<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Hi all, I'm sending additional information on the International Congress of Linguists. Hope to see you there. -farrell</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">The <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#5A67FF">Syntax parallel sessions at</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#5A67FF"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#5A67FF">CIL 18</FONT> (The 18<FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">th</SPAN></FONT> International Congress of Linguists Seoul, Korea</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">July 21-26, 2008) will be organized <SPAN style="" times="" new="" roman""=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">around a </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><B><I>general session</I></B></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> intended to accommodate any topic in syntax </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">and </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B><I>three specific themes</I></B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="">.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <SPAN style="" times="" new="" roman""="">We encourage submissions from all theoretical perspectives and especially on </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman""="">(morpho)syntactic phenomena <SPAN style="" times="" new="" roman""="">from lesser studied languages.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While the general session will be devoted to </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman""=""><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman""="">current research on any topic, <SPAN style="" times="" new="" roman""="">the subsessions are intended to provide forums for the comparison of different </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman""=""><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman""=""><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman""="">perspectives on three specific <SPAN style="" times="" new="" roman""="">pivotal themes of current interest in syntactic theory.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There will also be a poster </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman""=""><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman""=""><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman""=""><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman""="">session, if there are a sufficient <SPAN style="" times="" new="" roman""="">number of quality submissions to warrant it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><I>Theme 1</I></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">:</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Quantitative methods and the goals of linguistic theory</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Over the past few years there has been </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">increasing attention to new statistical and experimental methods in the analysis of syntactic phenomena.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">A basic </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">question that arises from this research is how results obtained using these methodologies may affect the goals and </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">shape of linguistic theory.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Presentations in this subsession will contribute to furthering this research trend and </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">contributing to understanding its consequences for linguistic theory.</SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><I>Theme 2</I></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">:</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Morphosyntax:</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>The relation between morphology and syntax.</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">There are several perspectives on </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">the role of morphology in grammatical theory.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">For some, morphology is a sort of</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">syntax, with words amenable </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">to analyses using familiar constructs from tree-theoretic syntactic theories.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">For others, morphology resembles syntax </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">in that both can be viewed as instantiations in different domains of construction-theoretic assumptions.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">For others still, </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">morphology represents an utterly distinct domain from syntax, with each domain in correspondence with one another.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Presentations in this subsession will address the nature of the relations between words and phrases.</SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><I>Theme 3</I></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">:</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Argument-linking.</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">There have been numerous efforts over the years to identify principled relations between</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">the semantic properties of predicators and the surface realization of their arguments with respect to their morphological realization, </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">i.e., case-marking as well as their syntactic status, i.e., </SPAN></FONT><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant: small-caps;">subj, obj, </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">etc.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Presentations in this subsession will focus on the relation </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">between the lexical semantics of predicators and argument realization. </SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">In submitting abstracts, please indicate whether it the submission is (1) for a poster or a presentation, (2) to be reviewed for inclusion </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">in the general session or for one of the three thematic subsessions, and (3) if for inclusion in a thematic subsession, specify which theme.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">Please send the abstract and the author's information to both</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:cil18@cil18.org"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">cil18@cil18.org</FONT></A> <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">and</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B> </B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002CD9" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline;">fa</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002CD9" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline;"><A href="mailto:ckerman@ucsd.edu">ckerman@ucsd.edu</A></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>