For more than sixty years, generative grammar has had a significant impact on the ways philosophers think about language and the mind. This conference aims at bringing together philosophers and linguists to discuss topics in the philosophy of generative grammar and linguistic developments that may be of interest to philosophers.
We invite abstracts for 50-minutes talks (30-minutes-presentation + 20-minutes-Q&A). Abstracts can be in English or Spanish. Each submitted abstract should be anonymised and should be no longer than 500 words—references are excluded from this word-limit.
Possible topics include:
The concept of I-language and the role of I-languages as the objects of linguistic theory
The epistemology/methodology of generative linguistics
Generative grammar and the internalism/externalism debate in the philosophy of mind
The interaction between the language faculty and other cognitive systems
Nativism about the language
The usefulness of referentialist semantics for generative linguistics
The philosophical significance of the minimalist program
The syntax/semantics interface
Abstracts discussing technical developments in formal syntax or formal semantics will be welcome, provided that they throw light on some philosophical aspect of generative grammar.
Submission deadline: March 7, 2022
Extended deadline: March 21, 2022
Notificaction of acceptance: April 4, 2022
Link for submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pgg1