31.1240, Calls: Romance; Applied Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Morphology, Syntax/Austria

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Subject: 31.1240, Calls: Romance; Applied Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Morphology, Syntax/Austria

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Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 11:28:34
From: Tim Diaubalick [t.diaubalick at uni-wuppertal.de]
Subject: The role of linguistic interfaces

 
Full Title: The role of linguistic interfaces 

Date: 24-Feb-2021 - 27-Feb-2021
Location: Graz, Austria 
Contact Person: Katrin Schmitz
Meeting Email: kschmitz at uni-wuppertal.de
Web Site: https://hispanistentag-2021.uni-graz.at/de/sektionen/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Morphology; Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2020 

Meeting Description:

“The role of linguistic interfaces in the acquisition, variation and loss of
features of Spanish and other Romance languages” (section at the XXIII.
Deutscher Hispanistentag)
Katrin Schmitz, Tim Diaubalick

The assumption of an interaction between grammatical subsystems depends very
much on the theoretical paradigm: While some synchronic and diachronic
grammatical theories, such as Optimality Theory (OT) and grammaticalization
theory, early based their fundamental assumptions on the interaction of
grammatical modules, the idea of autonomous subsystems predominated in early
phases of the Generative paradigm before the interest in language acquisition
and change increased (see Fischer & Gabriel 2016: 8). Nowadays, the term
itself is ambiguous since it is used in different ways: in a wider
interpretation, the term “interface” refers to the connection between
linguistics and other disciplines (e.g. philosophy, psychology) as well as to
the connection between the language faculty and other aspects of cognitive
domains, i.e. the external or non-linguistic interfaces. 

To date, we find different ideas of conceptualizing interfaces in the
literature, often linked to specific linguistic phenomena and chosen interface
types. The currently available architecture models (Jackendoff 2002, 2011) and
OT-based proposals in the volumes edited by Ramchand & Reiss (2007) and
Fischer & Gabriel (2016) are based on rules, constraints or underspecified
feature sets. Nevertheless, some fundamental questions are still open, for
instance: 
1) How does the interaction work in detail? 
2) Which rules/constraints/underspecified feature combinations could be
assumed to fit for any kind of interaction of linguistic modules? In other
words, is there a basic architecture for all types of interfaces or do we have
to model each interface in an individual way? 
3) If the answer for 2) is yes, is there a common effect for language
development, e.g. a general increase of optionality or specific error-prone
linguistic behavior?


Call for Papers: 

In this vein, this section at the Deutscher Hispanistentag seeks to give more
shape to the concept of interface and its applications. We particularly invite
any contribution falling into one of the following approaches:
- Comparing evidence from different types of (complex) interfaces in language
acquisition, variation and change in order to find fundamental similarities or
differences between them
- Comparing approaches to the conception of linguistic interfaces in different
theoretical frameworks
- Comparing and discussing methodological issues of the research regarding
(complex) interface phenomena in language acquisition, variation and change

These approaches may provide both theoretical and empirical linguistic
research with important new knowledge concerning specific properties of the
language architecture and of individual (Romance) language systems and their
development and maintenance in various constellations. 

>From April 1, 2020, abstracts can be submitted for a lecture in a section or
for a poster via ConfTool (https://www.conftool.net/hispanistentag-2021/). The
notification of accepted or rejected lectures will be sent in October 2020.
The inscription -also on ConfTool- starts in October 2020. 

You will find a more detailed description of the section at the conference
website.
Languages of the talks: German, Spanish, English

References:
Fischer, S. & Gabriel, C. (2016). Grammatical Interfaces in Romance Languages:
An Introduction. In: S. Fischer & C. Gabriel (eds.), Manual of Grammatical
Interfaces in Romance. Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 1-20.
Jackendoff, R., 2002. Foundations of Language. Oxford University Press,
Oxford.
Jackendoff, R. 2011. What is the human language faculty? Two views. Discussion
note. Language Vol. 87 (3), 586-624.
Ramchand, G., Reiss, C. (eds.), 2007. The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic
Interfaces. Oxford University Press, Oxford.




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