18.3701, Confs: General Linguistics/USA

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Date: 10-Dec-2007
From: Jules Terry < terryjm at unc.edu >
Subject: Workshop on Locating Variability: Formal Approaches

 

	
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From: Jules Terry [terryjm at unc.edu]
Subject: Workshop on Locating Variability: Formal Approaches 
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Workshop on Locating Variability: Formal Approaches 
Short Title: WLV 

Date: 24-Apr-2008 - 26-Apr-2008 
Location: Amherst, MA, USA 
Contact: Kathy Adamczyk 
Contact Email: kaa at linguist.umass.edu 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

This workshop will bring together researchers from the US and abroad for a
discussion of the treatment of variation within current formal linguistic theory 

Workshop on Locating Variability: Formal Approaches

Center for the Study of African American Language
College of Humanities and Fine Arts
University of Massachusetts at Amherst

April 24th -26th, 2008

Recent trends in linguistic theory have led to increased interest in the role of
features and formal grammar in language variation, its expression as dialectal
difference, and speakers' choices of forms within dialects. While it is true
that research on dialects of English has focused mainly on the impact that
social factors have on the use of linguistic constructions, variation in
dialects of languages such as Italian, German, Dutch, and Flemish have been
productively analyzed using variation models developed within theoretical
syntax. This workshop will bring together researchers from the US and abroad for
a discussion of the treatment of variation within current formal linguistic
theory.  Participating researchers will address the following themes:

The status of linguistic features in grammar and their relation to the way
languages and dialects vary

Intra-speaker variability due to selection of multiple grammars or parameters

Patterns of variation in language acquisition 

Speakers 

David Adger 			
Jeffrey Parrott 		
Charles Yang 
Sjef Barbiers 			
Tom Roeper			
James Walker
Lisa Green 			
Cristina Schmitt 		
Tracey Weldon
Randall Hendrick 		
Elisabeth Selkirk 
Alison Henry 			
William Snyder 
Richard Kayne 			
Joe Stemberger 
Andrew Nevins 		        
J. Michael Terry
William Labov 			
Christina Tortora






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