Happy Golden Anniversary,
Generative Syntax:
50 years since
Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory
A full-day celebration of the past, present and future of generative
syntax
for registered participants of the 2005 LSA Institute*
Saturday, July 16, 2005 from 8:30am
Location: room 10-250, MIT
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Schedule
Session 1: 9:00am-11:45am
Welcoming remarks
Morris Halle (MIT)
Then and Now
Howard Lasnik (University of Maryland)
The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory: Then and Now
Julie Legate (University of Delaware)
& Charles Yang (Yale University)
The Richness of the Poverty of the Stimulus
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LUNCH (provided): 11:45am-1:00pm
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Session 2: 1:00pm-2:30pm
Tom Bever (University
of Arizona)
50 years of psycholinguistics:Embedding linguistic universals in the individual
Liina Pylkkänen (NYU)
Linguistics in Cognitive Neuroscience
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COFFEE BREAK (provided): 2:30pm-3:30pm
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Session 3: 3:30pm-5:10pm
Jacques Mehler (SISSA, Trieste)
What developed from the Initial State Formulation
Richard Larson (Stony Brook)
The Syntax-Semantics Interfaith
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SHORT BREAK
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Final session: 5:30pm
Noam Chomsky (MIT)
Chipping away at persistent problems: a highly personal reminiscence
*Because of the enormous response to our initial announcement of this event, priority for admission to 10-250 will be limited to registered LSA Institute participants with Institute ID or equivalent.
Organizers: Sabine Iatridou and David Pesetsky. For more information, please send e-mail to: happy50th [at] mit [dot] edu.
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