Professur Slavische Sprachwissenschaft
Prof. Dr. habil. Peter Kosta - Konferenzen
Laufende Konferenzen
Conference Information I
Full Title: New Perspectives on Language Creativity
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Start Date: 25-Sep-2011 - 27-Sep-2011
Contact: Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Meeting Email:
Meeting Description: New Perspectives on Language Creativity: Composition and Recursion
This conference addresses central issues on the computational procedure that gives rise to the discrete infinity of language from a biolinguistic perspective (Lenneberg 1967;
Chomsky 1995, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2011; Chierchia 1995, 2004, 2006; Wexler 1996, 2003;
Riemsdijk 1998, 2004; Jenkins 2000, 2004, 2011; Pica 2001, 2008; Yang 2002, 2011; Di
Sciullo 2005; Pesetsky 2007, 2009; Piattelli-Palmarini & Uriagereka 2008; Friederici
2009; Friedrich & Friederici 2009; Hinzen 2009, 2011; Longobardi & Guardiano 2009, 2011;
Di Sciullo et al. 2010; Larson, Déprez & Yamakido 2010; Mukherj 2010; Stabler 2010, 2011;
Berwick & Larson 2011; Chomsky 2011; Di Sciullo & Boeckx 2011; Kosta 2011; Lasnik 2011,
among other works). It aims to bring long lasting questions on language creativity into
new light. It invites contributions on the properties of the composition operation and of
the recursive procedure that might very well account for much of the progress made by the
human species. It also invites contributions on the neuronal substrate of this
computational procedure and raises the question whether this neuronal faculty sub serves
grammar as well as other recursive systems, including mathematics and music. Finally, it
invites contributions that deepen our understanding of the relations between biology and
language impairments.
The questions raised thus include, without being limited to, the following:
What is the computational procedure giving rise to the discrete infinity of language?
What do we know about its neuronal substrate?
Why does this procedure seems to be limited in some cases, e.g. complements, and
unbounded in other cases, e.g. adjuncts?
Does this computational procedure also sub serves mathematics and music?
How do interfaces propagate language creativity?
How does language creativity relate to the genetically attested language disorders and
speech impairments?
This conference is part of the cycle of conferences organized by the Biolinguistic Network (www.biolinguistics.uqam.ca) and will be held at the Université du Québecà Montreal on September 25-27, 2011.
The Conferences organized by the International Biolinguistic Network are supported by the Major Collaborative Research on Interface Asymmetries funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and by the Dynamic Interfaces project funded by the Government of Quebec Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture.
Invited Speakers:
Roland Friedrich (Department of Mathematics, Humboldt University in Berlin & Department
of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig)
Peter Kosta (Department of Slavic Linguistics, University of Potsdam)
Nirmalangshu Mukherj (Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi)
David Pesetsky (Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT)
Pierre Pica (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)
Henk C. van Riemsdijk (Founder of GLOW, Tilburg University)
Edward Stabler (Department of linguistics, UCLA)
Selection Committee:
Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard University)
Roberto De Almeida (Concordia University)
Anna Maria Di Sciullo (UQAM)
Wolfram Hinzen (Durham University)
Richard Larson (Stony Brook University)
Howard Lasnik (University of Maryland)
Giuseppe Longobardi (University of Trieste)
Ken Wexler (MIT)
Organizing Committee:
Anna Maria Di Sciullo (UQAM)
Calin Batori (UQAM)
Stanca Somesfalean (UQAM)
Linguistic Subfield: Linguistic Theories; Neurolinguistics
LL Issue: 22.2328
Conference Information II
Full Title: The Minimalist Program: Quo Vadis?
Short Title: MinWork
Location: Potsdam, Germany
Start Date: 03-Oct-2011 - 06-Oct-2011
Contact: Lilia Schuercks, Peter Kosta, Steven Franks
Meeting Description:
Keynote Speakers:
Marcel den Dikken
Norbert Hornstein
Richard Kayne
Jairo Nunes
Uli Sauerland
Anna Maria di Sciullo
Juan Uriagereka
The Minimalist Program is a trend in recent generative syntax which subjects to critical scrutiny - and, if possible, eliminates ? all constructs that are not virtually conceptually necessary. Since the minimal task of syntax is to mediate between form and meaning, the question is to what extent all aspects of our model of syntax derive from the bare output
conditions imposed by these conceptually essential interfaces with form and meaning. More generally, one can ask about the overall architecture of such a grammar: What levels of representation does a viable minimalist grammar
need to have?; How are syntactic representations constructed?; and How are
these representations interpreted at the interfaces?
The purpose of the proposed workshop is to bring together scholars concerned with these broader issues, but who are also engaged in providing detailed analysis to specific linguistic problems and who work on a variety of languages, in order to explore new ways of understanding the organization of grammar and the workings of language.
Linguistic Subfield: Syntax; General Linguistics
LL Issue: 22.2026
Bisherige Konferenzen, Tagungen und Ringvorlesungen des Lehrstuhls:
XXII. Konstanzer Slavistisches Arbeitstreffen in Potsdam, 17.-20.9.1996.
Ringvorlesung: Die geniale Epoche. Eine Ringvorlesung des Instituts für Slavistik in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Studiengang Jüdische Studien an der Universität Potsdam im Sommersemester 1997.
Current Approaches to Formal Slavic Linguistics. Contributions of the Second Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL II) held at Potsdam University, November 20-22, 1997. Frankfurt am Main [etc.]: Lang. (= Linguistik International; 9). 2002. ISSN 1436-6150, ISBN 3-631-50311-3. US-ISBN 0-8204-6060-5.
„Johannes Bocatius (Jan Bok) – Ein wendischer Europäer aus Vetschau“. Deutsch-Wendische Kirche zu Vetschau, 11. September 1999.
Fourth European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages - FDSL IV, 28-30 November 2001.
Mitwirkung am 35. SLE-Meeting in Potsdam, 22-25 July 2002.Stereotyp und Geschichtsmythos in Kunst und Sprache, Potsdam, 16.-18.1.2003 (in Zusammenarbeit mit Dr. Katrin Berwanger)
Sixth European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages - FDSL VI, 30. November-2 Dezember 2005.
XXXIII. Konstanzer Slavistisches Arbeitstreffen in Potsdam, 3.-6.9.2007
Eighth European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages - FDSL VIII, December 2-5, 2009, Potsdam, Germany
Approaches to Slavic Interaction 16th - 18th March 2011, Potsdam, Germany
Workshop "The Minimalist Program: Quo Vadis? Newborn, Reborn, or Stillborn?" October 3 - 6, 2011
