Call deadline: 15 April 2012
Event Dates: 8 September 2012
Event Location: Poznan, Poland
Event URL: http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2012/Language_evolution
We invite submissions to a special thematic session of the Poznan ́ Linguistics Meeting addressing Theory and evidence in language evolution research. The aims of the session may be summarised as:
• to assess available evidence and to discuss the status of the new sources of evidence applicable to questions of language emergence and evolution
• to assess the role of theoretical syntheses and holistic scenarios of language emergence and evolution
• to identify ways in which linguistic methodologies can be made relevant to answering ‘origins’ type questions
• to identify limitations of linguistic methodologies when applied in isolation and to discover directions for interdisciplinary collaboration
• to bridge the gap between biological and linguistic conceptions of evidence Invited Speaker
A plenary talk will be given by Prof. James Hurford (University of Edinburgh).
Event Dates: 8 September 2012
Event Location: Poznan, Poland
Event URL: http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2012/Language_evolution
We invite submissions to a special thematic session of the Poznan ́ Linguistics Meeting addressing Theory and evidence in language evolution research. The aims of the session may be summarised as:
• to assess available evidence and to discuss the status of the new sources of evidence applicable to questions of language emergence and evolution
• to assess the role of theoretical syntheses and holistic scenarios of language emergence and evolution
• to identify ways in which linguistic methodologies can be made relevant to answering ‘origins’ type questions
• to identify limitations of linguistic methodologies when applied in isolation and to discover directions for interdisciplinary collaboration
• to bridge the gap between biological and linguistic conceptions of evidence Invited Speaker
A plenary talk will be given by Prof. James Hurford (University of Edinburgh).
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