18.426, Calls: General Linguistics/Turkey; General Linguistics/ South Korea

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LINGUIST List: Vol-18-426. Wed Feb 07 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 18.426, Calls: General Linguistics/Turkey; General Linguistics/ South Korea

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1)
Date: 06-Feb-2007
From: Serap Yelkenac < syelkenac at gmail.com >
Subject: 1st Mediterranean Graduate Meeting in Linguistics 

2)
Date: 05-Feb-2007
From: Sun-Woong Kim < swkim at kw.ac.kr >
Subject: 9 Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:34:29
From: Serap Yelkenac < syelkenac at gmail.com >
Subject: 1st Mediterranean Graduate Meeting in Linguistics 

Full Title: 1st Mediterranean Graduate Meeting in Linguistics 
Short Title: MGML2007 

Date: 25-Oct-2007 - 26-Oct-2007
Location: Mersin, Turkey 
Contact Person: Serap Yelkenac
Meeting Email: mgm2007 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://postgraduate2007.mersin.edu.tr 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 29-Jun-2007 

Meeting Description:
1st Mediterranean Graduate Meeting in Linguistics, Mersin University, Turkey 

Call for Papers:
Scope: We are pleased to announce that the 1st Mediterranean Graduate
Meeting in Linguistics will take place at Mersin University between 25th
and 26th October 2007. This event draws participants from across the world
to exchange ideas in a relaxed but stimulating environment. The aim of the
conference is to bring together graduates from within the various areas of
the discipline for them to present current research to their peers. We hope
the days will be rewarding for all, both in learning and establishing new
contacts. The theme of the conference is intentionally broad. Any graduate
student (MA or PhD) is very welcome to submit an abstract on any topic
related to linguistics (semantics, syntax, phonetics, phonology,
sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, pragmatics, computational linguistics,
discourse analysis, applied linguistics, lexicology, lexicography). 
The language of the conference is English. 

Important Dates: 
Abstract submission dates: 29 June 2007
Notification of acceptance: 20 July 2007
Registration deadline: 15 October 2007 
Accommodation deadline: 20 September 2007
Conference date: 25-26 October 2007

Abstract Submission Guidelines:
- Length: one A4 page (250-300 words) 
- Format: 1 spacing, 3cm left/right, top/bottom margins 
- Fonts: Times New Roman 12pt 
- Title of paper in bold capitals on the left-hand side of the first line
- Together with the abstract, you should provide a cover sheet with the
following information: 
   - your name, 
   - your affiliation (department and university), 
   - your email address (the one you check regularly), 
   - the title of the paper, and the area of research (e.g. syntax,
phonetics, psycholinguistics, etc.).
- Please send abstracts by email in Word or PDF version, with ''abstract
submission'' in the subject field (we can only accept abstracts sent by
e-mail as attachments),  to the conference email address:
mgm2007 at gmail.com, by 29 June 2007.
- Accepted papers will be 20 minutes in length plus 10 minutes discussion.

Proceedings: 
Linguistics papers may be selected to appear in an edited volume of Mersin
University Journal of Linguistics and Literature after the conference. 

Registration Fee: 
The registration fee is fixed at 25 TL (approx. 14). Refreshments and
lunch will be provided during the conference (payment included in the
registration fee). Suggestions for overnight accommodation can be provided
on request. 

Contact:
Please send all submissions or questions to: 

Serap Yelkenac
Email: mgm2007 at gmail.com

Conference URL:
All the information above as well as updates and contact details can be
found at the conference website: http://postgraduate2007.mersin.edu.tr

We look forward to receiving your abstract and to seeing you soon in Mersin
at the 1st Mediterranean Graduate Meeting in Linguistics.

The Organizing Committee

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:34:34
From: Sun-Woong Kim < swkim at kw.ac.kr >
Subject: 9 Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 

Full Title: 9 Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 
Short Title: SICOGG 9 

Date: 08-Aug-2007 - 11-Aug-2007
Location: Seoul, Korea, South 
Contact Person: Myung-Kwan Park
Meeting Email: parkmk at dgu.edu
Web Site: http://mercury.hau.ac.kr/kggc/Conferences/SICOGG9/SICOGG9.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2007 

Meeting Description:

SICOGG 9 - The 9th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar
Dongguk University, Seoul
August 8(Wed) - 11(Sat), 2007
Co-hosted by the Korean Generative Grammar Circle and Dongguk University, Seoul
Invited Speaker: Marcel den Dikken (CUNY) 
Theme of General Session: Locality and Minimalism

2007 Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar will be held at
Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, on August 8-11, organized by the Korean
Generative Grammar Circle.  

