Registration is now open!
We are organizing a two-day workshop in honor of Ray Jackendoff: It’s both not exactly the 20th anniversary of his foundational “Foundations of Language” book, and not exactly his 80th birthday, but close enough that we decided to celebrate!
Date: October 17-18, 2024
Location: Central European University, Auditorium & zoom.
Please register here!
Below is a program of talks. Times are CET.
Program:
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17
13:15 welcome
13:30 Ray Jackendoff, The Parallel Architecture: Origins and Prospect
14:30 Jenny Audring, Relational Morphology: New Directions
15:00 Geert Booij, Pragmatic and Discourse Properties of Subschemas in Construction Morphology
15:30 coffee break
16:00 Ariel Goldberg, Pose Similarity Distance: A Novel Method of Estimating Sign Similarity
16:30 Peter Culicover, Extrensions of Simpler Syntax
17:00 Maria Piñango, Semantic Composition of English For-Adverbials as an Argument for a Continuous Meaning Space for Language
17:30 comfort break
17:45 Katrin Erk, Word Meanings as Messy Groups of Usages, and How to Integrate Them into Sentence Meaning Representations
18:15 Remembering Dan Dennett
18:30 Tim Crane, Unconscious mental representation
FRIDAY, October 18th
13:15 welcome
13:30 Giosuè Baggio, Meaning and Grammar in a Parallel Architecture for Language Processing
14:00 Falk Huettig, Why Psychology (Still) Needs (Jackendoff’s) Theoretical Linguistics
14:30 Gina Kuperberg, A Call to the Lexicon: Predictive Coding Offers a Biologically Plausible Computational Framework for Implementing Language Comprehension in the Brain
15:00 Peter Hagoort, The Only Game in Town
15:30 coffee break
16:00 Aniruddh Patel, New Findings on Neural Relations between Music and Language Processing
16:30 Tecumseh Fitch, Language Evolution and Musicality: An Interwoven Saga
17:00 Neil Cohn, Multimodality, the Parallel Architecture, and a New Linguistic Paradigm
17:30 comfort break
17:45 Barbara Landau, For Ray: A Timeline of Influences and More Updates on ‘What’ and ‘Where’
18:15 Adele Goldberg, Insight by Insight
18:45 closing remarks
Everybody is welcome to join!