U.S.-Argentina Planning Visit: Features in the Grammar of Human Language

这项美国-阿根廷奖将支持宾夕法尼亚大学的戴维·恩比克博士和一名研究生计划访问阿根廷的布宜诺斯艾利斯。他们将与阿根廷国立萨米恩托将军大学的Adreina Adelstein博士、布宜诺斯艾利斯大学的Guiomar E. Ciapuscio博士和阿根廷国立comaue大学的Marcela A. Depiante博士合作，发起并组织理论语言学的联合研究，重点研究人类语言特征的本质。PI和阿根廷人都在研究与语法、形态学和语义计算相关的特征的性质。在访问期间，PI将与他的同行一起发展(1)一套共同的理论背景假设，在此背景下可以共同进行进一步的研究；(2)一套精确的初步研究问题，以及(3)对这些问题进行初步调查的拟议分工。此外，PI还将研究将儿童学习第一语言的语言习得研究与将要采用的理论方法一起纳入研究计划的可能性。最后的项目将进一步加深我们对人类语言语法特征的本质的认识，以及人类语言语法的结构。

0432359EmbickThis U.S.-Argentina award will support Dr. David Embick of the University of Pennsylvania, along with a graduate student, for a planning visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina. They will work with Dr. Adreina Adelstein, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Dr. Guiomar E. Ciapuscio, Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Dr. Marcela A. Depiante, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, in Argentina, on the initiation and organization of joint research on theoretical linguistics, concentrating on the nature of the features found in human language. Both the PI and the Argentines are conducting research on the nature of the features relevant to computations in syntax, morphology, and semantics. During the visit, the PI will work with his counterparts to develop (1) a shared set of theoretical background assumptions in the context of which further research can be pursued jointly, and (2) a precise set of initial research questions to be examined, along with (3) a proposed division of labor for initial investigation of these questions. In addition, the PI will investigate the possibility that language acquisition studies of children acquiring a first language can be incorporated into the research program along with the theoretical methodologies to be employed. The final project will further our knowledge of the nature of the features found in the grammar of human language, and the architecture of the grammar of human language.