The Diachronic Syntax of Early Indo-European Languages

该奖项将支持一个关于古印欧语言生成语法的研讨会，该研讨会将与2008年8月在康奈尔大学举行的第10届历时生成语法（DiGS）会议同时举行。DiGS是世界上历时生成语法家的主要聚会，为研讨会参与者提供了主要的研究对象。这次研讨会将是一次前所未有的活动，汇集了比较印欧语系的主要专家和在生成框架中研究句法变化的主要研究人员。一个主要的焦点将是年轻的研究人员积极地将印欧语言学的工具与当前的句法变化生成模型结合起来。该奖项将支持研究生参与者的旅行，研讨会将包括海报展示环节。选定的论文将以编辑过的卷出版。该讲习班将对两个学科领域和研究人员小组具有重要意义。第一个群体是语言学家（以及心理学和认知科学等相关领域的学者），他们把语言作为一种形式系统来研究。这次会议将有助于使社区意识到与语言变化有关的问题的重要性。第二个受影响的群体是从事印欧语系历史/比较研究的学者群体。这是历史/比较语言学这一更大领域内的一个规模较小但传统上具有影响力的学者群体。会议和随后的出版物将使这些学者接触到关于句法变化的生成工作，反之亦然。

This award will support a workshop on the Generative Syntax of the Older Indo-European languages, held in conjunction with the 10th biennial meeting of the Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) Conference at Cornell University in August, 2008. DiGS is the leading gathering of diachronic generative syntacticians in the world, providing workshop participants with a major audience for their research. The workshop will be an unprecedented event bringing together leading specialists on comparative Indo-European with major researchers working on syntactic change in a generative framework. A major focus will be on younger researchers actively combining the tools of Indo-European linguistics with current generative models of syntactic change. This award will support travel for graduate student participants, and the workshop will include a session for poster presentations. Selected papers will be published in an edited volume.The workshop will be of importance to two disciplinary areas and groups of researchers. The first is the community of linguists (and scholars in related fields such as psychology and cognitive science) who study language as a formal system. This conference will help make the community aware of the importance of issues related to language change. The second impacted group is the community of scholars involved in the historical/comparative study of the Indo-European family. This is a small but traditionally influential group of scholars within the larger field of historical/comparative linguistics. The conference and ensuing publication will serve to bring these scholars into contact with generative work on syntactic change, and vice versa.