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SUMMARY:Vulnerable Left Periphery: Why there is no other alternative to ch
 ange - Prof. Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam)
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CONTACT:Javier Moreno
DESCRIPTION:A standard observation in linguistics is that every child lear
 ning a language recreates it\, and develops a mental grammar that is sligh
 tly distant from that of other members of her speech community (to be unde
 rstood as a social network). Because every speaker-learner internalizes a 
 mental grammar of her own\, the cumulative effect over several generations
  leads to E-language change. Therefore\, I- and E-languages change constan
 tly. Here is the puzzle: Given these three points\, thousands of years of 
 human evolution would make one expect the range of cross-linguistic struct
 ural variation to be a lot wider than what typologists actually observe. W
 hy is linguistic structural variation so severely restricted? In this talk
 \, I argue that only phrase left peripheral properties are subject to stru
 ctural change (to some extent). If the Left Periphery is a Phase\, then li
 nguistic variation\, underlying typological variation\, is a Phase-level p
 roperty. \n\nRegistrations will close on November 11th at 12pm. Direct lin
 k: shorturl.at/knrCL
LOCATION:Online: Zoom talk
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