29.1347, Confs: Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Syntax/UK
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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1347. Tue Mar 27 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.
Subject: 29.1347, Confs: Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Syntax/UK
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:18:06
From: Susan Pintzuk [susan.pintzuk at york.ac.uk]
Subject: 20th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference
20th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference
Short Title: DiGS20
Date: 18-Jun-2018 - 21-Jun-2018
Location: York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Contact: Susan Pintzuk
Contact Email: digs20 at york.ac.uk
Meeting URL: https://www.york.ac.uk/language/news/events/digs20/
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Syntax
Meeting Description:
The 20th Diachronic Generative Syntax conference (DiGS20) will be hosted at
the University of York, on 18-21 June 2018.
DiGS is widely recognized as the premier international forum for the
presentation of research combining the historical and the formal investigation
of syntactic phenomena from a generative perspective.
The goal of DiGS research is to use diachrony to investigate the properties of
the syntax of natural language, and to use formal syntactic theory to
understand aspects of language relatedness and language change. Hence, DiGS
conferences have supported pioneering approaches aiming to establish the
proper relationship between the two most basic characteristics of natural
language: 1) languages are constrained by the properties of the biological
faculty of language; 2) languages and dialects, with the diversity that we
observe among them, are the products of historical processes.
As has become traditional, the main conference will be preceded by a themed
workshop; in 2018, the theme will be Syntax and Reconstruction. The workshop
will focus on reconstruction of the syntax of protolanguages as well as
reconstruction of language relatedness through syntactic properties.
Invited main conference speakers:
Edith Aldridge
Theresa Biberauer
Cecilia Poletto
Contact: digs20 at york.ac.uk.
Organizing Committee: Claire Childs, Shin-Sook Kim, Giuseppe Longobardi,
Dimitris Michelioudakis, Susan Pintzuk, Nina Radkevich, Ann Taylor, Eva
Zehentner
Program:
The conference program, as well as information about registration and
accommodation, can be found on the DiGS20 website:
https://www.york.ac.uk/language/news/events/digs20/#tab-4
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