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AMDS.GlOW36 Language Faculty, Complexity Reduction and Symmetry Breaking Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Université du Québec à Montréal 1. I assume that the Language Faculty is stable, it does not vary though time and space, and that language development requires experience (Chomsky 1995, 2005, 2011). I develop the view that language evolutionary development is the result of the interaction of the languag
Structural Asymmetries – The View from Kutchi Gujarati and Marwari Patrick Grosz & Pritty Patel-Grosz (University of Tübingen) Background: Indo-Aryan languages exhibit a split in their case and/or agreement pattern that correlates with aspect. This is illustrated for Standard Gujarati in (1) (from Mistry 1976, DeLancey 1981:628-629). In the perfective, (1a), the subject combines with an ergative c
Abstracts till Pedagogisk inspirationskonferens 22 oktober 2020 Bidragen är sorterade efter den första föredragshållarens namn. Du hittar det abstract du söker genom att trycka Ctrl F och skriva in föredragshållarens namn i sökrutan som kommer upp. Några abstracts är om- och bearbetade, medan andra återges i sin första form. De abstracts som ska ingå i konferensvolymen kommer att utvecklas och bea
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What a syllable can tell us on language Joana Rosselló joana.rossello@ub.edu University of Barcelona Language is a system of discrete infinity (DI). Any human being can cope with an infinite number of sentences (syntax) and chunks of well-formed sound/gesture sequences (phonology). Any human has also at his/her disposal an open-ended lexicon. In this paper I put forward the proposal that DI relies
Microsoft Word - Nicola King Abstract.doc Structures of Auto/biographical Narrative: Dan Jacobson, Blake Morrison, Tim Lott, Margaret Forster, Richard Wollheim Nicola King University of the West of England, Bristol, UK This paper will explore the structures of a group of recent British auto/biographies, focussing on the ways in which they attempt to recreate childhood experience through memory and
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GLOW submission In Defense of the Merge-Only Hypothesis Koji Fujita / Kyoto University In this presentation I defend and further consolidate the “Merge-only” hypothesis of current minimalism (Chomsky 2008, 2010, Berwick 2011, Berwick & Chomsky 2011, inter alia) by proposing a theory of language evolution according to which it was Merge that gave rise to other major components of the human language
Den nionde svenska filologkongressen Abstracts 1. Akujärvi, Johanna - johanna.akujarvi@klass.lu.se - Lunds universitet … hyenden under håglösa lärjungars lätja. Språkundervisningen och klassikeröversättning Svensk översättning av antik litteratur har ofta nära band till undervisningen av de klassiska språken i skola och på universitet. Särskilt uppenbart är bandet i de så kallade mojorna, drillarn
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Dinka and the architecture of long-distance extraction∗ Coppe van Urk (cvanurk@mit.edu) Norvin Richards (norvin@mit.edu) Massachusetts Institute of Technology GLOW 36, Lund University In the Nilotic language Dinka Nyarweng, both C and v have the EPP property: one XP must sit in their specifier (1) and (2): (1) CP XP C’ C TP . . . (2) vP XP v’ v VP . . . In this talk, we show that this system provi
ABSTRACTS LUTL 2022 Keynote How can higher education contribute to lifelong learning? Cecilia Bjursell, Dir. National Center for Lifelong Learning, Encell Lifelong learning is a concept which is used in many different contexts and in many different ways. Three perspectives of ‘lifelong learning’ will be introduced: (i) lifelong learning as policy; (ii) lifelong learning as theory; and (iii) lifelo
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Deriving the Functional Hierarchy Gillian Ramchand and Peter Svenonius CASTL, University of Tromsø GLOW 36, Lund University April 4, 2013 1 Introduction 1.1 The problem (1) The Minimalist Program strives to go beyond “explanatory ade- quacy” (an explanation of how language can be learned) to develop a plausible account for how human linguistic ability could have evolved (Chomsky 2005 inter alia).
Slide 1 The 12th International Symposium on Iconicity in Literature and Language Lund University, Sweden 5th May 2019 The diachronic stability of Japanese ideophones and the iconicity- systematicity relationship f Bonnie McLean Masters student Australian National University Iconicity and Systematicity • The focus of research into ideophones or iconic words has largely been on their iconicity. • Ho
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Repairing Final-Over-Final Constraint Violations: Evidence from Basque verb clusters∗ Ricardo Etxepare (CNRS) Bill Haddican (CUNY-Queens College) April 5, 2013 1 Introduction • Focus: The Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC), a generalization originally by Holmberg (2000) about the interaction between dominance relations and {head, complement} ordering cross-linguistically (Hawkins, 1983, 1995; Holm
Microsoft Word - Raczaszek-Leonardi_SALC6_abstract.docx Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Warsaw Ungrounding Symbols in Development The symbol grounding problem has been challenging cognitive sciences for several decades. Its difficulty might stem from the way it is posed: the problem is how to ground abstract, arbitrary, formal symbols, the existence of which
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Pronoun Doubling in the Dialects of Dutch We discuss subject pronoun doubling in the dialects of Dutch, of the type illustrated in (1). (1) Wij emme wij dat gedoan. wenom have wenom that done. æWe have done thatî In pronoun doubling constructions the second pronoun is always strong. The first pronoun can be either a clitic or a strong pronoun depending on the type of sentence it is in. The distrib
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Слайд 1 Iconicity Atlas ICONICITY ATLAS Project An interactive multi-lingual comparative dictionary of iconic (imitative, onomatopoeic, sound symbolic) words Universal vs. Language Specific: Iconicity across Languages Natalia Noland Houston Community College natalia.noland@hccs.edu Maria Flaksman St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University ‘LETI’ mariaflax@gmail.com w w w .ic on ic ity -a tla
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Microsoft Word - Bianchi_SALC6_abstract.docx Ivana Bianchi The perception and cognition of opposites Since time immemorial, it has been recognized in various scientific domains that opposition/contrariety (here used as interchangeable terms) represent a primal relationship in the human cognitive architecture. Early philosophers discussed its fundamental role for many concepts (e.g. pre-socratic ph
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Microsoft Word - EngNorw_biling.docx Cross-linguistic influence and structural overlap affecting English verb placement It is well-known that although bilingual children clearly separate their languages from very early on (cf. e.g. Genesee 1989, Meisel 1989), cross-linguistic influence between the child’s languages is a fairly common phenomenon. Various proposals have been put forward to account f
Microsoft Word - GLOW_Lund_Apr-2013.doc GLOW 36 Lund University Apr 3-5, 2013 SOL Raising to Object from finite CPs: dual A/A-bar and MCC 1 Gabriela Alboiu - York University (galboiu@yorku.ca) Virginia Hill - University of New Brunswick SJ (mota@unb.ca) 1. Focus of Talk & Roadmap: Vs of perception are intrinsically evidential, but, in Romanian, type of complementation determines direct, (1c), vers
The poetics and rhetoric of borrowing. Colloquium Balticum Lundense XI. 8.11.12. Janika.Pall@ut.ee. I. Ideas of novelty in the poetics of antiquity 1. The pride of authors Κύρνε, σοφιζομένωι μὲν ἐμοὶ σφρηγὶς ἐπικείσθω τοῖσδ' ἔπεσιν, λήσει δ' οὔποτε κλεπτόμενα, 20 οὐδέ τις ἀλλάξει κάκιον τοὐσθλοῦ παρεόντος· ὧδε δὲ πς τις ἐρεῖ· ‘Θεύγνιδός ἐστιν ἔπη τοῦ Μεγαρέως· πάντας δὲ κατ' ἀνθρώπους ὀνομαστός.’
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