What is language, or: How to conceive linguistic models (Workshop by Martin Neef)
WHAT? Students' workshop
WHEN? 4 p.m. December 2
WHO? Martin Neef, professor for German Linguistics at the TU Braunschweig (Germany)
What is language, or: How to conceive linguistic models
Feel free to join us:
ZOOM:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3584157120?pwd=VDdqT0NpaHV0aHBBL1RQRzVrV3F1QT09
Идентификатор конференции: 358 415 7120
Код доступа: 123
Abstract: In linguistics, there are many different types of models using very different methods, some related to mathematics, some related to psychology, some related to social sciences, to name a few. In the workshop, we will look at the value of this diversity. It is a strength of linguistics to provide models of very different kinds, because the subject of linguistics is very diverse. Therefore, it depends on the type of linguistics you want to do which type of model is appropriate. To pursue these thoughts, we will consider what kind of object the defining object of linguistics is, namely language.
Martin Neef is professor for German Linguistics at the TU Braunschweig (Germany). His research focuses on theories of the language system (phonology, morphology, syntax) and the writing system as well as on the general conceptions of linguistic theories in the paradigm of Linguistic Realism. In his habilitation thesis Die Graphematik des Deutschen (published in 2005), he developed an original approach to analyze the relation of written forms to spoken forms, an approach he further developed in the project Die Systematische Orthographie des Deutschen (2011-2014; funded by the German National Science Foundation DFG) to capture the direction from spoken forms to written forms as well. He is author of four monographs and 45 research articles and co-editor of 12 volumes. Furthermore, he is co-editor (together with Said Sahel and Rüdiger Weingarten) of the terminological lexicon Schriftlinguistik (‘Grapholinguistics’) which is currently in preparation (parts of it are already electronically pre-published). From 2008 to 2015, he was General Editor of the journal "Written Language and Literacy".
To be read in advance:
Postal, Paul M. (2018). The ontology of natural language. In: Christina Behme & Martin Neef (eds). Essays on Linguistic Realism. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1-6. (For those who are planning to join the workshop but have failed to get the book feel free to write to the address kabanova@lunn.ru to get the link)
