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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Call for papers for the thematic workshop at the SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea) 2013 conference in Split, September 18-21
(</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.sle2013.eu/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.sle2013.eu/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">CHALLENGING REFLEXIVE STRATEGIES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Workshop organizers</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Anna Volkova (<a href="mailto:a.volkova@uu.nl">a.volkova@uu.nl</a>) and Eric Reuland (<a href="mailto:e.reuland@uu.nl">e.reuland@uu.nl</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Workshop description<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Since its inception, the canonical binding theory (CBT, Chomsky 1981) generated a wave of cross-linguistic research (both in generative and in the
functional paradigms) that brought to the front a bulk of language facts that were problematic for CBT. The list of potential problems included:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- non-complementary distribution of anaphors and pronominals;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">-the existence of different types of anaphors and pronominals (simplex ana-phors, complex anaphors, clitics, etc.) ;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- long-distance anaphora (variation in binding domains);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- logophoricity and exemption effects (‘picture NPs’, PPs);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- languages without dedicated anaphors;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- anaphors as subjects of finite clauses;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">-variation in the types of reflexivization strategies (lexical, morphological, syntactic; verbal versus nominal reflexives);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- the use of reflexive markers in different capacities (for instance as markers of passives, un-accusatives, and impersonals).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This development in the field also gave a spur to approaches with a functional, semantic and cognitive basis, involving semantic classifications of
predicates, prominence or thematic role hierarchies, information status, definiteness etc. The challenge was greatly inspiring for the further development of the theory of anaphora.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Current linguistic theory presents an array of approaches to the analysis of the reflexive strategies: from pragmatic based approaches, to typologically
oriented works; from competition based accounts, to LFG or HPSG accounts; from purely semantic accounts to modular accounts and accounts inspired by the minimalist program.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The goal of our workshop is to bring together researchers working in different theoretical paradigms, typologists and language specialists to discuss
natural language patterns in the reflexivity domain, with special attention to those that do not fit theoretical accounts on the market. We would like to encourage a dialogue between linguists working on the same topic from different perspectives and critically
assess the state of the field.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The essential goal of the study of the theory of language is to discover the principles that underlie all natural language grammars and to explain
the possible breadth and limits of linguistic variation. We believe that the ultimate joy of linguistic research is testing the theoretical predictions against the broad range of existing languages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Topics to be contributed by the participants include the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">1. State-of-the art discussion of formal versus functional perspectives on reflexivization strategies. How are they to be evaluated with respect to
each other? To what extent are they complementary and study in fact different components of the cognitive system underlying our ability to use language?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">2. Descriptions of languages whose anaphoric systems are not well-studied, such as Bezhta, Khwarshi, Santali, Khanty, and Yoruba, or languages that
have been studied, but still present intriguing problems as to the division of labor between different reflexivization strategies, such as Hungarian, Mandarin Chinese, Modern Greek, and Tamil. Such discussions of less well understood reflexivity cases that
present prima facie problems for the current approaches, are expected to shed light on the underlying mechanisms for reflexivization, and allow us to choose between extant approaches.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">3. The papers to be presented are not only based on a variety of languages, but also reflect a variety of perspectives (including functional approaches,
lexical functional grammar; formal semantics-based, competition based, and modular approaches). This allows discussion to focus on the empirical differences between different approaches, but to also bring out their commonalities.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">4. Discussion by the contributors will include various ways to represent reflexivity, the internal structure of complex anaphors, limits of cross-linguistic
variation, the status of verbal reflexivizers, arity reduction, the division of labor between lexicon, syntax, semantics and pragmatics (and the role of the context). And, furthermore, constraints on binding, and the behavior of reflexive markers in exempt
positions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">5. The program includes presentation and discussion of results from language processing and second language acquisition raising important issues for
the process of reference assignment, binding domains in picture noun phrases and the role of finiteness in binding domains.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The discussions on the workshop will be moderated in such a way that there will be ample room for the following overarching questions:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">a) Are there still language patterns on the market that pose a universal problem for all existing accounts?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">b) What are the empirical differences between the accounts on the market? Which ones are particularly good / bad at dealing with certain groups of
facts?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Ó</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">) What is the role of frequency in language? What is the division of labor between lexicon,
syntax, semantics, and pragmatics? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a name="_GoBack"></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- For all abstracts the deadline of submission is January 15th 2013. Authors are requested to register and upload their abstract
individually via the conference website <a href="http://www.sle2013.eu" target="_blank">
www.sle2013.eu</a>. Please mention the name of the workshop (or some parts of it) next to the title of your paper.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- The abstracts should be (1) anonymous and (2) contain between 400 and 500 words (exclusive of references). (3) They should state
research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- The abstracts will receive three scores, two by two members of the SLE 2013 scientific committee and one by the workshop convenor(s).
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- Workshop papers and general session papers will be selected according to the same treshold. Last year the treshold was the average
score of all abstracts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- Participants are allowed to present only one single-authored paper at SLE 2013. In addition they may either have a joint paper
(without being the first author) or be a discussant in a workshop. Two co-authored papers are also allowed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- Workshop slots last 30 minutes. Slots may be combined to have a session of an hour (cf. keynote speakers). The general schedule
of the conference may not be altered, however. For example, no slots of 20 or 40 minutes are allowed; no workshop will continue during the plenary lectures or the poster session.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- Being part of the programme will be reserved for SLE members. Those colleagues who are not a member yet, will be requested to
become one at the moment of registration (which will open in May 2013). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Layout requirements for abstracts:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- Abstracts must be single-spaced and fully justified. The standard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">font will be Calibri, size 10. The margins will be 2,54 top/bottom and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">1,91 left/right (Moderate in MS Word).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- References will have a hanging indent of 1,27 cm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- Submit the abstract as a Word document. If it contains special<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">characters, please send a PDF version to sle@arts.kuleuven.be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Best regards,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Anna Volkova<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">PhD student / AiO, Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS, Universiteit Utrecht<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Trans 10, 3512JK Utrecht, The Netherlands; +31-30-2535725<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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