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Mayfest 2010: Bridging Typology and Acquisition

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

  • Mark Baker, On the patterning of cross-linguistic variation: its significance and illustrations from the theories of agreement and case
  • Željko Bošković, Another monster
  • Greville Corbett, What the child needs to know about morphosyntactic features: A typologist's perspective
  • Ed Keenan, Syntactic invariants over structurally diverse languages
  • Jeffrey Lidz, Contacting UG
  • Lisa Matthewson, On semantic variation
  • Eric Potsdam, Learning to be Backward
  • Ian Roberts, Macroparametric Variation
  • Janet Fodor and William Sakas, Disambiguating syntactic triggers
  • Neil Smith, On criteria for parametric variation
  • William Snyder, The parametric approach to children’s syntax