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Mafioso Parameters and the Limits of Syntactic Variation (495 words) ON THE ‘MAFIOSO EFFECT’ IN GRAMMAR Theresa Biberauer 1,2 , Ian Roberts 1 & Michelle Sheehan 1 University of Cambridge 1 and Stellenbosch University 2 There is an obvious tension in the Minimalist Program between the desire to posit a minimally genetically specified syntactic component whilst maintaining the empirical insights of
GLOW Martin Hinzen THE GRAMMAR OF THE ESSENTIAL INDEXICAL Txuss Martín & Wolfram Hinzen, Department of Philosophy, Durham University, UK Pronouns are said to uniquely exhibit ‘essentially indexical’ forms of referential use (KAPLAN 1989, PERRY 1993, LEWIS 1983): for example, ‘I’ does not mean ‘the speaker’ or ‘Bob’, even if I utter ‘I’ and am Bob. Commonly, the phenomenon is modeled formal-semanti
Microsoft Word - Irurtzun_named.doc Some Maladaptive Traits of Natural Language Aritz Irurtzun CNRS-IKER One of the biggest issues in current biolinguistics concerns the discussion of the putative adaptive nature of human language. Thus, a range of authors defend the view that language is an eminently adaptive tool that evolved for communication purposes (cf. Pinker and Bloom (1990); Pinker and Ja
Bjune_etal_mod The 2nd EuroSoTL conference, June 8-9 2017, Lund, Sweden Testing the impact of active learning in first year undergraduate natural science courses A. E. Bjune1, B. Grung2, B. Holst3, L. C. Olsen4 1. Department of Biology and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Univ. of Bergen, Norway. 2. Department of Chemistry, Univ. of Bergen, Norway 3. Department of Physics and Technology, Univ
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A universal Information concept? CAN COGNITIVE SEMIOTICS BE A “SCIENCE” IF ITS PURPOSE IS TO BE A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE NATURAL, SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES? IS THERE A TRANSDISCIPLINARY ALTERNATIVE? Søren Brier 1 Cybersemiotics: Why Information is not Enough, Toronto University Press 2008, 2010, 2013. Google book and Kindle. Cybersemiotics.com, Facebook and YouTube 2 NATURE (UNIVERSE) CULTURE (SOCIETY
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Limits on Noun-suppletion Beata Moskal, University of Connecticut (beata.moskal@uconn.edu) Suppletion refers to the phenomenon in which a single lexical item is associated with two phonologically unrelated forms, the choice of form depending on the morphosyntactic context. Consider the familiar example of the good-better-best paradigm, in which the adjective root surfaces as good in isolation but
Louhema.et al.ILL-12.pptx Translating from Unisemiotic to Polysemiotic Narratives: A study of Finnish speech and gestures Karoliina Louhema, Jordan Zlatev, Maria Graziano & Joost van de Weijer Lund University How does the semiotic system of a source narrative influence how the story is re-narrated? If a story is experienced in: • pictures (depiction only condition) • speech (language only conditio
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PERCEPTUALLY MOTIVATED EPENTHESIS ASYMMETRIES IN THE ACQUISITION OF CLUSTERS Adam Albright (MIT), Giorgio Magri (CNRS, University of Paris 8) A growing body of evidence supports the view that children’s phonological patterns are shaped not only by child-specific performance pressures (Kiparsky and Menn 1977; McAllister Byun 2011), but also by the universal forces that define adult grammars (Fikker
11:th International Conference of the EARLI Special Interest Group on Writing SIG Writing 2008 Program & Abstracts Lund University June 11–13 2008 Organizing Committee Åsa Wengelin Roger Johansson Victoria Johansson Sven Strömqvist Scientific Committee Denis Alamargot, University of Poitiers, France Linda Allal, Unviersity of Geneva, Switzerland David Galbraith, Staffordshire University, UK Joac
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Andersson_Chronholm The 2nd EuroSoTL conference, June 8-9 2017, Lund, Sweden Improving student retention through scholarly development S. Andersson, and J. Andersson Chronholm, Uppsala University, Sweden ABSTRACT: Student retention is an important issue, from the deeply personal level of individual students to a higher education system level of national or even global scale. There are many motives
