22.511, Confs: General Ling, Ling Theories, Syntax/Spain

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Subject: 22.511, Confs: General Ling, Ling Theories, Syntax/Spain

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Date: 28-Jan-2011
From: Ismael Teomiro [ivan.teomiro at uam.es]
Subject: Workshop on Formal Grammar and Syntactic Variation

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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:49:00
From: Ismael Teomiro [ivan.teomiro at uam.es]
Subject: Workshop on Formal Grammar and Syntactic Variation

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Workshop on Formal Grammar and Syntactic Variation 

Date: 27-Oct-2011 - 28-Oct-2011 
Location: Madrid, Spain 
Contact: Amaya Mendikoetxea 
Contact Email: variation.uam at gmail.com 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The aim of this workshop is to explore the explanatory power of formal 
approaches to syntactic variation.  The workshop will bring together 
scholars working on some of the issues that are being addressed within the 
generativist Principles and Parameters framework, such as the extend to 
which the conceptual apparatus and analytical tools of the Minimalist 
Program can account for variation phenomena, the specification of the locus 
for variation, and the compatibility of formal and non formal analyses of 
variation. In particular, we are interested in papers that address one or 
several of the following (or related) issues:

1. Do parameters (i.e. clusters of related syntactic properties) really exist? 
(cf. Newmeyer 2005, Roberts & Holmberg 2005, Biberauer 2008)

2. Which is the locus of syntactic variation? Is parametric variation restricted 
to the (functional) lexicon (cf. Borer 1984, Wexler & Manzini 1987, Fukui 
1988, Ouhalla, 1991)? Are there, in addition, 'grammatical' parameters, with 
global effects on the grammar of a language (Baker 2008)? Are 'semantic' 
parameters also to be found in the mapping to the conceptual-intentional 
system? (Chierchia 1998).

3. Are there macroparameters (Baker 1996, 2008)? Can they be fully 
reduced to microparametric variation (Kayne 2005)?

4. Is there a parameter hierarchy (Baker 2001, Newmeyer 2005)? What 
form does it take, if any?

5. Is the variation space limited by 'parameter schemata' (Longobardi 
2005)? 

6. Which is the status of parameters in the architecture of the language 
faculty? How is parametric variation to be viewed, in particular, under the 
current minimalist assumption of an underspecified UG? (i.e. are 
parameters primitives of UG or rather represent emergent properties of the 
language system?  Kandybowicz 2009, Boeckx to appear, Berwick & 
Chomsky to appear)? 

7. Are formal and non-formal theories of syntactic variation compatible 
(Adger & Smith 2005, Barbiers 2005)? 

Organizers:
Luis Eguren (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
Olga Fernández Soriano (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
Amaya Mendikoetxea (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)

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