of the Ley Student Center on March 
27th-29th, 2008. The topic of the symposium is 'the genesis of syntactic 
complexity'. 

The topic-''The genesis of syntactic complexity''-in part builds on the 
success of the 11th biennial symposium on complex verb constructions and 
explores the genesis and nature of syntactic complexity from an 
interdisciplinary perspective. Structural complexity may be defined broadly 
as the ''chunking'' of linear-sequential structure into hierarchic one (cf. 
Herbert A. Simon 1962 ''The architecture of complexity''). The creation of 
such hierarchic structure is a common process language shares with motor 
control, vision, memory, and music. It is often associated with the move 
from attended to automated processing. Our symposium will focus on one 
particular type of syntactic complexity, that of clauses ('propositions') 
embedded inside other clauses-under a unified intonation contour. We 
examine two syntactic domains in which such embedding structures are 
generally found to cluster: (i) in the verb phrase (complex predicates, 
clause-union, verb complementation), and (ii) in the noun phrase (relative 
clauses and noun complementation). The symposium will concern itself 
primarily with the genesis of these complex structures, comparing the three 
main developmental trends of language: Diachrony, child language 
development, and evolution. For all three, we will explore the linguistic, 
cognitive, neurological and biological aspects of the genesis and 
development of complex syntax. The symposium is open to the public.

Further information will be posted shortly in the webpage:
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~eivs/sympo/


Contributors:

1. Diachronic development:
     B. Heine (Koeln) & T. Kouteva (Duesseldorf)
     A. Pawley (Canberra)
     O. Dahl (Stockholm)
     G. Deutscher (Leiden)
     M. Mithun (Santa Barbara)
     C. Bowern (Rice)
     M. Hilpert & C. Koops (Rice)
     M. Shibatani (Rice)
     T. Givón (Oregon)

2. Child development:
     H. Diessel (Jena)
     C. Rojas (UNAM)
     T. Givón (Oregon)

3. Cognitive and & neurological aspects:
     B. MacWhinney (CMU)
     D. Fernandez-Duque (Villanova)
     F. Pulvermuller (Cambridge)
     E. Pederson & M. Barker (Oregon)
     D. Tucker (Oregon)

4. Biology and evolution:
     D. Bickerton (Hawaii)
     N. Tublitz (Oregon)






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