Workshop Progress in Linguistics
Tuesday, 27.08.2013, FU Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, Seminarzentrum, Room: L 113The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from various theoretical camps and discuss their frameworks and how they contribute to progress in linguistics. Topics can be either meta considerations on research organization in subparts of (theoretical) linguistics or in (theoretical) linguistics as such or specific case studies of phenomena and/or specific projects.
| 9:30–9:40 | Stefan Müller: | Introduction |
| 9:40–10:20 | Artemis Alexiadou (Uni Stuttgart, Minimalism, Distributed Morphology): | Where's morphology? Taking stock |
| 10:20–11:00 | Gereon Müller (Uni Leipzig, Minimalism): | Derivational Syntax: Arguments and Challenges |
| 11:00–11:30 | Break | |
| 11:30–12:10 | Peter Culicover (Ohio State University, Simpler Syntax): | Simpler Syntax and explanation |
| 12:10–12:50 | Andreas Pankau (Uni Frankfurt/Main, Arc-Pair Grammar): | Arc-Pair Grammar and extraction: unbounded dependencies and grammatical relations |
| 12:50–14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00–14:40 | Tibor Kiss (Ruhr Universität Bochum, Free Style): | Gauging the progress in linguistics (Gedanken ohne Inhalt sind leer, Anschauungen ohne Begriffe sind blind.) |
| 14:40–15:20 | Anatol Stefanowitsch (FU Berlin, CxG, Data-intensive Corpus Linguistics): | Usage, grammar and stochastic cryptotypes |
| 15:20–15:50 | Break | |
| 15:50–16:30 | Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester, LFG): | Before and between theories |
| 16:30–17:10 | Stefan Müller (FU Berlin, HPSG): | Some Remarks on the State of the Field and on Ways to Ensure Progress: Description, Analysis, Formalization, Implementation |
| 17:10–17:40 | All together now: | Discussion chaired by Doug Arnold |
| 18:30–00:10 | Workshop Dinner | Luise |