Mayfest 2007: Where, When and Why is Hierarchy Needed?

Mayfest is a workshop that brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines and perspectives to discuss fundamental issues in linguistics. Over the course of two days, participants engage in talks and discussion sessions to stimulate new insights and collaboration.

Speakers

• Edward Stabler, Language structure, depth, and processing
• Terence Langendoen, Finite-state linguistic structure building
• Robert Chametzky, No derivation without representation
• Richard Larson and Naomi Harada, On Datives in Japanese
• Pauline Jacobson, Does grammar 'see' structure? The view from Direct Compositionality
• Jason Eisner, Discovering Syntactic Deep Structure via Bayesian Statistics
• Michael Wagner, Recursive Generalization vs. Recursive Representation in Prosody
• Mark Steedman, The Combinatory Manifesto