15 december 2008
Congres “Windows on Inflection“
Plaats: Universiteit van Amsterdam
Windows on Inflection, University of Amsterdam
Monday 15 December – Tuesday 16 December, 2008
Location: PC Hoofthuis, Room 104
The Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC) invites you to a workshop on the many aspects of inflection. The workshop is organised on the occasion of the finalization of two projects: ‘Variation in Inflection ’ (Variflex) and ‘Disentangling Bilingualism and SLI ’ (BISLI). At the same time, a new project that combines the fruits of the two projects with a processing approach is introduced. During the workshop, inflection will be addressed from a variety of research angles: first and second language acquisition, specific language impairment, language processing, language change, microvariation. The purpose of the workshop is to show how different research traditions can shed light on the same questions.
Invited Speakers:
Prof. Josef Bayer, Universität Konstanz
Dr. Elma Blom, University of Alberta
Dr Vicky Chondrogianni, University of Reading
Prof. Harald Clahsen, University of Essex
Dr. Leonie Cornips, Meertens Instituut
Dr. Eric Fuß, Universität Frankfurt
Dr. Theo Marinis, University of Reading
Dr. Johanne Paradis, University of Alberta
Prof. Petra Schulz, Universität Frankfurt
Prof. Antonella Sorace, University of Edinburgh
Dr Sharon Unsworth, Utrecht University, Meertens Instituut
Participation fee: 50 euro ; 100 euro including dinner on Monday night. Payment in cash at conference site.
Please register by sending an e-mail to : windowsoninflection@yahoo.com.
Programme
| 9.00-9.40 | Fred Weerman (Amsterdam) | Introductory talk: What we need to understand the rise and fall of inflection. |
| 9.40-10.20 | Michiel van Lambalgen (Amsterdam) | Tense and aspect as a window on the brain |
| 10.20-11.00 | Elma Blom (Edmonton) | Inflection: A window on effects of age and L1 transfer |
11.00 –11.20 Coffee break
| 11.20-12.00 | Antonella Sorace (Edinburgh) | Convergences between early and late bilinguals: where and why |
| 12.00-12.40 | Leonie Cornips & Aafke Hulk (Meertens Instituut/Amsterdam) | Factors of succes and failure in the acquisition of grammatical gender in Dutch |
12.40 – 14.20 Lunch
| 14.20-15.00 | Olaf Koeneman & Alies Maclean (Meertens Instituut/Amsterdam) | It ’s all in the past. On the status of second person plural in past tense verbal inflection of the Southern Dutch dialects |
| 15.00-15.40 | Suzanne Aalberse (Amsterdam) | Waer bestu bleven? Disentangling the role of morphology internal and external factors in the loss of second person marking in Dutch |
15.40-16.00 Tea break
| 16.00-16.40 | Erik Fuss (Frankfurt) | Grammaticalization vs. paradigm leveling: On the cyclic nature of language change |
| 16.40-17.10 | Josef Bayer (Konstanz) | (discussant) |
Drinks & dinner