Date: November 23-25, 2010 (Tuesday-Thursday)
Place: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany)
Organised by:
- Andrej Malchukov (Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology)
- Edith Moravcsik (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (emerita))
Local organizer:
- Claudia Schmidt (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Short description:
We invite papers on the role of competing motivations in the emergence and use of linguistic structures from linguists, psychologists, and others working in related
fields.
Invited speakers:
- Bornkessel-Schlesewski, Ina:
Cognitive attractors in language processing? Evidence from neurotypology [pdf]
- Dressler, Wolfgang U.:
Conflictual vs. convergent vs. interdependent motivations in morphology [pdf]
- Du Bois, John:
Competing to Cooperate: Motivating the Grammaticization of Complexity [pdf]
- Haspelmath, Martin:
On system pressure competing with economic motivation [pdf]
- Hawkins, John:
Competing motivations in grammar, performance and learning: common principles and patterns in three areas of language [pdf]
- Heine, Bernd:
Two Competing Systems: Sentence Grammar vs Discourse Grammar [pdf]
- De Hoop, Helen:
Conflicting constraints from grammar and beyond
- MacWhinney, Brian:
How competition works across time [pdf]
- Müller, Gereon:
Local domains for competition resolution
- Newmeyer, Frederick:
Where do motivations compete? [pdf]
- Tomasello, Michael:
Competing cues to transitivity in child language acquisition
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