25th to 28th of June 2024
Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS 25)
University of Mannheim, Germany
Organisation: Carola Trips (University of Mannheim), Tara Struik (University of Mannheim), Lena Kaltenbach (University of Mannheim), Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
Contact: digs25mannheim [at] gmail.com
Registration for DIGS25 is open until 14 June
We are pleased to announce that the 25th Diachronic Generative Syntax conference (DiGS25) will take place at the University of Mannheim (Germany) from June 25-28, 2024.
Since its first installment in 1991, DiGS has established itself as one of the world’s leading venues for the formal investigation of syntactic change. More information about the history (and near future) of this conference series can be found at http://walkden.space/digs/.
DiGS25 will be hosted by project H3 of the DFG research unit SILPAC and Mercator Fellow Charles Yang.
Programme
Pre-Conference Workshop
Legacy of the Penn Historical Corpora
Keynote by Beatrice Santorini, University of Pennsylvania
More information about this thematic workshop can be found here.
Session "Learnability in Diachrony"
Child Language Acquisition and a Mechanistic View of Language Change
Keynote by Jordan Kodner, Stonybrook
Further Keynote Speakers
Diachrony and The Formal Syntax of Verb-Framed Events
University of Toronto
On the Lifecycle of Expletives
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Conference Venue
University of Mannheim
68131 Mannheim
Room M003
