26.187, Calls: Syntax, Linguistic Theories, Historical Linguistics/Netherlands

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Subject: 26.187, Calls: Syntax, Linguistic Theories, Historical Linguistics/Netherlands

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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 23:48:46
From: Theresa Biberauer [mtb23 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: Parameters in Diachronic Syntax

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Full Title: Parameters in Diachronic Syntax 

Date: 02-Sep-2015 - 05-Sep-2015
Location: Leiden, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Theresa Biberauer
Meeting Email: mtb23 at cam.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www-falcon.csx.cam.ac.uk/site/RECOS/activities 

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

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2015 

Meeting Description:

Parameters in Diachronic Syntax 

Organisers: Theresa Biberauer & Ian Roberts

The central idea in generative approaches to diachronic syntax is that change results from children’s reanalysis of their parents’ grammar, G1: as they have only indirect access to G1, via its output, their grammar, G2, may differ from G1, causing syntactic changes to emerge inter-generationally. The advent of the Principles and Parameters era in the late 1970s led to the specific expectation in the diachronic context that at least some syntactic changes might be parametric, entailing parameter resetting. From the outset, however, the challenges facing a parametric approach to syntactic change were apparent. In the current generative context, opinion is divided as to the feasibility of a “post-GB” parametric approach to the understanding of syntactic variation: on the one hand, the empirical failures of GB parameters and/or the conceptual reorientation of the Minimalist Program are taken to argue against pursuing further parametric work; on the other, there is the argument that GB parameters should be viewed as “first-pass” parameters, with empirical and theoretical advances since the late 1970s and, particularly, in the minimalist context, pointing towards the kinds of modifications that could lead to a genuinely explanatory theory of parametric variation. The purpose of this workshop is to consider whether or not parametric explanations should be pursued from the perspective of diachronic syntax.

2nd Call for Papers:

Please submit abstracts of no more than 500 words via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sle2015). 

See http://sle2015.eu/call-for-papers for full details of the abstract submission process.

For more detailed versions of the workshop Call, see:

http://www-falcon.csx.cam.ac.uk/site/RECOS/activities

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http://sle2015.eu/downloads/workshops/Parameters%20in%20Diachronic%20Syntax.pdf

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