35.1726, Summer Schools: The emergence and cognitive status of language universals

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Subject: 35.1726, Summer Schools: The emergence and cognitive status of language universals

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Date: 04-Jun-2024
From: Sonia Cristofaro [sonia.cristofaro at sorbonne-universite.fr]
Subject: None


Summer school on `The emergence and cognitive status of language
universals', to be held in conjunction with the first edition of the
international conference `Langues et langage à la croisée des
disciplines/ Language & Languages at the crossroads of Disciplines
(LLcD, https://llcd2024.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/11)

Host Institution: Sorbonne Université
Website: https://llcd2024.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/8

Dates: 12-Sep-2024 - 14-Sep-2024
Location: Paris

Focus: We welcome applications from PhD students and postdoctoral
researchers.
Minimum Education Level: MA in linguistics or related fields

Description:
In the functional-typological approach that originated from the work
of Joseph Greenberg, language universals are empirically observed
cross-linguistic patterns, which emerge as a result of diachronic
processes that repeat from one language to another.  A variety of
neurocognitive mechanisms, manifested at the level of speech
production and processing, lead individual speakers to create novel
grammatical structures from pre-existing ones. These structures are
then selected, propagated and maintained in the language as a result
of the dynamics of social interaction between adult speakers, as well
as the dynamics of language acquisition (the vertical process of
language transmission from one generation of speakers to another). To
the extent that the same structures are recurrently created,
propagated and maintained in different languages, an overall pattern
will emerge.

This evolutionary view, which is generally shared by typologists, is
in contrast with the generative framework, where language universals
are a result of static inbuilt constraints in a speaker’s mind.  The
consequences of this view for empirical research on language
universals and explanations thereof are, however, still relatively
under-explored.  What is the exact nature of the neurocognitive
mechanisms that lead speakers to recurrently create the same
structures in different languages? How do mechanisms of social
interaction lead to the propagation of individual structures? What is
the role of language acquisition in shaping particular universal
patterns? How can we disentangle and accurately model the effects of
different mechanisms of creation, propagation and maintainance of
particular structures? How can we extract evidence about these effects
from the ever growing body of available data on the grammatical
structure of different, unrelated languages all over the world?
 different, unrelated languages all over the world?

The objective of the school is to bring together specialists working
on language universals and related issues from different theoretical
perspectives to take stock of the state of the art and outline
prospects for future research.

Courses on offer include:

Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge)}
Language variation and change: 21st century generative perspectives

John A. Hawkins (University of California Davis & Cambridge
University)
 Processing Efficiency in Language Universals and in Contact-induced
Language Change

Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig)
Universals of grammar and cultural evolution

Linguistic Field(s): Typology

Tuition: 100.0 Euros
Tuition Explanation: The tuition fee covers all lectures, course
materials,  lunches, and coffee breaks

Financial Aid: Applications accepted until 25-Jun-2024
We may be able to offer financial support to selected participants,
based on their personal circumstances. If you wish to apply for this
support, please specify that in the application form.

Registration Open until 25-Jun-2024

Apply on the web: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKwD4dMyui
YQa15q3MtHah8GMCVCwaFPbxJpvjYieB3KpC3g/viewform

Registration Instructions:
To apply, please go to

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKwD4dMyuiYQa15q3MtHah8GMCVC
waFPbxJpvjYieB3KpC3g/viewform


Deadline for application: June 25th, 2024
Notification of acceptance: June 30th, 2024



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