15.1269, Confs: General Linguistics/Stanford, CA USA

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Date:  20 Apr 2004 20:14:08 -0000
From:  sells at stanford.edu
Subject:  Diversity and Universals in Language: The Consequences of Variation

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Date:  20 Apr 2004 20:14:08 -0000
From:  sells at stanford.edu
Subject:  Diversity and Universals in Language: The Consequences of Variation

	
Diversity and Universals in Language: The Consequences of Variation
	
Date: 21-May-2004 - 23-May-2004
Location: Stanford, California, United States of America
Contact: Peter Sells
Contact Email: div-in-lang-conf at stanford.edu
Meeting URL: http://dlcl.stanford.edu/research/workgroups/diversity-conf.html
	
Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics
	
Meeting Description:
	
Diversity in language is ubiquitous: there are many degrees of
variation in every system of grammar, and studies within a given
''language'' have also identified many kinds of variation, only some
of which are correlated with social groups, communities, or
communicative styles.
	
Friday, May 21st (Bldg. 260 - Rm. 113)
	
7pm     Welcome
	
7:30pm  Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara)
        Divergence and confluence: typology, diachrony, and contact
	
8:30pm  Reception
	
Saturday, May 22nd (Bldg. 300 - Rm. 300T)
	
9:00am  Nikolaus Ritt (University of Vienna)
        A Darwinian perspective on languages, varieties, and universals
	
9:30am  Hiromi Ozeki (University of Tokyo) and Yasuhiro Shirai
	(Cornell University)
        The consequences of variation in the acquisition of relative
	clauses: An analysis of longitudinal production data from five
	Japanese children
	
10:00-10:15  Break
	
10:15am Reijirou Shibasaki (University of California, Santa Barbara)
        Explorations of noun-modifying tautological constructions
        across languages: with special reference to X to-yuu X in
        Japanese
	
10:45am Jennifer Mittelstaedt (Georgetown University)
        Apparent-time change in the Smith Island Auxiliary Verb System
	
11:15-11:30  Break
	
11:30am Barbara Johnstone (Carnegie Mellon University)
        Three Ways To Sound Like a Pittsburgher: Stancetaking and
        Vernacular Norm-Formation
	
12:30-2:15   Lunch on campus including a presentation by the Stanford
	     Japanese Dialect Research Group.
	
2:15pm  John Beavers, Beth Levin, and Shiao-Wei Tham
	(Stanford University)
        A morphosyntactic basis for variation in the encoding of
        motion events
	
2:45pm  Elena Maslova (Stanford University)
        Cross-linguistic and language-internal variation as a
        manifestation of language universals: the case of	
        reflexive/reciprocal polysemy
	
3:15-3:30    Break
	
3:30pm  Anne-Marie Hartenstein (Rice University)
        The middle voice construction in Romanian -
	a corpus based analysis
	
4:00pm  Mark Donohue (National University of Singapore)
        Voice varieties in Indonesian/Malay
	
4:30-4:45    Break
	
4:45pm  Toshio Ohori (Tokyo University)
	tba
	
5:45pm  End of first day; Dinner
	
Sunday, May 23rd (Bldg. 300 - Rm. 300T)
	
9:00am  Prashant Pardeshi, Kaoru Horie, and Qing-Mei Li
	(Tohoku University)
        Being on the receiving end: A tour into linguistic variation
        at propositional level
	
9:30am  Jared Bernstein (Ordinate Corporation and Stanford University)
        Workable models of standard performance in English and Spanish
	
10:00-10:15  Break
	
10:15am Jim Miller (University of Auckland)
        Unplanned spoken English: standard or non-standard? clause
        syntax or discourse organisation?
	
10:45am Yumiko Nishi and Yasuhiro Shirai (Cornell University)
        Where L1 semantic transfer occurs: The significance of
        cross-linguistic variation in lexical aspect in the universal
        phenomena of L2 aspect acquisition
	
11:15-11:30  Break
	
11:30am Claire Kramsch (University of California, Berkeley)
	tba
	
12:30pm Conference ends
	
	

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