11.1581, Confs: Alternatives to Chomsky

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Subject: 11.1581, Confs: Alternatives to Chomsky

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Date:  Wed, 19 Jul 2000 00:01:32 GMT
From:  "bruce richman" <brucerichman at hotmail.com>
Subject:  Alternatives to Chomsky

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Date:  Wed, 19 Jul 2000 00:01:32 GMT
From:  "bruce richman" <brucerichman at hotmail.com>
Subject:  Alternatives to Chomsky


    The following is the schedule for the Alternatives to Chomsky meeting on
Sept.4th.  The meeting should have a lively discussion of some controversial
topics.  Everyone is invited to attend and to join in the discussion.
Bruce Richman

ALTERNATIVES TO CHOMSKY: A NEW PARADIGM FOR LANGUAGE STUDIES FOR A
    NEW MILLENNIUM.  A meeting that will be held on Monday Sept. 4
    at the University Inn and Conference Center of Rutgers University
    in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in association with the Language
    Origins Society 2000 annual`meeting.

    The fee for the one-day meeting will be $20.  Registration fee for the
    LOS 2000 is $75.

9 AM to 12 Noon --
    Earl Anderson "Native-speaker Intuition and Folk-linguistics:
       'Cratyline Fantasies' as Allegories of the Nature of Language"
    Bruce Richman "Chomsky's Theory of Innate Language Structure:
        The Theory Has No Clothes!"
    Talbot Taylor "The Reflexive Character of Language"

1 PM to 5:30 PM --
    Par Segerdahl "On the Distinction Between Language and Its Formal
        Representation"
    Jeff Wollock "Language as Animate Motion: on the History of an
                                       Idea"
    Victor Yngve "The Hard Science Alternative"
    R. Narasinhan "A Suggested New Paradigm for Studying
           Language Behaviour"
    Paul Cant "Guidelines for Post-Chomskyan Linguistic Theory"


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