Lecture | Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
Adult language acquisition and syntactic change
- Date
- Thursday 2 May 2024
- Time
- Series
- Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
- Location
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 1.33
Abstract
This talk will assess the place of adult language acquisition as an explanatory factor in syntactic change, making the case that certain changes can only be understood fully from this perspective. I will present a theory of syntactic “L2-difficulty” in terms of feature interpretability, and some preliminary results from the STARFISH project that bear on it, dealing with negation in the history of Low German and null subjects in the history of Latin American Spanish.
Zoom
Meeting ID: 617 3017 2255
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