32.780, Confs: Syntax/Online

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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:37:23
From: Wellington Almeida [wellingtonalmeida at letras.ufrj.br]
Subject: A Meaning First Approach to Generative Grammar

 
A Meaning First Approach to Generative Grammar 

Date: 12-Mar-2021 - 12-Mar-2021 
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Online), Brazil 
Contact: Wellington Almeida 
Contact Email: eventosppglinguistica at letras.ufrj.br 
Meeting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI7UKqI7UI0 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

This is the fourth talk of the event On Linguistics, organized by the
Graduation Program in Linguistics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
The speaker is Professor Uli Sauerland (Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics)
and the mediator is Professor Marcus Maia (UFRJ).

A Meaning First Approach to Generative Grammar

Abstract: In a recent paper, Professor Sauerland presented a Meaning-First
approach (MFA) to grammar (Sauerland & Alexiadou 2020,
doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.571295). In this talk, he introduces the core
assumptions of the approach, namely that: 1) complex thought-structure
generation is independent of language and occurs in species other than humans,
and 2) humans can communicate thoughts by compression into an articulateable
form. He then presents two phenomena where the approach makes interesting,
testable predictions: 1) an account of multi-modal code-blending as parallel
compression (Branchini & Donati 2016, 10.5334/gjgl.29), and 2) phenomena in
child language where children create sentences with extra words in them.

Uli Sauerland's main interests lie in formal semantics and pragmatics, but he
also has contributed to syntax, morphology, fieldwork, and language
acquisition. He has taught at many universities including visiting
professorships at Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of
Vienna, Osaka University and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Currently, his main responsibilities are as the vice-director and leader of
the semantics-pragmatics research area of the Leibniz-Centre General
Linguistics in Berlin, as an honorary professor at the University of Potsdam,
and as the coordinating principal of the ERC Synergy project LeibnizDream.
 

Program Information: 

The talk will be streamed live on YouTube at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI7UKqI7UI0 at 10 am (UTC-3).





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