21.1919, Confs: Biolinguistics, Syntax/Canada

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Subject: 21.1919, Confs: Biolinguistics, Syntax/Canada

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Date: 20-Apr-2010
From: Anna Maria Di Sciullo < di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca >
Subject: Language Design

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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:56:09
From: Anna Maria Di Sciullo [di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca]
Subject: Language Design 

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Language Design 

Date: 27-May-2010 - 29-May-2010 
Location: Montreal (Quebec), Canada 
Contact: Anna Maria Di Sciullo 
Contact Email: di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca 
Meeting URL: http://www.biolinguistics.uqam.ca 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Other Specialty: Biolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The last decade has seen advances in our understanding of the factors entering
into the human language design stemming from linguistic theory, biolinguistics,
and biophysics. This workshop brings together participants from a broad array of
disciplines to discuss topics that include the connection between linguistic
theory and genetics, evolutionary developmental biology and language variation,
computer science/information theory and the reduction of uncertainty/complexity. 

Thursday May 27

The Language Design 
The Biolinguistics Network 
UQAM, May 27-29, 2010

9:00-9:30	
Anna Maria Di Sciullo 
Welcome 

Language Evolution and Variation:

9:30-10:15	
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, University of Arizona at Tucson: Language Design
and Evolution in a New Perspective

10:15-11:00	
Giuseppe Longobardi, University of Trieste: How to Probe History with Grammar

11:00-11:15	
Break

Phylogeny, Patterns of Variance in the Natural World:

11:15-12 :00	
Richard Palmer, University of Alberta: Learning, Developmental Plasticity and
the Evolution of Morphological Asymmetries in Animals

12:00-14:00	
Lunch

Language Design, Patterns and Complexity:

14:00-14:45	
Lyle Jenkins, Boston Biolinguistics Institute: Emergence of Complexity in Design
the Case of Symmetry

14:45-15 :30	
Anna Maria Di Sciullo, UQAM: Asymmetry in Language Design, a Biolinguistic
Perspective

15:30-15:45	
Break

15:45-16:30	
Boris Steipe, University of Toronto: Distribution and Role of Patterns in
Protein Structure

16:30-17:00	  
Meeting of the Biolinguistics Network

Friday May 28

Faculty of Language in the Narrow Sense:

9:00-9:45	
Cedric Boeckx, ICREA/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: How the Language Organ
Self-organizes

9:45-10:30	
Dana Isac, Concordia University: An Exercise in Syntactic (De)composition

10:30-11:00	
Hisatsugu Kitahara, Keio University: On the Labeling Algorithm and its Alleged
Exceptions

11:00-11:15	
Break

11:15-11:45	
Christiana Christodoulou & Martina Wiltschko, UBC: Function without Content.
Evidence from Greek Subjunctive na

11:45-12:15	
John Lumsden, UQAM: Binary Branching

12:15-14 :00	
Lunch

Faculty of Language in the Broad Sense:

14:00-14:45	
Howard Lasnik, University of Maryland, College Park: A Surprising Consequence of
Single Cycle Syntax

14:45-15:30	
Peggy Speas, UMASS Amherst: The Minimal Structure of the Left Periphery

15:30-15:45	
Break

15:45-16:30	
James Higginbotham, USC: Pronominal Perspectives

16:30-17:15	
Wolfram Hinzen, University of Durham: Parts and Wholes in Syntax

17:15-18:30	
Poster Session

18:30-19:15	
Paul Pietroski, University of Maryland, College Park: I-Languages and Conceptual
Reanalysis

19:15-20:00	
Roberto De Almeida, Concordia University: Where do Coercion Effects Come from?

Saturday May 29

9:00-9:45	
William Idsardi, University of Maryland, College Park: Language Design and the
Syntax-phonology Interface

9:45-10:30	
Charles Reiss, Concordia University: Phonology is as Recursive as Syntax

10: 30-10: 45	
Break

Processing, Computation:

10:45-11:15	
Evie Malaia & Ronnie B.Wilbur, Purdue University: Experimental Evidence from
Sign Language for a Phonology-syntax-semantic Interface

11:15-12:00	
Sandiway Fong, University of Arizona at Tucson & Jason Ginsburg, Aizu
University: Doubling Constituents: Pronouns and Antecedents in Phase Theory

12:00-13:30	
Lunch

Development and Variation:

13:30-14:15	
Partha Mitra, Cold Spring Harbor Institute: Culture in the Zebrafinch as a
Multigenerational Phenotype

14:15-15:00	
Kleanthes Grohmann, University of Cyprus: The Dialect Design: Socio-syntax of
Development and the Grammar of Cypriot Greek

15:00-15:15	
Break

15:15-16:00	
Tom Roeper, UMASS Amherst: Innate Grammar and Efficient Acquisition

16:00-16:30	
Calixto Aguero Bautista, Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo: Non-native
Acquisition from a Biolinguistic Perspective

16:30-17:15	
Ken Wexler, MIT: Linguistic Design and Development

17:30	
Concluding remarks

Posters:

Sergio Balari, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Antonio Benítez-Burraco,
Universidad de Huelva, Víctor M. Longa, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela &
Guillermo Lorenzo, Universidad de Oviedo: Fossils of Language: What if We were
Looking in the Wrong Places?

Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Universidad de Huelva: 'Language Genes': They Exist and
We Have Them, but What do We Really Use Them for?

Shishir Bhattacharja, University of Dhaka: On the So-called Post-syntactic
Compounds in Japanese

Alex Drummond, University of Maryland, College Park: Constraints on Sideward
Movement

Atsushi Fujimori, UBC: The Patterns of Associating Sounds with Meanings: the
Case of Telicity

Thomas Graf, University of California, Los Angeles: Concealed Reference-set
Computation or How Syntax Escapes the Parser's Clutches

Tim Hunter, University of Maryland, College Park: Syntactic Effects of
Conjunctivist Interpretation

Monica Irimia, University of Toronto: Explaining Variation in Resultative
Secondary Predicates

Stefanie Röhrig, University of Mainz: The Acquisition of Scalar Implicatures

Bridget Samuels, University of Maryland, College Park: Phonological Forms: from
Ferrets to Fingers

Miyuki Sawada, National Kaohsiung Normal University: The Syntax and Semantics of
Compound Sentences

Jeffrey Watumull, University of Cambridge: Merge as a Minimax Solution to the
Optimization Problem of Generality

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