18.1419, Confs: General Ling/Germany

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Date: 09-May-2007
From: Peter Siemund < peter.siemund at uni-hamburg.de >
Subject: Linguistic Universals and Language Variation

 

	
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Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 13:16:11
From: Peter Siemund < peter.siemund at uni-hamburg.de >
Subject:  Linguistic Universals and Language Variation 
 

Linguistic Universals and Language Variation 
Short Title: UniVar 

Date: 13-Jul-2007 - 14-Jul-2007 
Location: Hamburg, Germany 
Contact: Peter Siemund 
Contact Email: peter.siemund at uni-hamburg.de 
Meeting URL:
http://www.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereiche-einrichtungen/sfb538/kolloquien.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

A satisfactory and illuminating treatment of language variation remains an
immensely challenging task for linguistic theorizing. The workshop aims to
contribute towards this discussion by exploring the role of linguistic
universals for bringing order into the apparent chaos of variation.

Language variation can be observed in different domains of language and
linguistics. The workshop will inter alia be concerned with cross-linguistic
variation, language internal variation, variation across dialects and
sociolects, learner language variation and variation as a result of language
contact.

Linguistic universals are highly theory dependent and can hardly be discussed
outside a specific model or framework. The two major strands of linguistic
research in which universals of language are currently discussed can broadly be
characterized as either functionalist-inductive or formalist-deductive. Each of
these frameworks has developed its own conceptions of universals and modes of
explanation (system-external versus system-internal). The workshop specifically
hosts contributions that look across this theoretical divide.

The topic of the workshop accommodates presentations of various kinds.
Presentations are inter alia concerned with theoretically challenging phenomena
of variation, the modelling of variation, the explanation of variation
phenomena, the relationship between universals and domains of language and
linguistics in which variation arises, variation and standard as well as the
role of variation in language change. 

Friday, 13 July
09.00	Peter Siemund	Opening of Workshop
09.00-10.00	Sali Tagliamonte	Variation as a Window on Universals
10.00-11.00	Michele Loporcaro	A Euroversal in a Global Perspective: Auxiliation
and Alignment
11.00-11.30	Coffee break	
11.30-12.30	Jochen Rehbein	Reflexions on the Universality of Finiteness
12.30-13.30	Peter Siemund & Michaela Hilbert	Linguistic Universals and Varieties
of English
13.30-15.00	Lunch	
15.00-16.00	Tanja Kupisch & Esther Rinke	Article-possessor Complementarity in
the History of Italian and Portuguese
16.00-17.00	Guido Mensching	Syntactic Variation in Romance: A Minimalist Approach
17.00-17.30	Coffee break	
17.30-18.30	Holger Diessel	Cross-linguistic Asymmetries in the Positioning of
Subordinate Clauses

Saturday, 14 July
09.00-10.00	Shana Poplack	Using Linguistic Variation to Model Language Change
10.00-11.00	Cristina Flores	Syntactic Variation and Language Attrition. The Case
of Portuguese-German Returnees
11.00-11.30	Coffee break	
11.30-12.30	Ezel Babur & Solveig  Kroffke	Deficits in Morpho-syntax as the
Universal Phenotype of Specific Language Impairment - Verbal Morphology in
Turkish and German (Bilingual) SLI Children
12.30-13.30	Adriana Belletti	Kinds of Language Variation between Comparison and
Acquisition
13:30	Peter Siemund	Closing Remarks






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