Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique
Ce séminaire reçoit des conférenciers invités spécialisés dans différents domaines de la linguistique. Les membres du Département, les étudiants et les personnes externes intéressées sont tous cordialement invités. Description du séminaire ![Imprimer Print](design/print.png)
Titre | Vulnerable C: Why there is no other alternative to change |
Conférencier | Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) via ZOOM |
Date | mardi 13 octobre 2020 |
Heure | 12h15 |
Salle | L208 (Bâtiment Candolle) |
Description | A standard observation in linguistics is that every child learning a language changes it, and develops a mental grammar that is slightly distant from that of other members of her speech community (to be understood as a social network). Because every speaker-learner internalizes a mental grammar of her own, the cumulative effect over several generations leads to E-language change. Therefore, I- and E-languages change constantly. Here is the puzzle: Given these three points, thousands of years of human evolution would make one expect the range of cross-linguistic structural variation to be a lot wider than what typologists actually observe. Why is linguistic structural variation so severely restricted? In this talk, I argue that only phrase left peripheral properties are subject to structural variation (to some extent). If the Left Periphery is a Phase, then linguistic variation is a Phase-level property. |
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