Venue: H435 (in Humanisthuset)

08:30-18:00

Registration open - Please register

09:00-09:15    

Welcome and announcements

09:15-10:15    

• Invited speaker, Robert Berwick (MIT): Darwinian Linguistics (PDF 56 kB) 

10:15-10:45    

• Theresa Biberauer (Cambridge/Stellenbosch), Ian Roberts (Cambridge), Michelle Sheehan (Cambridge): On the Mafioso Effect in Grammar (PDF 209 kB)

10:45- 11:15   

• Aritz Irurtzun (CNRS-IKER): Some Maladaptive Traits of Natural Language (PDF 107 kB)

11:15-11:30    

Coffe/Tea break

11:30-12:15    

Poster presentation

• Cedric Boeckx (ICREA & Barcelona) and Anna Martínez-Álvarez (Barcelona): A multi-step algorithm for serial order: Converging evidence from Linguistics and Neuroscience (PDF 141 kB)
• Evelina Leivada and Pedro Tiago Martins (Barcelona): (Biolinguistic) Primitives Lost in Translation (PDF 321 kB)
• Jordi Fortuny and Adriana Fasanella (CLT-UAB): Reducing linguistic variation to Third Factor mechanisms (PDF 50 kB)
• Rita Manzini (Firenze): Variation and the architecture of grammar. Where are parameters? Where is lexicalization? (PDF 48 kB)
• Evelina Leivada (Barcelona): The emergent nature of parametric variation (PDF 92 kB)
• Cristiano Chesi and Andrea Moro (Pavia): Hierarchy and Recursion in the Brain (PDF 75 kB)
• Silvia Albertini (Pavia), Marco Tettamanti (Milan) and Andrea Moro (Pavia): The impossible chaos: When the mind cannot eliminate language structure (PDF 67 kB)
• Michelle Sheehan (Cambridge): A parameter hierarchy approach to alignment (PDF 150 kB)
• Joana Rosselló (Barcelona): What a syllable can tell us on language (PDF 52 kB)
• Cedric Boeckx (ICREA/Barcelona), Wolfram Hinzen (Durham) and Antonio Benitez-Burraco (Huelva): Prospects for a comparative biolinguistics (PDF 115 kB)
• Timothy Bazalgette (Cambridge): An algorithm for lexicocentric parameter acquisition (PDF 277 kB)
• Elisa Di Domenico (Perugia): Setting the elements of syntactic variation in L2 acquisition: On the English 's morpheme (PDF 116 kB)
• Dany Jaspers (Brussels/Leuven): Constraints on Concept Formation (PDF 178 kB)
• Ana M. Suárez Sándalo (Madrid): Concepts, Language, and Human Brain (PDF 98 kB)
• Jason Overfelt (UMass, Amherst): Unbounded Successive-Cyclic Rightward Movement (PDF 82 kB)
• Pilar Barbosa (Minho): pro as a minimal NP: towards a unified theory of pro-drop (PDF 99 kB)

12:15-14:00    

LUNCH

14:00-14:30    

• Andreas Trotzke (Konstanz) and Markus Bader (Frankfurt): Against usage-based approaches to recursion: The grammar-performance distinction in a biolinguistic perspective (PDF 110 kB)

14:30-15:00    

• Wolfram Hinzen and Txuss Martin (Durham): From infant pointing to the phase: Grammaticalizing deictic reference (PDF 121 kB)

15:00-15:30

• Norbert Corver (Utrecht): Colorful spleeny ideas speak furiously (PDF 128 kB)

15:30-16:00

Coffe/Tea break

16:00-16:30   

• Koji Fujita (Kyoto): In Defense of the Merge-Only Hypothesis (PDF 92 kB)

16:30-17:00

• Cristina Guardiano (Modena e Reggio Emilia), Giuseppe Longobardi (York), Luca Bortolussi (Trieste), Andrea Sgarro (Trieste), Giuseppina Sivestri (Trieste/Pisa) and Andrea Ceolin (Trieste): The historical reality of biolinguistic diversity (PDF 162 kB)

17:00-17:30     

• Anna Maria Di Sciullo (Québec à Montréal): Language Faculty, Complexity Reduction and Symmetry Breaking (PDF 100 kB)

17:30-18:15       

Poster presentation [see above]                  

18:15-18:30     

Break

18:30-19:30

• Invited speaker: Charles Yang (UPenn): Tipping Points (PDF 38 kB)

• PDF Version of the programme
  (PDF 90 kB)