29.5015, Confs: Indo-Aryan; Ling Theories, Psycholing, Socioling, Syntax/India

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-5015. Sun Dec 16 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.5015, Confs: Indo-Aryan; Ling Theories, Psycholing, Socioling, Syntax/India

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Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 01:38:45
From: Preeti Kumari [kumaripreeti.2293 at gmail.com]
Subject: Workshop on Approaches to Language Variation

 
Workshop on Approaches to Language Variation 
Short Title: WALV 

Date: 22-Feb-2019 - 23-Feb-2019 
Location: New Delhi, India 
Contact: Chandni Dutta 
Contact Email: languagevariationiitd at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/walv2019/home 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Indo-Aryan 
Meeting Description: 

A well attested empirical fact about natural language is its ever-changing
nature: languages change continuously over time and space. Undeniably,
language variation remains one of the most endearing topics for typologists,
sociolinguists, theoretical linguists and psycholinguists alike. This workshop
aims to bring together scholars using different approaches and methodologies
to present on varied aspects of variation, and debate and deliberate on
possible common grounds to view and understand the phenomenon. Some broad
questions that will be addressed in the workshop are:

- What underlies variation? To what extent is human language variation driven
by social, processing and/or grammar-internal factors?
- What is the nature of interaction between social, processing and grammatical
factors? How do value changes of structural parameters impact, and in turn get
affected, by social and processing matters?
- What is the extent of variation? Do some linguistic phenomena change faster
than the others, and if so why? What insights do these studies provide for the
layout or architecture of grammar?

While linguistic variation has been, and is continuously been addressed on
multiple platforms by Indian linguists and language researchers, there has not
been enough effort in engaging linguists over the above-stated questions.
Likewise, students and researchers interested in language variation are not
exposed to multiple perspectives of the phenomenon. The workshop aims to fill
in this lacuna by engaging both established researchers and students in
different aspects of language variation.

Additionally, owing to the location of the workshop, we will have an immense
wealth of empirical data from Indian languages brought to the table. This
workshop will provide an ideal ground where different perspectives on
variation will be directly tried and tested out against the multiple languages
spoken in the Indian sub-continent.
 






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