23.4512, Confs: Syntax, Socioling, Neuroling, Psycholing, Computational Ling/Netherlands

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Subject: 23.4512, Confs: Syntax, Socioling, Neuroling, Psycholing, Computational Ling/Netherlands

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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:41:44
From: Stefan Grondelaers [S.Grondelaers at let.ru.nl]
Subject: New Ways of Analyzing Syntactic Variation

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New Ways of Analyzing Syntactic Variation 
Short Title: NWASV 

Date: 15-Nov-2012 - 17-Nov-2012 
Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands 
Contact: Stefan Grondelaers 
Contact Email: S.Grondelaers at let.ru.nl 
Meeting URL: http://www.ru.nl/nwasv 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The website of the international symposium New Ways of Analyzing Syntactic Variation (15 to 17 November 2012, Nijmegen) is now online on:

http://www.ru.nl/nwasv/

Please visit the website for the full program and for registration details. Since the number of delegates is strictly limited to 70, it is advisable to register early if you want to attend.

Syntactic variation concerns the alternation between constructional alternatives such as He gave the boy the book and He gave the book to the boy. Syntactic variation research investigates the factors which determine why one of these alternatives is preferred over the other in specific linguistic and situational contexts.

Syntactic variation is investigated in very different schools of linguistics, psychology, and computer science, which each produce valuable results and predictions. Many of these findings, however, are unknown to colleagues in other fields, because they are deemed theoretically uninteresting, or because they are based on evidence which is inaccessible to non-initiated colleagues. Also, the best models and the most accurate predictions so far have been the result of a methodological interdisciplinarity which does not widely exist yet. 

The international symposium New Ways of Analyzing Syntactic Variation (NWASV) convenes the best researchers in the field to collaborate across disciplinary borders. It focuses on new theoretical insights (from Construction Grammar, Exemplar Theory, Optimality Theory, Memory-Based Learning, psycholinguistics, …), but also on the newest corpus and laboratory methods to analyze syntactic variation. 

For more information, please visit the website, or send an email to Stefan Grondelaers, Radboud University Nijmegen:

S.Grondelaers at let.ru.nl 

New Ways of Analyzing Syntactic Variation					

Thursday 15.11									
					
14.00-14.15
Welcome & intro							

14.15-15.15
Plenary 1: Helen de Hoop					
Radboud University Nijmegen					
Analyzing syntactic variation in Dutch partitive constructions	
					
15.15-15.45
Gerlof Bouma							
University of Göteborg						
Something old, something new: Informativity and argument fronting in Spoken Dutch
		
15.45-16.15
Annelore Willems & Gert de Sutter				
University College Ghent					
Where shall I put this? Distance-to-V, length and verb disposition effects on PP placement in Belgian Dutch				
				
16.15-16.45
Coffee & tea							

16.45-17.15
Antti Arppe, Patrick Bolger, Dagmara Dowbor			
University of Alberta						
The more evidential diversity, the merrier - contrasting linguistic data on frequency, selection, acceptability and processing		
					
17.15-17.45
Markus Bader							
Goethe-Universtität Frankfurt					
Verb-cluster variations: A Harmonic Grammar analysis		
													
17.45-21.00

Walking diner & posters						

Jeroen Claes							
University of Antwerp						
Variationist sociolinguistics and cognitive construction grammar. A case study of the variable agreement of presentational haber in Dominican Spanish								
					
Diana Dimitrova, Donders Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen	
Laurie Stowe, University of Groningen				
Gisela Redeker, University of Groningen				
John Hoeks, University of Groningen				
Neural processing of prosody and information structure in context

Adriaan Hogervorst						
University of Utrecht						
Changes in the benefactive double object construction in Dutch: A consequence of language contact						

Greg Johnson							
Michigan State University					
Micro-variation as restructuring in infinitival perfect contractions

Taeho Kim & Han-gyu Lee						
Pusan National University					
An empirical analysis of postposing constructions in conversational Korean								

Natalia Levshina						
University of Marburg						
Associations between syntactic constructions and collexemes: Is there one universal frequency measure?

Sören Schalowski						
University of Potsdam						
Syntactic variation in spoken German: Multiple XPs in the left periphery of declarative main clauses						

Geertje van Bergen, Sander Lestrade & Peter de Swart		
Radboud University Nijmegen					
Differential Case Marking: From bidirectionality to unidirectionality

Eva van Lier, University of Amsterdam				
Geertje van Bergen, Radboud University Nijmegen
Peter de Swart, Radboud University Nijmegen
Lexical preferences in Dutch ditransitives: From corpus frequencies to controlled production						

Friday 16.11									

09.00-10.00
Plenary 2:
Adele Goldberg				
Princeton University						
Exemplars and generalizations					
	
10.00-10.30
Natalia Levshina, University of Marburg			
Kris Heylen, University of Leuven				
Construction Grammar meets semantic vector spaces: A radically data-driven approach to semantic classification of slot fillers			
		
10.30-11.00
Lilla Magyari						
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen		
Predictability and timing in conversations			

11.00-11.30
Coffee & tea						

11.30-12.00
Katrien Segaert						
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen & Donders  Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen	
A paradox of syntactic priming					
				
12.00-12.30
Florent Perek						
Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg & Université Lille 3	
Productivity asymmetries in argument structure alternations	
			
12.30-14.00
Lunch							
			
14.00-15.00
Plenary 3:
Joan Bresnan					
Stanford University						
Frequency and variation in spoken syntax			
				
15.00-15.30
Joanna Nykiel						
University of Silesia, Poland					
Syntactic alternatives under sluicing				
									
15.30-16.00
Coffee & tea						

16.00-16.30
Torben Juel Jensen & Tanya Karoli Christensen		
University of Copenhagen					
The challenges of spoken syntax data. On the quantitative operationalisation of a semantic hypothesis

16.30-17.00
Gosse Bouma						
University of Groningen						
Om-omission in Dutch verbal complements				
										
17.00-18.00
Plenary 4:
Antal van den Bosch				
Radboud University Nijmegen					
Example-based modeling of syntactic alternations		
													
Saturday 17.11									
				
09.00-10.00
Plenary 5:
Sali Tagliamonte				
University of Toronto						
Constraints and weights in syntactic variation			
										
10.00-10.30
Laura Staum Casasanto					
Stony Brook University						
Processing difficulty and the envelope of variation		
										
10.30-11.00
Diana Dimitrova, Donders Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen
Laurie Stowe, University of Groningen				
John Hoeks, University of Groningen				
Pitch accent and the particle ''only'' modulate the processing of information structure in isolated sentences					

11.00-11.30
Coffee & tea						
							
11.30-12.00
Sjef Barbiers						
Meertens Institute Amsterdam & University of Utrecht		
Where's syntactic variation?					
												
12.00-13.00
Wrap-up & discussion					
	
13.00
Lunch







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