Heritage Language Syntax 3
October 20 - 21, 2022 - Paris Structures Formelles du Langage, Université Paris 8 & InalcoHeritage Language Syntax is a workshop initiated at the University of Utrecht within the ERC Microcontact, with the aim of investigating the syntactic properties of heritage grammars.
This third (and first in-presence) edition of Heritage Language Syntax will be organised in Paris within the IRN Heritage Languages in Europe (coordinator Elena Soare, University of Paris 8 & CNRS).
In this edition, we seek to investigate the issue of complexity in the syntax of heritage languages. It is often assumed that these grammars are “simplified”, or even incomplete, but there is good evidence that in certain conditions heritage speakers prefer complex or more marked constructions to simpler ones.
Invited speakers
Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland, College Park)
Silvina Montrul (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Greg Scontras (University of California, Irvine)
Esther Rinke (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Terje Lohndal (NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology & UiT The Arctic University of Norway )
Organizing committee
Elena Soare (Université Paris 8 & CNRS)
Alexandru Mardale (Inalco & CNRS)
Gabriela Bîlbîie (Universitatea din Bucuresti & CNRS)
Larisa Avram (Universitatea din Bucuresti)
Timea Kadas-Pichel (Université Paris 8 & CNRS)
Oana Lungu (Nantes Université & CNRS)
Daniel Gavris (Université Paris 8 & CNRS)
Timothée Premat (Université Paris 8 &
Contact
hlsparis2022@gmail.com
Sponsor and partners
This workshop is part of the IRN Heritage Languages in Europe, funded by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and hosted by the lab Structures Formelles du Langage & Université Paris 8.
