On 28th November OxTalks will move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events' (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
There will be an OxTalks freeze beginning on Friday 14th November. This means you will need to publish any of your known events to OxTalks by then as there will be no facility to publish or edit events in that fortnight. During the freeze, all events will be migrated to the new Oxford Events site. It will still be possible to view events on OxTalks during this time.
If you have any questions, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
The workshop is designated to the discussion of various syntactic phenomena and properties that are common across diverse human languages intending to uncover underlying principles applicable to language as a whole. It provides a theoretical insight into the mechanisms of natural language grammar and endeavours to explicate the rationale behind linguistic structures. Employing Georgian as a case study the speakers delve into specific language phenomena and structures to demonstrate how these align with the universal properties of natural language. This workshop brings together linguists working both on theoretical and empirical issues to discuss the ways in which specific language parameters can be accounted for by Universal Grammar. The discussion promises a balanced theoretical exploration and empirical analysis.
