ORGANIZERS:

Edit Doron, LLCC
Avigail Tsirkin-Sadan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

The conference is organized by the Language, Logic and Cognition Center (LLCC) of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with the support of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at The Hebrew University and the Israel Science Foundation.

The conference will bring together a group of leading linguists from universities in Israel and worldwide. This is the third in a series of conferences dedicated to the same topic, the first of which took place at the University of Southern California in 2009, and the second at the University of Stuttgart in 2010.

Talks will focus on questions pertaining to the nature of lexical units (words) – the building blocks of the mental lexicon of speakers of language in general. What is the internal structure of a word? Is there syntactic structure within a word, and what is its nature? How compositional is the meaning of words? Are word-class labels such as Noun, Verb, etc, assigned and represented within the lexicon, or is the lexicon category-free? How is the argument-structure of different predicates represented? What is the phonological representation of a word? Should roots be viewed as part of the structure of words in Semitic languages and in language in general? What are the implications of the different views on these issues for questions of language acquisition – more specifically for bootstrapping and word learning – and for questions of word coinage? Various theories of the lexicon will be represented at the conference, such as Distributed Morphology, Lexeme-Based Morphology, Active Lexicon, and others.

 

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SPEAKERS:

Mark Aronoff (Stony Brook University)
Karlos Arregi (The University of Chicago)
Asaf Bachrach (CNRS)
Outi Bat-El (Tel Aviv University)
Jonathan Bobaljik (University of Connecticut)
Nora Boneh (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 
Ariel Cohen (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
Evan Cohen (Tel Aviv University)
Gabi Danon (Bar-Ilan University)
Edit Doron (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Nomi Erteschik-Shir (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
Yehuda Falk (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Noam Faust (Université Paris VII)
Aviya Hacohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Heidi Harley (The University of Arizona)
Paul Hirschbühler (Université d'Ottawa)
Julia Horvath (Tel Aviv University)
Malka R. Hovav (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Olga Kagan (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
Roni Katzir (Tel Aviv University)
Andrew Koontz-Garboden (The University of Manchester)
Idan Landau (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
Fred Landman (Tel Aviv University)
Winfried Lechner (University of Athens)
Irit Meir (University of Haifa)
Ana Müller (Universidade de São Paulo)
Léa Nash (Université Paris VIII)
Andrew Nevins (University College London)
Rolf Noyer (University of Pennsylvania)
Tova Rapoport (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University)
Wendy Sandler (University of Haifa)
Ivy Sichel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Tal Siloni (Tel Aviv University)
Peter Svenonius (Universitetet i Tromsø)
Galit Weidman Sassoon (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Yael Ziv (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)