28.3379, Confs: Historical Ling, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax, Typology/Netherlands

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Subject: 28.3379, Confs: Historical Ling, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax, Typology/Netherlands

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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:33:44
From: Edoardo Cavirani [cavirani.edoardo at gmail.com]
Subject: Linguistic Knowledge & Patterns of Variation

Linguistic Knowledge & Patterns of Variation 

Date: 24-Aug-2017 - 26-Aug-2017 
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands 
Contact: Edoardo Cavirani 
Contact Email: cavirani.edoardo at gmail.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Phonology; Syntax; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

A successful methodological assumption underlying much sociolinguistic,
dialectological, and diachronic linguistic work has been that the variation we
find between speakers is not random, but reflects sociological, historical,
geographical, physiological and other differences in the outside world, and is
bounded by universal aspects of the human body and mind. In recent years,
formal linguistics, traditionally putting a large burden of explanation on
theories of the human mind, has extended its focus to explaining at least some
aspects of the variational patterns – both the question what the limits of
variation are, and what explains why certain variants are found in certain
places, among certain groups, at certain periods.

In this workshop, we aim at bringing together researchers who are working on a
better understanding of the patterns of variation – on a map, or on the time
line – from the prism of syntactic, morphological and phonological theories:
why, for instance, are certain linguistic phenomena found exclusively on areas
close to important isoglosses? Why do certain linguistic changes tend to
co-occur? How is it possible that speakers' intuitions about grammaticality
seem to correspond to the distribution of the different variants within a
community? How can we capture inclusion relations among linguistic regions,
especially when they show exceptions? How do we understand the phenomenon of
'drift' where a certain grammatical well-formedness change takes centuries to
play out?

On August 24-26, researchers of the NWO-sponsored project Maps & Grammar
organize a workshop on these topics within phonology and syntax.

Invited speakers: R. Etxepare, S. Wurmbrand, L. Savoia, B. Alber, T. Scheer,
G. Kaufmann, R. Manzini, A. Lahiri

Program: 

Thursday 24 August:

9:00-9:45:
Barbiers, van Koppen, Bennis & Corver
Brabantish as a transitional grammar between Flemish and Dutch. Evidence from
determiner doubling and subject doubling

9:45-10:30:
Barbiers, Bennis and Dros-Hendriks
Putting verb clusters on the map

10:30-11:00: Coffee Break

11:00-11:45: 
Ouddeken
Voicing phenomena in two geographical regions: What geographical variation can
teach us about phonology

11:45-12:30:
Postma
Measuring accommodation and dialect convergence - the loss of the infinitival
prefix in Brazilian Pomeranian

12:30-14:00: Lunch

14:00-14:45:
Tang
Patterns of Variation in grammatical gender: The crossroad of Indo-European
and Sino-Tibetan languages

14:45-15:30:
Zeijlstra
Two varieties of Korean, or the ban against rightward head movement

15:30-16:00: Coffee Break

16:00-16:45: 
Tjong Kim Sang
Clustering Dialect Data - Experiments with the Dutch SAND Database

16:45-17:30:
Kaufmann
How to measure syntactic variation in Mennonite Low German: Some
methodological and analytical considerations

17:30: Social Dinner

Friday 25 August:

09:00-09:45:
Lahiri
(A)symmetries in phonological and morphological variation: processing
consequences

09:45-10:30:
Alber
Minimal Variation in the Typology of Stress

10:30-11:00: Coffee Break

11:00-11:45:
Savoia & Baldi
The stressed nucleus as a crucial domain in Romance micro-variation: a testing
ground for phonological theory

11:45-12:30: 
Scheer
How to interpret phonological variation in Old French

12:30-14:00: Lunch

14:45-15:30:
Simonenko, Crabbé & Prévost
Null subject decline co-occurring with agreement syncretisation: coincidence,
sameness, or causality?

15:30-16:00: Coffee Break

16:00-16:45:
Etxepare
How anyone may become someone in Basque: crossing historical and dialectal
data

16:45-17:30:
Manzini
Micro- and micro-parameters: From pronominal allomorphies to the category of
irreality/non-veridicality

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