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On Aspectual Operators Verner Egerland, Lund This talk explores the properties of a small group of adverbial-like elements, including Sw. väl, knappt, Eng. once, Fr. une fois, à peine, It. una volta, appena. The presentation will concentrate on Swedish väl which will generally be glossed as ‘once’ (but the reader should be aware that the two words do not have the same distribution). When added to
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An 'early fall' in Swedish intonation: utterance or word prosody? Evidence from a comparison with German. Gilbert Ambrazaitis Linguistics and phonetics, Centre for languages and literature Background 1: German pitch accents (Kohler 1987; 2005) Eliciting EARLY and non-EARLY is possible, e.g., by letting subjects act out a dialogue such as: A: Wann machen wir eigentlich diese Reise? B: Gute Frage. W
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The impossible chaos: When the mind cannot eliminate language structure The impossible chaos: When the mind cannot eliminate language structure. Silvia Albertini 1 , Marco Tettamanti 2 , Andrea Moro 1 . 1 IUSS Center for Neurolinguistics and Theoretical Syntax Ne.T.S., Pavia; 2 Division of Neuroscience and Department of Nuclear Medicine, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan. A long-standing li
ID56 McConnell1Author_etal The 2nd EuroSoTL conference, June 8-9 2017, Lund, Sweden Engaging Students with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Through Peer Learning Programs C. McConnell, L. Bryngfors, J. Hettrick, O. Schofield, and K. Scott International Academic Peer Learning Network ABSTRACT: Peer learning programs such as Supplemental Instruction (SI), Peer Assisted Learning (PAL), and Pe
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2b Abstracts 1. The governance of knowledge processes. A study of spiritual leadership in a congregation of the Swedish Church This paper discusses spiritual leadership as a collective phenomenon. The overall aim is to illuminate the organisation’s significance for learning "about" and "into" spirituality in times of change. To achieve this purpose organization theory is put into play with theolog
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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
abstractGiF.dvi Surprise readings Anna-Lena Wiklund, University of Tromsø In a wide variety of languages, the verbsgo andtakemay combine with another verb in a complex predication to produce certain aspectual readings (see e.g. Ekberg 1993, Butt and Ramchand 2005, Wiklund 2007), see (1), (2) (from Butt andRamchand), and (3). Notably, what may be labeled aninceptivereading seems to be common; a rea
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Microsoft Word - CONFERENCE DINNER AND LUNCH INFORMATION.docx CONFERENCE DINNER AND LUNCH INFORMATION Filosofidagarna 2022 in Lund LUNCH The organizers of Filosofidagarna have ordered lunch catering for Saturday and Sunday. The cost is 150 SEK/person (lunch both days is 300 SEK/person). On Friday, you can buy your lunch at Café LUX (inside the conference building) or, if you prefer, you can have l
1 ÖVDALIAN – A BRIEF BACKGROUND 1. Research history and standardization Övdalian is spoken in the northern parts of Dalecarlia, in the parish of Älvdalen (Övdaln), by about 3000 speakers (the parish has 5200 inhabitants, roughly, but estimates of the number of speakers vary; see http://www.alvdalen.se/alvdalska2005.htm). There are 21 villages in the parish, with minor dialectal differences, mainly
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Sanchez-Prieto_etal_mod The 2nd EuroSoTL conference, June 8-9 2017, Lund, Sweden Technology Acceptance Among Teachers: An SLR on TAM and Teachers J.C. Sánchez-Prieto, S. Olmos-Migueláñez, and F.J. García-Peñalvo, GRIAL Research Group, Research Institute for Educational Sciences, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain ABSTRACT: Nowadays, the introduction of information and communication technolo
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