The Language Faculty
The Language Faculty is an international network of scholars interested in human language that meets once a year at the Université de Nantes. The first meeting was held on 2 June 2017.
The network is dedicated at promoting research in formal linguistics and the biological basis of human language in the language departments of French universities. It operates in tight connection with the international research community.
Organisation et contact : Martin Haiden - martin.haiden (at) univ-nantes.fr
The network is dedicated at promoting research in formal linguistics and the biological basis of human language in the language departments of French universities. It operates in tight connection with the international research community.
Organisation et contact : Martin Haiden - martin.haiden (at) univ-nantes.fr
The Language Faculty 2019: Linguistics and the Brain Sciences
Les Journées scientifiques de l'Université de Nantes
21 June 2019
La Cité, Centre des Congrès de Nantes
Registration is required, but free of charge.
Registration is required, but free of charge.
The 2019 instalment of the Language Faculty will explore the research agenda for linguistic inquiry beyond the traditional frontiers of humanities. The following questions will be addressed:
- Which aspects of psychology, neuroscience, or other related fields are of interest for linguistic theory? Why do we want to understand those aspects? What can we hope to learn from integrating them into linguistic research? What do we already know, and what can we hope to learn in the near future?
- What can linguistic theory contribute to neighbouring fields? Are there questions in grammatical theory that particularly call for interdisciplinary or experimental research? How do we need to re/state linguistic questions in order to make them amenable to experimental and/or interdisciplinary research?
- Is there a continuity in the generative research paradigm that we can trace from early, introspection-based research to the questions dealt with today in research on acquisition, processing, imagery, and other experimental paradigms? Are there domains of linguistic inquiry that had to be fundamentally re-thought in order to leverage new methodologies? Has this changed the way we think of language now, as compared to our views a few decades ago?
These questions will be discussed by a panel of highly respected scholars in the respective domains:
- Carlo Cecchetto, Structures formelles du langage (UMR 7023 SFL), CNRS
- Cynthia Fisher, Language Acquisition Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Yosef Grodzinsky, The Neurolinguistics Lab @ ELSC, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- James Magnuson, Computational Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lab, University of Connecticut
- Alec Marantz, NYU Morphology Lab, New York University
Program
| 9hoo - 9h3o | Welcome | |
| 9h3o - 1oh3o | Alec Marantz | Linguistics as Cognitive Neuroscience: What I've learned from studying word recognition. |
| 1oh45 - 11h45 | James Magnuson | Emergent phonology in a shallow model of human speech recognition. |
| 12hoo - 13h3o | Lunch | |
| 13h3o - 14h3o | Cynthia Fisher | How children use sentence and discourse structure to learn about words. |
| 14h3o - 15hoo | Coffee | |
| 15hoo - 16hoo | Carlo Cecchetto | Manipulating syntax in the brain. |
| 16h15 - 17h15 | Yosef Grodzinsky | Brain bases for language and logic. |
The Language Faculty 2018
Friday 1 June 2018
UMR 6310 LLING, salle 1, bâtiment STAPS
| 9h30 - 10h00 | Welcome | |
| 10h00 - 11h00 | Henk van Riemsdijk | Non-canonical trees -- some old and new thoughts |
| 11h00 - 12h00 | Martin Haiden | Time and again: On formal features in phonology, and what they do to Bavarian determiners |
| 12jh00 - 14h00 | Lunch | |
| 14h00 - 15h00 | Anamaria Falaus | Multiple free relatives |
| 15h00 - 15h15 | Coffee | |
| 15h15 - 16h15 | Patricia Cabredo Hofherr | Distributive numerals and distributive configurations |
| 16h15 - 17h15 | Elena Herburger | German eher and epistemic modality |
| 17h15 - 18h | LF business matters | |
The Language Faculty 2017
Friday 2 June 2017
UMR 6310 LLING, salle C248, bâtiment Censive
Programme
| 10h30 - 11h00 | Welcome and introduction | |
| 11h00 - 12h00 | Josef Bayer (Konstanz): Criterial Freezing in the Syntax of Particles | |
| 12h00 - 13h00 | Gerhard Schaden (Lille) & Martin Salzmann (Leipzig): The Syntax and Semantics of Inflected Participles in Alemannic German | |
| 13h - 15h00 | Lunch | |
| 15h00 - 16h00 | Winnie Lechner (Athènes): Phrasal Comparatives, Reflexivization and Parasitic Scope | |
| 16h00 - 17h00 | Martin Haiden (Nantes): German reflexives: lexicon and syntax | |
| 17h00 - 17h15 | Coffee break | |
| 17h15 - 18h00 | Round table: Formal grammar in language departments | |
Mis à jour le 04 June 2019.