15.2805, Confs: Typology/San Francisco, CA, USA

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Date: 06-Oct-2004
From: Larry Hyman < hyman at socrates.berkeley.edu >
Subject: Typology in American Linguistics: An Appraisal of the Field


	
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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 15:53:54
From: Larry Hyman < hyman at socrates.berkeley.edu >
Subject: Typology in American Linguistics: An Appraisal of the Field

Typology in American Linguistics: An Appraisal of the Field

Date: 09-Jan-2005 - 09-Jan-2005
Location: LSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, United States of America
Contact: Larry Hyman
Contact Email: hyman at socrates.berkeley.edu
Meeting URL: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/events/LSA_Typology_Workshop_Jan_9.pdf

Linguistic Sub-Fields(s): Typology

Meeting Description:

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together some of the leading
typologists, non-typologists and "hybrids" to address why there has been
such a deep division between formal linguistics and typology - both of which
claim to be interested in uncovering significant generalizations which have
cross-linguistic validity. The workshop will thus address four major
concerns: (1) the place of typology within the infrastructure of
linguistics in the US and elsewhere; (2) major results of typology over the
past decades; (3) outstanding questions and opportunities for future
research; (4) issues of integration and historical continuity. Behind these
concerns is the overarching big question: What is typology?

Program

1:00-2:15. Why typology?
Lynn Nichols (UC Berkeley): What's typology doing at an LSA meeting?
Balthasar Bickel (U Leipzig):  What are the major advances and important
trends in typology?  How does the U.S. compare to Europe in these regards?
Mark Baker (Rutgers): What are the major advances and important trends in
formal morphology and syntax, and how does typology fit into them?
OPEN DISCUSSION.

2:15-3:30. What is typology?
Frans Plank (U Konstanz): What do/should typologists expect from formal
theoreticians?
Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz): What do/should formal theoreticians expect
from typologists?
Johanna Nichols (UC Berkeley): What, if anything, is typology?
OPEN DISCUSSION.

3:30- 3:45. Break.

3:45-5:00. Models and typology
Maria Polinsky (UC San Diego): What is the relation between articulated
models of grammar and typology?
Robert D. Van Valin (SUNY Buffalo): Where do comparison and typology fit
into modeling (and vice versa)?	
Larry M. Hyman (UC Berkeley): Where's phonology in typology?
OPEN DISCUSSION.

5:00-6:00. Typology in the structure and infrastructure of the field
Joan Bresnan (Stanford): Overview and commentary
Joan Maling (Brandeis & NSF; editor of NLLT)
Brian Joseph (Ohio State; editor of Language)
OPEN DISCUSSION.



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