Recent years have seen a flowering of theoretically-informed work on syntactic variation within languages (see Kroch 1994, Barbiers, Cornips & van der Kleij 2002, Henry 2002, Cornips & Corrigan 2005, Barbiers et al. 2008, Adger & Smith 2010, Tortora 2014, Thoms & Sailor 2018, among many others).
Central questions that have been addressed include: What is variation within a single grammar? How does variation within a grammar affect observed variation across dialects, registers, etc?
Theoretical approaches to these questions have ranged across competing/multiple grammars, microparameters, combinatorial variation, probabilistic variation in morphological exponence, variation in pronunciation of elements of movement chains, interactions between prosodic variation and morphosyntactic variation, etc.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on especially dialectal variation in syntax and its relation to the core theoretical questions above.
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Invited Speakers
Marjo van Koppen (Utrecht University) and Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (KU Leuven)
Christina Tortora (CUNY College of Staten Island)
David Willis (University of Cambridge)
Jim Wood (Yale University)
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The full programme for the workshop is available on the the workshop website.
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Early bird registration (£80) will be available until Friday 22nd February 2019. After that, standard registration (£100) will be available until the workshop.
There will be a workshop dinner at Mother India (28 Westminster Terrace, Glasgow, G3 7RU) on Saturday 23rd March 2019. This costs £25 (excluding drinks) and can be booked alongside your registration.
