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Date: 08-Jul-2011
From: Michelle Sheehan [m.l.sheehan at durham.ac.uk]
Subject: The Past and Future of Universal Grammar

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Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:15:21
From: Michelle Sheehan [m.l.sheehan at durham.ac.uk]
Subject: The Past and Future of Universal Grammar

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The Past and Future of Universal Grammar 

Date: 16-Dec-2011 - 18-Dec-2011 
Location: University of Durham, United Kingdom 
Contact: Wolfram Hinzen 
Contact Email: wolfram.hinzen at durham.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.dur.ac.uk/conference.booking/details/?id=97 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; History of Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Psycholinguistics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Grammar is universal in human populations, pathologies aside. A theory of grammar should thus be a universal theory in this sense. Yet it is widely contended today that it need not be the theory of Universal Grammar (UG), in the sense of its early generative formulations, which have taken UG to be a linguistically specific and species-specific biological endowment consisting of functionally arbitrary formal rules. Theories of universal grammar have also been formulated in a number of different ways in the past, with far from identical underlying axiomatic assumptions. Furthermore, the modern theory of UG itself is currently undergoing a significant reformulation, following the development of Minimalism. This conference aims to provide a forum for assessing and (re-)directing the course that research on universal grammar and the biological foundations of language should take over the coming years and decades, bringing together linguists, psychologists, philosophers, and biolo!
 gists. 

The Past and Future of Universal Grammar

Thursday 15th December - arrival date and registration in Calman Learning 
Centre, accommodation in Durham Business School.

Friday 16th December 
Main conference in Calman Learning Centre, Science Site
Session 1: The past of UG
9.00-9.15
Wolfram Hinzen, University of Durham
Three traditions of Universal Grammar

9.15-10.15
Elisabeth Leiss, University of Munich
Part-whole-relations in the Universal Grammar of the Modistae

10.15-10.45
Coffee break

Session 2: The future of UG
10.45-11.45
Guglielmo Cinque, University of Venice
In search of Universal Grammar: the hidden structure of natural language

11.45-12.45
Anders Holmberg, Newcastle University and Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge
Past and future approaches to linguistic variation

12.45-1.45
Lunch (in Calman building)

Session 3: No need for UG
1.45-2.45
Ewa Dabrowska, Northumbria University
What exactly is Universal Grammar, and who has seen it?

2.45-3.45
Nick Chater, Warwick Business School
Language is shaped by the brain; but not the reverse (abstract)

3.45-4.15
Coffee break

Session 4: The evolution of grammar
4.15-5.15
Maggie Tallerman, Newcastle University
Is the syntax rubicon more of a mirage? A defence of pre-syntactic protolanguage

5.15-6.15
Ian Tattersall, American Museum of Natural History
A context for the emergence of language (abstract)

6.15-7.30
Break

7.30-8.30
Public Lecture in Union Society
Tom Roeper, University of Massachusetts
The image of mind in the grammar of children

Saturday 17th December
Main conference in Calman Learning Centre
Session 5: The Grammaticalisation of the brain

9.00-10.00
Tim Crow, University of Oxford
The origins of psychosis in the breakdown of deixis

10.00-11.00
Nathalie Tzourio-Mazoyer, University of Bordeaux
Neural basis of the hemispheric specialization for language

11.00-11.30
Coffee break

11.30-12.30
Gavin Clowry, Newcastle University
Human specific aspects of cerebral cortex development

12.30-1.30
Lunch (Calman building)
Session 6: Thinking without grammar

1.30-2.30
Wolfram Hinzen, University of Durham
The grammar of thought

2.30-3.30
Tom Roeper, University of Massachusetts
T.B.C.

3.30-4.00
Coffee break

4.00-5.00
Rosemary Varley, Sheffield University
Reason without grammar (abstract)

5.00-6.00
Jill de Villiers, Smith College
Which concepts need the human language faculty? (abstract)

6.00-7.00
Break

7.00
Conference Dinner

Sunday 18th December 
UG: the minimum workshop in Union Society

9.00-10.00
Hagit Borer, University of Southern California T.B.C.

10.00-11.00
Halldor Sigurdsson, Lund University T.B.C.

11.00-11.30
Coffee break

11.30-12.30
Daniel Seely, Eastern Michigan University T.B.C.

12.30-1.30
Michelle Sheehan, University of Cambridge T.B.C.

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