Program
Venue: Farnsworth Pavilion of the Ley Student Center
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Please download the papers on your own and try to read them beforehand.
*Morning session: 9am-12noon; Afternoon session: 1pm-5pm
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Thursday, March 27: | |
Morning session:
Diachrony-I
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- Opening remarks: T. Givón
- Bernd Heine (Köln)
"A grammaticalization perspective on the rise of syntactic complexity"
[abstract] [paper]
- Marianne Mithun (UC Santa Barbara)
"Re(e)volving complexity: adding intonation"
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- Matt Shibatani (Rice)
"Elements of complex structures, where recursion isn't"
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Afternoon session:
Child Language
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- Holger Diessel (Jena)
"The emergence of relative clauses in early child language"
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- Cecilia Rojas (UNAM, Mexico)
"'Starting small' processes in the acquisition of early relative clauses in Spanish"
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- T. Givón (Oregon)
"The acquisition of complex VPs: How children learn to negotiate fact and desire"
[abstract] [paper1] [paper2]
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Friday, March 28: | |
Morning session:
Diachrony-II
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- Guy Deutscher (Leiden)
"Nominalization and the origin of subordination"
[abstract] [paper]
- Christian Koops (Rice University) and Martin Hilpert (ICSI Berkeley)
"The co-evolution of syntactic and pragmatic complexity: Diachronic and cross-linguistic aspects of pseudoclefts"
[abstract] [paper]
- T. Givón (Oregon)
"Toward a diachronic typology of relative clauses"
[abstract] [paper1]
[paper2]
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Afternoon session:
Cognition-Neurology
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- Brian MacWhinney (Carnegie Mellon)
"The emergence of linguistic complexity through catalysis and usage"
[abstract] [paper]
- Eric Pederson & Mitzi Barker (Oregon)
"Syntactic complexity and coordination in a verbal production task"
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- Diego Fernandez-Duque (Villa Nova)
"Cognitive underpinning of syntactic complexity: A possible role for 'chunking'?"
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Saturday, March 29: | |
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Morning session: Diachrony-III
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- Östen Dahl (Stockholm)
"Two pathways of grammatical evolution"
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- Andrew Pawley (Canberra)
"On the origins of serial verb constructions in Kalam"
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- Claire Bowern (Rice)
"Defining complexity: Arguments from historical reconstruction"
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Afternoon session:
Biology and Evolution
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- Nathan Tublitz (Oregon)
"Neural plasticity: A window into the complexity of the brain"
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- Don Tucker (Oregon)
"Neural mechanisms of the language process"
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- Derek Bickerton (Hawaii)
"How central is recursivity?"
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Poster sessions: Click here to download the abstracts.
- Cecily Jill Duffield (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Here’s a structure that’s not so simple: Revisiting the acquisition of relative clause constructions
- Maritza Elena Enríquez Licón (El Colegio de México)
Relative clauses in Isthmus Zapotec
- Danielle Mathieu-Reeves (University of Oregon)
Grammaticalization paths of auxiliary verb constructions: Iatmul & Yimas
- Cassandra Pace (Rice University)
Northern Vietnamese motion verbs and SVCs: complexity in semantic typology
- Elena Skribnik (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
South Siberian Turkic constructions with nominalizers and their further grammaticalization
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