While we especially encourage submissions touching on the theme of the general
session specified above, equal consideration will be give to papers from all
areas of generative grammar, which may include syntactic theory,
syntax-semantics interface, syntax-morphology interface, syntax-phonology
interface, syntactic acquisition, and others. The conference will consist of the
general session, the two additional workshops, and a series of lectures from the
invited speaker. The themes of the two additional workshops are syntax-phonology
interface and light verbs and verbal nouns. 

Call for Papers (1st Call)

SICOGG 9 - The 9th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar

Dongguk University, Seoul

August 8(Wed) - 11(Sat), 2007

Co-hosted by the Korean Generative Grammar Circle and Dongguk University, Seoul

Invited Speaker: Marcel den Dikken (CUNY) 

Theme of General Session: Locality and Minimalism

2007 Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar will be held at
Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, on August 8-11, organized by the Korean
Generative Grammar Circle.  

Abstracts should be anonymous and may not exceed 2 pages (A4), including
examples and references, with 2.54 cm (1 inch) margin on all four sides and
should employ the font Times New Roman 12 pt. Submissions are limited to a
maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per author. Please send a
separate file containing the following information: (i) the title of the paper,
(ii) the author's name, (iii) affiliation, (iv) e-mail address, (v) telephone
number, and (vi) the preferred session (general or workshop(1) or (2)).
Abstracts should be sent electronically as Word or PDF attachments to Yeun-Jin
Jung at yjjung at deu.ac.kr no later than March 14, 2007. 

Abstracts will be reviewed by readers, and authors will be notified by March 31,
2007.  Each speaker of the general and the workshop sessions will be allotted 20
minutes with 10 minutes for discussion. Accepted papers will be published in the
proceedings of 2007 Seoul International conference on Generative Grammar, which
will be distributed to the conference participants. All presenters will be asked
to provide camera-ready copies of their papers in publishable form by July 15,
2007. The text should be single-spaced and the general page limit is 20 pages
including appendices and references.  

All the information about the conference is available on the official SICOGG9
website http://mercury.hau.ac.kr/kggc/Conferences/SICOGG9/SICOGG9.htm or
http://www.kggc.org. Participants are asked to check this web page to keep up to
date regarding possible alterations and changes. Additional questions concerning
the conference can be answered by sending to Myung-Kwan Park at parkmk at dgu.edu. 

Workshop 1: Syntax-Phonology Interface  

Recent developments in minimalism have stimulated vigorous debates on the
division of labor between syntax and phonology. The focus of research has been
put on a number of issues (although it is not limited to): (i) how much and what
types of syntactic information are accessible to the phonology, (ii) what
principles govern the linear organization of syntactic constituents, (iii)
isomorphism (or non-isomorphism) between syntactic and prosodic
boundaries/islands, (iv) constraints on chain pronunciation and ellipsis, (v)
possibilities of PF-movement and the relevant conditions, and (vi) relations
between focus and phrasal stress/information structure, etc. In many areas
related to such issues, however, it is still quite controversial whether a
particular linguistic phenomenon is an effect of narrow-syntactic computation or
an effect of PF mechanisms or a consequence of the interaction of manifold
syntactic and phonological peculiarities. Also, even among the accounts of a
phenomenon in terms of PF properties, controversies remain to be resolved over
the workings of the PF interface system itself. Given that properties of
interface systems have far-reaching consequences for our view of UG, a broad
array of issues and problems that have been raised in recent years from an
interdisciplinary point of view bear some scrutiny and assessment at the current
course of theoretical developments. 

Among the overall interface issues, this workshop aims to discuss issues on the
interaction between syntax and phonology, particularly the issues connected to
the ones mentioned above; but we also hope to extend the range of possible
topics to experimental findings on the syntax-phonology interface issues in the
applied linguistics field.  

Workshop 2: Light Verbs and Verbal Nouns

We invite papers on theoretical and cross-linguistic approaches to the nature of
light verbs and/or verbal nouns. Light verb refers to a thematically incomplete
category which usually forms a complex predicate with theta-assigning
categories: in Korean and Japanese (and many other languages), verbal nouns
usually co-occur with the light verbs.  

The workshop may raise some of the following questions:

(A) On the status of light verbs: (i) Is light vs. heavy distinction necessary
across languages? (ii) Is a light verb lexical or functional? (iii) What is the
role of light verb in connection to verbal nouns? 

(B) On the nature of verbal nouns: (i) What is the categorial status of VNs: V,
N, or un(der)specified X? (ii) Are VNs or internal structures of VNs derived
from V or N roots? (iii) In what ways do VNs differ from regular Ns? 

We also welcome diverse perspectives on these issues in relation to recent
developments in minimalist program: for example, the role of v and VP-shell,
copula, relators/linkers, gerunds, derived nominals, to list a few.

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