[Ltg] SALS-SIG Seminar ***Reminder*** [Philippe Blache, May 17]

[Stephen.Wan at csiro.au]

*** REMINDER *** 

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LTG Seminar
 - see: http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/Events/Seminars.html

Monday, May 10, 2004 at 11am
Macquarie Uni, E6A 357
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Speaker: Jean-Philippe Prost 
Title: Gradience in Grammar

Abstract:
In 1975 Chomsky wrote that "an adequate linguistic theory will have to 
recognize degrees of grammaticalness", and more recently, in 2000 for 
Frank Keller "Gradience in Grammar (...) [is] the fact that some 
linguistic structures are not fully acceptable or unacceptable, but 
receive gradient linguistic judgements".
But what does "degrees of grammaticalness" exactly mean? And how can a 
linguistic theory account for it?

Keller addresses these questions In his PhD Thesis, where on the basis 
of experimental evidences he developed a model of gradient 
grammaticality based on Optimality Theory.

In this talk, I'd like to discuss with you different aspects of Keller's

model, and maybe more widely debate around this notion of gradient 
grammaticality.