Workshop on Locating Variability: Formal Approaches
April 24-26, 2008
SCHEDULE:
Thursday, April 24 -- Campus Center Room 904
8:30-9:30 |
Breakfast for Presenters - rm. 1001 |
| 9:50 | Welcoming Address: Lisa Selkirk |
10:00-10:40 |
J. Michael Terry, Re-examining Copula Variability in African American Vernacular English |
10:40-11:20 |
Sjef Barbiers, Limits and Locus of Syntactic Microvariation |
11:20-11:40 |
Coffee Break |
11:40-12:20 |
James Walker, Grammatical Variation, Inherent Variability, and Coexistent Systems |
12:20-1:00 |
Joseph Paul Stemberger, Inherent variability in first language acquisition and beyond |
1:00-2:40 |
Lunch |
2:40-3:20 |
Jeffrey Parrott, If ain't ain't a word, isn't isn't?; Variable Impoverishment as a mechanism of intra-individual variation |
3:20-3:40 |
Coffee Break |
3:40-4:20 |
Christina Tortora, What goes with what? The problem of intra-speaker variation for parametric theory |
4:20-5:00 |
David Adger, Categorical/Variable Splits and their theoretical consequences |
Friday, April 25 -- Campus Center Room 804
8:30-9:30 |
Breakfast for Presenters - rm. 1001 |
10:00-10:40 |
Joe Pater, Formal models of phonological (and syntactic?) variation |
10:40-11:20 |
Cristina Schmitt, What can variation tell us about first language acquisition? |
11:20-11:40 |
Coffee Break |
11:40-12:20 |
William Snyder, Relating Language Variation to Language Acquisition |
12:20-1:00 |
Charles Yang, Morphological Structure and Syntactic Variation |
1:00-2:40 |
Lunch |
2:40-3:20 |
POSTER SESSION |
3:20-3:40 |
Coffee Break |
3:40-4:20 |
William Labov, On Defining the Site of Linguistic Variation |
4:20-5:00 |
Alison Henry, There’s something about there’s: towards transitive expletives in varieties of English |
Saturday, April 26 -- Math Lounge
Lederle Graduate Research Center, Room 1634 (top floor)
9:00-10:00 |
Breakfast |
10:00-10:40 |
Randall Hendrick, Variation in Raising and Control |
10:40-11:20 |
Andrew Nevins, The Avatars of Number Morphosyntax |
11:20-11:40 |
Coffee Break |
11:40-12:20 |
Richard Kayne, Lexical Differences as the Result of Parametric Variation |
| 12:20-1:00 | Tom Roeper & Lisa Green, Node Labels and Features: Stable and Unstable Dialects and Variation in Acquisition |
| 1:00 | LUNCH -- everyone welcome |
If you are interested in attending this workshop, please email us at csaal@hfa.umass.edu. We do not have a formal registration process for this event. In order to make sure that we have enough room to accomodate you, we ask that you let us know at least two weeks ahead of time if you plan to attend.