35.1525, Confs: The 25th Diachronic Generative Syntax conference

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Subject: 35.1525, Confs: The 25th Diachronic Generative Syntax conference

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Date: 14-May-2024
From: Tara Struik [tara.struik at uni-mannheim.de]
Subject: The 25th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference


The 25th Diachronic Generative Syntax conference
Short Title: DiGS25

Date: 25-Jun-2024 - 28-Jun-2024
Location: Mannheim, Germany
Contact: Tara Struik
Contact Email: digs25mannheim at gmail.com
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/digs25mannheim/

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition;
Linguistic Theories; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Meeting Description:

We are pleased to announce that the 25th Diachronic Generative Syntax
conference (DiGS25) will be held at the University of Mannheim
(Germany) from 25th of June 2024 to 28th of June 2024.

DiGS25 will be hosted by project H3 of the DFG research unit SILPAC
(Carola Trips, Tara Struik, Lena Kaltenbach (University of Mannheim))
and Mercator Fellow Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania).

Since its first installment in 1990, DiGS has established itself as
one of the world’s leading venues for the formal investigation of
syntactic change. More information about the history (and near future)
of this conference series can be found at http://walkden.space/digs/.

To mark the occasion of the 25th edition of DiGS, we will kick off the
conference with a one-day pre-conference workshop on the “Legacy of
the Penn historical corpora” on the 25h of June, 2024. The use of
these corpora has featured prominently in the research of many members
of the DiGS community, and over the years the number of corpora and
tools to search them have greatly expanded. The workshop will reflect
on the history of the corpora originally created at the University of
Pennsylvania, but also showcase new and novel ways of using the Penn
format.

Generative theories of diachronic syntax have always acknowledged the
role of acquisition in language change (Lightfoot 1979, 1991, Roberts
1993, see for recent discussion Cournane 2019 and the commentary
papers). One recent trend in diachronic syntax is the use of
quantitatively precise learning models to explain variation and change
(such as the variational learning model (Yang 2000), applied in
Heycock & Wallenberg 2013 and the Tolerance Principle (Yang 2016),
applied in Kodner 2020, 2022, Trips & Rainford 2022, among others). In
addition to the general sessions, one session of the conference will
therefore be exclusively dedicated to this new line of research.

The invited speakers for the conference are:
Beatrice Santorini (University of Pennsylvania, invited speaker for
the workshop)
Jordan Kodner (Stony Brook University, invited speaker for session on
learnability)
Michelle Troberg (University of Toronto)
Eric Fuß (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

References and more information on DiGS25 can be found on the website:
https://sites.google.com/view/digs25mannheim/

The program for DiGS25 is now available on the website:
https://sites.google.com/view/digs25mannheim/programme



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