37.927, Confs: Universal Grammar and Linguistic Diversity (Germany)

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Subject: 37.927, Confs: Universal Grammar and Linguistic Diversity (Germany)

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Date: 04-Mar-2026
From: Veronica Cibotaru [cibotaruveronica at gmail.com]
Subject: Universal Grammar and Linguistic Diversity


Universal Grammar and Linguistic Diversity

Date: 30-Mar-2026 - 31-Mar-2026
Location: Tübingen, Germany

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Computational
Linguistics; General Linguistics; Syntax; Typology

Universal Grammar and Linguistic Diversity
Organiser: Veronica Cibotaru
Location:
College of Fellows – Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural
Studies, Villa Köstlin, Rümelinstraße 27, 72070 Tübingen, seminar
room.
Program:
30 March:
10h – 10h15: Opening
10h15 – 11h15: Daniel Hole (University of Stuttgart): “Universalism as
a Biographical and Epistemic Necessity”
11h30 – 12h30: Friederike Moltmann (Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique):  “Light Nouns and the Universality of Grammar and
Ontology”
14h30 – 15h30: Paul Pietroski (Rutgers University): “Constrained
Ambiguity: Knowing What Sentences Don’t Mean”
15h45 – 16h45: David J. Lobina (University Rovira i Virgili): “Putting
Thoughts Together: The Logical Connectives in Language and Thought”
17h – 18h: Sara Heinämaa (University of Juväskylä): “Speech (Parole)
and the Project of Universal Grammar”
31 March:
Chair: Asya Achimova (University of Tübingen)
10h – 11h: Martin Butz (University of Tübingen), “How Can a Universal
Grammar Emerge from Grounded Cognition?”
11h15 – 12h15: Harald Baayen (University of Tübingen), “Universal
Grammar or Universal Algorithms?”
14h15 – 15h15: Gerhard Jäger (University of Tübingen), “Statistical
Probing of the Validity of Statistical Universals”
15h30 – 16h30: Veronica Cibotaru (University of Tübingen), “On the
Ambiguity of the Notion of Recursion”
16h45 – 17h45: Yannick Essengue (University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès),
“Reframing Universal Grammar Through Decolonial Epistemologies:
Mudimbe, Eboussi Boulaga, and the Grammar of Coloniality”
17h45 – 18h15: Open discussion



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