The first Dynamic Syntax conference
THIS EVENT IS ARCHIVED
Date: 19 April 2017Time: 10:00 AM
Finishes: 20 April 2017Time: 5:30 PM
Venue: Paul Webley Wing (Senate House) Room: S209
Type of Event: Conference
Whilst there is broad consensus that humans process linguistic input in real time, the dynamics of this process are often not reflected in most formal accounts of linguistic knowledge. Dynamic Syntax (DS; Cann et al. 2005, Kempson et al. 2001, 2011) is a grammar formalism that aims to capture the parsing/production process in real-time. Under the Dynamic Syntax approach, linguistic knowledge is considered to be the ability to parse spoken language in context, whilst syntax is the constraint-based way in which representations of context can be built up from words encountered in a string.
We are pleased to announce that the first Dynamic Syntax conference will take place at SOAS University of London on 19-20th April 2017. The meeting will bring together those using DS in their research, as well as those who are interested in issues that lie at the heart of the theoretical approach.
We are also delighted to announce that Professor Ruth Kempson will deliver the keynote address at the conference.
The conference is free to attend. However, we ask that you email Hannah Gibson (hg6@soas.ac.uk) to register.
Programme
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Day 1 – 19/4/17 Room S209, Senate House North Block |
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| 10:00-11:00 | Dynamic Syntax tutorial: An introduction to the framework (Jieun Kiaer) |
| 11:00-11:30 | BREAK |
| Chair: Miriam Bouzouita | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Stergios Chatzikyriakidis: Modification in Dynamic Syntax |
| 12:00-12:30 | Darryl Turner: Relative clauses as appositional nominals |
| 12:30-13:00 | Peter Edelsten: An incremental approach to parsing information structure |
| 13:00-14:30 | LUNCH BREAK |
| Chair: Chris Howes | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Hannah Gibson & Lutz Marten: Underspecification and procedural meaning: Lexical NPs as anaphora |
| 15:00-15:30 | Yan Jiang: Chinese Anaphora: Lexical Encoding, Distributive Alternation and Reference Tracking |
| 15:30-16:00 | Andriana Koumbarou: Focusing in Hindi and the dynamics of left to right parsing in context |
| 16:00-16:45 | BREAK (including poster presentation by Stephen Jones) |
| Chair: Lutz Marten | |
| 16:45-17:45 | Ronnie Cann: Dynamic Syntax – interaction and context: construing personal pronouns in English |
| 18:30 | DINNER - TAS Bloomsbury |
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Day 2 – 20/4/17 Room S209, Senate House North Block |
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| Chair: Yan Jiang | |
| 10:30-11:00 | James Reid: Parsing-modulated antecedent-selection in proposition-controlled free adjuncts |
| 11:00-11:30 | Miriam Bouzouita & Hannah Gibson: Constraints on Structural Underspecification: Compound tenses in Old Spanish and East African Bantu |
| 11:30-12:00 | BREAK |
| Chair: Hannah Gibson | |
| 12:00-12:30 | Riham Abudonia: Passive strategies and argument structure in Luganda: a dynamic syntax account |
| 12:30-13:00 | Nadia Christopher: Kazakh Differential Object Marking – the Dynamic Syntax Approach |
| 13:00-14:30 | LUNCH BREAK |
| Chair: Stergios Chatzikyriakidis | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh & Matt Purver: Incremental Distributional Semantics for Dynamic Syntax |
| 15:00-15:30 | Christine Howes & Arash Eshghi: Formalising backchannel relevance spaces |
| 15:30-16:00 | Jieun Kiaer and Naya Choi: Analysing two-year-old's dialogue corpus in DS |
| 16:00-16:30 | BREAK and planning |
Organisers
Hannah Gibson (SOAS University of London)
Jieun Kiaer (University of Oxford)
Lutz Marten (SOAS University of London)