CFP: New Ways of Analyzing Syntactic Variation @ Nijmegen, Netherlands

Date: 15-Nov-2012 - 17-Nov-2012
Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2012

Meeting Description:
Syntactic variation concerns the alternation between constructional alternatives such as He gave the boy the book and He gave the book to the boy. Syntactic variation research investigates the factors which determine why one of these alternatives is preferred over the other in specific linguistic and situational contexts.

Syntactic alternations are investigated in very different schools of linguistics and psychology, which each produce valuable results and predictions. Many of these findings, however, are unknown to colleagues in other fields, because they are deemed theoretically uninteresting, or because they are based on evidence which is inaccessible to non-initiated colleagues. Also, the best models and the most accurate predictions so far have been the result of a methodological interdisciplinarity which does not widely exist yet (discounting some rare exceptions like Joan Bresnan's Spoken Syntax Lab at Stanford). This workshop therefore convenes the best people in the field to collaborate across disciplinary borders.

Fall School in Linguistics @ Paris, France

Date: 11-Sep-2012 - 16-Sep-2012
The goal of this interdisciplinary fall school is to provide exposure to linguistic theory and grammar based approaches to cognitive studies. Its content varies from year to year, but typically includes:

- Introductions to contemporary linguistic research
- Intensive introductory courses to some core areas of linguistic theory or relevant domains
- Seminars and talks on current research
- Interaction between research in grammar and some related domains e.g. Psycholinguistics of Acquisition or of processing, Neurolinguistics, Experimental Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language/Mind, Logic, Mathematics, etc...

This fall school will be held at the Ecole Normale Superieure (45 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris: see (http://www.ens.fr) from Tuesday, September 11th to Sunday September 16th included.

The preliminary list of Teachers and Lecturers includes:

ERP Mini Bootcamp @ Baltimore, MD

An ERP and EEG mini bootcamp will be will be offered on September 14-16 (Friday through Sunday) at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, MD.

On Saturday and Sunday (9/15 and 9/16), I will be presenting an ERP mini-bootcamp. This two-day course introduces researchers of professional level to the Event-Related Potential technique that has been used in psychological and cognitive research for decades. The bootcamp is intended for researcher who have little or moderate ERP experience. An example of a schedule can be found at http://erpinfo.org/the-erp-bootcamp/Example%202-day%20schedule.pdf. We are delighted to bring this exceptional educational experience to the Baltimore/DC area.

In addition, several people requested that we provide a similar experience for researchers interested in other experimental uses of the EEG. On Friday, (9/14), local experts will speak about EEG research methods, including event-related synchronization/desynchronization, EEG-based connectivity measures, filtering techniques, BCI/single-trial analysis methods, filtering techniques, and clinical EEG analysis.

Registration is for all three days and will be $250. For details and registration procedures, see http://www.kennedykrieger.org/overview/event/erp-and-eeg-mini-boot-camp . Please contact Josh Ewen (ewen@kennedykrieger.org) with any questions.