33.3038, Confs: Language Acquisition/France

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-3038. Tue Oct 04 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.3038, Confs: Language Acquisition/France

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Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 21:05:26
From: Elena Soare [esoare at univ-paris8.fr]
Subject: Heritage Language Syntax 3

 
Heritage Language Syntax 3 
Short Title: HLS3 

Date: 20-Oct-2022 - 21-Oct-2022 
Location: Paris, France 
Contact: Elena Soare 
Contact Email: hlsparis2022 at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/hls2022/home 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Meeting Description: 

Heritage Language Syntax is a workshop initiated at the University of Utrecht
by Roberta D’Alessandro within the ERC Microcontact, with the aim of
investigating the syntactic properties of heritage grammars. 

This third (and first in-presence) edition of Heritage Language Syntax will be
organised in Paris within the IRN Heritage Languages in Europe (coordinator
Elena Soare, University of Paris 8 & CNRS). 

In this edition, we seek to investigate the issue of complexity in the syntax
of heritage languages. It is often assumed that these grammars are
“simplified”, or even incomplete, but there is good evidence that in certain
conditions heritage speakers prefer complex or more marked constructions to
simpler ones.

The interest in the study of Heritage Languages has been increasing over two
decades (starting in the United States and progressively developing more
recently in Europe). This is due, among other things, to the fact that they
provide a unique window into the mechanisms of language change and the
functioning of the bilingual brain in specific conditions. Among the existing
studies, some have focused on the structural properties of heritage grammars.

Heritage Language Syntax is a workshop initiated at the University of Utrecht
by Roberta D’Alessandro within the ERC Microcontact
(https://microcontact.sites.uu.nl/hls-2/), with the aim of investigating the
syntactic properties of heritage grammars. 

This third (and first in-presence) edition of Heritage Language Syntax will be
organized in Paris within the IRN Heritage Languages in Europe (coordinator
Elena Soare, University of Paris 8 & CNRS):
https://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/les-langues-dheritage-en-france

In this edition, we seek to investigate the issue of complexity in the syntax
of heritage languages. It is often assumed that these grammars are
“simplified”, or even incomplete, but there is good evidence that in certain
conditions heritage speakers prefer complex or more marked constructions to
simpler ones.

We encourage contributions that address the following questions (but not
only):
- how can we define and measure complexity in heritage languages?
- what does it mean for a grammar to be “simple” or “incomplete”?
- under what conditions are complex structures avoided by heritage speakers?
under what conditions are complex structures preferred by heritage speakers?
- what are the properties of reduced/tenseless domains (infinitives, gerunds,
simple roots) in heritage grammars?
- how do heritage grammars inform linguistic theory on categorization?
- what can be said about the interplay between syntactic complexity and
processing costs?

Invited speakers:
Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland, College Park)
Silvina Montrul (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Greg Scontras (University of California, Irvine)
Esther Rinke (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Terje Lohndal (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)

Organizing committee:
Elena Soare (Université Paris 8 & CNRS)
Alexandru Mardale (Inalco & CNRS)
Gabriela Bîlbîie (Universitatea din Bucuresti & CNRS)
Larisa Avram (Universitatea din Bucuresti)
Oana Lungu (Nantes Université & CNRS)

Sponsor and partners:
This workshop is part of the IRN Heritage Languages in Europe, funded by the
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and hosted by the lab Structures
Formelles du Langage & Université Paris 8.
 

Program:

The program of the 3rd Workshop on Heritage Language Syntax is online at
https://sites.google.com/view/hls2022/program (Paris times). If interested in
attending via zoom, please contact Elena Soare (esoare at univ-paris8.fr).





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