Sociolinguistics in dialogue with the Parallel Architecture

Programm:

SESSION I CHAIR: BERND KORTMANN

9.00 - 9.30 Ray Jackendoff (Download Abstract)

• The Parallel Architecture Meets Sociolinguistics

9.30 - 9.40 Questions

9.40 - 10.10 Shana Poplack (Download Abstract)

• (Variationist) sociolinguistics greets the Parallel Architecture

10.10 - 10.20 Questions

10:20 - 10.40 break

SESSION II CHAIR: PETER AUER

10.40 - 11.10 Leonie Cornips (Download Abstract)

• Bridging Sociolinguistics and Parallel Architecture?

11.10 - 11.20 Questions

DISCUSSION SESSIONS I & II

11.20 - 11.35 Discussant I: Kaufmann

• Questions

11:35 - 11:50 Discussant II: Kortmann

• Questions

11:50 12:00 General discussion

12:00 - 13.30 LUNCH

SESSION III CHAIR: GÖZ KAUFMANN

13.30 - 14.00 Torben Juel Jenssen and Tanya Karoli Christensen (Download Abstract)

• Variation and linguistic theory. Main clause word order as a foregrounder in spoken Danish subordinate clauses.

14.00 - 14.10 Questions

14.10 - 14.40 Jennifer Smith (Download Abstract)

• The roots of inherent variability and the Parallel Architecture

14.40 - 14.50 Questions

14.50 - 15.10 break

SESSION IV CHAIR: CHRISTIAN MAIR

15.10 - 15.40 Guido Seiler (Download Abstract)

• Geolinguistic adequacy conditions for a theory of grammar

15.40 - 15.50 Questions

DISCUSSION SESSIONS III &IV

15:50 - 16.05 Discussant I: Jacob

• Questions

16.05 - 16.20 Discussant II: Mair

• Questions

16.20 - 16.30 General Discussion

16:30 - 16.50 break

CLOSING SESSION. CHAIR: DANIEL JACOB

16.50 - 17.20 Ray Jackendoff

• Overview of issues raised and future avenues General discussion